Sentences with phrase «racial gaps led»

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

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«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

More research is needed because «looking at both psychological and biological responses to stress will lead to a more complete understanding of why we have the racial / ethnic achievement gap,» said study lead author, Dorainne Levy, who began the research while at Northwestern and is now a post-doctoral scholar at Indiana University.

Release: Friday, June 19, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Rick Famuyiwa Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance darling isn't particularly revelatory filmmaking, but it's much more intelligent than its dopey title suggests, rejecting racial stereotypes and erasing cultural gaps as confidently as it embraces its young leading trio as a righteous symbol of individualism.

The two of them led a committee that ultimately gave the group its tight focus on the racial achievement gap.

Narrowing the achievement gap will require housing desegregation: voiding exclusionary zoning, placing low - and moderate - income housing in predominantly white suburbs, and ending federal subsidies for communities that fail to reverse policies that led to racial exclusion.

This article reviews the details of the bonus program, describes patterns of differences between schools that qualify for bonuses of differing amounts, and presents basic data to address the question of whether the bonus program has improved student achievement, or has led to a narrowing of racial or socioeconomic achievement gaps.

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.