Sentences with phrase «growing academic achievement gap»

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

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Income - based disparities in academic performance have actually grown over the last decade or so, and last year the state's achievement gap was the third highest in the nation.

Reardon's research on the relationship between academic achievement and family income found an increased link between family income and children's academic achievement, noting in earlier studies, «The income achievement gap does not appear to be a result of a growing achievement gap between children with highly educated and less - educated parents.

By examining research - based techniques, exploring the role of race, class, and culture in the classroom, and growing effective practices that enable academic growth and close the achievement gap, attendees will leave with a singular blueprint for ways to improve their school.

News Release Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Media Contact Christine Rafanelli, Communications Director Colorado Children's Campaign Office: [phone], Cell: [phone] Van Schoales, CEO, A + Denver [phone] DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAKES STEADY GAINS IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, BUT OUTCOMES REMAIN BELOW STATE AVERAGES AND ACHIEVEMENT GAPS HAVE GROWN Start with the Facts Report Examines Student...

The contending theory asserts that black students underperform because they are likely to be poor and underprivileged, and that addressing the academic achievement gap therefore requires first changing the economic and social conditions in which these students grow up.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, the so - called «achievement gap,» or disparity in academic skills, between rich and poor kids grew by an estimated 40 percent.

There also is growing evidence that widening differences in socioeconomic status, not race, are driving academic achievement gaps.

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.