Sentences with phrase «than the achievement gap»

The achievement gap in urban districts is larger than the achievement gap in the rest of the nation.

What's more, the achievement gap between the lowest - and highest - performing students in Shanghai is smaller than the achievement gap in the United States.

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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.

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.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

The achievement gap between minority and white students in Erie County is wider than it is statewide.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

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.

The Interactive Learning methods used at Cochrane have helped narrow their achievement gap from 17 points in 2007 - 08 to 11 points in 2010 - 11, making it less than half the 30 - point achievement gap that exists throughout the state as a whole.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

Rather than attempting to develop and implement solutions for defined student groups, a more effective strategy for closing achievement gaps may be to work to ensure that evidence - based best practice is implemented as widely as possible in every school and every classroom.

Some of Willie's examples of hijacking included changing the idea of integration to desegregation, which negatively affects the Civil Rights Movement, or even focusing on closing the achievement gap rather than emphasizing helping each child reach his or her full potential.

This new edition of the book need take nothing back: the refusal or inability (often as a result of litigation) of schools to take into account or respond to the distinctive characteristics of boys is even more marked, the gap in school achievement between boys and girls even more substantial and troubling than in 2000.

This comports with the interpretation that average peer achievement influences everyone's test scores, since Asians score higher than whites in math overall (the Asian - white score gap is positive and relatively large in math, 0.62 of a standard deviation in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades).

And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

When those corrections and adjustments are made, Peterson shows that students under Rhee made much larger strides toward closing the district - national achievement gap than they did under her predecessors.

States can focus turnaround efforts on schools with particularly low subgroup achievement — rather than schools with large achievement gaps.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

We have deep, persistent achievement gaps, larger than in most other states.

Closing the achievement gap will require more than teaching young children basic pre-reading and math skills.

In spring 2011, the president visited a suburban school (with notable achievement gaps) to argue that without substantial changes more than 80 percent of the nation's schools would not meet NCLB performance targets this year.

In reading, the achievement gap has improved slightly more than in math (0.3 standard deviations), but after a half century, the average black student scores at just the 22nd percentile of the white distribution.

For example, in 4th - grade mathematics, the achievement gaps between the Abbott districts and the rest of the state were cut by more than one - third.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

With more than 26 years teaching at Harvard, Ferguson's research focuses on the racial achievement gap, education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development.

Shouldn't we be endeavoring to narrow the achievement gap rather than accepting it?

Whether charter schools do a better job than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...

In less than a decade, the states have created a new achievement gap that is nearly two - thirds the size of the achievement gap between black and white students, a gap rooted in slavery, discrimination, and 200 years of shameful history.

Some of our CMO schools are beginning to close the achievement gap; their students perform better than affluent students who traditionally outperform low - income students by a significant margin.

So our «lazy days of summer» worsen America's achievement gap; one study found it accounted for more than half of the gap.

The nation's Catholic schools appear more successful than public schools at closing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged 8th - grade students, according to a study released here last week during the annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

Rather than holding all students to the same bar, it gives credit to lower - performing groups that demonstrate progress, even if they don't fully close the entire achievement gap.

The achievement gap between white and minority students also is narrower in DoDEA schools than in U.S. public schools.

Four years later, she takes it as almost a personal failure that the 4th graders in her Reading First schools, more than 3,700 students, have cut the achievement gap with the state by more than half but haven't eliminated it.

But active learning made all students perform better than in lectures, halved the achievement gap for black students, and completely closed it for first - generation college goers.

It also discovered that: disadvantaged girls were also significantly less likely to have continued their academic career than more advantaged girls, although the achievement gap was less marked; and that disadvantaged girls were much less likely to enter four or more AS - level exams than other girls, and almost four times less likely to enter three or more A-levels than other girls.

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

Low - income students are particularly sensitive to this phenomenon some research suggests that more than half of the achievement gap seen in reading between these students and their wealthier peers can be attributed to summer loss.

The plaintiffs argued that the curriculum would widen rather than narrow Seattle's achievement gap between minority and white children.

From studying the historical relationship, we can estimate that closing just half of the performance gap with Finland, one of the top international performers in terms of student achievement, could add more than $ 50 trillion to our gross domestic product between 2010 and 2090.

«Need» should be a measure of educational achievement and the gap between it and a standard, rather than wealth or socio - economic data.

While nationwide gains in closing achievement gaps have been made, research shows that underserved student populations still achieve at lower rates than their peers in many areas.

With 25 schools serving 12,500 students, Alliance is the largest charter school network in Los Angeles, larger than 75 % of all California school districts, and successfully closing the achievement gap at scale...

We show that achievement gaps vary substantially, ranging from nearly 0 in some places to larger than 1.2 standard deviations in others.

The legislation also, as Layton reported, «require states to intervene with «evidence - based» programs in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest, and in high schools where fewer than two - thirds of students graduate on time.»

Even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across years resulting in a substantially greater achievement gap at the end of elementary school than was present at the beginning (Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2004; see also Borman & Dowling, 2006; Lai, McNaughton, Amituanai - Toloa, Turner, & Hsiao, 2009).

Today, the graduation rate for African - Americans is 75 percent, still lower than our white counterparts, but an increase that shows our community rapidly closing that achievement gap.