Sentences with phrase «persistent achievement»

This report details the equity implications of ESSA and provides recommendations for ways in which states, districts, and schools can leverage the new law to enhance equitable educational opportunities and close persistent achievement gaps.

There is still a persistent achievement gap between low - income and middle - and high - income students.

Principals are essential to improving student achievement and narrowing persistent achievement gaps.

Many Minnesota schools are making progress toward closing the state's persistent achievement gap, but urban schools largely are absent from those successes, according to the latest accountability data.

Results from the most recent ACT college admission test underscore the «persistent achievement gaps» between disadvantaged student groups and their better - off peers, the Washington Post reports.

School Boards continue to face significant challenges with declining funds, rising employment cost and persistent achievement gaps.

Increased accountability and scrutiny for school districts across the county has put renewed focus on an old problem: the persistent achievement gap dividing students along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

This week, the Sacramento County Board of Education approved a network of charter schools aimed at closing the persistent achievement gap in the area.

In return for this temporary flexibility, the SEA must adopt college - and career - ready standards; link teacher, principal, and student data and provide that information to educators to improve their practices; and identify persistent achievement gaps within the State that need to be closed.

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.

The OTL Network also provides a whole - child framework for understanding the many «opportunity gaps» or disparities that exist in the public education system, from early education to school funding to school discipline, and which must be addressed in order to close persistent achievement gaps between students of different backgrounds.

The latest results are flat, with a persistent achievement gap, and only minor gains in 8th grade reading.

And yet, a new report from The Education Trust - West shows a stark and persistent achievement gap between Latino and white students.

The legislation recognizes that achieving excellence in American education depends on providing access to opportunity for all children, and that increasing inequality within external social, economic, health and community factors — traditionally viewed as outside of the domain of schools — have a significant influence on academic outcomes and a persistent achievement gap.

Many educators and thought leaders seized on the Coleman Report's core finding to absolve schools of responsibility for student performance and persistent achievement gaps.

They increase the likelihood that a student will drop out or become involved in the juvenile justice system, and thus contribute to persistent achievement gaps for these students.

This year's NAEP results show persistent achievement gaps between students of color and from low income families and their peers who are White or from more affluent families.

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

Our schools need increased and equitable funding to help close persistent achievement gaps.

They're also expected to adopt college - and career - ready standards; link teacher, principal, and student - achievement data; and identify persistent achievement and graduation rate gaps.

Increased rigor in college - and career - ready standards, changing demographics, and persistent achievement gaps among subgroups of learners

He says his time as a superintendent of Beloit schools, which have a high percentage of low - income students and students of color, will help address the state's longstanding, persistent achievement gap between black and white students — which is the worst in the country by some measures.

If successful, it could help narrow the District's persistent achievement gap.

This approach also permits schools to receive high ratings despite large and persistent achievement gaps.

The latest state test scores don't offer many statewide trends beyond stagnation and persistent achievement gaps.

If successful, it could help narrow the District's persistent achievement... [Read more...]

As a result, there is still a persistent achievement gap.

Closing persistent achievement gaps as well as raising achievement for all students will simply not be possible without recruiting and retaining sufficient teachers of the highest quality for every classroom.

Districts are increasingly tasked with providing options for at - risk and underserved student populations to address persistent achievement gaps.

Education reform in the United States has stalled and persistent achievement gaps remain.

During the session, experts will share information on specific provisions in ESSA that can be used to bolster states» school leadership investments, especially for the lowest - performing schools, schools with large, persistent achievement gaps, and other schools identified as a state priority based on other crucial indicators of school capacity and performance and student success.

With poverty rates in Illinois increasing and postsecondary attainment more important than ever, a new report from the Partnership for College Completion reveals low completion rates, persistent achievement gaps between groups, and highlights how the rising cost of college combined with state budget cuts has put college diplomas farther out of reach for low - income students and students of color.

PCC's efforts are focused on policy and practice solutions to the ongoing crisis of low college completion rates, persistent achievement gaps that exist along racial and socioeconomic lines, and college affordability.

«Massachusetts is proud of the achievements of our K - 12 student population, but like most other states, we still have a lot of work ahead to close persistent achievement gaps,» said Commissioner Jeff Wulfson.

Margaret Fortune wants to close the persistent achievement gap that exists with African - American and Latino students, and is submitting a petition to the Office of Education to create the system.

The test results also indicate what clearly represents a persistent achievement gap that exists with some subgroups, whose scores also increased from last year, but at a lower percentage.

Through a grant from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Education Alliance at Brown University developed the Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders (CALL) program to assist educators with delivering more effective instruction in the content areas and closing persistent achievement gaps among their students.

Amidst all the theories around the recent release of National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test scores showing little progress and persistent achievement gaps, is...

Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday signed into law an education bill that aims to close a persistent achievement gap between schools in richer and poorer communities.

In 2012 then US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that the TIMSS results «underscore the urgency of accelerating achievement in secondary school and the need to close large and persistent achievement gaps.»

As schools struggle to raise high school graduation rates and close the persistent achievement gap for minority and low - income students, many educators tout digital technology in the classroom as a way forward.

Addressing the state's persistent achievement gaps and ensuring a pathway to excellent education for all students, particularly those who are most vulnerable, led the Board's discussion about the new accountability system and new charter school regulations, which will be voted on during the Board's October meeting.

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The state of California has implemented a number measures to close one of the largest and most persistent achievement gaps in the nation, Recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test for fourth - and eighth - graders in math and reading given every two years, show that California's students are still performing below the... Continue reading California: Moving the Needle on the Achievement Gap

There is still a persistent achievement gap between low - income and middle - and high - income students.

Now, advocates and government officials alike are struggling to figure a solution for the persistent achievement gaps across the state.

To the contrary, these persistent achievement gaps demonstrate the limits of schools to compensate for problems outside the classroom - broken homes, street violence, indifference to education - that discourage learning and inhibit teaching.

Dr. Childress explained, «As great academically as we have been, we still have persistent achievement gaps between our minority and white students and between our low - income and other students.

What was missing in all this accountability action was a clear way to address persistent achievement gaps and actually help teachers improve their practice.

Liberals and their allies in the civil rights community hoped that this new approach would close persistent achievement gaps for poor and minority kids.