Sentences with phrase «racial gaps in»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

The findings show the need for renewed focus on closing racial gaps in education and school quality, which have been stuck in place for several decades, according to the authors.

Racial gaps in Mr. de Blasio's support persist.

This report details the context for the cuts — a decade of underinvestment — and makes the economic case for supporting public higher education: it helps families through the current crisis, stimulates growth in the local economy, narrows racial gaps in income and education, and helps build a solid middle class for New York's future.

A new study shows that the racial gap in jails has narrowed considerably in recent years — but not in the way we expect or hope.

The issue of marijuana arrests was highlighted by a New York Times report on the persistent racial gap in marijuana arrests.

City Councilman Rory Lancman said he's appealing to the DAs because of a massive racial gap in people busted by the NYPD for pot use.

Under scrutiny for a huge racial gap in marijuana busts, NYPD brass said they're making arrests in neighborhoods where residents are calling to complain about public weed smoking.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act is designed to encourage all states to close the racial gap in performance.

Is 25 years a realistic goal for closing the racial gap in test scores?

While these institutional factors played a role in the racial gap in debt, the study showed that racial differences in parental wealth played an important part.

«Racial gap in survival after in - hospital cardiac arrest narrows.»

Our results indicate that it is absolutely possible to close the racial gap in online dating.

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.

However, it was during this period — and only this period — that the racial gap in reading narrowed significantly.

This finding confirms that the racial gap in expectations for college attainment documented above puts black students at a disadvantage.

A version of this article appears in print on August 16, 2010, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Triumph Fades On Racial Gap In City Schools.

The even larger estimated math gains (about 0.4 σ) are more than enough to eliminate the racial gap in math while students are in middle school.

Cultivating a teaching workforce that is reflective of an increasingly diverse student body reflects inclusive national values, and may serve as a critical tool to narrow the racial gap in discipline outcomes.