Sentences with phrase «narrow achievement gaps»

During the era of No Child Left Behind very little progress has been made in narrowing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

Not only in becoming part of the larger conversations about education and research, but also more specifically in regard to narrowing the achievement gap for African American male students.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

The charter school movement began nearly two decades ago with tremendous potential for narrowing the achievement gap by improving education for disadvantaged students.

But building knowledge is the only way to make elementary education meaningful for all kids, and it's our best chance of narrowing the achievement gap.

The modern - day history of the community education concept explains the outstanding results our country saw in narrowing the achievement gap while improving the overall performance of our schools.

We have also narrowed the achievement gap in performance on standardized tests between African American and white students to single - digit numbers.

High - quality pre-K programs produce both short - and long - term benefits for children and can also contribute to narrowing the achievement gap through building increased academic skills among disadvantaged groups.

Schools with positive school climates have also been shown to narrow achievement gaps based on income and academic ability.

These principals have a proven record and have been recognized for their successes, including raising test scores and narrowing the achievement gap separating students.

The results give us reason to hope, though, from slightly narrowing achievement gaps to consistent reading performance and long - term gains in math.

A research analysis found correlations between improved school climates and narrower achievement gaps between students in different socio - economic groups.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Our staff is committed to narrowing the achievement gap by offering high - quality instruction and real - world experiences.

High - quality early education programs can improve outcomes and narrow achievement gaps for all kids, particularly children from low - income families.

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

The program affords the opportunity to bring attention to teachers who successfully employ strategies to increase academic success and narrow the achievement gap among a range of students.

This could help in acknowledging the scope of the issues involved in narrowing the achievement gaps and clarifying which issues schools can address directly.

Additionally, high - quality pre-K programs can contribute to narrowing the achievement gap through building increased academic skills among disadvantaged groups.

The paper is titled Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale and isn't behind a paywall.

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But now, for the first time in decades, researchers have detected a reversal of that trend: Low - income children are entering kindergarten with stronger reading and math skills than before, moderately narrowing the achievement gap with students from higher - income households.

Hanna Skandera, New Mexico's secretary - designate of education, said federal officials wanted more information about the state's plans to help schools implement the Common Core State Standards and narrow achievement gaps before providing the NCLB waiver.

«All the available evidence shows that in order to narrow the achievement gap children from disadvantaged backgrounds should have equal access to the best schools.»

That's a potential problem especially because the Montessori method — a unique education approach built around customized learning plans and self - directed learning — has been touted primarily as a way to help the district narrow achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Thank you for your June 1st blog post that highlighted a research paper that I co-authored with Stanford professor Greg Walton and several other researchers titled, Teaching a Lay Theory Before College Narrows Achievement Gaps at Scale, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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.

«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.»

«If we don't make the progress that we need to make in narrowing the achievement gap then that's a recipe for social instability and economic decline,» Ferguson said.

«I think the experience of NCLB drove home for many people in this country that we could not succeed in making any kind of significant progress in narrowing the achievement gap simply by holding schools accountable for higher performance,» Rothstein said.

Shouldn't we be endeavoring to narrow the achievement gap rather than accepting it?

New York City's progress in narrowing the achievement gap confirms that policymakers and advocates can no longer use demographic factors like race, ethnicity, income, or zip code to excuse differences in educational achievement between high - and low - needs students.

Why second - guess policymakers in Florida, especially considering its incredible progress in narrowing achievement gaps over the past decade?

In this short time, Ontario has dramatically raised student achievement and greatly narrowed the achievement gap.

Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.

On the Education Next blog, Rick Hess has challenged the view of those who believe that education reform today should focus on narrowing achievement gaps above all else.

NAEP scores, the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of America's students, actually showed a steadily narrowing achievement gap between the 1970s and the late 80s.

Lead Researcher, Dr. Lawrence Scripp, explains how the PAIR project narrowed the achievement gap between the highest and lowest achieving students, while allowing those students to outperform their peers at our control schools.

Since last school year, West Seattle has narrowed the achievement gap due in part to receiving a School Improvement Grant (SIG).

«Our school grading law will give triple the weight to improved student achievement among our lowest - performing students, meaning the focus of our schools will, and should be, to help all struggling students and quickly narrow the achievement gap,» said Larry Behrens, a spokesman for the New Mexico education department.

Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University recently concluded a rigorous study of New York's charter schools and found that they substantially narrowed the achievement gap between suburban and inner - city students.

By contrast, the communities with narrow achievement gaps tend to be those in which there are very few black or Hispanic children, or places like Detroit or Buffalo, where all students are so poor that minorities and whites perform equally badly on standardized tests.

Wisconsin has won a competitive federal grant to study why some state schools have had more success than others in narrowing achievement gaps across racial lines and income levels.

In this book, Johnnie McKinley presents the results of her in - depth study of a group of teachers in grades 3 — 8 who managed to radically narrow the achievement gap between their black and white students by using a set of culturally responsive strategies in their classrooms.