Sentences with phrase «reading gaps between»

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

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

Dr Kevan Collins discusses how using evidence can help bridge the stubborn reading gap between poor students and their more affluent peers.My first day at...

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I think the cultural gap between a liberal metropolis like New York and the rest of America is more stark than it has been, and the conflict plays out in Internet media because Hulk Hogan's [Florida] neighbors can read Gawker.

For those who haven't had the time to read the legaled - up language of every single privacy policy we encounter (which, considering Carnegie Mellon researchers estimated it would take the average user the equivalent of 76 work days per year to do, is most of us), and even for people like me who do it for a living and still find disclosure gaps, the Facebook — Cambridge Analytica scandal managed to shed a bit of light on the otherwise obscure relationships between some tech companies and advertisers.

«Majorities of nearly every demographic group - including all major religious groups, age groups and education groups - agree that the government should do more to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor,» reads the survey.

The more I read his writings the more I could see the gap between experience and conceptuality (as described earlier on), and between Asia and the West, narrowing.

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

A whole bunch of things had gone wrong in my life at the same time, and I think I felt there was a gap between my experience of Church and what I read in the Bible.

In reading such a narrative, we realize the gap between the thirteenth and the twentieth century, and we feel that saintliness of character may yield almost absolutely worthless fruits if it be associated with such inferior intellectual sympathies.

Trending Story: Grape Collective: Rethinking the Wine Magazine Grape Collective, a new subscription - free online wine magazine, revolutionizes how wine media is consumed by introducing a digital platform that bridges the gap between reading about a wine and drinking it.

Thanks for the post... one of the first that I have read from a Mitchell supporter that really tries to look at this yawning gap between Simmons» analytics and Mitchell.

This is a bit of a break in the RFPL in terms of close encounters in the table, although, aside from Loko and SKA, and the gap between 5th (CSKA) and 6th (Ufa), not a single team in the whole league is more than two points ahead of behind their... [Read more...]

Following Manchester City's shock defeat at Goodison Park coupled with Manchester United's victory over Reading just hours later the gap between the two Manchester clubs now stands at fifteen points, with Manchester United having the opportunity to extend that to eighteen in the early kick off against Sunderland.

And with the Citizens up against West Brom, a side they've enjoyed great success against in recent times, the gap between the two Manchester outfits could become eight points should results not go the Red Devils» way on Saturday Continue reading →

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

If there is a big generation gap between you and your child, you should read an online family time magazine in order to find some ideas on activities that both you and your child can enjoy.

And I myself enjoyed reading it, as I found that I had a need, as a mother, to read around the practicalities of motherhood and found that there is a gap between the theory and practice in psychology in terms of available reading.

* This event is rescheduled from October * Keeping the Baby in Mind: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Infant Mental Health This is a 2 Day Programme for practitioners who have developed a familiarity regarding the practice of infant... Continue reading →

Keeping the Baby in Mind: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Infant Mental Health This is a 2 Day Programme for practitioners who have developed a familiarity regarding the practice of infant mental health and now wish to develop their... Continue reading →

Keeping the Baby in Mind: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Infant Mental Health This is a 2 Day Programme for practitioners who have developed a familiarity regarding the practice of infant mental health and now wish to... Continue reading →

I dimly recall reading somewhere that, even between men, there is a huge pay gap and this correlates (roughly) to levels of testosterone.

Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth grade — replicating the well - known gap between income and achievement.

But as he read the ad a second time, he realized that there were some gaps between his experience and the job requirements.

Data is read by scanning gaps between atoms and the microscope's probe.

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

«We believe that the early superiority in the reading skills of the children who were screened may have enabled them to read more demanding material more frequently than their peers with later confirmed hearing difficulties, thus increasing the skill gap between the two groups.

Last September researchers narrowed that gap between reading our genome and understanding it by cataloging the activity of most of its 3 billion letters.

If you're feeling masochistic enough to read more from scientists into the documented gap between reality and Willie Soon's research, check older RealClimate posts on Dr. Soon here, here, and here, and this generously - detailed debunk of Soon's presentation at the latest Heartland Institute climate denial conference by ecologist Richard Telford.

But again, I was bouncing between books — TPHD and GAPS — so am back to GAPS and reading from the beginning.

It's not that I don't like jeans (or dressing down, for that matter), but rather I find it hard to find that perfect pair - that bridges the gap between being comfortably worn - in, but still able to be dressed up... read more

Sooooo, I don't quite fit back into my denim skirt yet (as you can tell by the gap between the top buttons), but I missed Read More

If you're having trouble «minding the gap» between your dating expectations and your relationship reality, it's probably... (read more)

For example Dundee's attainment gap in reading narrowed between the first and second years of the fund.

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

Reading's results show a wide and worsening gap between the achievement of these pupils and their more advantaged peers, both locally and nationally.

Disconcertingly, NAEP results show that for children between the ages of 9 and 13, the gender gaps in science and reading roughly double and the math gap increases by two - thirds.

For children between the ages of 13 and 17, there is modest growth in the math and reading gender gaps but a substantial expansion of the gap in science (see Figure 1).

With increased instruction in academic language, and increased attention to understanding of morphology and connectives, Lesaux hopes to close the gap between students» reading skills and their comprehension.

Curious children often spend a great deal of time reading and acquiring knowledge because they sense a gap between what they know and what they want to know — not because they are motivated by grades.

In reading, it was the students in all - girls schools who were likely to outperform those in other schools (at all year levels), but the gap between single - sex and coeducational schools actually narrowed over time.

The release of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading and mathematics shows widening gaps between the highest and lowest achieving students in America, underscoring a continuing need for investment in efforts to make education systems more equitable.

The latest PISA results revealed a 39 point gap between girls and boys in reading skills, write William Brozo and Richard Whitmire in today's New York Daily News.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

It makes vivid the gap between «children born to educated parents who are more likely to read to them as babies, to drive them to dance class, to nudge them into college themselves — and children whose parents live at the edge of economic survival.»

Because Klein's educational record is strong, all those interested in narrowing the tragic education - performance gap between our well - off and our poor students should read this book.

Since 2000, the gap in reading scores between the highest - and lowest - performing 10 percent of 4th graders has narrowed to 90 points from 103 points on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

In both reading and math, all six urban districts included in our analysis reduced the gap in TAAS passing rates between whites and African - Americans and between whites and Hispanics.

The gaps in the passing rates between whites and African - Americans and between Hispanics and whites in both math and reading declined from 1994 to 2000.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.