Sentences with phrase «large academic gaps»

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When we looked at retention rates by district in Colorado, we found even larger gaps than in North Carolina, and academic work from John Papay, Andrew Bacher - Hicks, Lindsay Page, and William Marinell found similarly large disparities when they looked at longitudinal teacher retention rates in 16 large school districts spread across seven states.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The academic says that although the total number of Indigenous teachers identified by the National Teacher Workforce Dataset (NTWD) was larger than anticipated, a three-fold increase by 2018 would be required to meet the Close the Gap employment target (in the education sector), as agreed by all Australian governments.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

Academic achievement gaps between high - and low - income students born in the 1990s were much larger than among cohorts born two decades earlier.

In the 1980s, the distinguished sociologist James Coleman conducted carefully controlled, large - sample research that demonstrated the ineffectiveness of progressive methods in raising general academic achievement and in closing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

The document indicated Holtz would receive a guaranteed three - year, $ 150,000 job with a personal driver at the Department of Public Instruction should Humphries win and would have authority to take over large districts with persistent gaps in academic achievement among groups of students.

Now retired, Holtz says his experiences teaching and working in a number of school districts of various sizes and demographics make him a superior choice to Evers at a time when Wisconsin has been labeled as having the largest gap in academic achievement between black and white students in the nation.

Clearly, some schools have large gaps in academic performance across racial or ethnic groups and some do not.

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U.S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the country's largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

The Broad Prize awards $ 250,000 to the large public charter school system that has demonstrated the best overall academic performance while closing achievement gaps and serving low - income students and students of color.

The problem is worst in the Northeast — the region that, in many ways, never desegregated — where students face some of the largest academic achievement gaps: in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

At the same time, Connecticut has one of the nation's largest academic achievement gaps, and Governor Malloy has faced pushback from teachers unions on his efforts surrounding teacher evaluation.»

At Brown's urging, the Legislature overhauled state school aid laws to provide more funds to districts with large numbers of poor and / or English - learner students, aimed at closing the academic achievement gap between them and more privileged classmates.

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 years.

They should devise metrics and evaluate principals and teachers with an eye to ensuring that the focus on «closing achievement gaps» does not serve as an excuse to ask more - prepared students to babysit themselves for large portions of the academic day.