Sentences with phrase «academic achievement gaps»

Educators and policymakers are grappling with how to better serve academically at - risk children at a time when data show the stubborn persistence of academic achievement gaps.

And we are realistic in our understanding that long - standing academic achievement gaps are not eliminated overnight.

But having those conversations is essential if a school district is committed to closing academic achievement gaps, education equity leader Glenn Singleton told two full sessions of attendees Monday, the closing day of NSBA's annual conference in Boston.

Dozens of California school systems with some of the state's worst test scores and biggest academic achievement gaps won't get any extra help this year under a support system launched recently by the state.

As much as I can understand some of the motivations behind opting out of standardized tests, I think it complicates the goal of helping all students to achieve at higher levels and close long standing academic achievement gaps.

At the same time, Connecticut has one of the nation's largest academic achievement gaps, and Governor Malloy has faced pushback from teachers unions on his efforts surrounding teacher evaluation.»

«We've seen that with academic achievement gaps.»

The article does not offer any guidance about how to close the academic achievement gaps that have successfully resisted all of the school «reforms» that our politicians have dreamed up and most of our K - 12 practitioners and their collegiate training programs have foolishly and silently obeyed.

There also is growing evidence that widening differences in socioeconomic status, not race, are driving academic achievement gaps.

The problem is worst in the Northeast — the region that, in many ways, never desegregated — where students face some of the largest academic achievement gaps: in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

Thus demographic disparities in disciplinary incidents serve to further widen any academic achievement gaps.

Saldaña also got support from the board to consider whether a school is recognized by the state for high performance or substantial progress in closing the academic achievement gaps before the district decides on closure.

Mahmoud believes a curriculum steeped in African history and culture is crucial to closing academic achievement gaps between poor black students and their wealthier, white peers.

Hopkins said he is sympathetic to parents and others frustrated by academic achievement gaps of poor and minority students.

The earlier preliminary look at NAEP TUDA (National Assessment of Educational Progress, Trial Urban District Assessment) biennial results for Atlanta Public Schools (APS; «Atlanta») offered the immediate data story that, in recent years, since 2015, the district's White - Black academic achievement gaps have been made unusually worse.

And when it comes to closing the long - standing academic achievement gaps, the research bears out that students» understanding of lesson purpose can greatly accelerate their learning.

Recent K - 12 test results reveal a sobering trend: despite decades of reform, academic achievement gaps (and their resultant opportunity gaps) are wider than ever across the Bay Area.

In this paper, I examine sixteen distinct measures of segregation to determine which is most strongly associated with academic achievement gaps.

Although it is clear that racial segregation is linked to academic achievement gaps, the mechanisms underlying this link have been debated since Coleman published his eponymous 1966 report.

This implies that high - poverty schools are, on average, much less effective than lower - poverty schools, and suggests that strategies that reduce the differential exposure of black, Hispanic, and white students to poor classmates may lead to meaningful reductions in academic achievement gaps.

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) strives to reduce academic achievement gaps for children.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky has made significant progress in education, but the state is not doing enough to close the academic achievement gaps that persist among different groups of students, according to a new report from the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence.

The bottom line is this: If we are serious about eliminating long - standing academic achievement gaps and improving learning for all students, we can not ignore the critical role of school district central offices in improving educational outcomes for all students.

School and district leaders can and must still act with the urgency necessary to close long standing academic achievement gaps.

Academic achievement gaps between high - and low - income students born in the 1990s were much larger than among cohorts born two decades earlier.

Unlike income achievement gaps, the racial academic achievement gaps have declined significantly over the past four decades, the researchers said, so the recent narrowing of the racial readiness gap among kindergarteners is merely a continuation of the trend.

Nevertheless, racial academic achievement gaps in fourth grade fell at roughly the same rate as kindergarten entry gaps, Reardon said, adding, «This suggests that the primary source of the reduction in racial achievement gaps in fourth grade is the reduction in kindergarten readiness gaps, not a reduction in the rate at which gaps change between kindergarten and fourth grade.»

Nonetheless, «racial academic achievement gaps in fourth grade declined at roughly the same rate as kindergarten entry gaps,» said Reardon.

They often narrow academic achievement gaps, create social capital, and foster democratic behavior — including adult voluntary activity.

The persistent academic achievement gaps between poor and wealthy children are an affront to our nation's ideals and a serious threat to its future prosperity.

Studies have found that simple confidence - boosting exercises can help shrink academic achievement gaps for some of those stereotyped.

The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

You suggest that some of the most effective models of closing the academic achievement gap are found at the school - based level.

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

My ultimate goal is to return to the U.S. and help design and implement policies that can close the academic achievement gap in this country.»

Closing the academic achievement gap between white students and disadvantaged minorities has been repeatedly called the «civil rights issue of our time.»

We have high socioeconomic status differences in this country and the [socioeconomic] gap is highly related to the academic achievement gap.»

When it comes to school reform, a current wave of rhetoric and recent changes in federal education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, have put the spotlight on the academic achievement gap.

Disparities in so - called «non-cognitive skills» appear to contribute to the academic achievement gap separating rich from poor students.

Her latest book, No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press, 2012), argues that the United States suffers from a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left Behind.

We can neither tolerate nor afford an academic achievement gap based on class or race.

Much of of the focus of charter schools is on poor and minority students stuck on the lower end of the academic achievement gap.

Reading Ibram X. Kendi's blog «Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea» from the African - American Intellectual History Society left me conflicted.

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White peers.

Inspired by former educators and determined to help close the academic achievement gap, Cristina joined Teach For America in Houston, Texas.

WSI schools that effectively implement arts integration were found to have reduced or actually eliminated the academic achievement gap for economically disadvantaged students.

In a letter dated May 3, dozens of advocacy groups asked Brown to recommit to closing the academic achievement gap for high - need students as he considers an opening on the State Board of Education and a new plan for measuring school performance later this year.

The vision for KCNA was born out of a community desire to eliminate the academic achievement gap for children in the urban core in Kansas City.

The deficit learning opportunities of living in poverty are the source of the academic achievement gap, say the opt - out parent activists.

In turn, this reinforces the «academic achievement gap» that separates many students.