Sentences with phrase «narrowing the achievement gap then»

«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.

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During his eight years as Deputy Superintendent and then Superintendent in San Francisco, Carranza drove progress in academic outcomes, outpacing gains in the state and narrowing the achievement gap.

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.

This seems illogical, or at least counterproductive, since research also shows that achievement would rise, achievement gaps would narrow, lifetime income would increase, and economic growth would surge if only we had the courage to identify and then replace the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the teacher quality distribution.