Sentences with phrase «close educational achievement gaps»

ESSA aims to «provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.»

«The purpose of this title is to ensure that all children have a fair, equitable, and significant opportunity to receive a high - quality education that prepares them for postsecondary education or the workforce, without the need for postsecondary remediation, and to close educational achievement gaps.»

As states are submitting their plans to the department for review and approval, it is critical that these plans meet the letter and intent of the law and, as is its purpose, that they «provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and close educational achievement gaps.»

The purpose of Title I is to «provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.»

«Congress has stated that Title I's purpose is to «provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.»»

We have to go to the disaster that encompasses the black family, the failure to close educational achievement gaps, the rise of worklessness among black males, the increase in crime, and, behind all these, there are other factors in infinite regress.

A study of one Texas school district reveals one of the best evidence - based ways ever found to close the educational achievement gap between black and white students.

Befitting its name, the laboratory's mission is to be open to a wide range of creative ideas and approaches for closing the educational achievement gap among American students — and, importantly, to rely on rigorous research to determine what works and doesn't.

In some of New Jersey's most troubled and disadvantaged communities, charter public schools are succeeding in closing the educational achievement gap with our state's more wealthy communities, despite receiving an average 70 percent of each education dollar compared to their traditional public school counterparts.

Education during these formative years can also begin closing the educational achievement gap between low and high - income students before formal schooling begins.

One significant effect of ECE that has been demonstrated is its capacity to close the educational achievement gap between low and high - income students.

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«Summer learning is an essential element to closing the achievement gap and ensuring educational equity across our city and state,» said Principal Jason Wagner, Pelham Lab High School.

In a follow - up study, the researchers hope to learn more about what types of educational programs might help to close the achievement gap, and if possible, investigate whether these interventions also influence brain anatomy.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

Our second lens focused on what national and international research shows about «hard to teach, hard to reach» (Boag - Munroe and Evangelo, 2010) and «closing the gap in educational achievement», including the debates about Leon Feinstein's research (2015); looking at definitions, causes and effects.

SAME seeks to close the gap in student achievement between rural and remote and urban areas by delivering live, interactive, sessions from broadcast studios via EDUSAT — a dedicated educational satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation.

One response to this observation has been to assume that the closing of achievement gaps requires group - based solutions — for example, special initiatives aimed at boys (or girls), educational solutions for Indigenous students, or government programs targeted on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Film director M. Night Shyamalan will discuss his book, «I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap,» and offer a unique look at America's educational achievement gap through the lens of an outsidGap,» and offer a unique look at America's educational achievement gap through the lens of an outsidgap through the lens of an outsider.

Ryan, who is also the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, is a top scholar on law and education, an authority on school desegregation and school choice, and a forceful advocate for expanding educational opportunities to close the student achievement gap.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

The U.S. Department of Education has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction.

At the Lawrenceville School, she has taught, been an assistant housemaster, overseen the early warning system, a program to close the achievement gap, served as an instructional leader, worked with University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Boys» and Girls» Lives» to foster student action research projects and coordinated the educational support program.

The Obama administration's $ 650 million Investing in Innovation Fund — designed to spur investments in innovative educational providers and practices — specified that applicants needed to «demonstrate their previous success in closing achievement gaps, improving student progress toward proficiency, increasing graduation rates, or recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.»

The Secretary of Education approves plans, ensures state implementation through oversight and enforcement, and takes action when states fail to meet their obligations to close achievement gaps and provide equal educational opportunity for all students.

The five partner states — Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont — work together to close persistent achievement gaps and promote greater educational equity and opportunity for all students.

I would further suggest that these days we seem to be awash in existential educational questions like those, brought on by such new controversies (at least, newly packaged) as whether it's good to try to close the achievement gap, whether it's counterproductive to demand «proficiency» as opposed to «improvement,» whether «differentiated instruction» is another form of tracking, whether common standards are anti-American, etc..

