Sentences with phrase «closing the racial achievement gap at»

One confusing but important finding is that that simply closing the racial achievement gap at each individual college would not be enough to ensure that black and white students graduate at the same rate overall.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson pointed to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as the main way the state can work at closing the racial achievement gap.

If the events in Newtown are of any indication (especially against backdrop of the challenges of our urban districts and our failure to close the racial achievement gap), «more effective communication» is at the heart of what we need as a nation to bring about and sustain more transformative learning communities.

Since the Reagan administration's «A Nation at Risk» report pronounced that schools across the country were failing, every president has touted a new plan to close the racial academic achievement gap: President Obama installed Race to the Top; George W. Bush had No Child Left Behind; and Clinton pushed Goals 2000.

In recent years, an intense focus on closing racial and economic achievement gaps has resulted in policies and practices that can sometimes come at the expense of families that work hard and play by the rules.

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to establish conditions that enable students — primarily poor students of color — to achieve at levels far higher than their social background predicts.