Sentences with phrase «narrow their achievement gap from»

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.

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According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

«There is no evidence to show that the free schools model raises standards of education or that it will narrow the achievement gap between pupils from different ethnic groups.

«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.

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

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The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.

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.

In 2007, the city won a prestigious urban education prize from the Broad Foundation, which cited the city's progress in narrowing the racial achievement gap.

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

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.

While students from the majority of the states analyzed posted achievement gains and narrowed gaps, the gaps for students of different races, ethnicities, and income levels remain large.

A new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education examines how implementing rigorous and engaging curriculum aligned with college - and career - ready standards fosters positive school climates in which students are motivated to succeed, achievement gaps narrow, and learning and outcomes improve.

A final evaluation report from an external evaluator showed a statistically significant improvement in third grade reading scores in the five communities, narrowing of the achievement gap.

«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.»

Tripod began as a bridge from research to practice for teachers working to raise achievement levels and narrow gaps.

Its graduation rate rose from 64.3 percent in 2007 to 78.8 percent in 2012, according to data provided by the district, and it narrowed the achievement gaps between the district's Hispanic students and Texas» white students by more than 50 percent on state tests in high school math and science.

Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that charter schools are making significant gains in narrowing the achievement gap, with African American students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide in many urban districts and across subjects.

The bottom may move up, but I suspect over time, to the see those high scores go down and the achievement gap will be narrowed but not due to an increase from the bottom, but a decrease from the top.

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.

Black students across the country experienced gains in school desegregation from the l960s to the late l980s, a time in which racial achievement gaps also narrowed sharply.

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This session touches on narrowing the Achievement Gap and the Confidence Gap as well as Planning the Transitions from Grade 8 to Grade 9 by:

A P - 3 Approach and its Effectiveness in Closing Achievement Gaps: Hawaii's P - 3 Initiative describes implementation of the Hawaii P - 3 Initiative, along with findings from a five - year RAND evaluation of the Initiative which showed a statistically significant improvement in third grade reading scores in the five communities, narrowing the achieAchievement Gaps: Hawaii's P - 3 Initiative describes implementation of the Hawaii P - 3 Initiative, along with findings from a five - year RAND evaluation of the Initiative which showed a statistically significant improvement in third grade reading scores in the five communities, narrowing the achievementachievement gap.

New Jersey charter schools continue to narrow the achievement gap on the third year of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exams based on data released this fall from the New Jersey Department of Education for the 2016 - 17 school year.

The fact that almost all achievement gaps have widened, and that narrowed gaps are due to a decrease in performance by white and non-low-income students shows that we are failing to lead our students, especially those who have been historically underserved students, from reaching their full potential,» says MarylandCAN executive director Jason Botel.

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

Though many of the corporate - style reformers argue that their preferred priorities of more high - stakes testing, the elimination of teacher tenure, and expansion of charter schools will narrow the achievement gap, there is no evidence to indicate that these policies will work, and in fact, recent evidence suggests that such policies will further cause high - quality teachers to flee from our neediest schools.

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.

It has been proposed that increased access to high - quality Pre-Kindergarten programs for all low - income children would enhance achievement and narrow the achievement gap found between children from low - income families and their more affluent counterparts.