Sentences with phrase «ethnic achievement»

That's decidedly true for small interventions that address ethnic achievement gaps.

During the same period, racial / ethnic achievement gaps declined.

Breaking with its steadily upward trend, California's annual test scores have stagnated, with fewer than half of students proficient in math and English, and a wide ethnic achievement gap persisting.

The Stanford study provides the first comparable measures of ethnic achievement gaps in every U.S. school district, Reardon said.

More research is needed because «looking at both psychological and biological responses to stress will lead to a more complete understanding of why we have the racial / ethnic achievement gap,» said study lead author, Dorainne Levy, who began the research while at Northwestern and is now a post-doctoral scholar at Indiana University.

Race - based stressors, including perceived discrimination and the fear of fulfilling negative stereotypes, have psychological effects and physiological effects on the body, which may contribute to the racial - ethnic achievement gap, new Northwestern University research suggests.

Summer Reading and the Ethnic Achievement Gap.Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 9 (2), 169 - 188., (2004)

Over two provocative days, funders, activists, practitioners, public school officials, policy makers, and media met to discuss research and studies, and to brainstorm ways to overcome the nation's racial and ethnic achievement gap.

We've substantially narrowed the racial and ethnic achievement gap, our students are catching up to students in the rest of the state, and our graduation rate is the highest it has been in decades.

The beginning of the century again saw a small closing of racial and ethnic achievement gaps, but over the over the last eight years NAEP shows little movement, though no increases.

At HGSE, O'Brien will explore a wide variety of topics related to public education in America — including the influence of income on educational equality, the role of gender specific education, and efforts to overcome racial and ethnic achievement gaps in education.

Closing racial and ethnic achievement gaps has proven intractable for school leaders across the nation.

We estimate racial / ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009 - 2013.

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.

Racial / ethnic achievement gaps declined during the same period.

• YES Prep eliminated nearly every income and ethnic achievement gap that urban schools nationwide face — and closed gaps five times more often than other CMOs.

Uncommon Schools students are outperforming their low - income and African - American peers in the states where they operate, and they have closed income and ethnic achievement gaps four times as often as other large charter management organizations across the country.

Linda van den Bergh, Eddie Denessen, Lisette Hornstra, Marinus Voeten, and Rob W. Holland, «The Implicit Prejudiced Attitudes of Teachers: Relations to Teacher Expectations and the Ethnic Achievement Gap,» American Educational Research Journal 47 (2010): 497 — 527.

YES Prep Public Schools, a system of 10 middle and high schools that serves almost all low - income and minority students, eliminated nearly all income and ethnic achievement gaps.

When reform advocates speak about educational change and the achievement gap, I think this fact is often lost: Charter Schools have not solved the ethnic achievement gap problem either.

I know that too many of our public schools have racial and ethnic achievement gaps, or provide quality education to only a privileged few.

Among the topics O'Brien will explore during her year at the school include «the influence of income on educational equality, the role of gender specific education, and efforts to overcome racial and ethnic achievement gaps in education,» per the press release.

Social Equity Theory and Racial - Ethnic Achievement Gaps.