Sentences with phrase «because black achievement»

The last time the achievement gap stopped narrowing — back in the late 1980s — it was because black achievement flat - lined or worse.

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This time the achievement gap stopped narrowing because both white kids and black kids are making steady progress.

The effects of charter schools in urban populations are of special interest because any gains in this context might help reduce the black - white achievement gap.

There is a reason why so many in Virginia and throughout the nation have criticized the Old Dominion's supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets: Because they set low expectations for the state's districts and schools to improve achievement for black, Latino, and poor kids, and don't encourage the districts to take on the strong reforms needed to do so.

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.

He praised DPI's new plan because it sets goals to cut the gap in average achievement between black and white students in half in six years — which would require black students to improve in proficiency in English and math by around 4 percent annually.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

But it doesn't work in practice because the underlying formulas allow for schools and districts to hide how poorly they are educating black, Latino and Native kids; a school can hide its wide achievement gaps and still get an A grade if it meets the other categories in the formula.

It is impossible for Michelle Rhee, or anyone else for that matter, to eliminate the achievement gap because it is completely impossible to make DC's lower class students (mostly Blacks and Hispanics) with IQs predominantly in the 75 to 105 range perform as well as DC's middle and upper class students (mostly Whites and Asians) with IQs predominantly in the 105 to 135 range.

Nevertheless, an important thing to note is that the student test scores in PS 307 «are closer to the average for black and Hispanic students» (Taylor, Sept. 2015), which is an important fact to acknowledge because it demonstrates a different type of achievement and success that is not usually recognized.