Sentences with phrase «known racial gap»

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The federal No Child Left Behind Act is designed to encourage all states to close the racial gap in performance.

The Common Core State Standards were designed to ensure that low - income students and students of color were no longer being short - changed with lower expectations that mask the reality of gaps in performance across racial and socio - economic factors.

Since the Common Core standards have never been field - tested, no one knows whether they will raise test scores or cause the achievement gap among different racial, ethnic, and income groups to narrow or to widen.

No matter how rich or how poor the district in question, funding gaps existed solely based on the racial composition of the school.

The risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's social group, known as stereotype threat, depresses academic achievement among students of color and contributes to racial gaps in achievement.

Within a decade, the search for justice gave birth to another big idea: Not only would racial walls come down on campuses, no longer would it be right to have major gaps between the academic achievement of white and minority students.

I know that too many of our public schools have racial and ethnic achievement gaps, or provide quality education to only a privileged few.

What do we make of the Federal Government's commitment to «closing the gap» for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health if it continues to back changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, when we know that racism is a serious health concern in Australia?

We also know some schools are able to close the racial discipline gap.