Sentences with phrase «equity gaps in»

Core belief: We believe that every Oakland student has the right to a quality public education, but leaders, educators, and the community are not working together to address the quality and equity gaps in our schools.

Current math proficiency requirements and assessments are creating unfair and unnecessary equity gaps in educational attainment.

Learn how community sectors work together inside and outside the classroom to target supports and eliminate equity gaps in student retention and success.

Use this guidebook to learn more about how different communities target supports to underserved student populations to eliminate equity gaps in student retention and success.

This study describes the characteristics of high school students who enroll in dual credit at Oregon community colleges, focusing on equity gaps in participation and the relationship between students» participation in dual credit and high school graduation, postsecondary enrollment and postsecondary persistence.

And we could determine whether and where there are equity gaps in effective teaching, the level of challenge of student assignments, and much else that might be addressed in order to narrow the achievement gap.

And despite increased enrollment, equity gaps in college completion have widened in New York City.

Second, there was a vast equity gap in the United States, with high - poverty students drastically less likely to have the arts in their schools.

The charter school movement grew in Atlanta when these programs ended and their grew a huge equity gap in Atlanta schools.

Not exact matches

However, sustained engagement on issues of equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»), and setting goals — much like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.

At the current rate of progress in closing the gap, states the report, «women will not receive pay equity until the year 2119.»

«The already challenged restaurant industry has been hit with slowing overall economic growth and the gap between the cost of dining at home compared to dining out,» Dine Equity CEO Julia Stewart said in a call with investors in November.

Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

As strategic public players in the US continue to see limited growth making large scale M&A difficult, private equity players have filled some of the gap, particularly for enterprise companies with SAAS - like models.

Combine this trend with the growth in the number of equity - funded entrepreneurial space companies and we have a big gap in talent.

The investment in Edinburgh - based Bellfield Brewery was led by the angel syndicate Equity Gap and was supported by Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise and existing shareholders (many of whom supported Bellfield's original Crowdcube raise in 2015).

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

The investment was led by the angel syndicate Equity Gap and was supported by Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise and existing shareholders (many of whom supported Bellfield's original Crowdcube raise in 2015).

Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health

Goal Five: Narrowing the gaps in breastfeeding disparities, create equity in knowledge, resources and support.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

The state government will hold a series of pay equity hearings beginning Monday in New York City, which will examine the causes and scope of the pay gap between men and women.

She emphasised the importance of «democratic ownership, user voice, and equity» in her support for an increase in mutuals, which she claimed would fill gaps left by the market and the state.

«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.»

As part of the study, the Department of Labor conducted pay equity hearings in New York City, Syracuse, Long Island and Buffalo to solicit testimony identifying specific causes of the gender wage gap and suggestions on ways in which the wage gap can be closed, either in its entirety, or in particular industries.

Even as the pay equity bill passed, some longtime supporters of the measure said at the time it didn't go far enough in terms of ensuring the wage gap is closed.

Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages.

State legislators addressed members at the convention center just before the educators fanned out to lobby their local elected officials to call for an increase in school funding, more Teacher Centers, an end to the charter equity gap and further expansion of the Community Learning Schools initiative.

«Our study identified critical gaps in the effectiveness and equity of marine protected areas,» said Gill, who conducted the research during a postdoctoral fellowship supported by the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and the Luc Hoffmann Institute.

I'm speaking in a special session about women in science — highlighting the great work by members of our scientific community, but also speaking to promote gender equity in a field where, sadly, there are still wide gender gaps.

And every fall since 2001, the Education Trust, a national organization devoted to closing the achievement gap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systegap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systeGap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systems.

He agrees that questions of economics and equity are essential in any discussion of gap years, but he also believes there is a breakdown in how our education system prepares most high school students for adulthood — and that gap - year programs offer clues toward a corrective of this breakdown.

The term digital divide was coined in the mid-1990s as a way to describe the gap in equity between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not.

«The Gap Between Influence and Efficacy: College Readiness Training, Urban School Counselors, and the Promotion of Equity» in Counselor Education & Supervision, 2012.

We also looked for presenters who were wrestling down the challenging gaps in racial and socioeconomic equity that have for too long dominated our education system.

• The budget reflects the growing use of the term «equity» in the K — 12 debate with the new Race to the Top «Equity and Opportunity» program, which is designed to help close the achievemenequity» in the K — 12 debate with the new Race to the Top «Equity and Opportunity» program, which is designed to help close the achievemenEquity and Opportunity» program, which is designed to help close the achievement gap.

Faculty interests and experiences encompass ensuring equity of access to quality literacy instruction, especially in urban schools, addressing the opportunity gap, promoting effective data - driven school - wide literacy programs, and developing sustainable school - based professional development.

In addition, we should stop framing the equity goal as closing gaps between groups inside particular schools and districts.

This Spotlight considers the digital divide in how teachers learn to use technology, how teachers are trained to address race and equity in the classroom, and the links between school climate and achievement gaps.

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 U.S. Department of Education has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction.

Belonging is especially important in the context of educational equity and achievement gaps.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Many of these revisions will help close the equity gap of over $ 1,000 per student between the wealthiest and poorest school districts that is inherent in Texas's continuing over-reliance on disparate property tax values across the state, as noted in the chart below.

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, October 2011).

«Still, we have large equity gaps with our students in poverty, with our minority students, our students with disabilities and English language learners,» she said.

The excerpt below, taken from my recent book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap (Teachers College Press, 2013), describes what I call Equity Literacy, a framework first used by my super-genius colleague, Katy Swalwell, to describe a kind of literacy youth should learn in school.

For 2017, there were recommendations in the areas of ensuring equity, promoting excellence, and supporting educators (http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/siteASCD/policy/2017-ASCD-Policy-Recommendations.pdf) and positions related to standards development and implementation, educating students in a changing world, the whole child, health and learning, closing the achievement gap, and multiple measures of assessment.

«Given our linguistic diversity, California should lead the nation in closing equity gaps for English learners,» said Ryan J. Smith, executive director of Ed Trust — West, in a statement.

One of the keys of achieving educational equity is ensuring these gaps in resources are, at least in part, covered up by resources provided by schools.