Sentences with phrase «does narrow the gap»

... And given that the drive for additional funding to the most deprived regions is to close the gaps in health, child poverty and economic performance we need to find ways of ensuring that the additional investment does narrow those gaps and not simply cushion the running of revenue based services.

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It said «Narrow your say - do gap» next to the word «Commitment.»

The point is I would have never been given the opportunity to save the company if I had anything other than a narrow say - do gap in the two years leading up to that event.

In conclusion, despite my insistence on the irresolvability of these two models, in Pannenberg and in Ford's modified Whitehead we do find a narrowing of the gap.

It would narrow the gap on Winston considerably if Winston doesn't match Manziel's magic, but it's not going to help Manziel overtake him.

That said, Brighton didn't keep that narrow when they weren't pressing, with the gap between Dale Stephens and Anthony Knockaert often growing quite wide.

What this did was force Milan to be stretched as they wanted to stay narrow and compact but by having both wide men glued to the touchline, then two inside between the lines, (Rafinha and Cancelo) they were forced to commit some out wide and some in the middle thus creating gaps.

Just don't get it, we try to play through ever narrowing gaps.

Often I've come up on narrrow gaps in alleyways and lanes, around parked cars and narrow doorways, and thought «I don't know if I can fit through.»

What do you see as the benefits and negatives of the AP Program in terms of helping to narrow the achievement gap?

What we have not done is pull together an obligation and say narrowing the gap, and making society more fair and equal is a public policy objective right across every public body.

Gaps also narrowed between low and and high needs districts, students with disabilities, and students who don't speak English proficiently, but Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said in a statement that closing these gaps would be a priority for her department in the coming yeGaps also narrowed between low and and high needs districts, students with disabilities, and students who don't speak English proficiently, but Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said in a statement that closing these gaps would be a priority for her department in the coming yegaps would be a priority for her department in the coming years.

How does the narrowing gender wage gap affect family time allocations?

The gender gap does narrow among younger consumers to the point where it is essentially zero among youngest new car buyers (age 20 - 25).

Although the smaller gap left a weaker magnetic signal on the tape, the narrow tracks did not overlap and so did not cancel each other out.

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«However, in reality doing this has proved to be no easy task because of the challenges associated with fabricating such narrow gaps between electrodes.

If you don't feel the space between your muscles narrowing, or your fingers sink into the gap, you may have a diastasis.

From 2011 to 2013, rates of early - stage diagnoses were still lower among Latinas and African Americans than they were for white women, but the gap did narrow a tiny bit.

When you do all of this, the gap will narrow.

Sometimes this gap closes in narrower spaces when the children are close to a dubious adult situation but don't fully understand the circumstances.

Now states will be able to claim that they have «narrowed achievement gaps» when all they've done is make their tests so easy to pass that virtually all kids — black and white, rich and poor — do so, magically erasing any group differences.

With that context in mind, consider two recent milestones in the achievement gap conversation: First, the news that the gap in New York City didn't narrow nearly as much as had previously been reported.

But the gap won't get any narrower as long as civil - rights leaders oppose the reforms that are doing the most to bridge it.

«If we don't make the progress that we need to make in narrowing the achievement gap then that's a recipe for social instability and economic decline,» Ferguson said.

A better one is to narrow the gap between learning to know and learning to do by creating these Meister High Schools that offer direct links to employment after graduation.

At a time when other federal and state policies are focused on achievement, school results, and the narrowing of learning gaps, why do we carve out a huge subpart of K — 12 education for a program that's still centered on inputs and services?

Does the black - white test - score gap narrow or widen through the school years?

For example, how do we know that the performance gap between minority and white students has been slowly narrowing while that between poor and well - off students has been widening?

«Over the past six years, we've done everything possible to narrow the achievement gap — and we have,» Mr. Bloomberg testified.

However, once students enter school the achievement gaps do not continue to narrow, the authors note.

Even though the achievement gap has not narrowed — black youngsters now score on NAEP where white fourth graders did several decades ago — are not the black student achievement gains evidence that, when teachers know what to do, they do it?

Only in the across - cohort comparisons did the Mathematica researchers find much evidence to suggest that the black - white test - score gap may narrow during the school years.

Tests themselves don't narrow the curriculum; they also can't close achievement gaps.

Why the gains that it produces later dissipate and the gaps that it narrows later widen has much to do with unchanging home and neighborhood situations.

In response, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics commissioned Mathematica Policy Research, a contract research firm, to find out whether 1) employers are now playing fair and 2) schools are doing their part in narrowing the black - white test - score gap.

Did socioeconomic gaps in enrollment narrow?

According to a committee spokesperson, the meeting will likely focus on what the government is doing to «promote social justice and narrow the attainment gap».

Ultimately, the task force considered one central question: What can be done to narrow the achievement gap by extending the Catholic school advantage to more Latino children?

«There are a narrow set of schools where this happens all the time, and until that gets really unpacked and resolved, there's only so much that can be done to close the achievement gap,» Sapp said.

Virginia intends to revise its new goals for student achievement in public schools, after state and federal officials agreed that those goals did not do enough to narrow the gap between students with the worst and best scores on annual state exams.

There's really no way to create a tutor - proof test so while you've got entry by selective test, it is going to benefit the better - off families - and that is why Michael Wilshaw is right to say that it is not a system for the future of this country if what we want is all children to do well and the gaps to narrow.»

For at least two decades, the average time spent on English language arts in Illinois public schools has dwarfed instruction time in math — and it still does — but the gap has narrowed as math time has increased.

The lesson is all too clear: If class - size reduction is to narrow the achievement gap, as it did in Tennessee, schools need to get the plan right; otherwise, their efforts can easily backfire.

For instance, to the statement «You have a certain amount of intelligence, and you can't really do much to change it» (a positive response coded as a proxy for growth mindset), English learners had a 23 % increase in positive responses between fall and spring 2017, additionally narrowing the gap between their responses and those of their non-EL peers.

And historical trends do suggest some connection: As public schools became more desegregated, beginning in the 1960s, the achievement gap narrowed; as school segregation increased again, beginning around 1990, progress in closing that gap ground to a halt.

The idea is that free school meal eligibility is linked to lower pupil achievement, and the additional funding can help state schools to narrow the achievement gap between students who receive free school meals and those who don't.

We find that California's school children did much better in the second year of the new statewide standardized tests, though achievement gaps have not substantially narrowed.

Year after year, the same students are enrolled in remedial classes, and year after year, the academic gaps don't narrow.

I don't believe there is any reason the reforms championed by Gov. Brown will move the needle or narrow the gap.