Sentences with phrase «growing achievement gap»

The EEE program started in 2011 as a way to bridge a growing achievement gap for students in an increasingly diverse district, which spans the high - income suburbs outside Washington, DC, and the immigrant - rich, economically challenged communities farther from the capital.

A better case can be made that the growing achievement gap is more the result of changing family structure than of inadequate medical services or preschool education.

They thus need extra support to help them come to class focused and avoid excessive absences that grow achievement gaps.

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.

Thus there is little evidence that differential learning over the summer can help to explain the growing achievement gap.

Student scores on national achievement tests are flat, and we are one of very few states with a growing achievement gap.

Aired: 02/06/2015 National programs like the President's My Brother's Keeper campaign have shed light on the growing achievement gap between -LSB-...]

Your report about the growing achievement gap between white and African - American students over 20 years of «reform» in the Chicago Public Schools reaffirms our organization's strong opposition to one of the most harmful of these initiatives, the practice of flunking students based on their scores on the annual state tests.

Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds Hechinger Report column from Jill Barshay

The growing achievement gaps between the poor and affluent in the U.S. are dwarfed by the even wider divides between wealthy and poor Indians.

The state's growing achievement gaps were at the center of the five - month CCJEF v. Rell trial, in which attorneys for a coalition of parents, teachers, school boards and mayors suing the state argued that «lawmakers are on the hook for ensuring students from low - income families are provided with an opportunity to succeed in school.»

Against this backdrop, most ELLs are not meeting academic proficiency standards; especially alarming is their growing achievement gap in mathematics.

Many education organizations applaud the enhanced accountability and funding flexibility the bills provide to states and local districts, but civil rights organizations have serious concerns that the loosening of federal accountability mandates could lead to growing achievement gaps.