Sentences with phrase «narrows achievement gaps at»

Thank you for your June 1st blog post that highlighted a research paper that I co-authored with Stanford professor Greg Walton and several other researchers titled, Teaching a Lay Theory Before College Narrows Achievement Gaps at Scale, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The paper is titled Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale and isn't behind a paywall.

Classroom strategies backed by research and ongoing teacher development are helping to narrow the achievement gap at this Title I school.

A longtime advanced - math teacher at Ballard High School says there's a simple way to improve math performance among all students and narrow achievement gaps at...

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SED found the achievement gap stands at about 20 percentage points, though it has been narrowed slightly over the last two years.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

The Interactive Learning methods used at Cochrane have helped narrow their achievement gap from 17 points in 2007 - 08 to 11 points in 2010 - 11, making it less than half the 30 - point achievement gap that exists throughout the state as a whole.

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.

Though the achievement gap narrowed in the 1980s, it opened again in the 1990s, at a time when the principles of Brown should have been firmly entrenched.

At a time when other federal and state policies are focused on achievement, school results, and the narrowing of learning gaps, why do we carve out a huge subpart of K — 12 education for a program that's still centered on inputs and services?

The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.

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

A Different Look at the Causes of the Achievement Gap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase aAchievement Gap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase achievemeGap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase aachievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase achievemegap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase achievemegap and increase achievementachievement.

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 gaAt 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 gaat 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.

Study Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new stAchievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new stachievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.»

«While the performance of Virginia students compares favorably to that of students in other states, the disparities between subgroups underscore the importance of the Board of Education's policies and initiatives aimed at narrowing, and ultimately closing, achievement gaps,» Board of Education President David M. Foster said.

A new study from the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University is just the latest to suggest that preschool, when it's high - quality, can narrow achievement gaps before they grow too wide.

Broader BolderAs summarized in an excellent blog post at the Broader Bolder Approach web site and on the Shanker Institute's fantastic new web site, new research on the effects of early childhood education and on the effects of poverty is shedding light on why past ed reform strategies aimed at narrowing the achievement gap have failed.

Rising proficiency for students with disabilities across most subjects (exceptions for middle school writing, high school math, and high school social studies), at a pace that can contribute importantly to narrowing one of our widest achievement gaps

The authors argue that it is possible to reduce achievement gaps, and they illustrate that gaps between Latino and white students have narrowed at a faster rate than gaps for other groups.

They must not only manage and run schools — a task one leader describes as a «runaway train most days» — they're expected to narrow the achievement gap and at the same time raise achievement for every single student, even in the most demanding environments.

The rubrics are aligned to the research based practices documented by Drs. Patricia Gandara and María Estela Zárate in their recent publication titled «Seizing the Opportunity to Narrow the Achievement Gap for English Learners: Research - based Recommendations for the Use of LCFF Funds» from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

Launched by the Ounce of Prevention Fund in 2000, Educare works to narrow the achievement gap between at - risk children and their more advantaged peers by giving students the skills they need to succeed in school.

Thus, income mixing can at best narrow achievement gaps.

«By narrowing the achievement gap for low - income students and students of color, Uncommon is driving learning at an accelerated rate for thousands of students.

Racial achievement gaps were narrowest at the height of school integration.

What does it take to close — or at least significantly narrow — the achievement gap?

The changes take dead aim at reversing a longstanding lag in student achievement and, especially, narrowing the socio - economic achievement gap in a state whose schools were once the envy of the nation.

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.

In other cases where overall performance is at least average, several states with narrower - than - average achievement gaps serve student populations that are less diverse compared to the make - up of the student population nationally.

Similarly, Koretz more or less throws up his hands at the idea that schools can do much to narrow the achievement gap in reading.

In this paper we investigate whether the Act has been successful at narrowing racial achievement gaps.

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.

Publicly funded pre-K is often touted as a means to narrow achievement gaps, but this goal is less likely to be achieved if poor / minority children do not, at a minimum, attend equal quality pre-K as their non - poor / non-minority peers.

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.