Sentences with phrase «eliminate racial achievement gaps»

The effect was large enough to nearly eliminate the racial achievement gap in sophomore year college grades.

In elementary schools, it was enough «to eliminate the racial achievement gap in math in Houston elementary schools in approximately three years.»

The Madison Prep board also vowed to work with the Madison School District to come up with a plan for eliminating the racial achievement gap.

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Public expenditures on early childhood programs are nearly always justified as investments that will eliminate socioeconomic and racial gaps in school readiness and elevate subsequent student achievement and life success.

One of the beliefs that has tied together the signatories of EEP thus far is a commitment to eliminating the racial and ethnic achievement gap in this country.

The goal was to eliminate racial and ethnic achievement gaps.

So many students had been lifted out of the basement that the racial achievement gap essentially had been eliminated in that one category at that one grade level, Schools of Hope leaders said at the time.

No Child Left Behind, on the books since 2002, was supposed to close achievement gaps for disadvantaged students (racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, youngsters with special needs and English learners) and to eliminate what President George W. Bush decried as «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Attending a Boston charter for one year results in a substantial increase in test performance and eliminates 1/3 of the «racial achievement gap.»