A decade ago, the No Child Left Behind Act ushered in an era of federal educational accountability marked by relentless focus on closing race - and income - based «achievement gaps» in test scores and graduation rates.

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, October 2011).

These individuals have a longstanding interest in closing the opportunity gap for poor kids and kids of color, and improving educational achievement for all students.

Combined with teacher - made measures of authentic student achievement, perhaps we can begin to close the achievement gap and build meaningful educational opportunities and success for students.

Its elementary model was recently the subject of a multi-year study that showed UChicago Charter is effectively addressing educational inequality and closing the achievement gap that has persisted between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Teacher tenure is cast as a civil rights issue for struggling students, because job protection for teachers is supposedly an obstacle to improving educational outcomes and closing the «achievement gap.»

Prior to joining the foundation, Orville was a Senior Research Analyst at the Education Trust - West, where he conducted research and advocated for policies to boost educational achievement and close opportunity gaps impacting students of color and students in poverty in California schools.

In the current program, Mr. Smith tracks America's search for schools and school districts that have been effectively raising student performance in high poverty areas and closing the achievement gap between minority and low - income students and the educational mainstream.

All told, the current educational system in Massachusetts is not succeeding at closing considerable achievement gaps.

Working together for the last several years to improve graduation rates, increase college readiness, close achievement gaps, and promote educational innovation.

The shift in educational rigor that globalization has ushered in is pushing policymakers to embrace systemic change in public education, with particular focus on closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged students and their peers.

In trying to reverse those trends, he faces the same decentralized educational system and resistance to change that hampered Bush's No Child Left Behind law, which required annual testing to hold schools accountable for closing achievement gaps.

A key strategy to improving educational outcomes and closing achievement gaps for children from low - income families is improving state finance systems to ensure equitable funding and increased access to resources, according to a new study from Educational Testing Service (ETS).

We are driving a relentless effort to boost educational achievement and, critically, to make quicker progress in closing the attainment gap, for example through the # 100m Scotland Attainment Challenge.

Congressional Panel Calls for Larger Federal Role in Directing Schools A white paper released Tuesday on improving educational competitiveness and closing the achievement gap called for a significantly larger federal role in the management of the nation's public school system.

This framework recognizes that to truly close achievement gaps, our nation must address underlying «opportunity gaps» — the deep disparities that exist in access to quality educational resources, particularly for low - income students and students of color.

Austin, TX — Over seventy delegates from six communities around the Central Texas region composed of students, teachers, administrators, higher education, community and business leaders are convening next week to create a historic plan for closing achievement gaps that will feed into a 21st century blueprint to bring about educational change in Central Texas.

This post originally appeared in Education Post For many years, education policy has focused on closing educational access and achievement gaps that exist between low - income, predominantly -LSB-...]

The League of Innovative Schools (LIS) is an initiative of the NESSC and includes more than 75 schools that have been working together for the last several years to improve graduation rates, increase college readiness, close achievement gaps, and promote educational innovation.

Even accounting for the progress in math, there is no sign that the reforms have had a significant impact in closing achievement gaps or in improving America's mediocre international educational standing.

He was chair of the congressionally - chartered Equity and Excellence Commission set up to advise the U.S. Dept. of Education on how to close disparities in educational opportunity that contribute to the achievement gap.

Classnotes Podcast (February 13, 2012) In December, the President issued an executive order on improving American Indian and Alaska Native educational opportunities in light of the fact that these students are dropping out of school at alarming rates, that the United States has not been successful in closing achievement gaps, and many native languages are close to extinction.

However, years of statewide assessments have failed to significantly close that gap; in fact, as income inequality grows across the state, the student achievement gap continues, pointing out the lack of fairness and access for all Connecticut's students to equal educational opportunities.

By aligning children's educational experiences from birth through 3rd grade, we can sustain and enhance gains made in the early years and truly close the achievement gap before it starts.