Not exact matches
To date, we can count a multitude of policy wins — better data, stronger accountability systems, and a move toward more rigorous
academic standards —
along with a universal acceptance that we must aim to close
gaps in
achievement and opportunity.
This School of Education,
along with many of our peers, remains committed to the understanding that high levels of
academic accomplishment for all demographic groups is an essential, if not fundamental, factor in closing the
achievement and opportunity
gaps that plague our nation.
Study Links Brain Anatomy,
Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new st
Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the
achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new st
achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as
gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.»
They also,
along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious
achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student
academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.
«Until they are owning and discussing and linking the
academic and race - based strategies, we are going to be climbing up this slope and not making any traction
along the way,» interim chief
academic officer Whitney Oakley said Wednesday during a meeting of the school board's
achievement gap committee.