Sentences with phrase «in math scores narrows»

These comparisons seem to suggest that the gap in math scores narrows through elementary school, with some (but not all) of this gain lost during the middle - school years.

Not exact matches

On the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Chicago was the sole district to narrow its test - score gap between white students and black students in 4th - grade math compared to 2015.

In their effort to maximize math and reading test scores, schools have sometimes narrowed their focus at the expense of the arts and humanities.

The narrow focus on math and reading may goose math and reading test scores in the short term but at the expense of the longer - term and broader goals of education.

A new, 50 - state report by the Center on Education Policy found that reading and math scores are rising and achievement gaps are narrowing, gains that are attributable in part to NCLB.

School systems can and should do much more to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of these staff members, and now that the national conversation about school improvement has begun to expand beyond its narrow fixation on test - score gains in reading and math, policy makers may be ready to take a fresh look at their work.

But there was also some good news: a promising narrowing of gaps in scores between whites and Hispanics and white and blacks in 4th grade math, he said.

It's well known that NCLB's narrow focus on reading and math test scores meant that too many students, especially poor students, ended up with little in their school day other than preparation to take tests in math and reading.

Still, Greene thinks that even though reformers have not succeeded in really transforming teacher evaluations, they have effectively narrowed public discourse around education, defining «achievement» down to mean, merely, gains in reading and math scores.

Narrowing the Curriculum: No Child Left Behind, which judged schools solely on their students» math and reading test scores, prompted schools across the nation to abandon science, social studies, art, music, physical education and other subjects in pursuit of high scores in the tested subjects.

Claire George, head of service at the Peterborough Pupil Referral Service, warned that the narrower school curriculum had created a situation in which schools focus too much on how many pupils pass English and maths and their Progress 8 scores.

Yet we all know the downsides of the narrow focus on reading and math scores in grades three through eight and once in high school.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

There is some evidence to suggest an improvement in overall test scores, particularly in math, but less evidence to suggest that achievement gaps have narrowed.

In a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 yearIn a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 yearin the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 yearin 35 years.

Between 1998 and 2007, Delaware led the nation in narrowing the minority student achievement gap in fourth - grade math and eighth - grade reading scores.