Sentences with phrase «narrow achievement gaps for»

Once reviewed, revised, and approved, these plans will shape the work that states and school districts undertake to narrow achievement gaps for low - income kids, which is the purpose of the law.

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

[372] Another study found full - day kindergarten helped narrow the achievement gap for dual language learners in particular.

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.

The foundation says that Houston outperformed peer districts in academic achievement; increased its graduation rate faster than other urban districts; narrowed the achievement gaps for low - income and Hispanic students; and improved college - readiness levels.

Houston was recognized for its students» academic achievement gains, its ability to increase the district graduation rate faster than any other urban district in the running for the prize, and its progress in narrowing the achievement gaps for low - income and Hispanic students and improving students» college - readiness, among other achievements.

The rubrics are aligned to the research based practices documented by Drs. Patricia Gandara and María Estela Zárate in their recent publication titled «Seizing the Opportunity to Narrow the Achievement Gap for English Learners: Research - based Recommendations for the Use of LCFF Funds» from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

A Learning Policy Institute study on the impact of the LCFF indicates that changes to California's funding system have led to improved academic achievement and graduation rates and narrowed achievement gaps for low - income students.

They say that charter schools also are public schools, as well as fully authorized by state law, and they work to narrow the achievement gap for many low - income students who have not thrived in traditional public schools.

Reading and math scores for the nation's 12th graders have stagnated since 2009, according to new data published today, prompting U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to urge for an overhaul of the nation's high school model and amplified efforts to narrow the achievement gap for minority students.

«By narrowing the achievement gap for low - income students and students of color, Uncommon is driving learning at an accelerated rate for thousands of students.

After twenty years of such experimentation, there is finally one very clear strategy charters have cultivated to narrow the achievement gap for their students.

Ticket sales will benefit Educare Arizona, a national network of early childhood centers dedicated to narrowing the achievement gap for low - income children.

It is an innovative partnership between private philanthropists, Head Start / Early Head Start, Tulsa Public School officials and community partners dedicated to narrowing the achievement gap for children in their communities.

The study has also amplified the potential of community based ECE programmes in boosting school readiness and therefore offers promise in narrowing achievement gaps for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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... We maintain that using the AP program alone as a tool for narrowing the achievement gap is insufficient.

The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under - served high schools and students.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.

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.

We have known for decades that teachers were being pushed into using bad test prep, that states and districts were complicit in this, that scores were often badly inflated, and even that score inflation was creating an illusion of narrowing achievement gaps.

The effect is largest for students with below - average test scores, suggesting that later start times would narrow gaps in student achievement.

That would narrow the achievement gap, but nobody believes such an outcome is good for anybody.

The patient responded with strong vital signs for a time, as test scores climbed in the 1990s and achievement gaps narrowed.

«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.

For the real objection is to a definite core curriculum that is planned out in detail and in advance, the very thing that is most desperately needed to raise achievement and narrow the achievement gap between groups.

Furthermore, scores rose faster for African American and Hispanic students, narrowing achievement gaps.

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?

In 2007, the NEAP reported that for eighth - graders, the achievement gap between minority and white students had not narrowed.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

As KIPP has demonstrated, wholesale social transformation is not a precondition for narrowing the achievement gap.

Achievement gaps between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top - performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K - 12 students as a whole, according to a new report.

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

Indeed the Prime Minister David Cameron and Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education both see this new approach as a key means of narrowing the achievement gap and giving young people access to a curriculum that leads directly to employment opportunities.

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

These programs address an urgent challenge or priority — from narrowing achievement gaps and postsecondary success to modeling courageous conversations and leading inclusive schools — and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

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The universal pre-K program was a hallmark of de Blasio's campaign to make free pre-K education a right for every New Yorker and to narrow achievement gaps, which start very early in child development.

The principal intellectual and moral argument that advocates make — and for which I have considerable sympathy — is similar to that of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) backers: giving needy kids a boost up the ladder of educational and later - life success by narrowing the achievement gaps that now trap too many of them on the lower rungs.

It's worth noting that the scores for 17 - year - olds have been flat overall, although the scores of white, black, and Hispanic students have all risen and achievement gaps have narrowed over time.

Recent results on our Nation's Report Card (the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP), for example, tell us that during the NCLB era, student achievement in reading and math improved for African American, Hispanic, and white students alike, and achievement gaps among these groups narrowed.

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.

Oklahoma's program has narrowed the achievement gap between lower - and higher - income children while elevating early math and literacy skills for all participants.

Washington's policymakers were credited for cogent thoughts around raising student achievement in reading / language arts and mathematics and narrowing the achievement gap.

«The negative consequences of the current overwhelming focus on preparation for standardized tests include narrowed curricula, developmentally inappropriate instructional practices, decreases in student engagement, stagnant achievement gaps and rising minority dropout rates,» said subcommittee member and Winchester second grade teacher David Krane.

A new study from the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University is just the latest to suggest that preschool, when it's high - quality, can narrow achievement gaps before they grow too wide.

«The caucuses of the National School Boards Association focus on narrowing the achievement gap and identifying promising practices that will improve achievement for all students,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

Rising proficiency for students with disabilities across most subjects (exceptions for middle school writing, high school math, and high school social studies), at a pace that can contribute importantly to narrowing one of our widest achievement gaps