Sentences with phrase «of narrowing the achievement gap»

We have known for decades that teachers were being pushed into using bad test prep, that states and districts were complicit in this, that scores were often badly inflated, and even that score inflation was creating an illusion of narrowing achievement gaps.

Indeed the Prime Minister David Cameron and Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education both see this new approach as a key means of narrowing the achievement gap and giving young people access to a curriculum that leads directly to employment opportunities.

Some observers are pinning their hopes on volunteer tutors as a low - cost way of narrowing the achievement gap between low - income students and their more affluent peers.

But building knowledge is the only way to make elementary education meaningful for all kids, and it's our best chance of narrowing the achievement gap.

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According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

What do you see as the benefits and negatives of the AP Program in terms of helping to narrow the achievement gap?

«There is no evidence to show that the free schools model raises standards of education or that it will narrow the achievement gap between pupils from different ethnic groups.

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.

There are many other ways of narrowing the gap between political promises and governmental achievements.

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 narrowing of achievement gaps has been greatest in low - income Norwegian communities that made large increases in the number of children attending early childcare centers

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

The five - year - old document is a public recognition of how race and ethnicity play out in students» educational outcomes, and a call to narrow achievement gaps.

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.

I think we'll see in - state achievement gaps narrow in a group of smart, focused states — states that have used ESEA flexibility to design student - outcomes - focused, coherent education systems.

And we could determine whether and where there are equity gaps in effective teaching, the level of challenge of student assignments, and much else that might be addressed in order to narrow the achievement gap.

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.

In a front - page story in the Times in November of 2007, the paper reported «no significant progress in reading and math» and «little narrowing of the achievement gap» on the NAEP.)

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.

During the era of No Child Left Behind very little progress has been made in narrowing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

The standards - based reform movement seeks both to equip all of our high - school graduates to compete in the global marketplace and to narrow the achievement gap between our advantaged and disadvantaged student populations.

NCLB, while broadening awareness of the achievement gap, simultaneously narrowed the purpose of our nation's schools, boiling the whole endeavor down to the incremental movement of testing numbers as an attempt to say something about student literacy and numeracy.

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.

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

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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?

We've substantially narrowed the racial and ethnic achievement gap, our students are catching up to students in the rest of the state, and our graduation rate is the highest it has been in decades.

He spent much of that first year researching ways in which he might narrow the achievement gap he saw.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

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.

Achievement gaps between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top - performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K - 12 students as a whole, according to a new report.

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.

Winners of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top jackpot committed to grand goals in using the federal grants to raise student achievement, as measured by higher test scores, narrowed achievement gaps, and increased graduation and college - going rates — all in four years.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

Richard Rothstein and others have documented how schools on their own might be able to narrow the achievement gap, but without adequate affordable housing, accessible health care, and the availability of good jobs, it will be impossible to eliminate it.

The program affords the opportunity to bring attention to teachers who successfully employ strategies to increase academic success and narrow the achievement gap among a range of students.

Unlike income achievement gaps, the racial academic achievement gaps have declined significantly over the past four decades, the researchers said, so the recent narrowing of the racial readiness gap among kindergarteners is merely a continuation of the trend.

Given better funding and more creative freedom, educators hope they're on their way to further narrowing of persistent achievement gaps.

Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.

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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 gap.

To get one of the federal waivers, states had to submit plans that included adopting curriculum standards geared toward college and career readiness, developing teacher evaluation systems that incorporated student testing data and tracking and narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students.

The universal pre-K program was a hallmark of de Blasio's campaign to make free pre-K education a right for every New Yorker and to narrow achievement gaps, which start very early in child development.

The principal intellectual and moral argument that advocates make — and for which I have considerable sympathy — is similar to that of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) backers: giving needy kids a boost up the ladder of educational and later - life success by narrowing the achievement gaps that now trap too many of them on the lower rungs.

It's worth noting that the scores for 17 - year - olds have been flat overall, although the scores of white, black, and Hispanic students have all risen and achievement gaps have narrowed over time.

On the Education Next blog, Rick Hess has challenged the view of those who believe that education reform today should focus on narrowing achievement gaps above all else.

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.

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

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.»

Not only in becoming part of the larger conversations about education and research, but also more specifically in regard to narrowing the achievement gap for African American male students.