Sentences with phrase «racial achievement gaps by»

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.

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.

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.

The intervention reduced the racial achievement gap by nearly 30 %.

Not exact matches

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

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.

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 workeBy 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 workeby public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

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 prize was awarded Sept. 16 by the Los Angeles - based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which bestows the award annually to a city school district that has made notable strides in improving achievement, especially in closing gaps between students of different racial and ethnic groups.

But just as much of the racial achievement gap can be explained by out - of - school factors, so too, I suspect, can much of the racial suspensions gap be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors.

The 1998 study by Meredith Phillips and her colleagues, mentioned earlier, had the greatest success in explaining racial differences in achievement, yet the unexplained portion of the achievement gap on the vocabulary test used in their study was still so large that it nearly exceeded the raw gap in reading and mathematics we found in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey data.

Consider the case of Florida, which has been celebrated, especially by conservatives, for its success in closing racial achievement gaps.

Only half of students in large urban school systems graduate from high school, US students lag behind their international counterparts, and racial - ethnic gaps in achievement are large by kindergarten and continue to grow thereafter, she said.

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.

This course also helps them situate this particular work within the larger context of challenges and innovations in urban education by introducing participants to literature on the achievement gap, the impact of racial identity on school achievement, charter school policy and critiques, and the advent and development of charter schools serving low income students that are based on high support and high expectations.

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.

Evers» group hopes to narrow the racial achievement gap across Wisconsin by highlighting and sharing across districts those efforts that seem to be working.

NCLB has been widely praised for its requirement that states and schools break down their test results by subgroups — across racial, socioeconomic and other lines — to highlight achievement gaps.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

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

Simply equalizing a school's racial composition, the analysis concludes, can reduce the achievement gap by about 25 % — an impact as great as any reform strategy has had to date.

A recent study released by ECONorthwest estimates that the racial achievement gap costs Oregon $ 2 billion a year in economic activity.

The University of Chicago study found that after all the changes made by Vallas and Duncan, the reforms, «have done nothing to close the racial gaps in achievement levels.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

The funding and opportunity gaps created by Pennsylvania's state funding system have created racial and economic achievement gaps in our public schools that are among the largest in the country.

Moreover, we are 15 years into the data - driven school - reform movement, which is based on the idea that racial - and economic - achievement gaps are largely caused by the «benign racism of low expectations,» and that the solution is to hold individual educators accountable for meeting discrete, quantifiable targets.

Lastly, we find that high school achievement measures explain much of the racial gaps in BA attainment and annual earnings and some of the gaps by family background, though they account for little of the continuing gender gap in annual earnings.

By ALAN J. BORSUK Posted: June 20, 2005 The nation's largest teachers union and a partner organization on Monday announced a $ 500,000 grant to support efforts in Milwaukee to close achievement gaps between racial minority students and white students and between low - income students and others.

In recent years, an intense focus on closing racial and economic achievement gaps has resulted in policies and practices that can sometimes come at the expense of families that work hard and play by the rules.

Compared to 1992, the achievement gap in reading by racial groups has increased (from 24 points to 30 points).

The accountability measures imposed by NCLB implicitly rejected any argument that racial and economic achievement gaps were the result of broad societal inequities, such as the effects of poverty.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

Research proffered by Barton (2005) found that student achievement gaps among racial and ethnic groups are large and persistent (p. 12).