Sentences with phrase «narrowing test score gaps»

Rhode Island's action research found that a number of schools are narrowing test score gaps between students with IEPs and the student population as a whole.

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«The results indicate this combination of programs may potentially be one way to narrow the black - white test score gap.»

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

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.

The most recent decade has been one of «stalled progress» in narrowing the black - white test score gap (Neal 2005, Magnuson and Waldfogel, 2008).

On the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Chicago was the sole district to narrow its test - score gap between white students and black students in 4th - grade math compared to 2015.

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

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

It is true that the test - score gap between black and white students narrowed during the 1980s, only to stagnate in the»90s.

The district's schools have also narrowed the achievement gap in test scores, which NWEA MAP measures show are trending upward.

Winners of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top jackpot committed to grand goals in using the federal grants to raise student achievement, as measured by higher test scores, narrowed achievement gaps, and increased graduation and college - going rates — all in four years.

Does the black - white test - score gap narrow or widen through the school years?

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Since the Common Core standards have never been field - tested, no one knows whether they will raise test scores or cause the achievement gap among different racial, ethnic, and income groups to narrow or to widen.

Reardon and Portilla noted that other data — from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- show that the white - black and white - Hispanic gaps in fourth - grade test scores likewise narrowed between the same cohorts of children.

The researchers noted that another set of data indicate that the White - Black and White - Hispanic gaps in fourth - grade test scores likewise narrowed between the same cohorts of youth.

At a commemorative conference held at the University of New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said that changes in the city's education system have led to increased test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap.

The test - score gap appears to have narrowed.

Only in the across - cohort comparisons did the Mathematica researchers find much evidence to suggest that the black - white test - score gap may narrow during the school years.

The first book, Steady Gains and Stalled Progress, edited by Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, includes chapters by social scientists who are intent on figuring out why the black - white test score gap narrowed sharply during the 1970s and 1980s, but then stayed constant, or even widened.

In response, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics commissioned Mathematica Policy Research, a contract research firm, to find out whether 1) employers are now playing fair and 2) schools are doing their part in narrowing the black - white test - score gap.

While both countries, especially Chile, have made progress in narrowing test - score gaps among their students, large differences persist.

Gaps in test scores between minority and white students have also narrowed over the past 30 years for some groups, especially Latino students.

Program completers have gone on to increase student retention, improve test scores, and narrow the achievement gap in CPS schools.

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

Based on a study of more than 40 states, «State Test Score Trends through 2008 - 09, Part 2: Slow and Uneven Progress in Narrowing Gaps» compares student performance on state tests and state - level results from the National Assessment of Education Progress.

It required schools to publish their scores on state tests not just as averages, but broken down by students» race, sex and other groups, a rule that most educators agree has focused attention on narrowing achievement gaps.

For decades, the standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling — tended to narrow over time.

While white, black and Hispanic children all made modest test score gains in DC since 2003, the Rhee agenda has not significantly narrowed achievement gaps between the various demographic groups, nor has it brought disadvantaged DC youth up to the national average scores for peers of their same race and class in other cities.

There is some evidence to suggest an improvement in overall test scores, particularly in math, but less evidence to suggest that achievement gaps have narrowed.

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.

(Koretz also argues that the focus on test prep in such schools has led to more score inflation there, making the achievement gap appear narrower than it really is.)

And while the gap in scores between white and black students has narrowed, Koretz says that much of that progress started — and ended — before test - based accountability became widespread.