Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic achievement gap from»

In Cincinnati, not only was the graduation rate for the Community Schools district improved from 59 % to 82 %, but they were also able to lessen the racial and socioeconomic achievement gap from 14.5 % to 4.5 %.

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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.

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.

One response to this observation has been to assume that the closing of achievement gaps requires group - based solutions — for example, special initiatives aimed at boys (or girls), educational solutions for Indigenous students, or government programs targeted on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

Everyone from teachers to educators to neurologists to acclaimed economists agrees that these early interventions help close the socioeconomic achievement gap and provide many other long run benefits such as reducing the number of students classified for special education services, improving graduation rates, and even reducing the number of students entering the school - to - prison pipeline.

«The College Success Academy helps bridge the achievement gap for those who are from low socioeconomic backgrounds or who are first generation students.»

The existence of a «socioeconomic achievement gap» — a disparity in academic achievement between students from high - and low - socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds — is well - known in educational research.

The concept of an achievement gap dates back to the 1960s and focuses on the differences in educational outcomes by race (between white children and children of color) and socioeconomic status (between children from low - income and higher income households).