Sentences with phrase «learning achievement gaps»

Yet even when citing the Abt study, Elena Silva of Education Sector persists in claiming, «Research on the need for expanded learning opportunities for low - income kids is incontrovertible — without extra learning achievement gaps are sure to persist.»

Educational media opportunities begin after age 2, when media may play a role in bridging the learning achievement gap.

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Project - based learning methods may help to decrease the gap in achievement between female and male middle school students.

In 2010, the Board of Regents released policies designed to prepare students for college and 21st century careers, close the achievement gap and instill a lifelong love of learning in children Regents Reform Agenda, according to a press release issued by Mr. Flanagan's office.

The program will provide close to $ 400 million to support locally developed plans to personalize and deepen student learning, directly improve student achievement and educator effectiveness, close achievement gaps, and prepare every student for success in college and careers.

«Summer learning is an essential element to closing the achievement gap and ensuring educational equity across our city and state,» said Principal Jason Wagner, Pelham Lab High School.

In a follow - up study, the researchers hope to learn more about what types of educational programs might help to close the achievement gap, and if possible, investigate whether these interventions also influence brain anatomy.

«This is particularly important because summer learning loss is cumulative and accounts for a significant percentage of the achievement gap.»

How we define success may vary — building 21st - century learning skills, closing the achievement gap, reinventing the learning process.

Nick has worked tirelessly to promote equitable learning opportunities and close the achievement gap.

The outcomes on standards - based social studies and content literacy assessments indicated that the project - based learning curriculum virtually erased the achievement gap between second graders of high and low - socioeconomic backgrounds (Halvorsen, Duke, Burgar, Block, Strachan, Berka, & Brown, 2012).

We know that PBL can be a powerful tool to eliminate achievement gaps and help students of all backgrounds develop critical 21st - century learning skills that prepare them to thrive.

Online resources and virtual - learning opportunities offer many ways to close the achievement gap.

«I want to see our urban school districts and large charter networks play an even greater role in effectively narrowing the achievement gap by reimagining schools in order to create and support equitable learning environments.»

The Future of Learning initiative is not only concerned about the achievement gap but with what Professor David Perkins called in his opening remarks of the institute a relevance gap.

The Interactive Learning methods used at Cochrane have helped narrow their achievement gap from 17 points in 2007 - 08 to 11 points in 2010 - 11, making it less than half the 30 - point achievement gap that exists throughout the state as a whole.

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

Whether the groups» focus is personal and social development in Year 4, leadership in Year 7 or narrowing the achievement gap with Year 10s, Brathay adopts the same approach that seeks to maximise the conditions for learning and achieve the desired learning outcomes.

According to a recent study in the journal Science, methods like those used in Interactive Learning increased learning for all students and decreased the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students in a large, introductory - level college biologLearning increased learning for all students and decreased the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students in a large, introductory - level college biologlearning for all students and decreased the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students in a large, introductory - level college biology class.

Studies have shown that only about 25 percent of today's teachers produce enough progress — well over a year's worth of learning growth in a year's time — to help students close achievement gaps and leap ahead.

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

Today, only about 25 percent of U.S. classrooms have teachers whose students learn enough to close achievement gaps in a few years and make further progress like the world's top students.

Despite the fact that it is sometimes treated this way, Social Emotional Learning isn't an antidote for the side effects of youth, academic achievement, or behavioral gaps.

Throughout the week, participants learned about the science of early childhood development, early literacy instruction, and the achievement gap.

To help close achievement gaps, schools also need to make accommodations for different learning styles.

Highlights this spring will include a discussion about how hip hop culture can offer teaching and learning tools in science with Assistant Columbia University Professor Christopher Emdin; a conversation with Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum; a presentation by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan on his research on closing America's achievement gap; and a talk with autism activist Temple Grandin.

He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education, with Terry M. Moe (Jossey - Bass, 2009), Learning From No Child Left Behind, (Hoover, 2009), Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child (Roman and Littlefield, 2005), Closing the Achievement Gap, with Tom Loveless (Brookings, 2001), and Politics, Markets, and America's Schools, with Terry M. Moe (Brookings, 1990).

School financing policies should be driven by an analysis of what it costs to raise the bar and close the gap in student achievement, bringing teaching and learning opportunities in all schools up to a high standard.

The real challenge lies in how to differentiate curriculum and learning activities without increasing and perpetuating an achievement gap between able and less - able students.

Summer learning loss is among the most pernicious — if least acknowledged — causes of achievement gaps in America's schools, notes David von Drehle in this week's Time Magazine, and lengthening the school year is the answer.

«I look forward to moving ahead, working collaboratively with Beacon Hill and the field, to address troubling, persistent student achievement gaps by developing an education reform agenda that gives primary attention to improving learning for all students.»

We've written here and here about the importance figuring out as a nation how to «extend the reach» of great teachers to more students, since great teachers accountable for student learning are the one «intervention» we know can close achievement gaps and raise the bar for all students.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

The only reform that ever matters in education is doing whatever it takes to lift student academic achievement and reduce the scandalous racial gap in learning.

Another goal states that participants would implement approaches to ensure inclusion of all students; implement practices to close the achievement gap; establish means for collaboration between district departments and schools; develop a plan for sharing lessons learned with other district leaders and to complement succession planning.

The institute includes a blend of theory and practice - based techniques for addressing student learning by strengthening instruction and better engaging communities, closing the achievement gap and establishing a positive, safe and goal - oriented school culture.

Learn effective practices for closing achievement gaps and creating a more inclusive learning environment

Miller has calculated the learning loss attributable to teacher absences to be equal to about 5 percent of the achievement gap between black and white students.

A major challenge for all urban school leaders is improving student learning — especially in the context of the achievement gap.

The ability to use classroom data that is readily accessible in real time, actionable for both the teacher and learner, and enables informed adjustments to the learning task is what educators are asking for to close gaps and raise achievement.

Film director M. Night Shyamalan will discuss his book, «I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap,» and offer a unique look at America's educational achievement gap through the lens of an outsidGap,» and offer a unique look at America's educational achievement gap through the lens of an outsidgap through the lens of an outsider.

Studies suggest that replacing the lecture - hall model with an active learning model can help close the achievement gap between students of different cultural backgrounds.

Finally, I'd like to touch on one of the learning areas you say was raised in several of the review submissions, and you also did 31 consultation sessions held across the country and it was raised there as an important contribution to reducing that achievement gap that we mentioned right at the beginning — that's entrepreneurship education isn't it.

Highlights this spring will include a discussion about how hip hop culture can offer teaching and learning tools in science with Assistant Columbia University Professor Christopher Emdin; a conversation with Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum; a presentation by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan on his research on closing America's achievement gap; and...

And it turns out that out - of - school learning has every bit as much to do with achievement gaps that show up in school as anything that happens in the classroom.

Maybe you're a journalist looking for research on learning and the brain or on closing the achievement gap.

At a time when other federal and state policies are focused on achievement, school results, and the narrowing of learning gaps, why do we carve out a huge subpart of K — 12 education for a program that's still centered on inputs and services?

Particularly with online learning giving way to a suite of flexible learning experiences, schools may indeed move beyond their traditional role as sole academic provider, offering a breadth of non-academic resources such as mentoring, health services, and community - building activities — all of which can support healthy development and serve as powerful antidotes to chronic achievement gaps.

For now, I want you to remember the key point of this article: Identifying learning gaps is very difficult if you don't have an itemized list of skills and achievements.

Regular readers of my blog know that this is not because I'm convinced they're the answer to the «achievement gap» or to driving up math and reading scores, but because chartering offers an opportunity to rethink how we go about teaching, learning, and schooling.