Sentences with phrase «academic gaps because»

When students are learning many academic things in the classroom, that will narrow the academic gap because disadvantaged students are more dependent on schools for gaining academic information than advantaged students.

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Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

Academic PB goals are effective because they maintain the energising properties of competition (because a student competes with him / herself), they reduce the counterproductive effects of excessive comparison with others, they motivate the student to close the gap between where they are now and where they want to be, and they are accessible to all students (whereas only one student can top the class, potentially all students can achieve a PB goal).

The closing academic gaps, he said, are «not because schools are getting more equal, but because something in early childhood is becoming more equal,» Reardon said.

The contending theory asserts that black students underperform because they are likely to be poor and underprivileged, and that addressing the academic achievement gap therefore requires first changing the economic and social conditions in which these students grow up.

If measured in proficiency rates, even if all schools succeed in closing the achievement gap, the «real» gap (i.e. gap in test scores between groups of students) are most likely to remain because closing the achievement gap simply means that more students are moving towards proficiency, not that the gap in academic performances between two groups of students is decreasing (Dahlin & Cronin, 2010).