Sentences with phrase «opportunity gap»

To boost education attainment beyond high school, we need to close opportunity gaps for low - income students, students of color, and other student groups underrepresented in higher education.

The goal of the curriculum is to produce graduates who exhibit rigorous teaching in combination with critical and innovative thinking in order to identify and close opportunity gaps for underserved students around the world.

A growing opportunity gap in access to resources, opportunities, and adult investment has emerged over the last 25 years as income inequality has accelerated, especially among families with children.

Programs also offer enrichment activities such as sports, science, music and art to help close both the achievement and opportunity gaps between low - income students and their higher - income peers.

Participants will be able to use this information to move beyond their own data to determine and implement action steps to address opportunity gaps and close achievement gaps.

The initiatives expanded in 2016 to include a focus on college and career readiness as the district focused on ways to eliminate opportunity gaps.

Achievement gaps are the result of opportunity gaps, a reflection of choices we continue to make as a state.

This project emphasizes closing opportunity gaps through building new educator induction processes, enhancing professional learning, and increasing workforce diversity.

In response to the growing opportunity gap, our vision feels more urgent and real than ever.

Are states finally ready to address widening opportunity gaps?

This issue will explore how educators can address the barriers that create opportunity gaps for students on the basis of their socioeconomic level, race, ethnicity, and gender.

I'd like the new commissioner to have a sense of urgency on implementing work to close the achievement and opportunity gaps while at the same time, supporting teachers through this process.

The majority of families selecting charter schools are living in communities with an extensive opportunity gap.

We have glaring opportunity gaps in our district, and I am committed to removing barriers to every student's success.

When a school takes opportunity gaps seriously, it puts in place supports and resources to truly close those gaps.

The overall opportunity gap is the result of a compilation — the cumulative effect of many separate gaps.

We aim to close long - standing opportunity gaps for low - income and underserved students, empowering all students to thrive in high schools, colleges, and careers.

Though written about extensively, this approach to closing opportunity gaps and improving student outcomes is not yet widely implemented and has not been implemented or evaluated at scale.

This report is not the first to present evidence of deep achievement and opportunity gaps between racial and socio - economic student groups.

This report describes readiness and opportunity gaps in access to high quality early education.

We continue to battle the demons of opportunity gaps and structural racism.

To eliminate the educational achievement gap, we must address opportunity gaps that persist for children and youth of diverse backgrounds.

The My Brother's Keeper initiative was launched to address persistent opportunity gaps as part of ensuring that all young people can achieve their full potential.

My Brother's Keeper refers to President Obama's initiative, launched in 2014, to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color.

My Brother's Keeper is a national initiative that addresses persistent opportunity gaps faced by young men of color.

As theleading after - school and summer learning provider, BGCA is committed to helping close the educational opportunity gap in the U.S. Through BGCA's ongoing focus on academic success, as well as healthy lifestyles and good character and citizenship, today's youth have access to the resources they need to ensure the great future they deserve is within reach.

Among his responsibilities is the development of plans for narrowing opportunity gaps for students of color, and collaborating with district departments to analyze data and address areas of inequity.

Given today's concern about opportunity gaps outside school, we also need leaders that provide both equitable access for children and opportunities for family engagement in different learning environments, for example, in after school programs and libraries and museums.»

It's now up to the states to work with local stakeholders and districts to design, for example, new and better assessments and accountability systems and follow - through on identifying and filling opportunity gaps.

San Jose Unified» s strategic plan for 2012 - 2017 focuses on closing existing opportunity gaps and preparing all students for success in the 21st century.

«There's still a big opportunity gap between what kids can achieve and what they are actually achieving,» Beutner said at his first news conference last week.

Collectively, these contributions will provide a window into the scope and depth of American climate action, and help determine where opportunity gaps exist on the local and national level.

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She is co-chair of the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee and a member of the Education Committee for the National Council of State Legislators.

The most successful global education approaches recognize the attitudes, skills and knowledge students needed to navigate, contribute to and flourish in the world — and they integrate activities that purposefully resolve opportunity gaps among students on a daily basis.

Ending achievement and opportunity gaps requires implementing a variety of desegregation methods — busing, magnet schools, or merging school districts, for instance — to create a more just public education system that successfully educates all children.

And there is no question that teaching is increasingly demanding and complex given the persistent inequities in our economic and social structure that drive large opportunity gaps among our nation's children.

Proponents of the arts claim with equal vigor that by exposing students in some schools to a rich, varied curriculum and consigning students in other schools to endless reading and math drills, we are only exacerbating opportunity gaps based on race and economics.

The most successful global education approaches recognize the attitudes, skills and knowledge students need to navigate, contribute to and flourish in the world — and they integrate activities that purposefully resolve opportunity gaps among students on a daily basis.

In addition, early skills are predictive of later outcomes, but too often early opportunity gaps are allowed to grow unaddressed into more persistent achievement gaps in later years.

In either case, whether a given opportunity gap arises outside of schools or inside of schools, the problems to be addressed are invariably serious and engrained, and the solutions must be serious and sustained.

Opportunity gaps drive achievement gaps.

«I'm proud to serve as chair of the Council of Urban Boards of Education,» said Jacobs, «and I'm committed to working with the Committee in support of urban school boards efforts to close achievement and opportunity gaps so that our children and young people can flourish and have future success.»

Prior to joining the foundation, Orville was a Senior Research Analyst at the Education Trust - West, where he conducted research and advocated for policies to boost educational achievement and close opportunity gaps impacting students of color and students in poverty in California schools.

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Ours is a community where opportunity gaps abound, gentrification threatens families, and a legacy of racism is still unresolved.

That educational opportunity gap follows many immigrants and students of color who graduate high school as they head into college.

... America, a non-profit organization whose mission is is to help close the current opportunity gap that exists in classrooms across the U.S. I taught 1st 2nd and 3rd grade for three years and while teaching, earned a Master's Degree in Education.

The bestselling author shatters the romantic ideal that the «American Dream» can be achieved through simple hard work and determination when a widening opportunity gap inhibits so many from living decent and fulfilling lives.