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.
Not exact matches
Moreover, international experience
confirms that it is possible to make progress in closing these
gaps: not only have two dozen countries made substantial progress in overall
achievement, but 17 countries that exceed US performance levels also have a
narrower gap among children of divergent socioeconomic backgrounds.
A recent study published in the Journal of Primary Prevention
confirms that PAT measurably improves school readiness, virtually eliminating the
achievement gap normally observed between poor children and their more affluent peers at the point of kindergarten entry, and that
gap continued to be
narrowed in the third grade.