Sentences with phrase «reduce equity gaps»

Measures the percentage of juniors and seniors in high school who complete broad and challenging coursework — including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and honors courses — in order to incentivize participation in rigorous coursework and to reduce equity gaps among student subgroups enrolled in advanced courses.

A recent report by the California Acceleration Project shows that the use of high school measures has dramatically broadened access to and completion of college - level math and English courses, significantly reduced equity gaps, and has had little impact on course success rates.

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The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

The Equity and Excellence Commission, a federal advisory committee chartered by Congress, articulated a five - part framework to reduce disparities in educational opportunity that give rise to the achievement gap.

The Connecticut Center for School Change (the Center) is a statewide, non-profit organization with a mission to improve teaching and learning, to reduce achievement gaps, and to promote equity in Connecticut schools.

And board policy can plan an important part of reducing those gaps by providing the district with a «race equity lens» for bring about desired change.

The spend safely in retirement strategy recommends you consider delaying retirement, reducing expenses, getting a retirement job and / or tapping your home equity to fill in the gaps.

If you were trading, for example, equity sector ETFs where the risk of large gaps were reduced and limit moves were not a concern, would you moderate your approach to position sizing?

HUD HOME reduces the amount of subordinate debt on affordable housing development projects, according to Baldasare, so cutting the HUD budget would exacerbate the equity gap problem.