Sentences with phrase «early achievement gaps»

Offering high - quality child care beginning at age one is reducing early achievement gaps in Norwegian communities, the team reported in a recent edition of the education research journal AERA Open.

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In his first book, about the antipoverty work of the Harlem Children's Zone, Tough stressed the importance of early cognitive development in bridging the achievement gap between poor and more affluent students.

Q) You say early in the book that reform efforts based on content have failed to affect achievement gaps, and, that an emphasis on character in some way seems like a better alternative.

Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified poor planning skills as one reason for the income - achievement gap, which can emerge as early as kindergarten and continue through high school.

The narrowing of achievement gaps has been greatest in low - income Norwegian communities that made large increases in the number of children attending early childcare centers

Children with worse executive functions benefit most from these activities; thus, early executive - function training may avert widening achievement gaps later.

For instance, the opportunity gap would force us to look more at how all students should have access to early education versus the achievement gap which has focused more on developing standards, accountability, and evaluation.

«Jimmy's book on the early implementation of NCLB (with Gail Sunderman and Gary Orfield) led him to conclude that we must seek practical, low - cost interventions to address the problems of struggling readers and to close the achievement gap.

David Deming: The Achievement Gap: A Preschool Problem Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «There is a strong argument that the roots of inequality are in early childhood and therefore we could use a major shift in social policy toward early intervention.

In January, Mr Birmingham said the short assessments of year one students» literacy and numeracy would provide early identification of students who are behind, allowing them to be targeted with interventions before the achievement gap grows.

New York and Texas see a connection between their early decisions to raise expectations for public schools and the progress their students have made toward closing gaps in academic achievement.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

Some commentators have argued that the failure of NCLB and earlier accountability reforms to close achievement gaps reflects a flawed, implicit assumption that schools alone can overcome the achievement consequences of dramatic socioeconomic disparities.

Through his innovative approach, Canada has demonstrated that it's possible to bridge the achievement gap if disadvantaged kids receive early, continuous educational opportunities.

Nobody who followed Richard Rothstein's columns in the New York Times or his earlier work on education will be surprised that his new book ascribes most of the black - white achievement gap to social class and economics.

Throughout the week, participants learned about the science of early childhood development, early literacy instruction, and the achievement gap.

Developed in the early 1990s, both charter and pilot schools are similar in their goals — to improve student progress and help close the achievement gap.

While race - and income - based gaps are narrowing to some extent (especially in the earlier grades), four common but faulty assumptions could block progress toward closing these and other serious achievement gaps:

The early reform coalition took shape around 20 years ago, with shared goals of increasing economic competitiveness and addressing achievement gaps among low - income, black, and Latino students.

I think it suggests that if we are to make a real dent in achievement gaps, we need to be better about addressing inequity that exists early on, or become far more aggressive in interventions between 3rd grade and 8th grade.

Since the Achievement Gap Act strategy has shown early success, Beacon Hill leaders should accelerate its progress by increasing the targeted cap lift while making an investment in a new cadre of innovation schools.

If Cuomo adopts this spectacularly wrongheaded notion, it will be a clear signal that he simply doesn't give a damn about the children of the poorest New Yorkers, who desperately need energetic and rigorous early childhood interventions if they are to have any hope of closing pernicious and persistent achievement gaps.

I was fortunate to have been able to play an important role in shaping the Education Reform Act of 1993, the most recent Achievement Gap Act of 2010, and to have served the Board of Education, first in the early»90s, appointed by Governor Weld, and then much later appointed as chair by Governor Patrick, and then ultimately as his secretary of education.

But the key to narrowing the achievement gap is high - quality literacy and numeracy interventions that are targeted towards pupils who are falling behind in primary and early secondary school.

Earlier this year, an Indiana University study found that the «Excellence Gap,» the racial achievement gap at NAEP's advanced level, widened during the NCLB eGap,» the racial achievement gap at NAEP's advanced level, widened during the NCLB egap at NAEP's advanced level, widened during the NCLB era.

«Boston has made a significant investment in early childhood education as a key strategy for closing the achievement gap,» said Carol Johnson, superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.

As of now, there is no actual model of early education or preschool services that has been proven successful in closing the achievement gap, and any additional funding should be used to create a flexible system that can change, and improve, as more knowledge is accumulated.

«These early years may provide us with the richest opportunity we may have to lose the achievement gap,» he said.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

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.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

That's been clear since the Coleman Report, and strong evidence is found in the fact that signs of this achievement gap start as early as two or three years of age.

Early education is a critical step to bridging the achievement gap between Native and non-Native students, writes Jefferson Keel the lieutenant governor of the Chickasaw Nation.

This work is in line with the mission of the NICHD Center for Research for Mothers and Children, will be instrumental in informing policies designed to improve the early environments of young children from low - SES families, and may potentially help prevent the SES achievement gap from substantiating.

The 1998 study by Meredith Phillips and her colleagues, mentioned earlier, had the greatest success in explaining racial differences in achievement, yet the unexplained portion of the achievement gap on the vocabulary test used in their study was still so large that it nearly exceeded the raw gap in reading and mathematics we found in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey data.

For example, Head Start has been and continues to be a leader in its focus on family engagement and comprehensive services, on children with disabilities, and on children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds; in its commitments to accountability for program quality; in its investments in the professional development of the early childhood education workforce that led to the development of the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential; and in its commitment to and investment in research and evaluation to strengthen quality, improve child outcomes, and reduce the achievement gap.

Public expenditures on early childhood programs are nearly always justified as investments that will eliminate socioeconomic and racial gaps in school readiness and elevate subsequent student achievement and life success.

At the Lawrenceville School, she has taught, been an assistant housemaster, overseen the early warning system, a program to close the achievement gap, served as an instructional leader, worked with University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Boys» and Girls» Lives» to foster student action research projects and coordinated the educational support program.

Implications for early socioeconomic achievement gaps are discussed.

The study, conducted with Stanford GSE alumna Ximena Portilla, compared the achievement gaps between high - and lower - income children entering kindergarten in 1998 and 2010 using the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education's Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS).

Academic achievement gaps between high - and low - income students born in the 1990s were much larger than among cohorts born two decades earlier.

High - quality early education programs can improve outcomes and narrow achievement gaps for all kids, particularly children from low - income families.

Reardon's research on the relationship between academic achievement and family income found an increased link between family income and children's academic achievement, noting in earlier studies, «The income achievement gap does not appear to be a result of a growing achievement gap between children with highly educated and less - educated parents.

The universal pre-K program was a hallmark of de Blasio's campaign to make free pre-K education a right for every New Yorker and to narrow achievement gaps, which start very early in child development.

Now, he added, the goal for proponents is to show that quality early - college models are scalable, and that they can help reduce achievement gaps and dropout rates not by dumbing things down, but by challenging kids and exposing them to new opportunities.

Over the past three years, Dr. Cassellius has delivered on Governor Dayton's 7 - point Plan, Better Schools for a Better Minnesota; which puts a sharp focus on early learning, third grade reading, high school graduation and the elimination of achievement gaps.

Oklahoma's program has narrowed the achievement gap between lower - and higher - income children while elevating early math and literacy skills for all participants.

With early childhood education recognized as an effective strategy for raising school achievement and reducing achievement gaps, there is increased demand for skilled, knowledgeable education leadership for infancy, preschool through third grade (P — 3).

Estimates of the cost of reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap, such as including early childhood, after - school, and summer programs into a broader definition of schooling.

By supporting school readiness in the earliest years, the community can save money on expensive interventions later when the achievement gap widens, while ensuring more children are prepared to be college and career ready.