Sentences with phrase «on the attainment gap»

A report on the attainment gaps of SEND pupils with similar needs nationally and ways in which funded support can be deployed more effectively to improve pupil progress.

Although most of the press coverage focused on the league tables of schools and the relative performance of grammar, academies and local authority schools, I was drawn to the section on the attainment gap in state - funded schools.

Not exact matches

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a keynote speech and moderate a panel discussion at Student Success Revolution, a forum on the college attainment gap, at Mercy College.

With the Liberal Democrat leader set on highlighting the impact his party has had on the coalition's education policies, Clegg said he is heartened that there are signs the attainment gap is narrowing.

Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisiGap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisigap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

«Our children can not afford to wait the three generations this report predicts it will take, on current trends, to close the pupil attainment gap.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

«The task of schools in closing the attainment gap is made even harder when teacher supply is in crisis as a result of attacks on teachers» pay, working conditions and professionalism.

«I am pleased the report has picked up on a substantial focus on closing the attainment gap in Wales thanks to the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

On the other side of the debate, the University of Wisconsin's Sara Goldrick - Rab argues that tying Pell to a college - ready standard would widen existing gaps in degree attainment.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

In a foreword to the report, David Laws, executive chairman for CentreForum, said: «There is a risk that this policy may widen the attainment gap on entry to school, and cut across initiatives such as the Pupil Premium, which aim to narrow this gap.»

The Campaign seeks to address the county's above average gap in attainment between disadvantaged and other pupils, with a focus on students in Years 7 and 8.

But as the first step on that road, we have to bridge the gap between college enrollment aspiration and attainment.

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.

The report looks at the state of the attainment gap in England on a range of measures, collating existing research from a number of sources, in addition to the new analysis.

Later this week, I will publish the new national improvement framework for education, which focuses firmly on our objective of closing the attainment gap in education.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

The discriminatory impact of this compromise lessened as the gender gap in master's degree attainment narrowed, and more subtle means of discrimination were hampered by nearly universal adoption of the uniform salary schedule, with teachers» pay based only on experience and education.

«The SSTA wishes to acknowledge and welcome the Deputy First Minister's determination to declutter the work of teachers and allow them to focus on teaching and learning in our battle of «closing the attainment gap».

He also referenced the fact that the attainment gap at GCSE level in Hackney between children on free school meals and those who are not is 14.6 per cent, compared to a 34 per cent gap in Kent, which operates a selective system.

Additionally, the Bill also places a duty on local authorities to reduce the attainment gap between pupils from different backgrounds.

He added: «We spend a fortune on bridging the attainment gap because education is all about all our children fulfilling their potential for achievement.

The pupil premium research carried out by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has shown how, as part of a whole ‑ school approach, low - cost, high - impact strategies can impacting positively on outcomes for children and young people with SEN and help in narrowing the gap in attainment for our most vulnerable students (http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk).

According to the figures, the money provided to headteachers to spend on closing the attainment gap, funded over 500 additional teachers in 2017, on top of the 160 funded through the same fund in 2016.

Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the Education Endowment Foundation report The Attainment Gap 2017...

Based on this information, Kissam makes several recommendations that could not only help to close the attainment gap between rural Hispanic students and their white peers but could also improve outcomes for all rural students:

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

Disadvantaged girls perform better than disadvantaged boys, on average, and the attainment gap between the genders is 8 percentage points.

According to a committee spokesperson, the meeting will likely focus on what the government is doing to «promote social justice and narrow the attainment gap».

«If Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, and Newcastle are to be engine rooms of a Northern powerhouse, one of their priorities must be working with the towns on their borders to raise attainment and close skills gaps across a wider area.»

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.

Looking at the gender gap, girls made more progress on average than boys, despite any higher prior attainment they may have had.

The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said that grammar schools have a «track record of closing the attainment gap to almost zero between children on free school meals and their better off classmates».

But in secondary schools, the attainment gap between children on free school meals (FSM) and their better - off peers has refused to budge in a decade.

She said the Conservatives were «blinded by their political positioning on free schools», and had «totally failed to address the big challenges facing education», including teacher shortages, the widening attainment gap, the school places crisis and «severe cuts» to post-16 education.

MPs were this morning told that investment should focus on the early years and warned that schools often «struggle to close the gap» in attainment when such gaps open up before children reach the age of five.

The report also stated a strength in primary schools was the impact of better teaching on the learning of pupils eligible for free school meals, which Ofsted attributed to helping to close the attainment gap between these pupils and their peers.

Deeper examination also shows that based on the average grade per entry, the GCSE achievement gap widened or remained static from 2013 to 2014 for all pupil premium children — except those with high prior attainment.

We suggest that focusing the first reception year on developing children's oral language abilities may help to attenuate the attainment gaps experienced by younger children.

The government said it did «not accept» the recommendation as the department «does not set national targets», but instead would benchmark the attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils on international tests such as TIMSS and PISA.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: «The pupil premium has been one of the most significant changes in our education system for a long time and is already closing the attainment gap by helping up to two million disadvantaged children get the support, education and skills they need to get on in life - whether it's through literacy classes, catch - up lessons or one - to - one tuition.»

In this new report, Mind the Gap: Delivering on California's Promise for Higher Education, California Competes finds that the state now faces a degree attainment gap of 2.4 million by 20Gap: Delivering on California's Promise for Higher Education, California Competes finds that the state now faces a degree attainment gap of 2.4 million by 20gap of 2.4 million by 2025.

If the «attainment gap» between private and state schools is not a consequence of spending 3 times as much on privately educated students, I suggest reducing the fees at private schools to the same level as that of state provision.

The report contains 15 key lessons on closing the attainment gap from the EEF's first six years.

These are based on trials with 6,800 pupils at 238 schools and aim to be a major new source of evidence to help schools narrow the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils.

The letter said pupils» achievement by the age of 16 is poor in comparison with pupils elsewhere in the west midlands and nationally; secondary schools are too often failing to build on the success of pupils in primary schools; the gap between the GCSE attainment of disadvantaged pupils and their better - off peers is wide; and not enough has been done to address these failings over the years.

«So, even where overall attainment is high, we want schools to focus relentlessly on closing this gap by improving outcomes for those from disadvantaged backgrounds.»

But there are schools that are narrowing the gap year on year, with some schools having eliminated it and even reversing the attainment gap.