Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic gaps among»

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

Not exact matches

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

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.

The United States still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels, and other socioeconomic lines, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold between 2001 and 2009.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

«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.

NCLB, passed with bipartisan support in 2001, sought through a variety of provisions to close the achievement gap among racial and socioeconomic groups but was highly proscriptive with Adequate Yearly Progress and intervention measures.

In fact, socioeconomic status is the single largest factor influencing children's school readiness, according to Inequalities at the Starting Gate: Cognitive and Noncognitive Gaps among the 2010 — 2011 Kindergarten Classmates.

That implicitly glowing appraisal of teacher performance stood in contrast to alarming achievement gaps among students of different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and to a more general slippage of U.S. students in international rankings of student achievement.

Second, Gaete and Jones claim that «there is now consensus among researchers that both the educational and the socioeconomic gaps have been increased.»

Moreover, international experience confirms that it is possible to make progress in closing these gaps: not only have two dozen countries made substantial progress in overall achievement, but 17 countries that exceed US performance levels also have a narrower gap among children of divergent socioeconomic backgrounds.

The achievement and attainment gaps in Illinois between students of different races, native languages, and socioeconomic statuses are among the worst in the country, and they have been persistent, in some cases even widening.

Adherence with recommended well - child visits has grown, but large gaps persist among various socioeconomic groups.