Sentences with phrase «reading gap»

The content - impoverished skill and vocabulary exercises conducted by the schools continue to leave large reading gaps between social groups.

Over time, small differences in oral language skill of 5 and 6 year olds grow into a significant reading gap by the time students are in middle school.

The black - white reading gap closed 3 points (statistically significant) while the Hispanic - white gap closed 4 points, also statistically significant.

In reading the gap narrowed by 6 percentage points between 2010 and 2015.

Multiple studies have confirmed that students in low - income households develop an average two month reading gap during the summer.

SAYL aims to close reading gaps by increasing the number of third - grade students reading at grade level.

Military Bases Try to Stop Summer Reading Gap Programming has kicked off for a global summer reading initiative that will reach families in all branches of the military.

Initial reading gaps in Kindergarten are enormous.

But the generally slow improvements in much of the rest of the country, including an expanded reading gap in the Midwest, attenuated the overall improvement.

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In Boston, a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard, Duke, and the University of Michigan, conducted a RCT and found: «The charter school effects reported here are therefore large enough to reduce the black - white reading gap in middle school by two - thirds.»

When I read the GAPS diet, I felt she was writing the book just for us.

Between 1971 and 1988, according to NAEP data, the reading gap between white and black 12th graders declined from 52 points to 20 (the gap also diminished for 4th and 8th graders, albeit not quite so sharply).

Put differently, if we continue to close gaps at the same rate in the future, it will be roughly two and a half centuries before the black - white math gap closes and over one and a half centuries until the reading gap closes.

I am convinced that the following explanation is, without doubt, the least recognized but most salient explanation for why there is a reading gap between rich and poor, for why so many kids reach upper - elementary and middle school with less than even minimal ability to read and make sense of text.

Research study after research study has found that vocabulary is critical to a student's success and to closing the reading gap.

The across - and within - cohort comparisons thus yield different stories about whether the reading gap narrows or grows as children progress through school.

When University of California at Los Angeles professor Meredith Phillips and her colleagues compared age - standardized measures of the black - white gap across grades, they found that the math gap widened by around one - fifth of a standard deviation between the 1st and the 12th grades, while the reading gap did not change much.

(There was no statistically significant change in the reading gap between grades 7 and 9 or grades 10 and 12.)

March is national reading month — and a good time to focus on some rather bleak news about the reading gap between boys and girls.

Estimated effects on kindergarten entry achievement gaps between low - income and higher - income children were also large: The math gap would reduce by an estimated 27 percent and the reading gap would reduce by an estimated 41 percent.

The Dominican study: Public library summer reading programs close the reading gap.

The reading gap between boys and girls in England is widening but there is no official strategy to address it, a report says.

As a third grade teacher, I see that closing the reading gap is challenging.

As a teacher leader, closing the reading gap comes in naturally by applying what they learn.

More than half of the reading gaps of 9th graders can be explained by summer learning loss during elementary school.

In between 1973 and 1986, the gap in mathematics achievement closed by 22 points, and in between 1971 and 1988, the reading gap closed by 21 points.

That's because the reading gaps are knowledge gaps — the results of schooling that rests on empty skill practice and slogans like «Who decides?»

According to the National Summer Learning Association, more than half of the reading gaps of 9th graders can be explained by summer learning loss during elementary school.

And in closing the white - black achievement gap, the comparison is more pronounced — with fourth graders the gap narrowed by 6 points in math and 10 points in reading during 2000 - 2009 versus no change in the reading gap over the past four years and a one point widening of the gap in math.

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