Sentences with phrase «racial achievement gap»

And administrators from South African universities are now exploring ways to collect similar data to help their students, who face some of the largest racial achievement gaps in in the world.

If improvements continue at the same rate as seen since 1965, it will be 2 1/2 centuries until racial achievement gaps are closed in math and over 1 1/2 centuries for reading.

People typically view the demographic divide through longstanding racial achievement gaps, and scholars have argued that teachers of color may work particularly well with students of color.

Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO GOOD NEWS: You might never have seen this reported, but in the time since NCLB was passed, we've reduced racial achievement gaps by 13 to 25 percent, according to the liberal - leaning Brookings Institute.

Overall, our analyses provide no support for the hypothesis that No Child Left Behind has led, on average, to a narrowing of racial achievement gaps.

«The progress on racial achievement gaps were pieces of good news that didn't get much attention,» notes Brookings» Michael Hansen, who authored the piece.

In this paper we investigate whether the Act has been successful at narrowing racial achievement gaps.

The expectation that desegregation would dramatically reduce or eliminate racial achievement gaps was unrealistic given the myriad differences in family, school, and community circumstances.

Disare goes on to look closely at the pros and cons of a system that sorts students into schools this way, including the concern that it might «widen racial achievement gaps and leave lower - achieving students in less demanding classrooms with fewer resources.»

Deep and stubborn racial achievement gaps persist.

A year ago, Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, moved to eliminate after - school science labs for Advanced Placement classes and five science teachers so that the resources and faculty could be devoted to struggling students, in a push to address «Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap.»

«With the largest racial achievement gap in the country,» said Evers, «we need to have tough conversations about how Wisconsin will improve education for all students.»

The emphasis on reporting disaggregated data and closing racial achievement gaps earned plaudits from the civil rights and business communities, but the school accountability system fostered friction and discontent.

Stark ethnic and racial achievement gaps continue to dog the ACT, just as they do in other benchmark tests.

Despite the bitter feuding over NCLB, many experts and some lawmakers say it had successes — for instance, spotlighting previously hidden racial achievement gaps by requiring schools to break out student data by race and other categories.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

Racial achievement gaps found at public schools with similar student demographics aren't typical at DoDEA campuses.

The effort, an unprecedented community - wide assault on the entrenched racial achievement gap, just logged its 20th year.

So, with New York City public school students returning next month, * the question is: Why isn't more being done to bring students of different races together in the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the country, one where the public schools have had little success closing a huge racial achievement gap?

Why racial achievement gaps were so pronounced in affluent school districts is a puzzling question raised by the data.

The percentage of Madison School District students who are proficient in reading and math has improved in some grades since Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham took over in 2013, but a significant racial achievement gap remains, a new report finds.

Black students across the country experienced gains in school desegregation from the l960s to the late l980s, a time in which racial achievement gaps also narrowed sharply.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, Wisconsin's top education official since 2009, describes the state's racial achievement gap as «extraordinarily horrible.»

And since the southern county schools are predominantly black, a pronounced black - white racial achievement gap emerged in Pinellas County.

«One factor that may help schools close racial achievement gap: Study in Texas shows «collective efficacy» has big impact.»

But the four - term legislator and state House Democratic Whip, who joined seven other African American Democrats last month in publicly backing private school vouchers — long a bastion of the political right — says he's «disheartened» by persistent data on racial achievement gaps and the so - called school to prison pipeline.

CLOSING RACIAL GAPS: You might never have seen this reported, but since NCLB was passed, we've reduced racial achievement gaps by 13 to 25 percent, according to the Brookings Institute.

If improvements continue at the same rate as seen since 1965, it will be two and a half centuries until racial achievement gaps are closed in math and over one and a half centuries for them to close in reading.

The final year of TCAP results provide a many - layered portrait of progress and disappointment — from continued strong growth figures in Denver Public Schools and a suburban district that threw out the traditional classroom structure to widening racial achievement gaps and a precipitous dropoff in a high - performing charter school network.

If all minority children had talented and devoted teachers like Ms. Anderson who believed in them, then that stubborn racial achievement gap would shrivel up, sure enough.

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

Programs that mitigate questions of belonging have reduced racial achievement gaps in college grade point average (for example, see Figure 2), decreased gaps between first - and continuing - generation college students» achievement, reduced gender gaps in STEM courses, and even improved African American college students» health outcomes.

President Mulgrew said: «By objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

Remember those years when he thought he closed the racial achievement gap?

Carranza's priorities rang familiar to New Yorkers Monday as he stressed lower reliance on testing, a focus on social services, LGBTQ rights, support for immigrant children and closing racial achievement gaps.

The racial achievement gap has been closed.

Two of his most interesting columns focus on the challenges of the racial achievement gap.

Pollock's research examines what prevents teachers from taking responsibility for the racial achievement gap.

Florida's reform record provides hope to a nation struggling to improve education and to close racial achievement gaps.

And because of low performance among white students in urban districts, a focus on closing school - level achievement gaps was clearly insufficient: closing the racial achievement gap at Central High School in Providence in 2007 would have entailed raising the proficiency rate of African American students from 7 percent to where white students were, at 9 percent.

Today, questions about the effects of changes in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of educational opportunity and racial achievement gaps.

They can address the racial achievement gap directly by explaining what must be done in low - performing schools and how parents, churches, and other local assets can help.

The story leads with some juicy quotes of Mayor Michael Bloomberg boasting to Congress and others of great progress closing the racial achievement gap — then proceeds to burst the Mayor's bubble.

Among the Left, those who see a punitive law that's unfair to teachers scuffle with NCLB hawks committed to closing racial achievement gaps.

«I actually wanted insight into the school's racial achievement gap,» he says, «and thought a survey on how the students perceived the school — academics, teachers, extracurriculars, safety, and social morale — would reveal differences between racial groups.»