Sentences with phrase «narrowing the reading proficiency»
Other analyses showed KIPP schools, and other high - poverty charter schools, narrowing the reading proficiency gap compared with schools in more affluent areas.
http://educationnext.org/ Not exact matches
«Long - term improvement is also gap - narrowing improvement,» Cheatham said, citing a 36 percentage - point rise for black students in reading proficiency in four years at Lindbergh Elementary School, and a 19 percentage - point gain for black students in reading proficiency over the same period at Glendale.
This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.