Sentences with phrase «fifth of the achievement gap»

But recent research has found a key factor that schools do control: higher levels of suspension and expulsion for minority students is the source of fully one fifth of the achievement gap.

As researcher Thomas Kane writes, «Oversubscribed charter schools in the Boston area are closing roughly one - third of the black - white achievement gap in math and about one - fifth of the achievement gap in English — in a single school year!»

But recent research has found a key factor that schools do control: higher levels of suspension and expulsion for minority students is the source of fully one fifth of the achievement gap.

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To remediate achievement gaps and prepare for the demands of the most selective schools in New England, each Scholar puts in hundreds of hours of extra school work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - grade year.

The effect is large: Finance reforms raise achievement in the lowest - income school districts by about one - tenth of a standard deviation, closing about one - fifth of the gap between high - and low - income districts.

The largest achievement gap in elementary school reading exists between African - American and white students, with 18 percent of black third -, fourth -, and fifth - graders passing their reading MAP test in the last school year compared to 70 percent of their white peers.

The Black - White achievement gap in children's reading and mathematics school performance from 4 1/2 years of age through fifth grade was examined in a sample of 314 lower income American youth followed