Sentences with phrase «between wealthier students»

Hirsch began arguing 30 years ago that the gap in performance between wealthier students on the one hand and poor and minority ones on the other is essentially a gap in knowledge.

The «achievement gap», that is the difference between the wealthiest students and poorest students, remain the largest - in - the - nation.

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Most of the students who graduate from Columbia Business School are going to be somewhere between wealthy and rich.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

(The gap between poor and wealthier fourth - grade students narrowed during those two decades, but only by a tiny amount.)

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

Sold as somewhere between a business relationship and dating, the practice involves young, attractive, predominantly female «sugar babies» — many of them students — exchanging their companionship for financial support from older, wealthy predominantly male «sugar daddies» or «mommies».

The film follows the relationship between a bullied student, Shelly (Hasson), whose home life is in shambles, and a wealthy eccentric, Wes (Burke), with no friends and issues with women.

Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

Last fall, the conflict between charter and district schools intensified after someone leaked a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to raise up to $ 490 million from foundations and wealthy individuals to double the number of charter schools in the city, with the goal of enrolling about half the students in the district within eight years.

Then there is the achievement gap between American kids and their fellow students in other wealthy, industrialized nations.

Low - income students are particularly sensitive to this phenomenon some research suggests that more than half of the achievement gap seen in reading between these students and their wealthier peers can be attributed to summer loss.

Despite decades of widespread implementation of such reforms, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

Despite decades of one - off interventions and reforms, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

Our current school funding system often bolsters school district boundaries between rich and poor, holding resources in wealthy communities and keeping low - income students from accessing broader opportunities.

New Jersey has one of the highest achievement gaps between wealthy and poor students in the nation.

Many of these revisions will help close the equity gap of over $ 1,000 per student between the wealthiest and poorest school districts that is inherent in Texas's continuing over-reliance on disparate property tax values across the state, as noted in the chart below.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

We believe this could be an opportunity for positive change as long as adequacy and equity are central tenets to address the chronic and growing divide between urban / rural, wealthy and poorer school systems and their related student achievement gaps.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

But achievement gaps between students of color and white / Asian students and between low - income students and their wealthier peers (like our Long Islanders) are stark.

The standards would not only catapult American students ahead of other developed nations but would also help close the gaps between low - income students in the U.S. and their wealthier counterparts.

At the same time, however, the nationwide gap between low - income students and their wealthier peers has remained wide and unchanged in 4th - grade reading since 2002 - 03.

However, while proud of their accomplishments, he acknowledges that the state is far from reaching its ideal: closing the achievement gap between white and non-white and wealthy and low - income students.

Standardized test score differences between wealthy and poor students rose by 40 percent from 1976 to 2001.

Schools where students feel safe, engaged and connected to their teachers are also schools that have narrower achievement gaps between low - income children and their wealthier peers.

The term «achievement gap» refers to the gap between the test scores of low - income students (or students of color) and their wealthier (or white) peers.

The standards would not only catapult American students ahead of other developed nations, but would also help close the gaping achievement gaps between low - income students in the U.S. and their wealthier counterparts.

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

We in CT have some very wealthy areas where students score extremely high on tests - higher than students in many other states - which creates a wider gap between low poverty and high poverty students.

The almost entirely white population of girls at the school with the widest gap between wealthy and poor students was the group most at risk of relational aggression.

Some have argued, and rightly so, that the persistent opportunity gap between low - income students and their wealthier peers should be addressed by extending learning opportunities to all students in high - poverty schools to ensure that they have access to a well - rounded education.

Mahmoud believes a curriculum steeped in African history and culture is crucial to closing academic achievement gaps between poor black students and their wealthier, white peers.

However, the true achieve - ment gap (as defined by RIDE and others) exists between minority and white, poor and wealthier, ELL and non - ELL, and special needs and non-special needs students.

A new program announced this week by the Harvard Graduate School of Education intends to reduce the achievement gap between wealthy and low - income students.

The study arrives as legislators consider an override of Governor Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, which would rewrite the school funding formula to drive more dollars to the state's neediest districts and begin to close funding gaps between low - income and wealthier students.

«Making sure all children are proficient readers by third grade will go a long way toward closing the achievement gaps that exist between low - income students and their wealthier classmates.»

And only three states have larger achievement gaps between their low income and wealthy students on eigth grade reading and math than New Jersey, despite school spending that dwarfs that of almost all other states.

Equitable and adequate school funding are mechanisms for helping to close achievement gaps between low - income students and their wealthier peers and for helping all students reach their potential to become healthy and productive citizens.

There is no evidence to support the belief that including SBAC scores in teacher evaluations will lessen the differences in learning outcomes between the state's wealthier and less - advantaged students.

The academic achievement gap between wealthy white students and low - income students of color must be eliminated.

ALL CHILDREN CAN ACHIEVE - We believe that all children can achieve, which is why the achievement gap between low income students and their wealthier peers can, and must, be closed.

Meanwhile, the gap between the wealthiest and poorest students has only been getting wider.

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.

She slammed the New York school system for being «the second most unequal in the country,» noting that there is a $ 10,000 per - pupil funding gap between students in the wealthiest versus poorest school districts.