Sentences with phrase «early opportunity gaps»

In addition, early skills are predictive of later outcomes, but too often early opportunity gaps are allowed to grow unaddressed into more persistent achievement gaps in later years.

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The first of these stores is set to open in early 2017 in Baltimore, MD, where Starbucks has been working with local community, civic and business leaders with the collective goal of addressing the opportunity gap facing the city's young men and women.

This model left gaps in the growth - potential of early - stage companies, and it cut average citizens out of these investment opportunities.

They aim to tap into the opportunity they see in early stage investing, which is to bridge the gap between seed and angel investors and larger firms.

Following Manchester City's shock defeat at Goodison Park coupled with Manchester United's victory over Reading just hours later the gap between the two Manchester clubs now stands at fifteen points, with Manchester United having the opportunity to extend that to eighteen in the early kick off against Sunderland.

Forty - two percent of our nation's children under 6 live in low - income families and the «opportunity gap» is rooted in these very early years.

Rather, crowdfunding can be a complementary source «that can fill gaps or expands access» to funding for researchers — such as early career scientists or those working in meagerly funded fields — who «traditionally wouldn't have had those grant opportunities.»

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.

In particular, the report shares lessons learned in targeting key economic regions, analyzing regional assets and gaps, and focusing technical assistance and support on helping states and regions with such things as early career advising and exposure, engaging employers, and building intermediary organizations that can link employers and schools to scale up the provision of workplace learning opportunities for young people.

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

There are gaps in opportunity and success at all levels — from access to high - quality early childhood education; to segregation and insufficient supports and rigor in K — 12 classrooms; to uneven access, low graduation rates, and looming debt in higher education.

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

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.

This report describes readiness and opportunity gaps in access to high quality early education.

His professional strengths include benchmarking, data collection & analyses, early assessment / diagnosis / intervention, closing the gap through equitable opportunities in education for disadvantaged populations, content area reading comprehension processes, and elements of literature frameworks.

State investments in early learning can close opportunity and achievement gaps by focusing on students who would not have otherwise had access to high - quality, early learning opportunities.

In late October, CEELO will release an analysis of the first round of ESSA state plans to shine a spotlight on the early learning strategies and opportunities that will facilitate implementation at the local level of effective strategies to stop achievement gaps before they start showing up on standardized assessments at third grade.

To ensure that African - Americans are not limited by persistent opportunity gaps, investments in high - quality early learning such as the national push for universal pre-K is essential to building a foundation for development, learning, academic success, and productive citizenry.

Early intervention and after - school enrichment programs will provide additional learning opportunities to bridge gaps and celebrate differences on a continuum of diverse and varied points of interest and aptitude.

Ultimately, a solid early education paves the way for long - term success and moves us forward to closing opportunity and achievement gaps.

Earlier this month, we were excited and honored to attend the symposium «Closing the Gaps: A Policy and Practice Conversation to Advance an Opportunity Agenda,» presented by the National Education Association at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

If early - elementary - age students had more opportunities to experience success and parity with peers (particularly in areas other than math and reading, where large performance gaps between students at this age are common), they would be less likely to give up on school learning.

Such gaps, combined with increased stress and burnout, can contribute to high turnover rates among prekindergarten teachers, which can lower classroom quality and hamper early learning opportunities for children.

Since the era of high - stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in high - stakes testing, and then detail reform based on equity of opportunities for all students?

We need to review the Common Core Standards, provide early learning opportunities, and accelerate the focus on reading K - 12 because reading proficiency equalizes the chance for job opportunities and closes the gap between socio - economic levels.

Student performance on state assessments IS important, but so are measures of student growth, gains in closing achievement gaps, and challenging opportunities like dual credit, technical certifications and Advanced Placement — programs that give students an early advantage in college and in their careers.

Enhancing Early Learning in Rural States details how to prevent / minimize achievement gaps and shortfalls for children birth through third grade and offers guidance on how rural Chiefs can lead to improve early learning opportunities and outcEarly Learning in Rural States details how to prevent / minimize achievement gaps and shortfalls for children birth through third grade and offers guidance on how rural Chiefs can lead to improve early learning opportunities and outcearly learning opportunities and outcomes.

The OTL Network also provides a whole - child framework for understanding the many «opportunity gaps» or disparities that exist in the public education system, from early education to school funding to school discipline, and which must be addressed in order to close persistent achievement gaps between students of different backgrounds.

It is clear that ESSA provides great opportunity for districts to prioritize early learning as a key strategy to ameliorate achievement gaps.

It was an enormous opportunity to bridge generation gaps as many of these young guns had no connection with two generations earlier.

The sea - change in opportunities for LPC graduates could begin as early as this year, with the gap widening to as much as 14 per cent (amounting to about 550 places) in 2011 — 12.

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This might include upstream policies targeting levels of socioeconomic inequality in society and a range of comprehensive early childhood interventions, potentially including a mix of early health and home visiting services, universal early education opportunities, and programs and policies to promote the family relationship context of the achievement gaps.

Each proposal is peer - reviewed for the fit and feasibility of its plans to represent the communities in its region, ability to influence the development of the early learning system and work toward eliminating the opportunity gap for children of color in our state.

In home visiting, current and future technologies contain a lot of potential, including the possibility of narrowing one of the widest opportunity gaps being discussed in early education circles: by age four children in low - income families have heard 30 million fewer words than higher - income children, according to New America Foundation's Ed Central.

Thrive by Five Washington awarded $ 230,000 to four organizations that will work to eliminate the opportunity gap in early learning efforts throughout Washington.

Thrive will work in five key areas: helping to eliminate the opportunity gap with the state Early Learning Plan; deepening parent and caregiver knowledge of child development and school readiness; developing a high - quality home visiting system to serve at - risk families; providing grants that advance our programmatic work and mission; and building and mobilizing state, regional and local partnerships.

Moving forward, Thrive will work in five key areas: helping to eliminate the opportunity gap with the state Early Learning Plan; deepening parent and caregiver knowledge of child development and school readiness; developing a high - quality home visiting system to serve at - risk families; providing grants that advance our programmatic work and mission; and building and mobilizing state, regional and local partnerships.

«High - quality early learning is a proven means of closing the opportunity gap just as low - quality programs actually hurt development.

Thrive works to eliminate the opportunity gap in Washington by advancing the state's Racial Equity Theory of Change, which was collaboratively developed by partners, providers and parents throughout Washington and finalized earlier this year.

May2013Developing a Skilled, Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Workforce Village Building and School Readiness: Closing Opportunity Gaps in a Diverse Society» This chapter of Village Building is adapted from California Tomorrow's Getting Ready for Quality.

Forty - two percent of our nation's children under 6 live in low - income families and the «opportunity gap» is rooted in these very early years.