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In public education the achievement gap lives with us.

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The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

And every fall since 2001, the Education Trust, a national organization devoted to closing the achievement gap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systegap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systeGap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systems.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievemEducation to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievemeducation, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievementachievement gaps.

Some of the international comparisons in the report will truly shock people who assume that we lead the world in education and youth development,» adds Pathways co-chair Ronald Ferguson, a senior lecturer in education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard Uneducation and youth development,» adds Pathways co-chair Ronald Ferguson, a senior lecturer in education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard Uneducation and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard UnEducation and the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University.

Second, I want to raise awareness about the inequities in our public education system, and the unconscionable achievement gap between children from low - income and high - income communities that has developed as a result of these inequities.

In Closing America's High - achievement Gap, recently published by the Philanthropy Roundtable, I argue that the «let - them - be» approach is deeply flawed and that public education policy and practice pay far too little attention to helping gifted students reach their full potential.

The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide, multidisciplinary effort to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating...

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Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

«Boston has made a significant investment in early childhood education as a key strategy for closing the achievement gap,» said Carol Johnson, superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

Then again, it is the ministry whose three objectives «focus on establishing high levels of student achievement; reducing the gaps in student achievement; and ensuring high levels of public confidence in public education» [vi].

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvPublic Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community invEducation Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community inveducation in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvpublic schools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

Rocketship Education is a nonprofit public charter network of elementary schools working to eliminate the achievement gap.

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievemeducation experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievemEducation John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

A major issue in public education today is closing the achievement gap so that every student is ready for college, career and life.

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Joe Williams: The Education Equality Project is a coalition of leaders (from education, civil rights, government, public policy, and business) who believe that what happens inside schools (and in the politics surrounding schooling) plays a tremendous role in shaping the achievement gap that exists in this country between the haves and the havEducation Equality Project is a coalition of leaders (from education, civil rights, government, public policy, and business) who believe that what happens inside schools (and in the politics surrounding schooling) plays a tremendous role in shaping the achievement gap that exists in this country between the haves and the haveducation, civil rights, government, public policy, and business) who believe that what happens inside schools (and in the politics surrounding schooling) plays a tremendous role in shaping the achievement gap that exists in this country between the haves and the have - nots.

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

The California Achievement Gap Educational Foundation was launched in 2008 to «eliminate the systemic achievement gap in California K - 12 public educatAchievement Gap Educational Foundation was launched in 2008 to «eliminate the systemic achievement gap in California K - 12 public education.&raqGap Educational Foundation was launched in 2008 to «eliminate the systemic achievement gap in California K - 12 public educatachievement gap in California K - 12 public education.&raqgap in California K - 12 public education.»

We know poverty, teenage motherhood, single - parent homes, the lack of value on education from this cohort, generational public assistance, etc., etc., are the primary causes of the achievement gap, NOT INCOMPETENT TEACHERS.

Bernard Koontz acts as the language learning director at Highline Public Schools, a district with 39 schools in the Puget Sound area, and talks about bilingual education and closing the achievement gap.

There no longer will be an achievement gap in public education since by using the scientifically proved method of value added analysis school will be able to determine all of the students that are ineffective and there no longer will be a need to waste resources in a totally futile effort to educate these students.

«There's clearly an achievement gap in public education across the nation and in Washington state, and we have a record of turning underachievers into high achievers.»

Brass City Charter School depends on the generosity of foundations, corporations, public agencies, and individuals to realize its mission of providing our students a rigorous, well - rounded and emotionally supportive education that will eliminate the achievement gap characteristic of urban underserved students and enable them to lead meaningful and productive lives both for themselves and for their community.

Together, we can work to create a system where schools compete for top teachers, the achievement gap disappears, and all children — no matter their economic situations — have access to a quality public education.

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

CSDC has proven that through collaboration and leveraging, its innovative programs positively impact low - income and low - wealth communities by increasing access to high quality public education and reducing the «achievement gap» for minority and at - risk students.

Gaps in achievement, lower graduation rates and higher rates of suspension and expulsion are compounding issues facing black and brown boys in public education.

Below, I have provided a table which compares Utah and its current elected State School Board model against the states which utilize Model IV in the following areas: ACT / SAT scores, graduation rates, graduation requirements, AP passage rates, charter schools, public education climate for growing businesses, and closing the achievement gap.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

In public education, closing poverty - and race - based achievement gaps has become the holy grail.

A: A lot of the public discussion around early childhood education stems from our concern with the achievement gap and our knowledge that it appears before the start of formal schooling.

Sixty - two years after the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that desegregated America's public schools, the education system is still struggling with a number of issues in classrooms, including segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, improving high school graduation rates, and college enrollment and persistence.

Secondly: Hess himself has earned a reputation for being racially myopic, especially in his dismissal of focusing on achievement gaps in transforming public education as well as his statement that expanding school choice rewards the supposed irresponsibility of poor and minority families.

Findings were based on a two - year study of four districts pursuing more equitable funding practices to address their achievement gaps: Atlanta Public Schools; New York City Department of Education / Empowerment Schools; Portland, Ore., Public Schools; and Lane County District Number 4J in Eugene, Ore..

The shift in educational rigor that globalization has ushered in is pushing policymakers to embrace systemic change in public education, with particular focus on closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged students and their peers.

Dolores Gonzalez, the chief program officer for IDEA Public Schools, has shaped an academic program that focuses on erasing achievement gaps in the earliest grades and putting first - generation college - goers on a firm path to higher education.

«In some cases, these charter schools have quite large effects, such that attending one for three years produce test - score gains that are equivalent to the size of the U.S. black - white achievement gap,» said Sarah Cohodes, an assistant professor of education and public policy at Columbia University in a publication from Princeton University and the Brookings Institute.

In some of New Jersey's most troubled and disadvantaged communities, charter public schools are succeeding in closing the educational achievement gap with our state's more wealthy communities, despite receiving an average 70 percent of each education dollar compared to their traditional public school counterparts.

NewSchools Venture Fund is a not - for - profit organization working to close the achievement gap by funding and supporting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to the problems in public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond.

Chairman Alexander's bill — the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act — largely cuts back on the federal role in public education and weakens state accountability to raise achievement and close achievement gaps.

All Mays Award winners, with Ford and Gallon joining them, have strived to advance urban public education and close achievement and access gaps for our most vulnerable students,» continued Gentzel.

Here's how education reform was phrased in the poll question: «The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars arespent.

Imagine a democrat brave enough to come out and support public education and willing to state unequivocally the root causes of our achievement gap

(PDE, 2017, August 2) Currently, the SPP, available on the PA Department of Education website for public viewing, evaluates schools based on indicators of academic achievement, indicators of closing the achievement gap (all students), indicators of closing the achievement gap (historically underperforming students), indicators of academic growth, and «other academic indicators.»

Attendees also heard from national experts Dr. Ellen Frede from National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and Dr. Jason Sachs from the Boston Public Schools, who presented on strategies that state education agencies can take to address the emerging achievement gaps by thiEducation Research (NIEER) and Dr. Jason Sachs from the Boston Public Schools, who presented on strategies that state education agencies can take to address the emerging achievement gaps by thieducation agencies can take to address the emerging achievement gaps by third grade.