Sentences with phrase «education gap does»

The overall special - education gap does not appear to be heavily influenced by relatively low enrollment of students with severe disabilities in charter schools.

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KERNEN: Do you have a way of addressing the skills gap and education?

«Majorities of nearly every demographic group - including all major religious groups, age groups and education groups - agree that the government should do more to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor,» reads the survey.

When she thought our education was lacking in a certain area we would suddenly being doing the Girl Scout badge that filled that gap.

I don't say this because I'm proud that we're doing better, but because I'm worried about the gap between the education and the recognition students get at AUN, and the education and the recognition they get elsewhere.

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.

«All the things we're doing in education, from Sure Start to higher education and through to adult skills, is about closing the social class gap,» he told the magazine.

Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan, however, did expect to see the Senate add $ 217 million more in gap elimination aid than Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed.

This diversity gap between students and teachers creates a divide from the very beginning of a student's education that stifles progress and doesn't empower them to overcome the low socioeconomic backgrounds they often come from.

Even though Foley did not receive the CEA board's endorsement, he «remains committed to real education reform, including addressing the needs of the 100,000 children who are in under - performing schools and closing Connecticut's achievement gap, which remains the worst in the nation,» spokesman Chris Cooper said.

Because of the funding gap, the school isn't able to provide the same level of education as it does at the other specialized schools, which require the same test for entry, parents and students say.

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

I don't know when the comedy will end but there's a large gap in my education — in quantum physics, because in my college it was taught in a way I found incredibly dull.

He said it doesn't mean that Americans know a lot about the scientific method, the process of scientific inquiry, or really much all about how science is done, which a lot of other panelists explored as a problem, as a gap in our education.

Even when we control for such variables as occupation, numbers of hours worked, education, and social capital, the income gap does not decrease by much.

Many science teachers do not have training in engineering education, so the RET program aims to help fill this gap as part of the CSNE's wider educational mission.

In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schools.

Similarly, No Child Left Behind's left - leaning supporters like the Education Trust, Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, and Council of the Great City Schools, which are all concerned about the achievement gap, do not enter the Winerip conversation either.

If closing achievement gaps is the goal of the revolution spearheaded by the Education Leaders Council, then the ideas that Eugene W. Hickok enumerates will do little to advance that agenda.

Student mobility increases the special education gap largely because of the movement of students who do not have IEPs.

These differences do not contribute substantially to the overall special - education gap, however, as the percentage of students with severe disabilities is very small in both sectors.

Unfortunately, because the U.S. Department of Education does not regularly track borrowers by race, data limitations have hampered efforts to connect research on racial gaps with detailed new studies of debt and default patterns.

Gillim, a former teacher and education media professional, developed the character and series with an explicit purpose to enrich young audiences» vocabulary, close the gap for those who don't grow up in language - rich environments, instill a love of language, and foster better reading comprehension.

While our education system alone can not solve the stubborn, tragic problem of persistent poverty and the growing gaps between working - class and college - educated Americans, there's much it can do for the children entrusted to it.

Several factors affect poor children's academic performances, and more money doesn't always close the gap between their test scores and the scores of their white, middle class counterparts, Neill told Education World.

«On the one hand, these first - place finishes and so forth — which are all based on averages — are great, we're proud of it, but it should be a pretty short celebration in light of the deep, persistent achievement gaps that look a lot like they did when we set out on this,» said Reville, now a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The only reform that ever matters in education is doing whatever it takes to lift student academic achievement and reduce the scandalous racial gap in learning.

Reville, who founded the Ed Redesign Lab as a way to rethink how we educate children, said that although much education reform work has been done over the past two decades in the United States to close the «achievement gap» created from income disparities, there is still a persistent, iron - clad correlation between zip code and destiny.

And while there are a variety of reasons this gap may exist, parents and others we interviewed told us that the proportion of IEP - eligible students in DPS is growing rapidly in large part because a number of Detroit charter schools simply don't offer many special - education supports.

Currently, the Department for Education (DfE) monitors the national teacher vacancy rate, but does not consider the fact that schools often compensate to cover gaps and place teachers in front of classes.

Finally, I'd like to touch on one of the learning areas you say was raised in several of the review submissions, and you also did 31 consultation sessions held across the country and it was raised there as an important contribution to reducing that achievement gap that we mentioned right at the beginning — that's entrepreneurship education isn't it.

Mediocre PISA and TIMSS results plus persistent domestic achievement gaps have caught the eyes of policymakers and education leaders on both sides of the pond, as it's become clear that yesterday's so - so expectations just aren't good enough and that today's testing - and - accountability regimes do not produce nearly enough world - class, college - ready graduates.

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?

But her meaning is clear enough from what she does say: education reform policies «are not likely to contribute much in the future — to raising overall student achievement or to reducing [gaps in] achievement.»

Labour education spokesman Daniel Johnson told the BBC: «Having access to outdoor sports facilities isn't just about finding the next Andy Murray, it's about cutting the attainment gap with healthier children more likely to do well in the classroom.

These «effects» studies, however, do not provide information on the prevalence and distribution of supportive, «gap closing» classrooms within the system of early education and care, or how to produce gap - closing settings.

President Obama scolded the nation for perpetuating racial and ethnic gaps, but his Department of Education did nothing to reduce achievement differences, the one disparity that counts.

Tackling Gaps in Access to Strong Teachers: What State Leaders Can Do (The Education Trust, October 2017)

With the social engineer's calm assurance that there are clear, identifiable interventions to resolve every problem, today's education reformers insist that closing the achievement gap is a simple matter of identifying «what works» and then requiring schools to do it.

We must do more, and invest more, to address the uneven and inequitable access to STEM education that contributes to the persistent achievement gap, especially among African - American and Latino students, and particularly in math and science proficiency.

The district's English language learners and special education students do still face a significant achievement gap.

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.

Global Gaps by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education (IoE) and Education Datalab analyses the 2015 test scores from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) PISA tests to assess how well the UK's schools are doing for the top 10 % of pupils.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

They are now expected to support efforts to close the achievement gap simply because it's «the right thing to do,» regardless of the implications for their own children's education.

What do the figures tell us about the pay gap in the education sector, and what should employers do now?

A new report from Education Cities and GreatSchools identifies cities that are doing a better job than others at reducing the achievement gap between rich and poor students.

The Education Trust, for example, is urging states to use caution in choosing «comparative» growth models, including growth percentiles and value - added measures, because they don't tell us whether students are making enough progress to hit the college - ready target by the end of high school, or whether low - performing subgroups are making fast enough gains to close achievement gaps.

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.

The state education commissioner acknowledges the achievement gap, as does the attorney general and even Gov. Dannel Malloy, who went from plaintiff in the CCJEF lawsuit when he was mayor of Stamford to defendant in the case when he became governor in 2011.