Sentences with phrase «effects on closing the achievement gap»

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Our second lens focused on what national and international research shows about «hard to teach, hard to reach» (Boag - Munroe and Evangelo, 2010) and «closing the gap in educational achievement», including the debates about Leon Feinstein's research (2015); looking at definitions, causes and effects.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

Studies prove the enormous effect that excellent teachers have on closing achievement gaps, cultivating students» higher - order thinking, improving children's lifelong prospects, and bolstering our national security and economic power.

A RCT of charter schools in New York City by a Stanford researcher found an even larger effect: «On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the «Scarsdale - Harlem achievement gap» in math and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English.»

We know for a fact that balanced literacy has had little effect on closing stubborn achievement gaps separating black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian peers.

We know for a fact that «balanced literacy» has had little effect on closing stubborn achievement gaps.

The truth is that NCLB has failed to prevent millions from falling behind, and has had very little impact on closing the achievement gap; instead, its main effect has been to instigate ever - increasing emphasis on standardized test scores and superficial, formulaic essay writing.

More K - 12 education leaders understand the critical effects of children's early years on their future success and growth, and appreciate the potential for high - quality early learning experiences to help close achievement gaps.

Despite arguments that PBL focuses only on completing a project or takes too much time to implement, research indicates that the method shows a positive effect on student content knowledge and closing achievement gaps.

Preschool won't, on its own, permanently narrow or close achievement gaps, just as the effects of an intervention in elementary school will probably not last through high school.

His Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which went into effect five years ago, provides more money to school districts with large numbers of poor and / or «English learner» students on the assumption that it will close the much - lamented «achievement gap» in learning.