Sentences with phrase «narrowing educational gaps»

In 2001, Dr. Ferguson created Tripod, an initiative aimed at working to raise achievement levels and narrowing educational gaps.

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Morris became interested in the production of diverse and accessible educational media content, and enrolled in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program (TIE) to learn how to use technology to narrow the digital and knowledge gap between advantaged and disadvantaged communities.

The five - year - old document is a public recognition of how race and ethnicity play out in students» educational outcomes, and a call to narrow achievement gaps.

Because Klein's educational record is strong, all those interested in narrowing the tragic education - performance gap between our well - off and our poor students should read this book.

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.

If the policy goal were to equalize educational opportunity and / or to narrow achievement gaps, in retrospect America would have been better served by intensive kindergarten targeted on particularly needy kids.

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.

His story illustrates that political and educational leadership are inextricably linked, as he describes his 14 - year focus on and commitment to narrowing the achievement gap while working tirelessly with his different constituents to bring them into the process.

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.

And while the degree to which any particular factor gets blame or credit for widening or narrowing the gaps is debatable, the authors in this issue of The State Education Standard agree that differences in educational opportunity play a key role.

It's a simple equation: Improve teacher effectiveness and you improve outcomes, including, some supporters hope, narrowing the gaps between the haves and have - nots of educational good fortune.

We've helped raise educational standards, lift graduation rates to record highs, send more kids off to college, and narrow the achievement gap - to name a few.

When James Coleman, the great sociologist of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with greater academic intensity — a persistent, goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to raise academic achievement.

I urge readers to check out the full report, which «demonstrates that, overall, New Jersey public charter schools are providing strong educational options for students, especially in our urban centers where public charter schools are successfully narrowing the performance gap.»

While narrowing achievement gaps and ensuring all students are proficient in academic subjects is at the core of our educational policy and practice, strategies designed to accomplish those goals don't work for all students.

Our efforts have led to the narrowing of the opportunity gap and increased educational equity for students living in high - poverty communities.

In a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 years.

Among the goals of the guidelines are increased educational equity and a narrowing of the achievement gap between students at well - funded and poorly funded schools; enhanced parental and family influence on and engagement with homework practices; and a rebalancing of students» academic lives with their extra-curricular, family and community commitments and their developmental needs as children and adolescents.

No gains or narrowing of the achievement gap have been realized as a result of using digital technology for over thirty years, suggesting that technology alone is not really as powerful of an educational tool as we would like to believe.