Sentences with phrase «making on closing the achievement gaps»

Here we examine the progress that Houston is making on closing the achievement gaps.

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The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

«If real progress is to be made in closing the achievement gap for the most disadvantaged pupils, then those actually teaching the pupils need to be consulted on its use.

An analysis of test score gains made by students in 49 countries which was published in Ed Next last year found that students in the U.S. were not on track to close the global achievement gap.

In high - poverty areas where progress has been made in closing achievement gaps, such as in Union City, N.J., and Clarke County, Ga., it wasn't a focus on standardized testing that worked.

With our focus on closing the achievement gap between blacks and whites, framing reform as the «civil rights issue of our time,» and the attention and praise we have heaped on inner - city charter schools — one of reform's few bona fide success stories — we have tacitly made education reform a race - based endeavor.

Magnet schools work to close the achievement gap, improve racial harmony, and make a positive impact on the lives of children @ [Insert Senator / Representative Name] #schooldiversity

Districts must be able to push forward with progress made on improving instruction if they are to close achievement gaps.

But the renewal guidance focuses on making sure meaningful interventions are happening for students when needed, closing achievement gaps and intensifying the focus on accountability measures for all high - risk student groups.

Although we've focused more and more attention on dealing with the seemingly intractable gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and white students in the last quarter century, we've made little progress in closing the gaps.

It's also troubling that we're not making progress on closing the achievement gap.

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

Bloomberg Chancellor Joel Klein loved to boast about how the leadership team assembled in New York made great progress on raising achievement and closing the test - measured gap between white and minority students.

But the achievement gap is fundamentally a literacy gap, and the jury is still out on how much progress the charter sector has really made in closing it.

Governor Walker elaborated on efforts to close achievement gaps by making the ACT free for the class of 2016.

«This also shows that thanks to charter schools, we're finally making progress on closing the achievement gap that's plagued our public education system.»

To make substantial progress on closing overall achievement gaps, policies to address disparities in outcomes within school districts are still needed.

On Sept. 16, CEA celebrated the progress made through five years of funding from the National Education Association Foundation's «Closing the Achievement Gaps» project.

The scores are based on student proficiency on spring math and reading tests, individual student year - to - year growth on those tests and progress schools make in closing the achievement gap, plus graduation rates for high schools.

The brief goes on to make numerous recommendations for ways to help close this achievement gap (which I also wrote about here).

A photo gallery of a Capitol Hill briefing by Olympian and Paralympians on the importance of high - quality early learning and care to making sure kids can succeed and America can close its achievement gap.