Sentences with phrase «biggest achievement gaps»

The renewals will allow states to continue their work implementing accountability systems that target the lowest - performing schools and schools with the biggest achievement gaps and implementing teacher and principal evaluation and support systems.

Which school districts have the biggest achievement gaps?

The morning opened with a panel of leaders discussing their states» biggest achievement gaps and their strategies for addressing them.

Gains in reading proficiency also were seen across all student groups, though big achievement gaps remained.

Americans assume that big achievement gaps are bad and little ones are good.

In fact, in Milwaukee, there's a big achievement gap in math among students — one of the widest gaps in the country.

Not exact matches

«One factor that may help schools close racial achievement gap: Study in Texas shows «collective efficacy» has big impact.»

As we've seen in New York, which is a few years ahead of the curve when it comes to making its tests much harder, a higher cut score will make achievement gaps look much bigger, and the achievement of most high - poverty schools look much worse.

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.

For «reformers» it's an article of faith that closing the achievement gap is job number - one — and that highly - effective schools can make a big dent in the gap — maybe even close it entirely — all by themselves.

Despite the staff's efforts to help all students perform at high levels, the biggest challenge LACES faces is closing the achievement gap.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

I'd eliminate the achievement gap because its existence is the biggest condemnation of modern society there is, short of genocide.

But it also unrepentantly underscores the state's big challenges: Massachusetts lags far behind the world's highest - performing nations, many of which are pulling farther ahead; other nations and other U.S. states have shown stronger recent gains; too few Massachusetts high school graduates are prepared for college - level work; and other U.S. states have done a better job of closing the achievement gap.

«Alabama is light years ahead of everyone else in closing the achievement gap,» Sandi Jacobs, Reading First's former assistant director in Washington, said to me in October of 2005, two years before the state posted the biggest two - year increase in 4th - grade reading scores ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

2002); Brief for Armor et al. as Amici Curiae, with Rosen, Perhaps Not All Affirmative Action is Created Equal, N. Y. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting»» [w] e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly»» and acknowledging that he» «did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but there's a big state variation»» (emphasis added)-RRB-.

Now a new study suggests that race plays a big role in influencing how teachers see their students» potential for academic success, raising questions about whether teachers» biases could be holding back black students and contributing to the nation's yawning achievement gap.

According to research by Richard Allington and Anne McGill Franzen, summer reading loss is a big factor in achievement and accounts for at least 80 percent of the reading achievement gap by the ninth grade.

«We can't close the achievement gap unless we know what it is and where it is and how big it is.»

It inaugurated big - time federal aid to K - 12 education, initially in the name of equitable opportunity, now more targeted on academic achievement and gap - closing.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

Closing the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and others is the biggest challenge faced by our generation of teachers and school leaders.

Sir John Dunford, national pupil premium champion, writes for TES; Closing the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and others is the biggest...

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

The student achievement gap remains a big concern, she said.

That could do big damage to work statewide to build up Kentucky's teachers and support the instructional innovations that will be needed to raise achievement for all students and reduce gaps for those who have long been underserved.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

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A Superintendent's View: The Impa ct of Formula Funding The poverty gap — the biggest factor that affects student achievement — is widening in America.

The so - called achievement gap is pretty big.

Toews responded saying that the district should focus on one big area, instead of gradual «drop in the bucket» approaches, and that area should be the racial achievement gap.

The biggest gainers are low - achieving and minority students: The minority - white achievement gap is actually halved in the typical Success for All school district.

The biggest change to the formula was the state's decision not to factor a school's so - called achievement gap into its final score in 2016.

A change in the law not only would allow Maryland to take a bigger bite out of the achievement gap but also could attract more federal and private school reform dollars.

Within a decade, the search for justice gave birth to another big idea: Not only would racial walls come down on campuses, no longer would it be right to have major gaps between the academic achievement of white and minority students.

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.

«The gaps are too big in terms of achievement for students with disabilities, they are too big in areas of race, students with socio - economic disadvantaged backgrounds,» he said.

A CALmatters analysis of the biggest districts with the greatest clusters of needy children found limited success with the policy's goal: to close the achievement gap between these students and their more privileged peers.

And, in fact, some places where overall student achievement is relatively higher, such as in Massachusetts and Connecticut, exhibit some of the biggest gaps based on race and ethnicity.

«When it comes to reducing the achievement gap, don't think big.

When it comes to closing achievement gaps, big interventions are not always big enough — and small interventions can yield surprising results.

Dozens of California school systems with some of the state's worst test scores and biggest academic achievement gaps won't get any extra help this year under a support system launched recently by the state.