Sentences with phrase «close racial gaps»

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.

But NCLB's failure to spur overall test score gains or close racial gaps led «reformers» to push for national, or «common,» standards.

Broward County officials wanted to disrupt the «school to prison pipeline,» and to close racial gaps in suspensions, expulsions, and referrals for arrest among their students.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act is designed to encourage all states to close the racial gap in performance.

Is 25 years a realistic goal for closing the racial gap in test scores?

The findings show the need for renewed focus on closing racial gaps in education and school quality, which have been stuck in place for several decades, according to the authors.

Our results indicate that it is absolutely possible to close the racial gap in online dating.

I have spoken with more than one superintendent about complaints from white parents alleging their children are being neglected because of the focus on closing racial gaps.

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California's community colleges.

CLOSING RACIAL GAPS: You might never have seen this reported, but since NCLB was passed, we've reduced racial achievement gaps by 13 to 25 percent, according to the Brookings Institute.

Not exact matches

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.

Carranza's priorities rang familiar to New Yorkers Monday as he stressed lower reliance on testing, a focus on social services, LGBTQ rights, support for immigrant children and closing racial achievement gaps.

The racial achievement gap has been closed.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

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

«Given the racial and ethnic disparities, targeted, culturally appropriate interventions in breast cancer screening and care have the potential to reduce the disparities and close the existing survival gaps,» Chen said.

Most importantly, during a time when racial animosity has been elevated to a high level, this film offers insight into how such a seemingly unbridgeable gap can be closed... if the participants are willing to take the steps.

If improvements continue at the same rate as seen since 1965, it will be two and a half centuries until racial achievement gaps are closed in math and over one and a half centuries for them to close in reading.

Florida's reform record provides hope to a nation struggling to improve education and to close racial achievement gaps.

Closing the black - white test score gap would probably do more to promote racial equality in the United States than any other strategy now under serious discussion.

Thompson: Closing the achievement gaps between students of different racial groups continues to be a challenge, not only for urban schools but for schools across the board.

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 are just some of the reasons that reform proponents argue that our schools can not ignore the school discipline gap if they aim to close our nation's racial achievement gap.

The beginning of the century again saw a small closing of racial and ethnic achievement gaps, but over the over the last eight years NAEP shows little movement, though no increases.

These gains, however, have not included a significant closing of the gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, a fact that represents a serious issue in education today.

Not only haven't average scores improved, racial / ethnic and income gaps haven't closed.

African American students advanced from the bottom quarter of Chicago's test score distribution for white students to the 46th percentile in reading and math, essentially closing the racial achievement gap.

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

The effects in elementary school are large enough to close the racial achievement gap in both mathematics and ELA.

Closing racial and ethnic achievement gaps has proven intractable for school leaders across the nation.

In the half century since James Coleman and his colleagues first documented racial gaps in student achievement, education researchers have done little to help close those gaps.

States set annual district and school targets for grade - level achievement, high school graduation, and closing achievement gaps, for all students, including accelerated progress for subgroups (each major racial and ethnic group, students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from low - income families), and rate schools and districts on how well they meet the targets.

In a second study, Supovitz and Brennan (1997) found that gender, socioeconomic, and racial inequities existed when portfolio performance was compared to standardized test performance, although the Rochester portfolios closed the gaps between blacks and whites and widened the gaps between boys and girls.

Remarkably, HOPE is on its way to closing the racial achievement gap that has historically plagued inner - city kids.

That is, while the racial gaps keep closing, the rate of closure has slowed dramatically.

Magnet schools work to close the achievement gap, improve racial harmony, and make a positive impact on the lives of children @ [Insert Senator / Representative Name] #schooldiversity

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.

As little as one year in a Boston charter closes about one - third of the racial achievement gap between black and white students.

But Duncan said that there is evidence that the racial achievement gap has been reduced significantly during the same period, which is promising for closing the socioeconomic achievement gap in the future.

In addition, more schooling isn't going to close the racial wealth gap.

So, with New York City public school students returning next month, * the question is: Why isn't more being done to bring students of different races together in the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the country, one where the public schools have had little success closing a huge racial achievement gap?

Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

If improvements continue at the same rate as seen since 1965, it will be 2 1/2 centuries until racial achievement gaps are closed in math and over 1 1/2 centuries for reading.

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

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

Income and racial gaps in school readiness closed significantly between 1998 and 2010, according to studies in a special issue of AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Today, more students are taking advantage of summer school programs, advanced coursework, and innovative career - based programs, and the racial gap in academic performance and graduation rates has closed dramatically.

NCLB, passed with bipartisan support in 2001, sought through a variety of provisions to close the achievement gap among racial and socioeconomic groups but was highly proscriptive with Adequate Yearly Progress and intervention measures.

Each [group] was asked to do research at their particular grade level to study ways in which differentiated instruction could be used to help the school close the racial student achievement gap.