The vision was to create a public school that would close
the educational opportunity gap afflicting the mostly poor, immigrant families living in East Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Unsurprisingly, the prevalence of isolated, segregated, low - performing public schools is the most powerful driver of the persistent
educational opportunity gap.
By rationing necessary educational resources to a chosen few while starving the majority of our neediest, Connecticut's leaders widen the state's
educational opportunity gap.
This bill is based on several recommendations of
the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee (EOGOAC) that are intended to close
the educational opportunity gap in WA.
This means we all share responsibility to educate the 59 million children who today are not in school, to close
the educational opportunity gaps facing girls, poor children, and children of marginalized groups around the world, including refugees, and we must take responsibility to ensure that all children who do attend school indeed learn what is necessary to be empowered global citizens.
Not exact matches
«Sadly Governor Cuomo's budget abandons the state's Campaign for Fiscal Equity commitment despite real and measurable progress in closing the
gaps in
educational opportunity.»
His trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing the male - female pay
gap, affordable child care, paid family leave, and increased cash assistance and job and
educational opportunities for single mothers in poverty,» added Hawkins.
Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted
educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the
gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.
However, as the
gap between the incomes of wealthy and poor families has increased over the past three decades, so too has the
educational performance of their children, bringing into question the nation's reputation for equal
opportunity for all.
Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of
educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent
gaps in
opportunity and achievement remain.
Through his innovative approach, Canada has demonstrated that it's possible to bridge the achievement
gap if disadvantaged kids receive early, continuous
educational opportunities.
The guest speaker for the event was Wendy Kopp, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America (TFA), who has worked for the past 20 years to close the
educational -
opportunity gap in America.
Today, questions about the effects of changes in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of
educational opportunity and racial achievement
gaps.
With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement
gap between white students and students of color, and broadening
gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a
gap in «
educational opportunity.»
But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of
educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement
gap.
If the policy goal were to equalize
educational opportunity and / or to narrow achievement
gaps, in retrospect America would have been better served by intensive kindergarten targeted on particularly needy kids.
Ryan, who is also the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, is a top scholar on law and education, an authority on school desegregation and school choice, and a forceful advocate for expanding
educational opportunities to close the student achievement
gap.
The disparities in
educational opportunity before kindergarten are dramatic and easily explain many of the achievement
gaps seen later on.
However, access to
educational opportunities remains a significant contributor to
gaps in equality and equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as observed in last year's State of Reconciliation in Australia report.
The strongest correlates of achievement
gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect
educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.
The Secretary of Education approves plans, ensures state implementation through oversight and enforcement, and takes action when states fail to meet their obligations to close achievement
gaps and provide equal
educational opportunity for all students.
The five partner states — Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont — work together to close persistent achievement
gaps and promote greater
educational equity and
opportunity for all students.
These individuals have a longstanding interest in closing the
opportunity gap for poor kids and kids of color, and improving
educational achievement for all students.
«Congress has stated that Title I's purpose is to «provide all children significant
opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and to close
educational achievement
gaps.»»
Combined with teacher - made measures of authentic student achievement, perhaps we can begin to close the achievement
gap and build meaningful
educational opportunities and success for students.
Prior to joining the foundation, Orville was a Senior Research Analyst at the Education Trust - West, where he conducted research and advocated for policies to boost
educational achievement and close
opportunity gaps impacting students of color and students in poverty in California schools.
I believe that we can assure every child has access to quality
educational opportunities in their own neighborhood by adopting equitable policies that bridge the
opportunity gap of our diverse student populations.
Praise for Restoring
Opportunity Duncan and Murnane provide a no - nonsense view of the growing
educational gap between the haves and the have - nots in America.
The purpose of Title I is to «provide all children significant
opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and to close
educational achievement
gaps.»
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With their long track record of successfully educating ill - served populations, these schools can play a central role in the nation's effort to expand
educational opportunity and reduce the achievement
gap.
And while the degree to which any particular factor gets blame or credit for widening or narrowing the
gaps is debatable, the authors in this issue of The State Education Standard agree that differences in
educational opportunity play a key role.
Develop and enhance metrics and tools that will help identify
gaps in institutional capacity to deliver high - quality
educational experiences and offer transparent pathways for students; provide
opportunities for statewide and institutional improvement; and ensure better analytics of the best practices and policies for scaling and replication
At a time when economic, social and
educational inequities have contributed to a widening achievement
gap across the nation, Community Schools have emerged as a promising strategy for addressing this
opportunity gap and promoting success for all students, in school and in life.
Because of our high standards and our commitment to each individual student's potential, we are closing the
gap between
educational experiences that may have failed our children in the past and the incredible
opportunities that lie ahead.
To close the
gaps and provide all students with the same
educational opportunities, state officials will adopt new, more vigorous standards than are in place now.
«Students in Utah's rural communities deserve the same
educational opportunities as students in urban areas,» Conine said, «USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, with local
educational institutions, helps bridge the
gap that distance creates, ensuring rural students achieve their goals of higher education.»
Analyze data, conduct research and champion policies designed to close the
opportunity gap and eliminate the disparities in
educational outcomes among Georgia's children.
During his time in the classroom, Neil was struck by the vast
opportunity gaps that impacted his students and as a result, Neil has dedicated his professional career to
educational equity and justice.
This framework recognizes that to truly close achievement
gaps, our nation must address underlying «
opportunity gaps» — the deep disparities that exist in access to quality
educational resources, particularly for low - income students and students of color.
«We applaud the Department of Education for continuing its emphasis on robust civil rights data collection, which helps to identify our nation's
gaps in
educational opportunity,» Henderson said.
As states are submitting their plans to the department for review and approval, it is critical that these plans meet the letter and intent of the law and, as is its purpose, that they «provide all children significant
opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and close
educational achievement
gaps.»
«The purpose of this title is to ensure that all children have a fair, equitable, and significant
opportunity to receive a high - quality education that prepares them for postsecondary education or the workforce, without the need for postsecondary remediation, and to close
educational achievement
gaps.»
He was chair of the congressionally - chartered Equity and Excellence Commission set up to advise the U.S. Dept. of Education on how to close disparities in
educational opportunity that contribute to the achievement
gap.
To eliminate the
educational achievement
gap, we must address
opportunity gaps that persist for children and youth of diverse backgrounds.
Classnotes Podcast (February 13, 2012) In December, the President issued an executive order on improving American Indian and Alaska Native
educational opportunities in light of the fact that these students are dropping out of school at alarming rates, that the United States has not been successful in closing achievement
gaps, and many native languages are close to extinction.
However, years of statewide assessments have failed to significantly close that
gap; in fact, as income inequality grows across the state, the student achievement
gap continues, pointing out the lack of fairness and access for all Connecticut's students to equal
educational opportunities.
Opportunity Gap In nearly every
educational metric, from cohort graduation rates to college and career readiness, the majority of students of color in North Carolina underperform their white counterparts.17 Fabrizio, «
Gaps in Student Achievement in North Carolina on Selected Variables.»
The Equity and Excellence Commission, a federal advisory committee chartered by Congress, articulated a five - part framework to reduce disparities in
educational opportunity that give rise to the achievement
gap.
Families are bold change agents ready to use their strength and voice to overcome the
opportunity gap and lead the movement for
educational equity.