Sentences with phrase «shows substantial gaps»

A: Despite establishing standards, assessments, and accountability mechanisms, the distribution of educational achievement still shows substantial gaps that correlate with socioeconomic status.

Not exact matches

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Opinion polling regularly shows that a substantial percentage — 73 per cent of people in 2004 — considers the gap between those with high and those with low incomes to be too large.29

All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show substantial gains in closing the achievement gap, with the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.

Figure 2 also shows the large differences in exclusionary discipline rates between black students and white students, a gap that remains substantial regardless of the race and gender of the teacher.

APP graduates were able to turn those schools around, showing significant improvements in English Language Arts and Mathematics and substantial progress in closing the achievement gaps in ELA and math scores against comparable schools within just three years

Economically disadvantaged students and English Learners also largely showed improvement in the shares of students meeting the standards — although those increases were not at rates fast enough to close substantial achievement gaps with students who are not disadvantaged.

IMO this is developing into quite a credibility gap and I hope that there will soon be a better answer than «we don't know, so we'll just keep using the old scenarios even though they all already show a substantial overestimate within 5 years of being published».