Sentences with phrase «racial gaps»

Jeanne Brooks - Gunn and Lisa B. Markman, The Contribution of Parenting to Ethnic and Racial Gaps in School Readiness, Future of Children, 15 (2005) pp. 139 — 68; Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Long - Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Social Outcomes and Delinquency, Future of Children, 5 (1995) pp. 51 — 75.

Still, the National Consumer Law Center and 29 civil and legal rights groups are petitioning the government to start collecting and reporting on the range of racial gaps that take place within the student loan system.

Among other things, STEM education seeks to foster young students» interest in science and technology, and bridge the gender and racial gaps that still exist in these fields.

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.

Divided we fail: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in California's community colleges.

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.

As the authors note, those racial gaps are larger than many thought.

This overly punitive response is not surprising, as there are racial gaps in discipline throughout the district and state.

Restorative Justice programs like those in Oakland Unified School District have proven to be effective in decreasing the overall incidence of student misbehavior as well as reducing racial gaps.36 Restorative Justice in Oakland Public Schools Implementation and Impacts (Rep.).

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.

But NCLB's failure to spur overall test score gains or close racial gaps led «reformers» to push for national, or «common,» standards.

The risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's social group, known as stereotype threat, depresses academic achievement among students of color and contributes to racial gaps in achievement.

First place: Remedial Screening Tests, High School Grades, and College Success by Zun Tang and Sarah Truelsch, City University of New York Second place: Improving the Measurement of STEM Gender and Racial Gaps in the Workforce by Yu - chieh Hsu, Janna E. Johnson, and Javaeria Qureshi, University of Illinois at Chicago Third place: Is Facebook Making Us Greener?

And that dynamic makes it more difficult for us to close our wide racial gaps in college attainment and student debt.

It's actually not too early to assess them, and doing so might help close important socioeconomic and racial gaps around services and treatment.

The statewide four - year graduation rate and the graduation rate among black students have both increased in recent years, although racial gaps are still striking.

What's less clear is whether academic aptitude entirely explains the racial gaps.

«Efforts to find alternative consequences have increased in recent years in an effort to reduce the racial gaps that exist in school discipline practices.

Furthermore, the K - 12 system itself is partially to blame; there are large racial gaps in high school graduation rates, which means that fewer people of color attend college relative to their white peers.

Income and racial gaps in school readiness closed significantly between 1998 and 2010, according to studies in a special issue of AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association.

For instance, across the country, racial gaps persist in access to rigorous coursework.15 Schools also disproportionately assign students of color to remedial courses and disproportionately advance white students to gifted and talented programs, which sends harmful messages to students of color about their ability.16

Her current research is focusing on the gender and racial gaps in STEM education, including the declaration of STEM majors in college.

That is, while the racial gaps keep closing, the rate of closure has slowed dramatically.

The Youth Justice Project of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice says the project reveals significant racial gaps in how students from different groups are treated.

Broward County officials wanted to disrupt the «school to prison pipeline,» and to close racial gaps in suspensions, expulsions, and referrals for arrest among their students.

Citizen Stewart: If only they attacked racial gaps in student achievement like they attack Campbell Brown

In an age when everyone is concerned about racial gaps in learning, it's also important to note that charters are getting these results while serving a more heavily black student population than DCPS, and with a greater share of low - income students who are eligible for free lunches.

Citizen Stewart penned a great piece on the vitriol of some anti-ed reform personalities on social media that we shared on the blog: If only they attacked racial gaps in student achievement like they attack Campbell Brown.

Then, of course, there won't be racial gaps in access to educational resources — because kids of other races won't even be present.

Racial gaps also narrowed during the same time.

Early childhood care and education: Effects on ethnic and racial gaps in school readiness.

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 gaps.

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

Racial gaps in enrollment rates prove even starker at selective colleges.

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.

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.

Thus adjusting the data for the effects of socioeconomic status reduces the estimated racial gaps in test scores by more than 40 percent in math and more than 66 percent in reading.

Reducing racial gaps in educational performance has been a national preoccupation for decades.

The authors of the funding study report that the school finance reforms they studied actually did not reduce socio - economic and racial gaps in test scores because low - income and minority students are not very concentrated in the districts that enjoyed spending increases.

I have spoken with more than one superintendent about complaints from white parents alleging their children are being neglected because of the focus on closing racial gaps.

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.

The volume provides an illuminating and alarming tour of today's racial gaps (white - black, mainly, but also white - Hispanic) and the many factors that feed them.

It is therefore important to understand not just whether discrimination exists, but how it relates to aggregate racial gaps in discipline rates in this legal context.

Racial gaps in total debt are far larger than even recent reports have recognized, far larger now than in the past, and correlated with troubling trends in the economy.

Still, the racial gaps remain large.

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.

Unfortunately, because the U.S. Department of Education does not regularly track borrowers by race, data limitations have hampered efforts to connect research on racial gaps with detailed new studies of debt and default patterns.

[xxxii] A recent study by Jackson and Reynolds, for example, finds that loans promote higher rates of persistence and completion among black undergraduates, and concludes that despite racial gaps in default rates, loans are nonetheless «an imperfect, but overall positive tool for reducing educational inequality» by race.

Second, these increases occur alongside evidence of growing racial gaps in college graduates» labor market outcomes, suggesting graduate school may for some students be a response to the weak post-recession labor market.

All of Gould's errors and unexplained methodological quirks narrowed the racial gaps.