Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic gaps»

In addition, socioeconomic gaps in preschool participation grew over this period, despite substantial investments in public preschool.

This suggests that there may have been a major socioeconomic gap between the students of the two groups of teachers.

Finally, unique public - private partnerships are forming to create support networks that address socioeconomic gaps and challenges for entrepreneurs.

He argued that it isn't the role of the standards to close racial and socioeconomic gaps between those who go down that path and those who don't.

Uruguay in the last decades: widening and crystallizing gender and socioeconomic gaps among youth

«I think it's certainly conceivable that that's a real phenomenon — that there's a widening of the gaps, and you sort of imagine that that might have something to do with widening socioeconomic gaps or increases in the degree of poverty among relatively poor people in the U.S.,» he said.

«This data is giving us a magnifying glass into places that have the same socioeconomic gaps but different achievement patterns,» said Rucker C. Johnson, associate professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Despite sustained efforts on multiple fronts, socioeconomic gaps in educational indicators have barely budged overall, resisting repeated waves of school reform and a multitude of initiatives designed to improve prospects for low - income students.

Nor, of course, can we discount the possibility that the socioeconomic gap at GCSE would have been bigger without the pupil premium.

There are a number of possible explanations for these trends and the fact check is correct when it states that the improvement in the socioeconomic gap in achievement at age 11 can not be specifically attributed to the pupil premium.

There has indeed been a small reduction in the socioeconomic gap in achievement at age 11, Key Stage 2.

Even among 1 - year - olds, there is a socioeconomic gap in an infant's use of gestures, such as pointing — which predicts later vocabulary use, Rowe said.

Through the AGI, Ron has mobilized a national network of scholars who produce work that policymakers, educators, researchers, and parents can really use to help raise achievement for all children while narrowing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic gaps.»

On one hand, you have those who want to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in the usage of exclusionary and harsh disciplinary actions.

These findings make clear that while we can learn a tremendous amount by comparing school districts in terms of their racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic gaps in test scores, there is a large degree of variation within school districts in their outcome gaps as well.

Moreover, after many years of widening inequality, socioeconomic gaps in college attainment appear to have stabilized or slightly declined.

Academic skills in high school, at least as measured by a standardized math test, explain only a small part of the socioeconomic gap in educational attainment.

Socioeconomic gaps have widened.

And despite the assurances that highlighting these socioeconomic gap

«Among OECD, there's not a country that has been more successful in closing the socioeconomic gap than the United States,» Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills and special advisor on education policy to the Secretary - General at the OECD, said to Education Week.

Using administrative data on North Carolina public school students to corroborate earlier surveys that document broad racial and socioeconomic gaps in home computer access and use, the authors compared the children's reading and math scores before and after they acquired a home computer, and compared these scores to those of peers who had a home computer by fifth grade and to test scores of students who never acquired a home computer.

Anthem Strong Families is committed to helping bridge the socioeconomic gap and helping people to «Be the Champion» for their life, their marriage, their children and their family.

A major obstacle in family systems research is the question of relevance: Can researchers draw conclusions about parenting style that bridge cultural and socioeconomic gaps?