Sentences with phrase «reducing academic gaps»

Not exact matches

Academic PB goals are effective because they maintain the energising properties of competition (because a student competes with him / herself), they reduce the counterproductive effects of excessive comparison with others, they motivate the student to close the gap between where they are now and where they want to be, and they are accessible to all students (whereas only one student can top the class, potentially all students can achieve a PB goal).

This summer, we will once again be providing our middle school students with an academic summer camp that is aimed not only at reducing the summer learning loss gap, but also positioning students to be ahead of the game when they return to school in the fall.

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.

Restricting analysis to within - school comparisons reduces the Asian — white gap in academic achievement and academic effort.

The goal of increased assessment and accountability in NCLB was to improve student achievement, reduce the achievement gap, and align instruction to academic standards.

WSI schools that effectively implement arts integration were found to have reduced or actually eliminated the academic achievement gap for economically disadvantaged students.

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) strives to reduce academic achievement gaps for children.

The research reinforces the fact that investments in high quality early childhood education and care programs for at - risk children is not only a solution for reducing achievement gaps and improving academic performance, but pays long - term dividends beyond school.

This implies that high - poverty schools are, on average, much less effective than lower - poverty schools, and suggests that strategies that reduce the differential exposure of black, Hispanic, and white students to poor classmates may lead to meaningful reductions in academic achievement gaps.

Academics with the Civil Rights Project at UCLA say that softening disciplinary practices would be minimal and manageable, and that resolving unequal discipline is necessary to reduce the racial achievement gap.

The Broad Prize for Urban Education and The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools were created to recognize the public school systems that show the greatest academic performance and improvement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students of color.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

There has been a resurgence in research that investigates the efficacy of early investments as a means of reducing gaps in academic performance.

A number of factors have been associated with poor school attendance, including low socioeconomic status and low levels of parental education.1 3 In Australia, Indigenous young people have been identified to have significantly worse attendance and school retention when compared with non-Indigenous children, and it has been suggested that this is a key driver of the gap in academic outcomes between non-Indigenous and Indigenous young people.6 — 8 In addition Moore and McArthur9 identified that maternal and family risks, such as family instability, mental illness and drug and alcohol issues, are associated with reduced child participation in school.

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) * is intended to improve the academic success of disadvantaged children by providing funds to help schools raise academic achievement and close the achievement gap; hire, train, and retain well - qualified teachers; and reduce dropouts.