Sentences with phrase «closing achievement»

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.

«You're seeing the accumulated progress and gradual incremental progress... with particular attention toward equity and closing the achievement gaps,» says Paul Reville, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and former secretary of Education for Massachusetts.

Those teams are having meaningful conversations about closing achievement gaps and creating an item analysis to lead thoughtful curriculum changes that ensure students» mastery of content.

She also resorts to the tiresome tactic of attributing false claims around closing achievement gaps to advocates of Common Core so she can shoot them down.

Rangel said closing the achievement gap between minority and white students is a civil - rights issue and that charters are part of the solution.

This School of Education, along with many of our peers, remains committed to the understanding that high levels of academic accomplishment for all demographic groups is an essential, if not fundamental, factor in closing the achievement and opportunity gaps that plague our nation.

The use of highly effective, cost - efficient individualized instructional programs like DreamBox Learning is allowing Rocketship to realize its mission of closing the achievement gap.

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

A major issue in public education today is closing the achievement gap so that every student is ready for college, career and life.

And when it comes to closing the achievement gap, Massachusetts has a strong track record.

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.»

What role can researchers play in closing achievement gaps and expanding equitable outcomes for students?

Today, the graduation rate for African - Americans is 75 percent, still lower than our white counterparts, but an increase that shows our community rapidly closing that achievement gap.

The second reason is that most modern education reform efforts are focused on «closing the achievement gap.»

She returns to Baltimore schools after serving for three years as vice president for K - 12 policy and practice at The Education Trust, a Washington, DC - based nonprofit focused on closing the achievement gap experienced disproportionately by African American, Latino, and Native students and students from low - income families.

Four Connecticut schools were designated as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing the achievement gaps.U.S.

Low - income kindergartners are closing the achievement gap, reversing a decades - old trend The Washington Post, August, 26, 2016

The state touted progress in closing the achievement gap between white students and Hispanic and black students, particularly since the introduction of the harder tests three years ago.

Indeed, the Coleman Report's conclusion that schools had little hope of closing the achievement gap has been proven unfounded.

In high - poverty areas where progress has been made in closing achievement gaps, such as in Union City, N.J., and Clarke County, Ga., it wasn't a focus on standardized testing that worked.

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

This goal has evolved into a broader responsibility around equity — closing achievement gaps.

The silver bullet for closing the achievement gap these days seems to be formative assessment.

With the social engineer's calm assurance that there are clear, identifiable interventions to resolve every problem, today's education reformers insist that closing the achievement gap is a simple matter of identifying «what works» and then requiring schools to do it.

Based on Stubbs» State assessment data, closing the achievement gap in math is a priority.

In 2015, Camino Nuevo earned the Bright Spot Award from the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics for closing achievement gaps between English learners and native English speakers.

The federal government would have to sign off on states» plans for closing achievement gaps.

With 25 schools serving 12,500 students, Alliance is the largest charter school network in Los Angeles, larger than 75 % of all California school districts, and successfully closing the achievement gap at scale...

As someone responsible for students with learning disabilities and for closing the achievement gap, and as a school instructional leader, working toward eliminating standardized tests such as AP's and assessing department based learning outcomes, I am eager to learn more about three aspects of Finnish education:

Federal funding must be attached to firm, ambitious, and unequivocal demands for higher achievement, improved high school graduation rates, and progress in closing both achievement and opportunity gaps.

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.

Educators will hear how competency - based education, a focus on college - and career - readiness, creating caring environments, and social - emotional learning can play important roles in closing achievement gaps and reaching all learners.

«I started my career in education because I was passionate about closing the achievement gap and providing equal opportunities for all learners.

While nationwide gains in closing achievement gaps have been made, research shows that underserved student populations still achieve at lower rates than their peers in many areas.

To meet their students» needs while closing the achievement gap, the school created daily support seminars.

Learn more at Closing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Excellence in Education, a professional development institute led by Professor Ronald Ferguson, happening June 28 — July 2, 2015.

One is that just closing achievement gaps could give us equity without excellence.

Ferguson is faculty director of the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University and also faculty chair of an upcoming professional development institute called Closing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Excellence in Education (June 28 — July 2, 2015).

You argue that educators and policymakers should focus less on «closing the achievement gap» and more on «excellence with equity.»

Closing the achievement gap with Finland would, according to historical experience, have astounding benefits, increasing the annual growth rate of the United States by 1 percent of GDP.

«Equipped with the insights of both HGSE staff and colleagues from throughout the nation and across the globe, we are implementing reforms which are closing achievement gaps, prompting greater diversity in advanced course enrollment, engaging students at higher levels, and are thus becoming more equitable institutions of learning.»

Thus, the case for charter schools today is almost always made in social - justice terms — promoting charters» success in closing achievement gaps, boosting poor kids» chances of upward mobility, and alleviating systemic inequities.

All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show substantial gains in closing the achievement gap, with the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.

Singleton enrolled in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program (TIE) because of her interest in race and achievement and to learn how technology might play a role in 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.

He suggests that schools can have only a limited influence on closing the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and their more affluent peers unless school improvement is combined with broader social and economic reforms.

«Closing achievement gaps» is a wonderful and worthy aspiration.

My post earlier this week framed the piece that Jeff Henig and I contributed to Ed Week's print edition and laid out the need for education reformers to review the evidence and admit that closing achievement gaps is not as simple as adopting a set of standards, accountability and instructional improvement strategies.

New York City's charter schools are making strides in closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged inner - city students and their better - off suburban counterparts, a new study concludes.

iNACOL has five criteria that it recommends policymakers judge full - time virtual charter schools by: individual student growth, proficiency, graduation rates, college and career readiness, and closing the achievement gap.