Sentences with phrase «on narrowing the achievement gap»

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.

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.

«The caucuses of the National School Boards Association focus on narrowing the achievement gap and identifying promising practices that will improve achievement for all students,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

It required schools to publish their scores on state tests not just as averages, but broken down by students» race, sex and other groups, a rule that most educators agree has focused attention on narrowing achievement gaps.

This session touches on narrowing the Achievement Gap and the Confidence Gap as well as Planning the Transitions from Grade 8 to Grade 9 by:

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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.

Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.

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Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

In 2011, I noted that the narrow, relentless focus on «closing achievement gaps» had created «a dangerous complacency» by «giving suburban and middle - class Americans the false sense that things are just fine in their own schools.

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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.)

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.

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?

If the policy goal were to equalize educational opportunity and / or to narrow achievement gaps, in retrospect America would have been better served by intensive kindergarten targeted on particularly needy kids.

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.

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.

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.

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

His story illustrates that political and educational leadership are inextricably linked, as he describes his 14 - year focus on and commitment to narrowing the achievement gap while working tirelessly with his different constituents to bring them into the process.

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.

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.

Even though the achievement gap has not narrowed — black youngsters now score on NAEP where white fourth graders did several decades ago — are not the black student achievement gains evidence that, when teachers know what to do, they do it?

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.

A new, 50 - state report by the Center on Education Policy found that reading and math scores are rising and achievement gaps are narrowing, gains that are attributable in part to NCLB.

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

This contrasts with the voluminous research on class size, which shows that class size reduction is one of the very few ways to narrow the achievement gap and one of only four reforms cited by the Institute of Education Sciences as proven to work through rigorous evidence.

«The negative consequences of the current overwhelming focus on preparation for standardized tests include narrowed curricula, developmentally inappropriate instructional practices, decreases in student engagement, stagnant achievement gaps and rising minority dropout rates,» said subcommittee member and Winchester second grade teacher David Krane.

Program completers have gone on to increase student retention, improve test scores, and narrow the achievement gap in CPS schools.

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.

«What school districts need to be successful, what we need to narrow and close achievement gaps, is stability in our environment and I think that's what's most ominous about what may be on the horizon,» said Madison School District superintendent Jennifer Cheatham, who supports the Common Core standards.

Yet, compelling evidence has emerged over this same time period that effective classroom assessment can have a profoundly positive impact on student achievement, narrowing achievement gaps.

Virginia intends to revise its new goals for student achievement in public schools, after state and federal officials agreed that those goals did not do enough to narrow the gap between students with the worst and best scores on annual state exams.

According to the California Department of Education news release, «The 2013 California Distinguished Schools Program directly focuses on the right of California's students to an equitable and rigorous education, and recognizes those schools that have made progress in narrowing the academic achievement gap.»

Its graduation rate rose from 64.3 percent in 2007 to 78.8 percent in 2012, according to data provided by the district, and it narrowed the achievement gaps between the district's Hispanic students and Texas» white students by more than 50 percent on state tests in high school math and science.

The achievement gap between boys and girls A * to C grades has also widened on last year but narrowed in last week's A-level results.

«In many cases, the Board of Education Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes the successes of teachers, principals and other educators who are on the front line of the commonwealth's effort to narrow and ultimately close achievement gaps,» said Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven Achievement Award recognizes the successes of teachers, principals and other educators who are on the front line of the commonwealth's effort to narrow and ultimately close achievement gaps,» said Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven achievement gaps,» said Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples.

A Learning Policy Institute study on the impact of the LCFF indicates that changes to California's funding system have led to improved academic achievement and graduation rates and narrowed achievement gaps for low - income students.

So while genetics may well place an upper limit on intelligence, poor children are often denied the opportunity to reach their own maximum potential — meaning that, in the right environment, the achievement gap might be significantly narrowed.

There is every scientific reason to predict that an intensive focus on oral language development during the classroom reading period in early grades will not only raise reading achievement for all students, it will also help narrow the gap between social groups.

Lexington Institute scholars Doug Mesecar and Don Soifer write that turning New Jersey's ESSA plan into «improved student outcomes,» as well as «narrowing gaps in student achievement,» depends on the state «effectively getting schools the support necessary to accomplish this crucial work, and also monitoring their progress effectively.»

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.

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For decades, the standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling — tended to narrow over time.

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.

Lexington Institute scholars Doug Mesecar and Don Soifer write that turning New Jersey's ESSA plan into «improved student outcomes,» as well as «narrowing gaps in student achievement,» depends on the state «effectively getting schools the support necessary to accomplish this crucial work, and also monitoring...

Preschool won't, on its own, permanently narrow or close achievement gaps, just as the effects of an intervention in elementary school will probably not last through high school.

New Jersey charter schools continue to narrow the achievement gap on the third year of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exams based on data released this fall from the New Jersey Department of Education for the 2016 - 17 school year.