Sentences with phrase «learning gaps between»

School boards wanting to address learning gaps between student demographic groups don't have to start from scratch.

PRO: Close learning gaps In any classroom, there often are significant learning gaps between individuals.

Despite Growing Income Inequality, Learning Gaps Between Rich And Poor Kids Are Actually Closing The Huffington Post

Noting the failure of test - based accountability to narrow learning gaps between poor and affluent children, Holcombe wrote: «We need a different approach that actually works.»

-- Daphna Bassok, a co-author of the study and professor at the University of Virginia (Despite Growing Income Inequality, Learning Gaps Between Rich And Poor Kids Are Actually Closing)

Despite Growing Income Inequality, Learning Gaps Between Rich and Poor Kids Are Actually Closing The Huffington Post, August 26, 2016

Two further goals are related but subordinate: to narrow the learning gaps between haves and have - nots, and to help disadvantaged children escape dreadful inner - city schools through the creation of better alternatives.

But the performance of the A + Plan improves when schools are assigned significantly different grades.The math learning gap between A and C schools was 11 percent; between A and D schools it was 14 percent, and the gap between A and F schools differed by 25 percent of a standard deviation.

The hijacking continued when the second President Bush called another summit that created the «No Child Left Behind,» law which was intended to close the learning gap between whites and poor minorities.

Not exact matches

And learning about their growth strategies might help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

At Netflix, Ajao says, Sabah learned that the gap between what we think we want and what we actually do can be wide.

And there's only so much you can learn from consumer surveys: as elsewhere, financial literacy is less than stellar in this country, so there's a gap between reality and how Canadians perceive their situation.

I've learned from charitable boards it's better to engage people to understand their expectations and why they believe there is a gap between what we're doing and what they think we should be doing.

With internet access and smartphones continuing to proliferate, with platform monopolies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook extracting ever - more value from more corners of the economy, with digital natives and sector leaders now integrating machine learning into their operations, the digitization gap between leaders and laggards grows wider by the day.

The program basically bridges the gap between what students learn and what corporate asks for.

Money problems seem to be the first concern of seminary students followed by the gap between church and seminary, the lack of time in seminary to learn all that is needed to know, the shortage of «practical» learning, the need for seminary to change with the times and other items are discussed by seminary students.

Only as laymen decide they care enough about the applications of the Christian faith to unite in study under leadership, or to unite in discussion to learn from one another in a fellowship, are we apt to get far toward bridging the gap between the Church and the world.

Bettors who anticipated a significant drop - off with a rookie quarterback starting may be surprised to learn that the gap between McCown and Kessler isn't that wide.

I understand the 30 plus rule but surely we must go all out to keep Kos as there is a learning gap to bridge between the upcoming young cbs and the older heads.

Now Gabby and Koscielny make good pair, but the problem is the communication gap between them as Gabriel is still learning the English language.

Between 16 and 18, things are getting serious, because now they are preparing to go after college or have a gap year or something which they are going to be independent, so now the stakes are higher and you really want them to be accountable, to a cash flow statement budget, savings, credit, they really need to learn about FICO scores, all of these things they are going to need when they are off to college.

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

«But a real gap has emerged between learning and putting that education into practice.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Slowly, the algorithm learns to extract features from an image that are relevant to your identity, like the position of your nose or the gap between your eyes.

You will begin to learn how to bridge the cultural gap between S&T and the policy process, and how to foster more effective interaction between the sectors.

For example, because there would be such a large gap between the final clinical years and the beginning of medical school, I did not think that a traditional, purely didactic curriculum would be as useful as those that also included a problem - based learning aspect.

«Using deep learning, we set out to bridge the gap in image quality between inexpensive mobile phone - based microscopes and gold - standard bench - top microscopes that use high - end lenses,» Ozcan said.

The conference Bridging the Gap Between Research, Policy and Practice, which Knight organized in London in 2011, was attended by knowledge brokers from many sectors, including government, charities, universities, consultancies, and learned societies, she says.

So whether your team consists of researchers who are 90, 19, or anything in between, you can learn to bridge those gaps and still pave the way to success and innovation.

«Equipping parents with learning activities helps close cognitive development gap between disadvantaged, high - resourced children.»

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

Most first - time researchers encounter a gap between the work they're doing and what they learned in their courses.

When you freelance you tend to have gaps between work so to fill my time I wanted to have a creative outlet as a way to continue developing my skills and learning more about fashion.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

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).

This resource helps to bridge the gap between initial learning and final assessment and covers all aspect of the level 2 ICT specifications.

Morris became interested in the production of diverse and accessible educational media content, and enrolled in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program (TIE) to learn how to use technology to narrow the digital and knowledge gap between advantaged and disadvantaged communities.

In fact, the most important challenge facing both policymakers and practitioners, he says, is the need to close the gap between what we know and what we do to promote early learning well before the first day of school.

Its goal is to bridge the gap between information and action, providing a clear process for using data to improve teaching and learning.

We're essentially bridging the gap between learning the concepts of coding and learning how to code in the same way a developer does; children learn languages quickly and easily, so why not teach them the real language of technology?

As Kristen Wideen (@MrsWideen) demonstrates with her mixed first and second grade class, screencasting bridges the gap between the physical and the virtual in order to extend the learning context.

«Principles of Mechanics: Fundamental University Physics» has been designed to provide students with an invaluable go - to resource on classical mechanics that bridges the gaps between basic and more advanced learning.

A personal SEN budget could: add to existing learning support, providing a more consistent offer of support to the child or young person; fund time to bring all key parties together to bridge the gap between home and school / other learning provision and to build a team of dedicated support people (including family); fund some specialist input; fund work experience or a work - based learning opportunity; and add to the technology available to promote a student's individual style of learning.

In this age of accelerations, such a slow process is no longer good enough, and inevitably leads to a widening gap between what students need to learn and what teachers teach.

The second avenue is collecting, developing and learning effective dialogue practices between religions The enterprise is the major engine of growth in the world but its gaps and weakness lead to sub-optimal wealth creation and sometimes to massive wealth destruction as we had seen in the 2008 global financial crisis.

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How do we better bridge the gap between research and practice to encourage innovation in learning?

Medford High Students Chosen as Finalists in National Challenge (The Medford Transcript) As part of a national challenge with HGSE's Making Caring Common and The KIND Foundation, a student team from Medford were selected as finalists and will develop their project to bridge the gap between academic English language learning and everyday language use and needs.

Additionally, the growing gap between employer needs and what education provides would suggest that ongoing learning is becoming now (more than ever) the norm.