Sentences with phrase «least narrowing the gap»

The McAuliffe camp had pinned its hopes on at least narrowing the gap with white female voters, who made up 36 % of the electorate this year.

«Solving IUU fishing globally will be sufficient to catalyze fishery recovery in many regions of the world or at least narrow the gap to global fishery recovery.»

Not exact matches

This seems illogical, or at least counterproductive, since research also shows that achievement would rise, achievement gaps would narrow, lifetime income would increase, and economic growth would surge if only we had the courage to identify and then replace the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the teacher quality distribution.

The gender gap also narrowed slightly with 73.1 per cent of girls achieving at least a C grade, compared to 64.7 per cent of boys.

However, when ELL students attended public schools with at least a minimum threshold number of white students, the gap between the math proficiency scores of white students and ELL students was considerably narrower, the Pew Hispanic Center analysis has found.

Its says it aims to raise standards for all children, narrow the attainment gap between the most and least advantaged, and create a «world - beating system».

For at least two decades, the average time spent on English language arts in Illinois public schools has dwarfed instruction time in math — and it still does — but the gap has narrowed as math time has increased.

What does it take to close — or at least significantly narrow — the achievement gap?

In other cases where overall performance is at least average, several states with narrower - than - average achievement gaps serve student populations that are less diverse compared to the make - up of the student population nationally.

Our governing body will, at least termly, keep our work in narrowing the gaps under review so that it can monitor the use of the pupil premium.

The 100 SMA is still above the longer - term 200 SMA so the path of least resistance is to the upside, but the gap between the two is narrowing to reflect weaker bullish momentum.

Communities First, 27 a Welsh Government programme introduced throughout Wales in 2001, increased investment in the most deprived areas with the aim to tackle poverty by narrowing the economic, education and skills, and health gaps between the most and least deprived communities.