Sentences with phrase «gaps along lines of»

Study Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.»

Yet despite these encouraging trends, substantial graduation - rate gaps along lines of race, income, and gender persist.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

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But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

Line the bottom of a 9 × 13 - inch baking dish with Oreos, breaking them to fill in any big gaps along the edges.

Seeing as the Cowboys don't employ a 2 - gap technique along the defensive line, I just don't see how Vea is a great fit beyond the perceived value of him «falling» to us.

A few hours and several miles of snowshoeing later, I was hard at work in the diminishing February twilight, setting up lines of strobes and high - speed cameras along gaps in the tree canopy that framed a forest lake at the edge of Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Somewhere along the line, we were cunningly persuaded to believe in the body and mind as two very distinct operational entities, and this rigid paradigm has left an unfortunate gap in our understanding of the scientific workings of nutrients as building blocks for the brain and nervous system.

It touches on the #OccupyWallStreet protests of 2011, but seems uncertain of how to fold that event — along with a tripling in the national income gap over the past three decades - plus — into a narrative that breaks down along free trade versus protectionist lines.

The result is an opportunity gap and divide along racial and class lines that threatens the future of our communities, economy, and democracy.

In 2006, Gloria Ladson - Billings, a leading education advocate, addressed the achievement gap at the American Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schoolgap at the American Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schoolgap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. SchoolGap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools).

We have a huge opportunity and moral imperative to better serve our most vulnerable students by addressing achievement gaps that fall along lines of race, income and learning abilities.

The nonprofit University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) is dedicated to eliminating the achievement gap that continues to divide our nation's children along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

There were also gaps along socioeconomic, disability and language lines, though Wisconsin was one of 30 states with no significant gender gap.

PCC's efforts are focused on policy and practice solutions to the ongoing crisis of low college completion rates, persistent achievement gaps that exist along racial and socioeconomic lines, and college affordability.

At the Center for Educational Leadership we are dedicated to eliminating the achievement gap that continues to divide our nation's children along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

Increased accountability and scrutiny for school districts across the county has put renewed focus on an old problem: the persistent achievement gap dividing students along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

These results show we all have more work to do to increase the level of rigor in our classrooms and address the needs of the whole child, academically, socially and emotionally, so we can finally narrow the persistent gaps that play out along racial and class lines,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.

If you happen to be very well known and have a strong following along the lines of a Lee Child or a Dan Brown, you can get away with a longer gap between your preorder announcement and your launch date.

Located directly next to the Bergen - Hudson Light Rail, Madox fills the gap of the property's former industrial use with an attractive residential address that creates a continuous streetscape along tree - lined Van Vorst, Morris and Essex Streets.

We wanted our first full - width plank to go on the top of the countertop in between the two sink cabinets, so our level line runs along the top edge of that plank and because the cabinets were slightly crooked, we used caulk to fill in the gap at the bottom of that plank where it meets the countertop.

You can also run an ice cube along the line of caulk to smooth into the joint or gap.