Sentences with phrase «progress on closing the achievement gap»

Some schools thought of as high or low performers in the past based on test scores could have ratings that show the opposite because of other factors being used in the ratings, including test score growth over time, readiness for graduation and progress on closing achievement gaps between student groups.

It's also troubling that we're not making progress on closing the achievement gap.

The report cards rate public schools for the first time on a scale of 0 to 100 based on state test scores and other factors, such as graduation rates, attendance and progress on closing achievement gaps.

«This also shows that thanks to charter schools, we're finally making progress on closing the achievement gap that's plagued our public education system.»

Not exact matches

«If real progress is to be made in closing the achievement gap for the most disadvantaged pupils, then those actually teaching the pupils need to be consulted on its use.

Up to eight states would be authorized to conduct demonstration programs testing whether state control of Head Start actually leads to better coordination of preschool programs, greater emphasis on school readiness, improvement in poor children's preschool test scores, and progress in closing the achievement gap between poor and advantaged students.

Here we examine the progress that Houston is making on closing the achievement gaps.

«Alabama is light years ahead of everyone else in closing the achievement gap,» Sandi Jacobs, Reading First's former assistant director in Washington, said to me in October of 2005, two years before the state posted the biggest two - year increase in 4th - grade reading scores ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students» academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps.

In high - poverty areas where progress has been made in closing achievement gaps, such as in Union City, N.J., and Clarke County, Ga., it wasn't a focus on standardized testing that worked.

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

States set annual district and school targets for grade - level achievement, high school graduation, and closing achievement gaps, for all students, including accelerated progress for subgroups (each major racial and ethnic group, students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from low - income families), and rate schools and districts on how well they meet the targets.

The results on the Smarter Balanced assessments, the centerpiece of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP, were released on Sept. 9 and showed the vast achievement gaps that decades of education reforms have failed to close.

The Port Clinton City School District received an «A» on graduation rate and a «B» on progress, but a «D» on achievement and an «F» in «gap closing,» which tracks «how well schools are meeting the performance expectations for our most vulnerable populations of students in English language arts, math and graduation.»

Rather, it says schools would be placed in one of five performance categories based on student achievement and progress in reading and math, how well a school closes gaps between groups of students in academic achievement and in graduation rates, and on overall attendance and graduation rates.

Districts must be able to push forward with progress made on improving instruction if they are to close achievement gaps.

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 Achiachievement 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 AchievementAchievement Gap

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today recognized 337 schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.

Washington Gov. Jay Inless has said he wants the bill to go a bit further - instead of just one A-to-F grade, schools should receive five of them based on such issues as test scores but also progress in closing the achievement gap and performance relative to similar schools.

Although we've focused more and more attention on dealing with the seemingly intractable gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and white students in the last quarter century, we've made little progress in closing the gaps.

The gap between Hispanics and whites on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, has stayed fairly stagnant over the past few years in both math and reading, even as the country has become more focused on closing achievement gaps as required by the 2002 federal education law, No Child Left Behind.

Saldaña also got support from the board to consider whether a school is recognized by the state for high performance or substantial progress in closing the academic achievement gaps before the district decides on closure.

Now that the discussion of whether NCLB would actually close «achievement gaps» by 2014 is nearly in our rear view mirror (it is not going to happen, not even close — it is going to take 80 more years based on recent NAEP research, NCLB actually slowed our progress) let's take a look at the discourse by proponents

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

Bloomberg Chancellor Joel Klein loved to boast about how the leadership team assembled in New York made great progress on raising achievement and closing the test - measured gap between white and minority students.

But the achievement gap is fundamentally a literacy gap, and the jury is still out on how much progress the charter sector has really made in closing it.

To make substantial progress on closing overall achievement gaps, policies to address disparities in outcomes within school districts are still needed.

Schools are chosen for the award based on overall academic excellence or progress in closing achievement gaps among subgroups of students.

On Sept. 16, CEA celebrated the progress made through five years of funding from the National Education Association Foundation's «Closing the Achievement Gaps» project.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.

The scores are based on student proficiency on spring math and reading tests, individual student year - to - year growth on those tests and progress schools make in closing the achievement gap, plus graduation rates for high schools.

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