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.
Divided we fail: Improving completion and
closing racial gaps in California's community colleges.
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.
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.
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?
Our results indicate that it is absolutely possible to
close the racial gap in online dating.
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.
But NCLB's failure to spur overall test score gains or
close racial gaps led «reformers» to push for national, or «common,» standards.
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.
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.
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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.