Sentences with phrase «large education gap»

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Among residents of the 27 countries of the European Union, women were less likely than men to agree with the four statements about the role of education in the development of entrepreneurial attitudes and skills, with the gap being largest for the skills to run a company.

Quebec's Aboriginal poverty is severe, and the large gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal education levels is the most important factor in explaining it, concludes a report from the C.D. Howe...

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

But there is a large gap between such purposes of a secular school and the primary goal of Christian education.

A significant share of the gaps in income, education, crime, and other socio - economic indicators between Southern states and non-Southern states in the U.S. is associated statistically with having larger African - American populations, although Southern whites are still lower in income, less likely to receive educations, and more likely to commit crimes, etc. than whites in metropolitan areas outside the South.

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

Sex ratios in sub-Saharan Africa are a bit more balanced, and the sex gaps in education, work outside the home and child mortality are not as large.

«There is a real gap for project managers in the marketplace, and it is expected that there will be a huge demand for project managers in the larger pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the near future,» says Kathryn Pottruff, president of Micro Education Group Inc., a company specializing in strategic planning, project management, and consulting.

I don't know when the comedy will end but there's a large gap in my education — in quantum physics, because in my college it was taught in a way I found incredibly dull.

According to Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, resegregation is contributing to a growing gap in quality between the schools being attended by white students and those serving a large proportion of minority students.

And while there are a variety of reasons this gap may exist, parents and others we interviewed told us that the proportion of IEP - eligible students in DPS is growing rapidly in large part because a number of Detroit charter schools simply don't offer many special - education supports.

In a revealing analysis of a large data set, Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and his colleagues found that placement in special education in grades 3 - 6 was associated with gains of 0.04 standard deviation in reading and 0.11 in math; such small gains indicate that children with LD clearly are not closing the gap.

A large part (80 percent) of the growth in this gap over time is that charter schools are less likely than district schools to classify students as in need of special education services and more likely to declassify them....

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

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.

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 achievemeducation 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 achievemEducation 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.

While this response rate is far from spectacular, it serves as a starting point for filling a large gap in the state education policy - making literature.

Preschool also looms large for some prominent education analysts who doubt that K — 12 schooling alone can accomplish much gap closing due to other powerful forces in the lives of children and families.

Over 40 of the 100 employers reporting the largest median gender pay gaps in the education sector are multi-academy trusts and schools.

Not only in becoming part of the larger conversations about education and research, but also more specifically in regard to narrowing the achievement gap for African American male students.

The grant, the largest ever given to the 35,000 - student district, will support a comprehensive collaboration by the district, businesses, and the community to close achievement gaps and help students enter higher education.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

In 2006, Gloria Ladson - Billings, a leading education advocate, addressed the achievement gap at the American Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. education advocate, addressed the achievement gap at the American Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schoolgap at the American Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schoolgap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. SchoolGap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools).

This course also helps them situate this particular work within the larger context of challenges and innovations in urban education by introducing participants to literature on the achievement gap, the impact of racial identity on school achievement, charter school policy and critiques, and the advent and development of charter schools serving low income students that are based on high support and high expectations.

«In some cases, these charter schools have quite large effects, such that attending one for three years produce test - score gains that are equivalent to the size of the U.S. black - white achievement gap,» said Sarah Cohodes, an assistant professor of education and public policy at Columbia University in a publication from Princeton University and the Brookings Institute.

But Sonja Santelises, vice president for K - 12 policy and practice at The Education Trust, a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit that works to close achievement gaps, sees a danger in large numbers of children with disabilities opting out of state tests.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

In 2012 then US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that the TIMSS results «underscore the urgency of accelerating achievement in secondary school and the need to close large and persistent achievement gaps.»

Philanthropist Eli Broad and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came together at the Library of Congress in Washington this morning to commend Houston's leaders and those of other large urban school district that have made strides in recent years in boosting student achievement and reducing achievement gaps between low - income students and students of color and their more advantaged peers.

That gap is wide: Data from the state Department of Education shows the achievement gap between white and black students in Mississippi is 28 percent, larger than the gaps for other traditionally disadvantaged subgroups in the state, including those between English speakers and English - language learners and between students in special education and general education, according to Mississippi Department of EducatEducation shows the achievement gap between white and black students in Mississippi is 28 percent, larger than the gaps for other traditionally disadvantaged subgroups in the state, including those between English speakers and English - language learners and between students in special education and general education, according to Mississippi Department of Educateducation and general education, according to Mississippi Department of Educateducation, according to Mississippi Department of EducationEducation data.

After citing the evidence of large gaps in achievement by low - income students and English learners, Liu wrote, «The schoolchildren who brought these actions (Robles - Wong and Campaign for Quality Education) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class eEducation) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class educationeducation.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

This disconnect contributes to gaps in the workforce, as well as a «completion crisis» in postsecondary education, in which a large number of students enter postsecondary education but leave before obtaining a degree or credential.

«With the largest racial achievement gap in the country,» said Evers, «we need to have tough conversations about how Wisconsin will improve education for all students.»

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

And it will have a significant impact on higher education, not to mention the large and growing workforce «skills gap.»

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 achievemeducation 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 achievemEducation 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.

«What's truly noteworthy about Santa Ana students» math proficiency is that we're seeing remarkable results at the scale of a large urban district — not just one high - achieving class or school — where the predominantly Hispanic student body has closed the achievement gap,» said Andrew R. Coulson, President of the MIND Education Division in a written statement.

Here in Connecticut, the call for «education reform» is based on closing Connecticut's «largest in the nation achievement gap.»

The gap is even larger between white students and other groups, such as students in special education (SPED) and English Language Learners (ELL).

The quintessential example of Pryor's dismal and idiotic approach to governing was his decision to let go or transfer ten State Department of Education, Connecticut - based experts on improving schools and replacing them with an unending series of inexperienced, out - of - state consultants who have no meaningful experience or understanding of how to close the achievement gap in our largest and poorest school districts.

While PK enrollment is growing, large disparities in access and quality threaten to undermine the capacity of early childhood education to close achievement gaps.

The scholarships were awarded to students in five school districts that were finalists for the 2010 Broad (pronounced like «road») Prize, the largest education prize in the country given each year to urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among income and ethnic groups.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Urban Education is an annual $ 1 million award — the largest education prize in the country — that honors urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students Education is an annual $ 1 million award — the largest education prize in the country — that honors urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students education prize in the country — that honors urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students of color.

Cultural competency development is now a large component of the Oregon Leadership Network's mission to strengthen education leadership to improve student success and eliminate the performance gap between different ethnic and socioeconomic student groups.

In addition, standards for teacher education programs were strengthened, and states like Connecticut and North Carolina, which undertook large - scale, comprehensive reforms, turned shortages into surpluses of much better trained, better supported, and better (and more equitably) paid teachers, while substantially raising achievement and reducing achievement gaps.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

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