Sentences with phrase «largest educational achievement gaps»

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The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

Congressional Panel Calls for Larger Federal Role in Directing Schools A white paper released Tuesday on improving educational competitiveness and closing the achievement gap called for a significantly larger federal role in the management of the nation's public school sLarger Federal Role in Directing Schools A white paper released Tuesday on improving educational competitiveness and closing the achievement gap called for a significantly larger federal role in the management of the nation's public school slarger federal role in the management of the nation's public school system.

BCSE struggles with a large achievement gap in its own small school, and offers no educational practices that Stamford does not already do.

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.