Sentences with phrase «racial achievement gaps in»

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.

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.

«This suggests that the primary source of the reduction in racial achievement gaps in fourth grade is the reduction in kindergarten readiness gaps, not a reduction in the rate at which gaps change between kindergarten and fourth grade.»

Nevertheless, racial academic achievement gaps in fourth grade fell at roughly the same rate as kindergarten entry gaps, Reardon said, adding, «This suggests that the primary source of the reduction in racial achievement gaps in fourth grade is the reduction in kindergarten readiness gaps, not a reduction in the rate at which gaps change between kindergarten and fourth grade.»

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.

The effects in elementary school are large enough to close the racial achievement gap in both mathematics and ELA.

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

Toews described ways the school district could prioritize investments to early education and student - support resources to lessen the racial achievement gap in schools.

«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 effect was large enough to nearly eliminate the racial achievement gap in sophomore year college grades.

In elementary schools, it was enough «to eliminate the racial achievement gap in math in Houston elementary schools in approximately three years.»

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.

According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

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 worked.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

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

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.

In addition, the state will continue to use its «combined underserved race / ethnicity,» combining the four racial / ethnic subgroups with achievement gaps in OregoIn addition, the state will continue to use its «combined underserved race / ethnicity,» combining the four racial / ethnic subgroups with achievement gaps in Oregoin Oregon.

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.

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.»

Half a century has passed since the publication of the Coleman Report, and the persistent racial gaps in achievement, academic attainment, earnings, crime, poverty, and extensive school segregation that remain provide prima facie evidence that equality of opportunity remains elusive.

The only reform that ever matters in education is doing whatever it takes to lift student academic achievement and reduce the scandalous racial gap in learning.

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.

And, honestly, if one believes that our educational agenda should be primarily defined in terms of the racial and socioeconomic «achievement gap,» you can see how this kind of strip mining might have a certain appeal.

We've substantially narrowed the racial and ethnic achievement gap, our students are catching up to students in the rest of the state, and our graduation rate is the highest it has been in decades.

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.

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

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.

Racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps often come to educators» attention in test scores, but they don't start there.

The racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps in National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math persist.

African American students advanced from the bottom quarter of Chicago's test score distribution for white students to the 46th percentile in reading and math, essentially closing the racial achievement gap.

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.

2002); Brief for Armor et al. as Amici Curiae, with Rosen, Perhaps Not All Affirmative Action is Created Equal, N. Y. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting»» [w] e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly»» and acknowledging that he» «did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but there's a big state variation»» (emphasis added)-RRB-.

Nonetheless, «racial academic achievement gaps in fourth grade declined at roughly the same rate as kindergarten entry gaps,» said Reardon.

In 2007, the city won a prestigious urban education prize from the Broad Foundation, which cited the city's progress in narrowing the racial achievement gaIn 2007, the city won a prestigious urban education prize from the Broad Foundation, which cited the city's progress in narrowing the racial achievement gain narrowing the racial achievement gap.

Public expenditures on early childhood programs are nearly always justified as investments that will eliminate socioeconomic and racial gaps in school readiness and elevate subsequent student achievement and life success.

The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.

At the dawn of the War on Poverty, it was necessary for Coleman and his colleagues to document and describe the racial gaps in achievement they were intending to address.

Fifty years after the Coleman Report, racial gaps in achievement remain shamefully large.

In the half century since James Coleman and his colleagues first documented racial gaps in student achievement, education researchers have done little to help close those gapIn the half century since James Coleman and his colleagues first documented racial gaps in student achievement, education researchers have done little to help close those gapin student achievement, education researchers have done little to help close those gaps.

We estimate racial / ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009 - 2013.

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.

To some extent, then, the racial disparity in the teaching force that has been an unfortunate consequence of Brown has probably contributed to the survival of the achievement gap that integration was meant to solve.

If, as is likely to be the case, fewer black and Hispanic students are enrolled in advanced courses, will that finding be interpreted as discriminatory or a nearly inevitable result of the very racial achievement gap we are trying to reduce?

Speaking just a few days after he moved from the Midwest to begin the fall semester, Diamond outlined the pressing educational and sociological issues he hopes to tackle in his new post.Among them: the K — 12 racial achievement gap.

One of the beliefs that has tied together the signatories of EEP thus far is a commitment to eliminating the racial and ethnic achievement gap in this country.