The Virginia Board of Education is revising its accreditation standards to provide a more comprehensive view of school quality while encouraging continuous improvement for all schools and placing increased
emphasis on closing achievement gaps.
Not exact matches
De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus
on closing the
achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy
emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.
Up to eight states would be authorized to conduct demonstration programs testing whether state control of Head Start actually leads to better coordination of preschool programs, greater
emphasis on school readiness, improvement in poor children's preschool test scores, and progress in
closing the
achievement gap between poor and advantaged students.
Some put an
emphasis on pre-K education ~ and others advocate for
closing the
achievement gap.
Interestingly, in this case and in others where district - wide differentiated instruction initiatives were underway, the explicit rationale provided by district personnel was to help teachers ensure that the needs of «high - ability learners» were not being ignored, given the predominant state
emphasis on interventions to
close the
achievement gap between low - and high - achieving students.
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.
«I am most excited that the plan includes an unprecedented focus
on closing Kentucky's
achievement gaps,
emphasis on students» readiness for success in careers and postsecondary education, and a much more transparent and easy to understand rating system for schools.»
Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 in an effort to
close the
achievement gap, placing great
emphasis on standardized testing.
Today, given education's monomaniacal
emphasis on basic proficiency rates and
closing «
achievement gaps,» teachers tend to devote less attention to students whose parents have already equipped them to learn.