Sentences with phrase «by racial gaps»

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«The report released today by the Council of Economic Advisers shows how conflicts of interest, backdoor payments and hidden fees are hurting average Americans, exacerbating income inequality and widening the racial wealth gap.»

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.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

The issue of marijuana arrests was highlighted by a New York Times report on the persistent racial gap in marijuana arrests.

President Mulgrew said: «By objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not workeBy objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not workeby public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

City Councilman Rory Lancman said he's appealing to the DAs because of a massive racial gap in people busted by the NYPD for pot use.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

«Conversely, a majority of excess infant mortality in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana could be explained by compositional differences due to a larger proportion of non-Hispanic black births, which reflects a persistent racial gap that exists across the country.»

As the name suggests, the aim of the platform is bridging the gap between people belonging to diverse backgrounds by spreading the message of love across different racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds.

Release: Friday, June 19, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Rick Famuyiwa Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance darling isn't particularly revelatory filmmaking, but it's much more intelligent than its dopey title suggests, rejecting racial stereotypes and erasing cultural gaps as confidently as it embraces its young leading trio as a righteous symbol of individualism.

[xxxii] A recent study by Jackson and Reynolds, for example, finds that loans promote higher rates of persistence and completion among black undergraduates, and concludes that despite racial gaps in default rates, loans are nonetheless «an imperfect, but overall positive tool for reducing educational inequality» by race.

Readers may also wish to read an important new essay by sociologist George Farkas, «The Black - White Test Score Gap» (Contexts, Spring 2004), which says that the racial rift is caused, more than any other thing, by divergent child - rearing practices (and preschool opportunities).

Unfortunately, because the U.S. Department of Education does not regularly track borrowers by race, data limitations have hampered efforts to connect research on racial gaps with detailed new studies of debt and default patterns.

They can address the racial achievement gap directly by explaining what must be done in low - performing schools and how parents, churches, and other local assets can help.

The prize was awarded Sept. 16 by the Los Angeles - based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which bestows the award annually to a city school district that has made notable strides in improving achievement, especially in closing gaps between students of different racial and ethnic groups.

These findings make clear that while we can learn a tremendous amount by comparing school districts in terms of their racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic gaps in test scores, there is a large degree of variation within school districts in their outcome gaps as well.

Important new work by Reardon and his collaborators shows that not only test scores [5] but also racial test score gaps [6] vary dramatically across American school districts.

It's apparent from Figure 5 that school districts vary considerably in their test performance gaps between high - SES and low - SES students; this is unsurprising given the large cross-district variation in racial / ethnic gaps found in the work by Reardon and colleagues mentioned in the introduction.

Research indicates that a gap in language, gesturing, and other developmental markers begins to open by age 2, Ferguson says — even though there are virtually no racial or social class differences in the mental abilities of infants before age 1.

But just as much of the racial achievement gap can be explained by out - of - school factors, so too, I suspect, can much of the racial suspensions gap be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors.

College, Enrollment, Gap, High school completer, Postsecondary institutions (basic classification by level), Racial / ethnic group

The 1998 study by Meredith Phillips and her colleagues, mentioned earlier, had the greatest success in explaining racial differences in achievement, yet the unexplained portion of the achievement gap on the vocabulary test used in their study was still so large that it nearly exceeded the raw gap in reading and mathematics we found in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey data.

Consider the case of Florida, which has been celebrated, especially by conservatives, for its success in closing racial achievement gaps.

Despite the bitter feuding over NCLB, many experts and some lawmakers say it had successes — for instance, spotlighting previously hidden racial achievement gaps by requiring schools to break out student data by race and other categories.

Thus adjusting the data for the effects of socioeconomic status reduces the estimated racial gaps in test scores by more than 40 percent in math and more than 66 percent in reading.

Only half of students in large urban school systems graduate from high school, US students lag behind their international counterparts, and racial - ethnic gaps in achievement are large by kindergarten and continue to grow thereafter, she said.

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

This course also helps them situate this particular work within the larger context of challenges and innovations in urban education by introducing participants to literature on the achievement gap, the impact of racial identity on school achievement, charter school policy and critiques, and the advent and development of charter schools serving low income students that are based on high support and high expectations.

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

-- Dr. Anne Gregory and coauthors, «Closing the Racial Discipline Gap in Classrooms by Changing Teacher Practice»

Evers» group hopes to narrow the racial achievement gap across Wisconsin by highlighting and sharing across districts those efforts that seem to be working.

NCLB has been widely praised for its requirement that states and schools break down their test results by subgroups — across racial, socioeconomic and other lines — to highlight achievement gaps.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

Compared to 2007, there have been no significant changes in the racial / ethnic gaps, gender gaps, or gaps by type of school at either grade.

Source: «The Geography of Racial / Ethnic Test Score Gaps», by Sean F. Reardon, Demetra Kalogrides and Kenneth Shores of Stanford

Why racial achievement gaps were so pronounced in affluent school districts is a puzzling question raised by the data.

Simply equalizing a school's racial composition, the analysis concludes, can reduce the achievement gap by about 25 % — an impact as great as any reform strategy has had to date.

Trends and Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment of Young Adults (Aged 25 — 29), by Race and Ethnicity, 1980 — 2005 (Three - year averages)

First place: Remedial Screening Tests, High School Grades, and College Success by Zun Tang and Sarah Truelsch, City University of New York Second place: Improving the Measurement of STEM Gender and Racial Gaps in the Workforce by Yu - chieh Hsu, Janna E. Johnson, and Javaeria Qureshi, University of Illinois at Chicago Third place: Is Facebook Making Us Greener?

At College Futures, we work to help students who are low - income and underrepresented in higher education achieve college success by increasing their rate of bachelor's degree attainment and closing the racial, ethnic, and gender gaps that begin in high school or earlier and persist through college completion.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO GOOD NEWS: You might never have seen this reported, but in the time since NCLB was passed, we've reduced racial achievement gaps by 13 to 25 percent, according to the liberal - leaning Brookings Institute.

A recent study released by ECONorthwest estimates that the racial achievement gap costs Oregon $ 2 billion a year in economic activity.

The intervention reduced the racial achievement gap by nearly 30 %.

The University of Chicago study found that after all the changes made by Vallas and Duncan, the reforms, «have done nothing to close the racial gaps in achievement levels.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

The funding and opportunity gaps created by Pennsylvania's state funding system have created racial and economic achievement gaps in our public schools that are among the largest in the country.

Moreover, we are 15 years into the data - driven school - reform movement, which is based on the idea that racial - and economic - achievement gaps are largely caused by the «benign racism of low expectations,» and that the solution is to hold individual educators accountable for meeting discrete, quantifiable targets.

But when black students are taught by black teachers, the racial gap largely disappears.

Lastly, we find that high school achievement measures explain much of the racial gaps in BA attainment and annual earnings and some of the gaps by family background, though they account for little of the continuing gender gap in annual earnings.