Sentences with phrase «school achievement gap»

In fact, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, half of the school achievement gap between economically - disadvantaged young children and their more affluent peers starts before kindergarten.

To combat what they refer to as the summer school achievement gap, the story explains, educators in less affluent areas are trying to create more summer programs that are not remedial.

We find little support for the notion that differences in resources, such as per - pupil expenditures and class size, could explain the middle - school achievement gap.

But it is hard to recommend closing the middle - school achievement gap by bringing everybody down.

We found that the middle - school achievement gap can not be explained by a scarcity of financial resources for the schools.

However, once students enter school the achievement gaps do not continue to narrow, the authors note.

In fact, middle school achievement gaps significantly lower the likelihood that students will graduate at all.

Not exact matches

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

You suggest that some of the most effective models of closing the academic achievement gap are found at the school - based level.

According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

Researchers have found, in fact, that most of the achievement gap between well - off and poor children opens up before age five; for most children, the gap then stays pretty steady from kindergarten through the end of high school.

Project - based learning methods may help to decrease the gap in achievement between female and male middle school students.

The achievement gap in American schools starts before children enter kindergarten.

Furthermore, the achievement gaps, long plaguing school systems around the country, aren't present in the homeschooling environment.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under - served high schools and students.

Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine editor, will address the issues of poverty, education and the achievement gap, during a special presentation, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28 at Springfield High School.

«There is no evidence to show that the free schools model raises standards of education or that it will narrow the achievement gap between pupils from different ethnic groups.

President Mulgrew said: «By objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

State education officials applauded the improvements, but said schools still have a long way to go, especially to close achievement gaps.

Carranza said he will «look under the hood» and when he does, he'll see that Mayor de Blasio's inattention to K - 12 school improvement and the achievement gap, his hostility to school choice and his failed turnaround programs mean that a change is needed,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

«We're closing the achievement gap — and we're doing it through strategic models,» Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a statement.

The fact check provides a fair and nuanced picture of achievement levels in English primary and secondary schools, and specifically the gap in achievement between richer and poorer students.

The latest entrant last week was the NAACP: A letter from the group, distributed by NYSUT, argued the cap was hurting poor and minority school districts by widening the state's achievement gap.

NYC public school students have substantially closed the achievement gap with their counterparts in the rest of the state on standardized English and math exams, according to an analysis released yesterday.

«Ed Trust — NY's «See Our Truth» report raised awareness about the critical role that strong and diverse teachers and school leaders play in student success and in closing achievement and opportunity gaps.

«Summer learning is an essential element to closing the achievement gap and ensuring educational equity across our city and state,» said Principal Jason Wagner, Pelham Lab High School.

Even though Foley did not receive the CEA board's endorsement, he «remains committed to real education reform, including addressing the needs of the 100,000 children who are in under - performing schools and closing Connecticut's achievement gap, which remains the worst in the nation,» spokesman Chris Cooper said.

«High quality charter schools help close the achievement gap and they are definitely part of the solution.»

«Expanding access to public charter schools will help eliminate the achievement gap in New York City and will help give children like my son access to the schools they deserve,» said Tamika Bradley, a public charter school parent from Brownsville.

In addition, Borough President Katz will recognize the nine Queens high schools that were recently designated as «Reward Schools» by the New York State Commissioner of Education for having made the most significant progress or have the highest achievement in the state with no significant gaps in student achieschools that were recently designated as «Reward Schools» by the New York State Commissioner of Education for having made the most significant progress or have the highest achievement in the state with no significant gaps in student achieSchools» by the New York State Commissioner of Education for having made the most significant progress or have the highest achievement in the state with no significant gaps in student achievement.

Carla Schaffer / AAAS Interactions at home and participation in museum and after - school programs for children can eliminate achievement gaps in math, vocabulary and science among...

Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified poor planning skills as one reason for the income - achievement gap, which can emerge as early as kindergarten and continue through high school.

The school is well - known not only for the first experimental submarine, the first hydrofoil craft, the first shipboard computer, the first swath bathymeter set and dozens of other major gap - filling scientific research breakthroughs, but also for being the best in the world with several achievements such as duplex submersible vehicles, hovercrafts and gradient velocimeters.

A new breed of schools is closing achievement gaps among students and may hold the key to a revitalized 21st - century workforce

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

Affluent students who receive a top - notch education may acquire this skill as a matter of course, but this capacity is often lacking among low - income students who attend struggling schools — holding out the hopeful possibility that retrieval practice could actually begin to close achievement gaps between the advantaged and the underprivileged.

Successful implementation of preschool to 3rd grade programs yields benefits in increasing school readiness, improving attendance, and strengthening parental involvement in school education — strategies that can close the achievement gap for children at risk, according to a new University of Minnesota study.

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

A study of one Texas school district reveals one of the best evidence - based ways ever found to close the educational achievement gap between black and white students.

As a race - based educational achievement gap in American schools persists, a corresponding assortment of race - based health disparities follow proportionately, according to multiple studies cited by Anderson.

«One factor that may help schools close racial achievement gap: Study in Texas shows «collective efficacy» has big impact.»

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

It found that progress had been made in closing achievement gaps in the elementary grades, but that middle and high schools are still struggling to close those gaps.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuschool system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

The first to examine the effects of financial incentives among urban public school students, it found that rewards can produce excellent results in closing the achievement gap — if they are tied to specific steps the students take rather than to grades or test results.