Sentences with phrase «educational gains among»

The situation would be even worse if not for educational gains among African - Americans over the past 75 years, Bayer said.

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While not statistically significant, the estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out the possibility that African Americans experienced even the small positive gains in educational attainment evident among whites.

Now, in an era when choice and competition in education are gaining acceptance among both parents and policymakers, it is the educational community itself that may need to heed a lesson from the past.

After decades of educational attainment gains among African American and Latino students, American educators find themselves in the midst of a major retraction of many of those gains for the students who can least afford it.

The general pattern among them is that programs producing large gains in achievement test outcomes are producing little or no increase in educational attainment.

Among the numerous educational theories in existence today, Multiple Intelligences has gained both popularity and visibility because of its ability to successfully reach a wide variety of children.

However, despite these gains, the rate of progress has varied among groups, and gaps persist on key indicators of educational performance.

A significant body of research has concluded that student - learning gains garnered by classroom formative assessment practices were among the largest ever reported for educational interventions (e.g., Black and Wiliam, 1998).

Despite these gains, the rate of progress has varied among these racial / ethnic groups and differences by race / ethnicity persist in terms of increases in attainment and progress on key indicators of educational performance.

In a 2012 report, scholars Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessman found that during a 14 - year period from 1995 to 2009, Chile ranked second in gains among educational leaders of the world with students gaining more than two years in learning compared to less than one year among American students.

I have gained experience in lesson planning, needs assessment, and engaging educational techniques, among other skills.