Sentences with phrase «attention on closing the gap»

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It's our team to concentrate on we aren't good I always said that licester will surely drop points because teams are paying them more attention and sit back when playing them and give them a tough game So the conclusionis the title is for us to win A win at white hart lane will close the gap to zero points with the spuds so the title is still within reach

If policymakers really want to close achievement gaps between rich and poor students, she writes, they should stop focusing on schools and start paying attention to what happens before children ever get to kindergarten.

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

With our focus on closing the achievement gap between blacks and whites, framing reform as the «civil rights issue of our time,» and the attention and praise we have heaped on inner - city charter schools — one of reform's few bona fide success stories — we have tacitly made education reform a race - based endeavor.

We believe that school accountability should measure student growth annually, ensure continuous improvement over time, and focus attention on achievement gap closing.

Although we've focused more and more attention on dealing with the seemingly intractable gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and white students in the last quarter century, we've made little progress in closing the gaps.

In this position, Lowery will lead Ed Trust's P - 12 team by developing and implementing powerful strategies to focus national attention on inequities in public education as well as the actions necessary to close gaps in opportunity and to improve achievement.

Our job is to focus public attention on those gaps, the inequities that produce them, and the education leaders and reformers who make closing them their top priority.»

Today, given education's monomaniacal emphasis on basic proficiency rates and closing «achievement gaps,» teachers tend to devote less attention to students whose parents have already equipped them to learn.

The closing the gaps policy provides the Government with further impetus to focus its attention on its own departments, strategies and systems, to produce positive results for M ori.

As debate continues about the date of Australia Day and where the Aboriginal flag should be flown attention will turn to what's happening to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tables the latest Close the Gap report on Monday.

This is particularly important as there is insufficient attention to Indigenous nutrition as a contributor to chronic disease in recent policy initiatives, particularly the NPA on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes.

The report suggests that President Barack Obama's call for $ 10 billion annually in new federal funding represents a step toward closing the investment gap, and follows on the calls by the three previous Presidents to step up attention to the earliest learning years.