Sentences with phrase «at the achievement gap»

At the same time, the district started looking more carefully at its achievement gap — questioning whether teachers had the tools necessary to ensure that all students had an equal opportunity to achieve, according to Alana Murray, a vice principal who helped launch the program with Yuhaniak.

Initially, the charge was to look at the achievement gap, he said.

Then we realized there already were a lot of initiatives to look at the achievement gap.

I remember realizing I was one of the handful of free / reduced lunch students in AP Calculus in my high school, which is why I now constantly look at achievement gaps of under - represented subgroups.

Give us a snapshot of how important the Coleman Report was in terms of looking at the achievement gap.

Not exact matches

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

About the Author Paul Tough is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and one of America's foremost writers on poverty, education, and the achievement gap.

Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine editor, will address the issues of poverty, education and the achievement gap, during a special presentation, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28 at Springfield High School.

There are a number of possible explanations for these trends and the fact check is correct when it states that the improvement in the socioeconomic gap in achievement at age 11 can not be specifically attributed to the pupil premium.

There has indeed been a small reduction in the socioeconomic gap in achievement at age 11, Key Stage 2.

And at the higher grades they are increasing their lead — a different pattern to A-levels in which boys are closing the achievement gap in the sciences.

SED found the achievement gap stands at about 20 percentage points, though it has been narrowed slightly over the last two years.

In order to close the education achievement gaps at the local and global levels, we must find a way to factor in these non-cognitive skills and re-formulate how we measure and advance our students.

Carla Schaffer / AAAS Interactions at home and participation in museum and after - school programs for children can eliminate achievement gaps in math, vocabulary and science among...

«Low - income children appear to have more difficulty accomplishing planning tasks efficiently, and this, in turn, partially explains the income - achievement gap,» according to Gary Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University, one of the study's researchers.

Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

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 study.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

Successful implementation of preschool to 3rd grade programs yields benefits in increasing school readiness, improving attendance, and strengthening parental involvement in school education — strategies that can close the achievement gap for children at risk, according to a new University of Minnesota study.

Offering high - quality child care beginning at age one is reducing early achievement gaps in Norwegian communities, the team reported in a recent edition of the education research journal AERA Open.

More research is needed because «looking at both psychological and biological responses to stress will lead to a more complete understanding of why we have the racial / ethnic achievement gap,» said study lead author, Dorainne Levy, who began the research while at Northwestern and is now a post-doctoral scholar at Indiana University.

It was an intellectually exhilarating achievement, but the 15 - trillionths - of - a-second gap of darkness was so small that the editors at Nature, the journal where Gaeta submitted his findings for publication, were not sold on his claim.

Black - white achievement gap makes little progress since 1960s At current rate, closing the disparities to take centuries Greatest gains in South which has caught up with the rest of the country

For instance, the opportunity gap would force us to look more at how all students should have access to early education versus the achievement gap which has focused more on developing standards, accountability, and evaluation.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

If improvements continue at the same rate as seen since 1965, it will be two and a half centuries until racial achievement gaps are closed in math and over one and a half centuries for them to close in reading.

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.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievementachievement gaps.

The issue is gaining increasing attention as more educators eager to motivate students, especially those at the low end of the achievement gap, are, like Shakur, experimenting with financial incentives for kids.

Classroom strategies backed by research and ongoing teacher development are helping to narrow the achievement gap at this Title I school.

The Interactive Learning methods used at Cochrane have helped narrow their achievement gap from 17 points in 2007 - 08 to 11 points in 2010 - 11, making it less than half the 30 - point achievement gap that exists throughout the state as a whole.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

Our second lens focused on what national and international research shows about «hard to teach, hard to reach» (Boag - Munroe and Evangelo, 2010) and «closing the gap in educational achievement», including the debates about Leon Feinstein's research (2015); looking at definitions, causes and effects.

Researcher: Nation's Future Depends on Raising White, Nonwhite Test Scores Observer & Eccentric, August 21, 2011» «If we can't make it happen, we may have already peaked as a nation,» said [Senior Lecturer] Ronald Ferguson, faculty co-chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard.»

Since finding success in the classroom, Dr. Rajagopal and his students have spoken throughout the nation at conferences on closing the achievement gap.

◦ Closing of achievement gaps using multiple measures but shall include, at a minimum, results from the statewide assessment.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

Ron Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, moderated the event.

One response to this observation has been to assume that the closing of achievement gaps requires group - based solutions — for example, special initiatives aimed at boys (or girls), educational solutions for Indigenous students, or government programs targeted on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

From 2002 to 2009, Ross worked at the Education Trust, a national, non-profit organization dedicated to closing gaps in opportunity and achievement gaps.

Some of the international comparisons in the report will truly shock people who assume that we lead the world in education and youth development,» adds Pathways co-chair Ronald Ferguson, a senior lecturer in education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University.

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.

This seems illogical, or at least counterproductive, since research also shows that achievement would rise, achievement gaps would narrow, lifetime income would increase, and economic growth would surge if only we had the courage to identify and then replace the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the teacher quality distribution.

«There is no achievement gap at birth,» MacArthur «genius» award recipient Lisa Delpit affirms at the outset of her new book, «Multiplication Is for White People»: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children.

And recent reports show that the fastest - growing gap between black and white students is at advanced levels of achievement.

The achievement gap asks if students are achieving X. Instead, it might be more useful to look at the relevance gap, which asks if X is going to matter to the lives students are likely to lead.

Assiduously collect and report the numbers of advanced learners as well as gaps between subgroups, and hold educators accountable for ensuring that gaps are closed at every level of achievement, including advanced.

Senior Lecturer Ronald Ferguson, faculty director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, is faculty chair of Closing the Achievement Gap.

Disare goes on to look closely at the pros and cons of a system that sorts students into schools this way, including the concern that it might «widen racial achievement gaps and leave lower - achieving students in less demanding classrooms with fewer resources.»

At 16, I did not have the knowledge to attribute my new problems to the achievement gap...