Sentences with phrase «large achievement gaps»

Schools with large achievement gaps are expected to close them.

That doesn't necessarily do much to create large achievement gaps.

Berkeley High was one of the most diverse high schools with one of largest achievement gaps in the state.

According to the RAND paper, Texas NAEP results showed very large achievement gaps between whites and students of color and showed that those gaps are increasing slightly.

(Because of large achievement gaps at the school, these math classes are more racially and socioeconomically homogeneous than the student population as a whole.)

· There continues to be very large achievement gaps across the state and within school gaps when achievement data is broken down by subgroups.

Student outcomes reveal large achievement gaps.

Stateside, districts, states and the U.S. Department of Education are fighting to close large achievement gaps.

Large achievement gaps persist in the city's schools: The four - year graduation rate in 2012 for African - American students was 53 percent, compared with 78 percent for both white and Asian students.

We still strongly support reporting out scores by particular subgroups to identify large achievement gaps, but focusing on the lowest - performing students ensures that students who need the most help are getting it.

Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap when it's measured by students» socioeconomic status, with poor students performing almost three grade - levels below their more privileged peers, according to national exams.

Very soon, weak foundations in prerequisite skills crumble into large achievement gaps that only worsen as students progress through middle school to high school.

In other words, the consequence of being out of school is to increase the already unacceptably large achievement gap between low - income students and their affluent peers.»

States can focus turnaround efforts on schools with particularly low subgroup achievement — rather than schools with large achievement gaps.

Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap between poor students and their more affluent peers, and it's acute even in higher - income towns like West Hartford.

An issue brief released in May 2014 by RI Kids Count found that, while RI students are making progress in reading, large achievement gaps persist — in fact, only 19 % of our low - income fourth graders scored at the proficient level in the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

AFT and CAP pitch their proposal as targeting interventions to schools with large achievement gaps.

It's also fair to ask whether the percentages Obama set (in the NCLB waivers, it's 5 percent of the lowest performing schools and another 10 percent of schools with large achievement gaps) are the right ones.

This broken system has created one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation, denying students of color and those from low - income families the equal opportunity they deserve.

This report quantifies the extent of ELL concentration in low - achieving public schools and the degree to which this isolation is associated with the large achievement gap in mathematics between ELL students and other major student groups.

Previous Pew Hispanic Center analyses of standardized testing data for public schools revealed a large achievement gap between ELL students and other students in math and reading proficiency (Fry, How Far Behind in Math and Reading are English Language Learners?

Large achievement gaps.

Tier 3 and 4 schools have been identified for additional supports due to either 1) large achievement gaps, in the case of Tier 3 schools, or 2) under - achievement, for Tier 4 schools.

The secretary of education would use a peer - review process to help states develop accountability plans, and would require states to intervene in 5 percent of their lowest - performing schools and 5 percent of their schools with the largest achievement gaps.

Recognizing that Minnesota has one of the largest achievement gaps (or as Ms. Silva prefers to call it, opportunity gaps) in the country, SPPS began three years ago to analyze and address the systems, values and expectations that perpetuate this gap in its schools.

Minnesota has one of the largest achievement gaps between students of color and their White counterparts.

«Someone brought me to visit Amistad (Academy in New Haven), and I heard the statistic that Connecticut had the largest achievement gap in the country.

Just a few years ago, the schools were considered «focus schools» which means they were not only low - performing but also had some of the largest achievement gaps in the state.

The largest achievement gap in America exists between children with disabilities and their peers without disabilities.

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

As measured by 2015 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, Massachusetts has some of the largest achievement gaps by race, income, and language in the nation.

San Francisco had the largest achievement gap between Latino and white students on the most recent math assessments.

Why do we have such a large achievement gap?

Too often teacher workforce reflects the opposite of the students demographic and that is traditionally where we see the largest achievement gaps.

In the most recent round of international tests, released in December last year, England had one of the largest achievement gaps in the world.

In addition, the bill requires states to develop a plan to address problems in their «achievement gap schools» — the 5 percent of elementary and middle schools and the 5 percent of high schools in each state with the largest achievement gaps among student subgroups, or the lowest student subgroup performance based on achievement tests and graduation rates.

A decade after No Child Left Behind became law, there is still a large achievement gap between English language learner students and their English - proficient peers.

Additionally, it says that states do not need to continue to meet waiver requirements that ESSA doesn't address, such as teacher evaluations based on student outcomes, but that waiver states must continue to focus on the lowest performing schools and those with large achievement gaps.

«We can't change too much too fast when we have one of the largest achievement gaps in the country,» said candidate Ali Muldrow, who faces Kate Toews in the race for Seat 6 on the board.

The U.S. has been falling further behind other nations and has struggled with a large achievement gap.

The problem is especially severe in Connecticut, where restrictions on great schools have contributed to one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation.

As the bill moves forward, we hope the Senate will continue to strengthen important provisions related to state accountability systems, such as those that both support great leaders and also identify struggling schools in need of intervention — especially those with the weakest overall performance and those with large achievement gaps.

In exchange, states implemented systems of differentiated accountability in which they identified and intervened in their lowest - performing schools («Priority» schools) and schools with the largest achievement gaps between subgroups of students («Focus» schools).

Connecticut has long had some of the largest achievement gaps between minority students and their peers.

Obama to Launch «My Brother's Keeper» Pointing to the large achievement gap between black or Hispanic boys and their white peers, the Obama administration announced a collection of public - private initiatives called «My Brother's Keeper» to help improve the lives of boys of color.

The reality, however, is until recently, Summit School District had one of the largest achievement gaps in the state — with the English language learning children of the county's influx of immigrant workers achieving at much lower rates than its nonminority students.

As Thomas explains, Connecticut's broken system has created one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation: «The majority of students from low - income families test far below where they should on reading and math exams.