Sentences with phrase «racial gaps around»

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

Not exact matches

In this latter paper, Reardon and coauthors report that while racial / ethnic test score gaps average around 0.6 standard deviations across all school districts, in some districts the gaps are almost nonexistent while in others they exceed 1.2 standard deviations.

Requirements around academic participation, behavior and teacher permission often coincide with racial and socio - economic gaps between students who participate and those who do not.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.