Sentences with phrase «on equity gaps»

This study describes the characteristics of high school students who enroll in dual credit at Oregon community colleges, focusing on equity gaps in participation and the relationship between students» participation in dual credit and high school graduation, postsecondary enrollment and postsecondary persistence.

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However, sustained engagement on issues of equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»), and setting goals — much like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.

«There's a full section that talks about pay equity, and what is the larger impact that the gender pay gap has on our society, our economy, our families,» says Deepti Gudipati, vice president of member leadership programs for the AAUW, who is working with the city to roll out the program.

Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

«We gapped up on March 9th, we gapped down on the 19th,» Stephen Suttmeier, chief equity technical strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told CNBC's «Futures Now» on Tuesday.

Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health

This new legislation builds on two executive orders signed by the Governor last year to eliminate the wage gap by prohibiting state entities from evaluating candidates based on wage history and requiring state contractors to disclose data on the gender, race and ethnicity of employees - leveraging taxpayer dollars to drive transparency and advance pay equity statewide.

As part of the study, the Department of Labor conducted pay equity hearings in New York City, Syracuse, Long Island and Buffalo to solicit testimony identifying specific causes of the gender wage gap and suggestions on ways in which the wage gap can be closed, either in its entirety, or in particular industries.

Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages.

To focus more directly on the gap between rich and poor, the Education Trust began issuing its own equity rankings several years ago, with «The Funding Gap.&raqgap between rich and poor, the Education Trust began issuing its own equity rankings several years ago, with «The Funding Gap.&raqGap.»

You argue that educators and policymakers should focus less on «closing the achievement gap» and more on «excellence with equity.»

The second issue is that a narrow focus on racial equity inside schools and districts generates very little enthusiasm from families on the topside of the gap.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Standards focus on equity and achievement gap, teacher retention and leadership, academic standards, coaching, and school climate.

Many of these revisions will help close the equity gap of over $ 1,000 per student between the wealthiest and poorest school districts that is inherent in Texas's continuing over-reliance on disparate property tax values across the state, as noted in the chart below.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act maintains a federal focus on closing the equity gap with respect to students» access to expert, experienced teachers.

I also attended sessions on how Minnesota used data to close attainment and equity gaps and on how Kansas aligned high school education with career opportunities.

That advice was shared by several speakers at NSBA's Annual Conference preconference workshop on Friday, «Achieving Equity: Leadership Strategies and Promising Practices for Closing the Opportunity and Achievement Gaps.»

While a student - centered, self - paced, mastery - based system should create opportunities to advance equity by putting all students on the path to postsecondary success, including at - risk youth, CBE done poorly and without the appropriate resources and supports could exacerbate already existing achievement gaps and inequities.

Some solutions include ever - increasing support of equity, investment in collaborative leadership development, continue to strengthen our work with schools and workforce systems, and focusing on communities where opportunity gaps are the greatest.

States and districts are grappling with the data needed to make policy decisions on defining «effective teachers», measuring equity gaps, and developing policies that lead to more sustainable change.

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

When James Coleman, the great sociologist of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with greater academic intensity — a persistent, goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to raise academic achievement.

The Equity Rating measures how well a school serves the academic development of all students, looking specifically at: 1) the performance level of disadvantaged students on state tests in comparison to the state average for all students, and 2) in - school performance gaps between disadvantaged students and other students.

So, you know continuing on the theme here that Kate has started with regards to equity and the need to perhaps have greater content knowledge in order to close those gaps and help those students to get on the trajectory to college and career, I'm wondering if we can hear from other panelists about things that you're seeing that teachers want as a part of the personalized professional development that you all are offering in Maryland at the state and school level.

He was chair of the congressionally - chartered Equity and Excellence Commission set up to advise the U.S. Dept. of Education on how to close disparities in educational opportunity that contribute to the achievement gap.

With an increasing call to address disparities of outcomes among student groups and to eliminate predictable achievement and success gaps, educational leaders will benefit by using the LEAD Tool to reflect on their practice, assess their skills, and develop their strategies for equity.

Since the era of high - stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in high - stakes testing, and then detail reform based on equity of opportunities for all students?

From an equity lens, though, acceleration is problematic because it magnifies the gaps that existed when students arrived on that first day of Kindergarten.

The new system will also focus attention on how student groups are faring in these areas, helping to identify achievement gaps and promoting efforts to improve equity.

She will take on questions of equality and equity in American public schools, looking at the history of educational (in) equality and both the origin and pervasive nature of achievement gaps.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

A recent report by the California Acceleration Project shows that the use of high school measures has dramatically broadened access to and completion of college - level math and English courses, significantly reduced equity gaps, and has had little impact on course success rates.

I use this example because a vast majority of education equity attention today is focused on this «gap» as measured in standardized test score comparisons.

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.

PORTLAND, Ore. — May 7, 2018 — On May 10, Multnomah County Library will join with the City of Portland and other partners for a Digital Inclusion Summit to share insights, identify knowledge gaps and to continue collaborative efforts to achieve digital equity.

The Equity Index ETF's started the week with a huge gap down in response, before bouncing Tuesday and the retracing the move the rest of the week to close flat to higher on the week.

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We also believe an improved Return on Equity («RoE») is the key to eliminating EIIB's current value gap.

«Survey Shows 27 Percent Pay Gap for Top Women Equity Partners,» The American Lawyer «On Equal Read more

Negative equity is another term for the gap between what you owe on your auto loan and the car's actual value.

From partnering with libraries to producing recommendations on how technology can support social - emotional development, our projects address knowledge gaps, access and equity, workforce professionalization, and best practices around digital media literacy.

The State of Reconciliation in Australia report, released by Reconciliation Australia, speaks to equality and equity in renewing focus on Closing the Gap.

Research done by UNICEF has shown that an equity - focused approach, based on removing obstacles to fulfilling every child's rights, is a cost - effective way of closing gaps in the achievement of child development goals, which is our major challenge in Canada (UNICEF 2010a).

[9] Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health (2008).

Further, the Campaign was the subject of a case study in Dr Helen Potts» (Human Rights Centre, University of Essex) landmark publication, Accountability and the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health; [8] and also referred to in the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health's final report, Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health, a title that echoed the name of the Campaign.

«There's a lot of equity out there, but my concern is that the debt markets are currently schizophrenic,» said Dave Johnson, president and CEO of Aimbridge Hospitality, on a panel of private equity company executives, a group of investors that partially plugged the transactions gap in the middle of last year when lodging REITs backed away from the market.

HUD HOME reduces the amount of subordinate debt on affordable housing development projects, according to Baldasare, so cutting the HUD budget would exacerbate the equity gap problem.