Sentences with phrase «education gap grows»

It was this feeling I had while mulling how to react to Sabrina Tavernise's front - page New York Timesstory from last week, «Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor,» a story which generated a great deal of attention.

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.

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Investing in your own development is a solid idea at a time when the income gap between those with education and marketable skills and those without is growing greater.

Our just - announced FITE Entrepreneurship Accelerator is a new model of online, purpose - driven education that fills critical business skills gaps to help small, entrepreneurial businesses grow to scale.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

In a Public Religion Research Institute poll released last week, 18 % of black Americans surveyed said they see same - sex marriage a «critical issue,» putting it behind the economy, education, deficit, a growing wealth gap and immigration.

The gap grew wider when income and maternal education were factored in.

«Frankly, I'm really focused on three things — the (education) gap elimination adjustment, growing a high - tech industry and helping small businesses.

Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education said «the gap between rich and poor school districts is growing under Gov. Cuomo.»

But the growing gap between rich and poor has put the topic back on the agenda for the new Democratic majority, and Vermont Senator - elect Bernie Sanders says he will propose an investigation of money and power when he joins Ted Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in January.

And education advocates and their legislative allies (mostly Democrats) are calling for the governor to increase public education aid, noting the gap between high - needs and wealthy districts is growing ever wider.

Additionally, the gaps are also growing between London and the North in relation to a number of social outcomes, such as education and health, with improvement in these outcomes in London being in line with economic conditions in the capital bouncing back to pre-recession levels or beyond while the North lags behind.

This marriage - gap has been explained by high incarceration rates among black men, reducing their income and marriage prospects for the future, and the growing divide in education rates between black women and black men.

The United States still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels, and other socioeconomic lines, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold between 2001 and 2009.

Gateshead College is one of the best in the country and we welcome this opportunity to learn about good practice in the sector and consider the role of further education in helping the country fill the growing skills gap.»

Since the War on Poverty, the average gap in per - pupil spending between two states grew by 256 percent, an Education Week analysis finds.

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.

According to Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, resegregation is contributing to a growing gap in quality between the schools being attended by white students and those serving a large proportion of minority students.

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.

Additionally, the growing gap between employer needs and what education provides would suggest that ongoing learning is becoming now (more than ever) the norm.

Additionally, the growing gap between employer needs and what education provides would suggest that ongoing learning is now becoming the norm.

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.

This call for increased government funding comes shortly after Jeremy Corbyn's outline for a national education service, designed to offer learning opportunities at every stage of life and close the growing productivity gap.

To address these growing concerns over skills gaps in the engineering workforce, particularly among graduates and school leavers, 91 per cent of companies agreed that to improve the supply of engineers and technicians, more employers need to provide work experience for those in education or training.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 3Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 3growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

Kezia Wilson, 25, of Bedford - Stuyvesant, said pursuing a charter education for her son, Jonah Gillespie, 5, grew urgent after she learned of test score gaps.

Below, I have provided a table which compares Utah and its current elected State School Board model against the states which utilize Model IV in the following areas: ACT / SAT scores, graduation rates, graduation requirements, AP passage rates, charter schools, public education climate for growing businesses, and closing the achievement gap.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

Check out the October Resource of the Month, Code.org, a public nonprofit that aims to increase engagement in computer science education to bridge the gap between growing technology jobs and a lack of students to enter the workforce industry.

The Growing Excellence Gap in K - 12 Education High - Achieving Students in the Era of No Child Left Behind Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?

A new study from the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University is just the latest to suggest that preschool, when it's high - quality, can narrow achievement gaps before they grow too wide.

This report confirms that there is an attainment gap in science at every stage: it is apparent at the end of Key Stage 1 and gets wider throughout primary and secondary education, with the gap growing particularly strongly between the ages of 5 - 7 and 11 - 16.

For example, read «Mind the Other Gap: The Growing Excellence Gap in K - 12 Education»:

To address persistent gaps in postsecondary educational attainment and our country's growing economic and workforce needs, federal and state policymakers, the philanthropic community, national education organizations and practitioners have put forth a number of goals and initiatives designed to increase college completion rates.

page: The Studio School is a new concept in education, which seeks to address the growing gap between the skills and knowledge that young people require to succeed, and those that the current education system provides.

For public - sector teachers, the relative wage gap (regression adjusted for education, experience, and other factors) has grown substantially since the mid-1990s: It was 8 percent in 1994 and grew to a record 17.0 percent in 2015.

Catania, who is running for mayor, says the achievement gap between special - education students and others has been growing and that special - needs students should get more services.

Annual reports have shown the funding gap between local education authorities in Wales and England to have grown over the years.

And it will have a significant impact on higher education, not to mention the large and growing workforce «skills gap.»

But since 1988, when education policy shifted away from desegregation efforts, the reading test score gap has grown — to 26 points in 2012 — with segregated schooling increasing in every region of the country.

Gaps between low - income and higher - income students in other measures of education success (such as college completion rates and civic engagement) have also been growing.

This «arts opportunity gap» has grown so wide, noted former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as to become a «civil rights issue» (Walker, 2012).

Many education organizations applaud the enhanced accountability and funding flexibility the bills provide to states and local districts, but civil rights organizations have serious concerns that the loosening of federal accountability mandates could lead to growing achievement gaps.

The study of equity was to address the growing gap between high - and low - spending districts and the implications for the quality of education received by students and for local taxpayers.

While PK enrollment is growing, large disparities in access and quality threaten to undermine the capacity of early childhood education to close achievement gaps.

The attainment gap grows wider at every stage of education: it is already evident when pupils begin school, growing to 9.5 months by the end of primary school, and then more than doubling to 19.3 months by the end of secondary school

The gap grows as students progress through elementary grades, largely because charter schools are less likely than district schools to place students in special education — and less likely to keep them there.

The gap grows significantly between kindergarten and fifth grade: 46 % of the growth occurs because charter schools are less likely to classify students as special education, and more likely to declassify them; 54 % is due to the number of new general education students enrolling in charter schools, not from the number of students with special needs going down.

This growing gap between what college costs and the financial aid available is causing many families to resort to higher cost private student loans to pay for higher education.

Certainly not if the goal is to improve equal access to higher education because under the current policy of increased loans and lower grant aid, the gap in access to education for lower income students keeps growing.