Sentences with phrase «to close the racial achievement gap»

This supports our assertion that we will close the racial achievement gap only when we also address the school discipline gap.

The city made no statistically significant progress in closing the racial achievement gap in that time, said Arnold Goldstein, a statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the national test.

One confusing but important finding is that that simply closing the racial achievement gap at each individual college would not be enough to ensure that black and white students graduate at the same rate overall.

The story leads with some juicy quotes of Mayor Michael Bloomberg boasting to Congress and others of great progress closing the racial achievement gap — then proceeds to burst the Mayor's bubble.

«One factor that may help schools close racial achievement gap: Study in Texas shows «collective efficacy» has big impact.»

The emphasis on reporting disaggregated data and closing racial achievement gaps earned plaudits from the civil rights and business communities, but the school accountability system fostered friction and discontent.

African American students advanced from the bottom quarter of Chicago's test score distribution for white students to the 46th percentile in reading and math, essentially closing the racial achievement gap.

The full plan to close the racial achievement gap by altering the structure of the high school is known as the High School Redesign.

But the school's student population is far more economically diverse than Manual's — and the school has made little progress on closing the racial achievement gap.

Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

And because of low performance among white students in urban districts, a focus on closing school - level achievement gaps was clearly insufficient: closing the racial achievement gap at Central High School in Providence in 2007 would have entailed raising the proficiency rate of African American students from 7 percent to where white students were, at 9 percent.

Remember those years when he thought he closed the racial achievement gap?

Carranza's priorities rang familiar to New Yorkers Monday as he stressed lower reliance on testing, a focus on social services, LGBTQ rights, support for immigrant children and closing racial achievement gaps.

Florida's reform record provides hope to a nation struggling to improve education and to close racial achievement gaps.

Among the Left, those who see a punitive law that's unfair to teachers scuffle with NCLB hawks committed to closing racial achievement gaps.

Consider the case of Florida, which has been celebrated, especially by conservatives, for its success in closing racial achievement gaps.

The effects in elementary school are large enough to close the racial achievement gap in both mathematics and ELA.

Today, he is relentless in his determination to close the racial achievement gap and provide all students the chance to succeed.

Remarkably, HOPE is on its way to closing the racial achievement gap that has historically plagued inner - city kids.

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

Closing the racial achievement gap: learning from Florida's reforms.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson pointed to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as the main way the state can work at closing the racial achievement gap.

If the events in Newtown are of any indication (especially against backdrop of the challenges of our urban districts and our failure to close the racial achievement gap), «more effective communication» is at the heart of what we need as a nation to bring about and sustain more transformative learning communities.

When, after a nationwide search, he was hired two years ago to serve as superintendent of Florida's Broward County Public Schools, Robert Runcie began brainstorming ways to close the racial achievement gap.

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to

It found that poverty, not race, is the real challenge for segregated schools, and that improving school quality is key to closing racial achievement gaps.

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to establish conditions that enable students — primarily poor students of color — to achieve at levels far higher than their social background predicts.