Sentences with phrase «achievement for minorities»

Expanding school choice has been shown to improve achievement for minority students by about one - third of a standard deviation after a few years of intervention, according to seven of eight random - assignment evaluations (the eighth showed positive but statistically insignificant effects).

The famous Tennessee STAR random assignment study evaluated class size reduction, which also produced about a one - third of a standard deviation improvement in achievement for minority students.

The second (Jeynes 2007), focusing exclusively on studies of urban secondary school students, found that family involvement had a significant effect on student achievement for minority and white students.

Early in the episode, Evers pointed to his experience as state superintendent as a qualification, but Holtz argued that of the two, only he had experience «taking a large urban district and helping it so that it becomes successful for achievement for our minority kids.»

He also coordinated the effort of a Los Angeles coalition of civil rights, education and community advocacy groups — known as Communities for Los Angeles Student Success, or CLASS — to use the state's new K - 12 local funding law to improve achievement for minority and low - income students.

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The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

He noted the traditional explanation for politicians» policy caution — minority parliaments — made no sense when stacked against Lester Pearson's achievements in the»60s.

A clear example of this dependence of justice upon social power is the achievement of voting rights for such minority groups as Negroes.

I'm in the minority of people who actually like Neil Warnock, having tremendous respect for the Crystal Palace manager's achievements within the game.

One is a teacher in the school (responsible for leading on Ethnic Minority Achievement); the other is the LEA Parental Involvement co-ordinator who co-ordinates SHARE throughout the LEA.

The savage cuts to local authority spending and the decision by the Coalition Government to end ring - fenced funding for the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant is having a major adverse impact on the help schools can give to ethnic minority pupils, the research haMinority Achievement Grant is having a major adverse impact on the help schools can give to ethnic minority pupils, the research haminority pupils, the research has shown.

Funding changes in September 2011 removed dedicated funding for the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant, incorporating the funding into the Dedicated School Grant.

There was also strong support, 57 percent, for spending more money that would reduce achievement gaps impacting minority and low - income communities.

The salvation of the health service, major renovation of schools, the minimum wage, civil partnerships and the extension of protection for minority groups are heroic, not small achievements.

Under the new program led by AAAS, educational institutions commit to removing barriers to STEM achievement for women, minorities and people with disabilities through participating in a program of voluntary self - assessment.

But some perennial topics have acquired a different focus; for example, the question about the internet has shifted from ensuring access to cybersecurity and privacy, and the question dealing with education now focuses on attracting more women and minorities into the scientific workforce rather than on boosting overall student achievement.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Most notably, they've created networks of schools, like those in New York or Newark where I have worked a great deal, that are particularly good at closing achievement gaps for low - income and minority kids.

EW: Why do you think achievement gaps persist on some standardized tests for minority and female students?

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

The evidence would suggest that No Child Left Behind has led to modest improvements in student achievement in math that were most pronounced for low - income students and traditionally disadvantaged minorities — exactly the students whom the law was attempting to reach.»

Over the last two decades, policymakers, compelled by the demands of equal opportunity and aghast at widening achievement gaps — particularly for poor and minority youngsters — have focused resources on the neediest kids.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

July 14, 2016 — Under former superintendent Cami Anderson, Newark Public Schools spent more per - pupil than any other district in the nation — a whopping $ 25,000 — but failed to improve achievement for its predominately minority student population.

The findings for the suburban Washington district are indicative of nationwide problems in mathematics achievement among minority pupils,...

Also in line with current studies is the report's finding that «for any groups whether minority or not, the effect of good teachers is greatest upon the children who suffer most educational disadvantage in their background, and that a given investment in upgrading teacher quality will have most effect on achievement in underprivileged areas.»

I am not aware of research on precisely these points, but learning the answers to these questions should be of first - order importance for policymakers and practitioners interested in facilitating minority student achievement and educational attainment.

When he controlled for student gender, SES, prior achievement, and misbehavior (e.g, suspensions and fights), and for teachers gender, race, years of experience, teaching credential, and education., Cooc found teachers were more likely to believe that white students, rather than minorities, have disabilities.

A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students» Long - Term Academic Achievement.

We propose a new hypothesis: Additional resources yield few benefits for nondisadvantaged white students but do raise the achievement of minority and disadvantaged students.

Both showed significant gains in achievement for students in smaller classes, with larger gains among minority and disadvantaged students.

Owens and members of a research team from the Peabody Center for Education Policy at Vanderbilt prepared the report, March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools in 2001 for the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP).

In 2007, the NEAP reported that for eighth - graders, the achievement gap between minority and white students had not narrowed.

But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement gap.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

The state... fell short of reducing achievement gaps for minority students, improving reading and math scores as compared with the best - performing states, and increasing college enrollment.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

A thought - leader in higher education, she has spent more than two decades at prominent national educational institutions and at the highest levels of government, working to implement effective strategies to raise academic achievement and opportunity for low - income and minority students.

Many of the charter schools in our study aspire to boost minority achievement, so a natural benchmark for charter effectiveness is the black - white test score gap.

While no group of students scored particularly well, the PARCC test results released Tuesday highlighted wide disparities in achievement, including low levels of performance for special education students, minorities and the poor.

I applaud programs that raise achievement for low - income and minority students, but also note that our best - performing students have sometimes not made the same progress.

When the group got its start in the mid-1990s, achievement for poor and minority children was lagging, and the education policy community largely ignored their needs.

He also has been the research director of the Minority Student Achievement Network, a consortium of 21 school districts in diverse middle - to uppermiddle - class suburbs where achievement is generally solid, but not always for minority sMinority Student Achievement Network, a consortium of 21 school districts in diverse middle - to uppermiddle - class suburbs where achievement is generally solid, but not always for minoritAchievement Network, a consortium of 21 school districts in diverse middle - to uppermiddle - class suburbs where achievement is generally solid, but not always for minoritachievement is generally solid, but not always for minority sminority students.

Moreover, only 0.3 percent of all non-need-based scholarships for the 1989 - 90 academic year were based solely on race; 3 percent were based on minority status without regard to need, although such other criteria as academic achievement or leadership were possible considerations; and 4 percent of all awards were based on race and financial need, according to...

He argues that the achievement gap between minority and white students can not be closed using existing models, which he sees as designed for standardization in teacher training, student grouping, curriculum design and school building layout.

The third problem, Ho explains, raises concerns about achievement gaps — for example, average differences between test scores of white or higher - income students and minority or poor students.

Still, NCLB did shine a spotlight on the public schools, and accountability looked for a while like it could drive the achievement of America's minority students forward.

After all, as recent studies of the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act has shown, focusing on socioeconomic achievement gaps improves outcomes for minority and White children (as well as struggling and high - achieving children of all backgrounds).

To: Speaker Carl Heastie Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Catherine Nolan Majority Leader John Flanagan Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins Senate Education Committee Chair Carl L. Marcellino Governor Andrew Cuomo Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization of over 13,000 New York City public school educators, believes that a multi-measure system of student achievement and a fair system of teacher evaluation is essential to supporting, developing, and retaining high - quality educators.

Liberals and their allies in the civil rights community hoped that this new approach would close persistent achievement gaps for poor and minority kids.