Sentences with phrase «national achievement gap»

When those corrections and adjustments are made, Peterson shows that students under Rhee made much larger strides toward closing the district - national achievement gap than they did under her predecessors.

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The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

However, using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and from New York's state exams, Dr. Aaron Pallas of Teachers College demonstrated that between 2003, just before Mayor Bloomberg's reforms had been implemented, and 2011, the achievement gap demonstrated by the NAEP actually rose and the gap measured by state exams closed by a mere 1 %.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

And every fall since 2001, the Education Trust, a national organization devoted to closing the achievement gap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systegap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systeGap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systems.

Our second lens focused on what national and international research shows about «hard to teach, hard to reach» (Boag - Munroe and Evangelo, 2010) and «closing the gap in educational achievement», including the debates about Leon Feinstein's research (2015); looking at definitions, causes and effects.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

The achievement gap between Black and Hispanic students and white students remained, but the minority students outperformed their counterparts on a national level.

Information about progress is required to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching strategies, but is equally crucial for evaluating initiatives to raise national achievement levels and close achievement gaps.

The 2006 Child Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent achievement gaps, and falling high school graduation rates.

From 2002 to 2009, Ross worked at the Education Trust, a national, non-profit organization dedicated to closing gaps in opportunity and achievement gaps.

Studies prove the enormous effect that excellent teachers have on closing achievement gaps, cultivating students» higher - order thinking, improving children's lifelong prospects, and bolstering our national security and economic power.

The department softened a proposal to use results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between subgroups.

«Without the active involvement of the courts, the national goal of closing the achievement gap will never be achieved,» said Rebell, who favors a collaborative effort between the judicial, executive and legislative branches to solve education problems.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Cultural competence is the ability to successfully communicate and empathize with people from diverse cultures and incomes, skills needed to close the achievement gap, according to the National Education Association.

«I think it is time to think of the work as a national social movement,» said Harvard Kennedy School Professor Ronald Ferguson, cochair and director of Harvard's Achievement Gap Initiative.

The association's decision reflects members» concern about the significant achievement gap between those who have participated in preschool programs and those who have not, according to Samuel G. Sava, executive director of the national association.

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

The nation's Catholic schools appear more successful than public schools at closing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged 8th - grade students, according to a study released here last week during the annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association.

A national longitudinal study suggests that the «gender gap» between boys» and girls» achievement levels in mathematics may be disappearing..

This issue seems to have disappeared from the national debate after the Parents Involved Supreme Court decision in 2007, but I think the lack of diversity in schools today is a powerful driver of the achievement gap and carries adverse future implications for our society and citizenry.

«Alabama is light years ahead of everyone else in closing the achievement gap,» Sandi Jacobs, Reading First's former assistant director in Washington, said to me in October of 2005, two years before the state posted the biggest two - year increase in 4th - grade reading scores ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

The racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps in National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math persist.

In «Beating the Odds,» [a CGCS report that provides a city - by - city analysis of student performance and gaps in achievement] one of the findings is that the average per - pupil expenditure in the nation's largest urban school systems is now below the national average.

With few exceptions, including Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C., the achievement gap on the national tests has remained constant in all major cities.

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

The trust staff spends most of its time providing assistance to local, state and national leaders in developing both policies and improvement strategies to raise achievement and close gaps between groups, K — 16.

It has been shown in numerous national studies and surveys that, on average, ELLs under achieve in comparison to their English - speaking peers in academic domains and that the achievement gap tends to increase the higher the grade level (e.g., Fry, 2007; Rumberger, 2007; McNeil et al., 2008).

April 10, 2018 — Achieve President Michael Cohen issued the following statement today regarding the results of the 2017 administration of the National Assessment of Educational Progress: «The stagnancy of scores and the persistence of achievement gaps on the latest National Assessment of Educational...

NCLB put in place measures that exposed achievement gaps among traditionally underserved students and their peers and spurred an important national dialogue on education improvement.

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

Achievement gaps between students of color and white students are higher than the national average, as are the gaps between the college enrollment rates of students of color and white students.

But California continues to dwell in the cellar of national per - pupil funding — a persistent stinginess that many say has exacerbated an opportunity gap that this year earned the state a C in school finance, a D - plus in K - 12 Achievement and a dismal 36th place finish in Education Week's 2018 Quality Counts national performance report card.

Recent results on our Nation's Report Card (the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP), for example, tell us that during the NCLB era, student achievement in reading and math improved for African American, Hispanic, and white students alike, and achievement gaps among these groups narrowed.

Applicants were evaluated based on outstanding achievement as evidenced by extraordinary improvement in school performance, success in closing achievement gaps, local or national recognition for his or her school, and personal reward or recognition.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan repeated the familiar formulation last year at the National Press Club, declaring, «The achievement gap is unacceptable.

And to repeat myself some more: «Nor is it the case that adopting national standards would close the achievement gap between the U.S. and our leading economic competitors.

My Brother's Keeper: a bold national challenge to overcome opportunity and achievement gaps for our boys and young men of -LSB-...]

Despite good intentions, both ESEA and NCLB have been unable to effectively close the achievement gap, but have made it a national priority to ensure that education leaders remain accountable for the academic success of all children.

Sir John Dunford, national pupil premium champion, writes for TES; Closing the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and others is the biggest...

The school catapulted to national prominence last spring when Harvard researchers found Canada's progress was «enough to reverse the black - white achievement gap.»

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) responds to Arizona State University professor David Dr. Garcia's review for the National Education Policy Center's (NEPC) Think Twice think tank review project of CCSA's report: Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The success of California charter schools in promoting African American Achievement.

Student scores on national achievement tests are flat, and we are one of very few states with a growing achievement gap.

Aired: 02/06/2015 National programs like the President's My Brother's Keeper campaign have shed light on the growing achievement gap between -LSB-...]

«At national conferences I have seen that some teachers and administrators are beginning to see that segregating students with disabilities in classes without access to the general curriculum or highly qualified — content trained — teachers is partly to blame for the achievement gap,» she 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.