Sentences with phrase «as academic disparities»

Evidence is growing that disparities in social and emotional skills are just as important as academic disparities.

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Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.
The judge's finding that the district has not fully desegregated was based not on the racial composition of classrooms, but on such factors as racial disparities in academic achievement.
The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.
In her role as chief academic officer for Boston Public Schools, she is committed to eliminating racial achievement disparities while improving student learning results so that students of all races and cultures receive an equitable and excellent education that enables them to thrive and experience success in college, career and life.
As a product of the urban, local public school system in Atlanta, Georgia, Artesius has first hand experience with the academic disparities and challenges that affect our youth.
There is research on teacher training program, sustained, rigorous training program, that focused on improving student teacher engagement that again showed not only that there were great academic gains, but the racial disparities were eliminated, as suspension rates came down.
Academic achievement, as measured by standardized test scores, is not the only education outcome for which disparities between high - income and low - income students have been growing.
The long - standing K — 12 academic standards developed by individual states have come under increasing scrutiny and criticism because of the standards» varying quality and the resulting wide disparities in student proficiency as measured under No Child Left Behind and highlighted by National Assessment of Educational Progress scores.
In a 1992 decision, the Supreme Court allowed a more expansive reading of the law, a decision that has been interpreted as requiring districts to eliminate racial disparities in discipline and to seek equity in academic achievement.
Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.
The opportunity gap, also known as the education achievement gap is the disparity in academic success between groups of students — groups by race, student ability, family income, etc..
The program focuses on decreasing dropout rates of immigrant Latino youth, which result in academic performance gaps that perpetuate poverty and create significant health disparities and costly social and economic impacts to the state as well as important concerns about the preparation of the future workforce.
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