Experts have many theories, but no clear answers, about why national
progress on closing the gap has slowed.
• Conference agrees that racism is undermining
any progress on Closing the Gap.
In 2009 former Prime Minister Rudd committed to making an annual report to Parliament on
progress on closing the gap.
Not exact matches
In turn, Jose Mourinho would undoubtedly have been a happy man, as he will now hope that it leads to a big run of results to
close the eight - point
gap on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table, while they also continue to make
progress in Europe.
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 unsurprisi
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 unsurprisi
gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.
«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.
New York's budget was due April 1, but little
progress has been made because Paterson and the Legislature can't agree
on how to
close the state's $ 9.2 billion budget
gap.
WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Progress has been made
on closing the gender
gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggests.
«But we have found that if states focus
on a handful of priority action steps and implement them successfully, they can begin to
close critical
gaps and dramatically accelerate
progress toward ending their HIV epidemics.»
Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above
on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely
closed gaps with African American students nationwide.
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 Achievement
Gap
Closing the
gap: New report calls for schools to publish disadvantaged pupil
progress results
on their websites
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.
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.
For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less
progress than neighboring districts
on closing equity
gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.
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.
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.
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.
However, these children made greater
progress than the random sample
on two of three measures and the effect sizes were reduced, suggesting a trend towards
closing the
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.
«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.»
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.
Cityscape earned marks of distinction in science, student
progress, postsecondary readiness, and in the area of
closing performance
gaps on the state accountability system.
And civil rights groups are worried dropping the «adequate yearly
progress» (AYP) yardstick represents the government giving up
on a signature policy piece designed to
close the
gap between the worst - performing and best - performing 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.
Schools should publish
progress measures for disadvantaged pupils
on their websites, a new report has claimed, after revealing stark differences between how schools are
closing the
gap.
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.
- the eight protagonists won't have similar stories to each other because the team wants players to enjoy different experiences - the other six protagonists will have jobs different from Orberic (Swordsman) and Primrose (Dancer)- Orberic and Primrose were chosen for the demo because their starting points are
closer to other party members - each protagonist will have different starting points, so there may be a
gap in the
progress difficulty - the team is trying to even things out, but they don't want every character to have the same difficulty, as that would be boring - the demo has surpassed 1 million downloads worldwide - a demo was released because they thought simply publishing screenshots and trailers wouldn't convey this game's fun factor - more than 80 % of the overseas player base found the game interesting - there was one player who won against a high - leveled NPC in a Duel, and another who defeated all bar customers - the team had expected the former, they didn't expect the latter - the music was received very well, which comes from composer Yasunori Nishiki - overseas players complained of hard - to - read text, because the UI was based
on the Japanese version, which will be adjusted - the biggest complaints were about slow map movement, and the lack of fast - travel - both of these features have been implemented, with faster movement and fast - travel between cities - players also found the screen too dark, so devs are adding waypoints for paths and also bigger roads - there will be an Event Skip feature, as well as the ability to freely watch events that have been already seen.
An endorsed media article from NACCHO by Professor Ian Ring AO — 12 February 2018 Ten years
on from the start of
Closing the
Gap,
progress is mixed, limited and... Read More
It can also be disheartening when you see all this going
on but hear that we are not making
progress to
close the
gaps...