Sentences with phrase «persistent educational achievement gaps»

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Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

She's referring to what's known as the achievement gap in the United States — the persistent disparity in educational, and hence economic, success of its disadvantaged, and disproportionately nonwhite, children.

The five partner states — Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont — work together to close persistent achievement gaps and promote greater educational equity and opportunity for all students.

It will also help to address the persistent achievement gap between Latinos and their white counterparts a gap that threatens our state's future social and economic stability by encouraging policies and programs that lead to increased educational equity.

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.

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.