Sentences with phrase «focus on closing gaps»

All publicly funded schools — traditional and charter alike — should be subject to the same rigorous performance expectations, with a deep focus on closing gaps.

A second thing is a concerted focus on closing gaps between groups of kids in a meaningful way over time.

While many of those schools are indeed outstanding, we believe it important to recognize schools that are excellent because they engage in research - based practices that focus on closing gaps in opportunity, regardless of the students they serve.

So are you excited to face Arsenal at this point in the Europa League, or were you hoping for an «easier» opponent so that Milan could focus on closing the gap between them and the teams above them in the table?

Morgan said educators need to stay focused on closing that gap, so all students can keep moving forward.

For Reapers who need to close the distance to their opponents, Death's Charge is an ability which replaces Death Shroud's Dark Path and is a movement skill focused on closing that gap.

This is something that Amazon has a huge advantage in with their Echo products, but Google seems to be focusing on closing the gap.

The appointment of Ken Wyatt hopefully signifies a reinvigorated focus on Closing the Gap policy.

In a comprehensive snapshot, Vision 2020 says the eye health and vision care sector should be encouraged by the Budget, although it says there are concerns about significant cuts again handed down to the international development sector and a lack of targeted focus on Closing the Gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

«We are seeing consistent incremental change that is strongly supported by the Australian public and increasingly by the private sector and it is critical that Governments maintain their focus on closing the gap and investing in effective programs and partnerships,» said Ms Cilento.

The State of Reconciliation in Australia report, released by Reconciliation Australia, speaks to equality and equity in renewing focus on Closing the Gap.

These include, but are not limited to, zero tolerance for racism, renewed focus on Closing the Gap, and reaffirmed recognition and respect for the rights of First Australians.

«They focus on closing the gap.»

Not exact matches

«It's hard to close the gap due to several reasons, mainly because of China's lack of innovativeness due to its weak intellectual property laws and government - led projects that focus on quantity over quality.»

Customize your plan by identifying your company's gaps and opportunity, and focus on the channels that bring you closer to your audience.

A new World Bank report focuses on the role digital technology plays in personal banking and how it can help close the financial inclusion gap.

Panels and speakers will focus on topics ranging from a roadmap to closing the gender pay gap, the business incentive for why gender diversity and inclusion is good for the bottom line, best practices for starting or maintaining a mentorship program and succession planning, professional and personal development, how to navigate a career in the alcohol beverage industry and a look at what is to come for women in the industry.

As a result, their focus is likely to be on the Champions League spots, where they could close down the gap to Liverpool to a solitary point with a victory at Selhurst Park.

Focusing on closing the diaper gap, the Texas Diaper Bank strategically creates its programs to target the diaper gap's root causes: physical, mental, and economic well - being.

We must focus on the politics of redistribution to close the gap between society's rich and poor #LabourHustings pic.twitter.com/feJhVNz 4Ky

A major focus in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's 100 days in office speech yesterday was on closing the income inequality gap.

«I am pleased the report has picked up on a substantial focus on closing the attainment gap in Wales thanks to the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

Carranza's priorities rang familiar to New Yorkers Monday as he stressed lower reliance on testing, a focus on social services, LGBTQ rights, support for immigrant children and closing racial achievement gaps.

Many workplace campaigns have come to an end and efforts are now focused on closing the final gap.

Like Bill de Blasio, Sheehan will push a progressive agenda, one that focuses on closing wealth and opportunity gaps.

The NAN founder insisted that those who attend focus specifically on pushing to preserve the Affordable Care Act, to close the wealth gap and to maintain strong federal oversight of police departments that violate citizens» civil rights.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

ERIE COUNTY, NY — World AIDS Day 2014, December 1, 2014, is focused on the opportunity to it can only be achieved by closing the gap between people who have access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services and people who are being left behind.

The findings show the need for renewed focus on closing racial gaps in education and school quality, which have been stuck in place for several decades, according to the authors.

«But we have found that if states focus on a handful of priority action steps and implement them successfully, they can begin to close critical gaps and dramatically accelerate progress toward ending their HIV epidemics.»

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.

These systems attempt to close gaps by focusing on gaps directly.

Our second lens focused on what national and international research shows about «hard to teach, hard to reach» (Boag - Munroe and Evangelo, 2010) and «closing the gap in educational achievement», including the debates about Leon Feinstein's research (2015); looking at definitions, causes and effects.

Some of Willie's examples of hijacking included changing the idea of integration to desegregation, which negatively affects the Civil Rights Movement, or even focusing on closing the achievement gap rather than emphasizing helping each child reach his or her full potential.

Researchers Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Jessica Hockett have explored these institutions, asking if their «whole school» focus on high achievers might play a larger role in educating top students in a national climate «consumed with gap closing.»

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

A related question is whether focusing on demographic groups is not only ineffective but also counterproductive in closing achievement gaps.

Also, stay focused on closing the achievement gap.

During the two - day conference on June 18 and 19, funders, activists, practitioners, public school officials, and policymakers focused on research findings that provide further insight into raising achievement levels while working to close the achievement gap.

In 2011, I noted that the narrow, relentless focus on «closing achievement gaps» had created «a dangerous complacency» by «giving suburban and middle - class Americans the false sense that things are just fine in their own schools.

To the contrary, the Loveless study cited above offers some support for the proposition that high performers suffer systematically from the focus on closing the achievement gap, while there is limited data that grouping all students together improves the quality of education for struggling students.

Since an individual's data footprint can throw sharp focus on the areas that he / she is interested in or needs skills upgrading, a personalized eLearning plan helps organizations close the skills gap with ease and also demonstrates to the employees that they are valuable enough to invest in.

Urban reformers have focused intensively on the challenges of poverty and on «closing» race - and income - based «achievement gaps.»

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

My assessment focus is on developing quality marking and feedback leading whole school development and closing the gap in reading.

If policymakers really want to close achievement gaps between rich and poor students, she writes, they should stop focusing on schools and start paying attention to what happens before children ever get to kindergarten.

Later this week, I will publish the new national improvement framework for education, which focuses firmly on our objective of closing the attainment gap in education.

As part of this research effort, Fuller analyzes America's middle - skills jobs market focusing on what employers, policymakers, and educators can do to close the skills gap, especially in areas critical to U.S. competitiveness.

«The SSTA wishes to acknowledge and welcome the Deputy First Minister's determination to declutter the work of teachers and allow them to focus on teaching and learning in our battle of «closing the attainment gap».

Since boys are about a grade level behind girls in reading and writing and girls have just about closed the gap in mathematics and science, I'll focus on raising the achievement of boys.