Sentences with phrase «in narrowing the achievement gaps»

«If we don't make the progress that we need to make in narrowing the achievement gap then that's a recipe for social instability and economic decline,» Ferguson said.

During the era of No Child Left Behind very little progress has been made in narrowing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

New York City's progress in narrowing the achievement gap confirms that policymakers and advocates can no longer use demographic factors like race, ethnicity, income, or zip code to excuse differences in educational achievement between high - and low - needs students.

Houston was recognized for its students» academic achievement gains, its ability to increase the district graduation rate faster than any other urban district in the running for the prize, and its progress in narrowing the achievement gaps for low - income and Hispanic students and improving students» college - readiness, among other achievements.

Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that charter schools are making significant gains in narrowing the achievement gap, with African American students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide in many urban districts and across subjects.

Wisconsin has won a competitive federal grant to study why some state schools have had more success than others in narrowing achievement gaps across racial lines and income levels.

The modern - day history of the community education concept explains the outstanding results our country saw in narrowing the achievement gap while improving the overall performance of our schools.

He observes that «Chile is the country that made the most progress in narrowing the achievement gap between 2000 and 2009 in PISA literacy.»

Schools are evaluated on their success in narrowing achievement gaps in English and mathematics.

«As we approach the 20th anniversary of the charter schools movement in California, CCSA continues to explore ways to assess the impact of charter schools, and ways to effectively build on those models that are proving successful in narrowing the achievement gap and increasing opportunities.»

The study has also amplified the potential of community based ECE programmes in boosting school readiness and therefore offers promise in narrowing achievement gaps for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The plan provides a roadmap for creating a coordinated, high - quality system of early childhood services that will support all of the community's youngest children and their families and make meaningful progress in narrowing the achievement gap among them as they enter kindergarten.

In Illinois and in states across the country, the Ounce advocates for early childhood education programs that are proven to be effective in narrowing the achievement gap and that support the healthy development of vulnerable young children.

Not exact matches

According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under - served high schools and students.

What do you see as the benefits and negatives of the AP Program in terms of helping to narrow the achievement gap?

During his eight years as Deputy Superintendent and then Superintendent in San Francisco, Carranza drove progress in academic outcomes, outpacing gains in the state and narrowing the achievement gap.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.

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 studIn 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 studin 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.

The narrowing of achievement gaps has been greatest in low - income Norwegian communities that made large increases in the number of children attending early childcare centers

The intervention also appeared to narrow the achievement gap between English language learners and children proficient in English.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

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«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

«I want to see our urban school districts and large charter networks play an even greater role in effectively narrowing the achievement gap by reimagining schools in order to create and support equitable learning environments.»

The five - year - old document is a public recognition of how race and ethnicity play out in students» educational outcomes, and a call to narrow achievement gaps.

The Interactive Learning methods used at Cochrane have helped narrow their achievement gap from 17 points in 2007 - 08 to 11 points in 2010 - 11, making it less than half the 30 - point achievement gap that exists throughout the state as a whole.

Whether the groups» focus is personal and social development in Year 4, leadership in Year 7 or narrowing the achievement gap with Year 10s, Brathay adopts the same approach that seeks to maximise the conditions for learning and achieve the desired learning outcomes.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

I think we'll see in - state achievement gaps narrow in a group of smart, focused states — states that have used ESEA flexibility to design student - outcomes - focused, coherent education systems.

We have known for decades that teachers were being pushed into using bad test prep, that states and districts were complicit in this, that scores were often badly inflated, and even that score inflation was creating an illusion of narrowing achievement gaps.

And we could determine whether and where there are equity gaps in effective teaching, the level of challenge of student assignments, and much else that might be addressed in order to narrow the achievement gap.

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

The effect is largest for students with below - average test scores, suggesting that later start times would narrow gaps in student achievement.

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 schoolIn 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 schoolin their own schools.

The patient responded with strong vital signs for a time, as test scores climbed in the 1990s and achievement gaps narrowed.

With that context in mind, consider two recent milestones in the achievement gap conversation: First, the news that the gap in New York City didn't narrow nearly as much as had previously been reported.

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While race - and income - based gaps are narrowing to some extent (especially in the earlier grades), four common but faulty assumptions could block progress toward closing these and other serious achievement gaps:

The last time the achievement gap stopped narrowing — back in the late 1980s — it was because black achievement flat - lined or worse.

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Though the achievement gap narrowed in the 1980s, it opened again in the 1990s, at a time when the principles of Brown should have been firmly entrenched.

The standards - based reform movement seeks both to equip all of our high - school graduates to compete in the global marketplace and to narrow the achievement gap between our advantaged and disadvantaged student populations.

For the real objection is to a definite core curriculum that is planned out in detail and in advance, the very thing that is most desperately needed to raise achievement and narrow the achievement gap between groups.

Day one provided conference participants with insight into why we can and must narrow achievement gaps, and ways in which our home and institutional lifestyles, as well as our schooling and public policies, affect achievement gaps.

Topics discussed were Measuring Achievement, Calibrating Gaps and Monitoring Progress; How Identity and Culture Affect Achievement Gaps; What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Schools; and What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Non-School Hours.

But the key to narrowing the achievement gap is high - quality literacy and numeracy interventions that are targeted towards pupils who are falling behind in primary and early secondary school.

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The district's schools have also narrowed the achievement gap in test scores, which NWEA MAP measures show are trending upward.