Sentences with phrase «underachievement gap»

Community Dinner Dialogue: The Underachievement Gap June 1, 2018 This facilitated conversation over a special meal will involve about 30 local leaders, including youth from Santa Monica, discussing this issue together.

«We show that minority students have lower achievement scores than white students with the same cognitive ability, and that placement in a [gifted] class effectively closes this minority underachievement gap,» the authors wrote.

Not exact matches

Thus, my challenge to you is to find an underachieving gifted child (research shows about half of gifted learners experience underachievement - or the gap between potential and performance at some point in their school career) and give them a good year.

Teachers participating in the research raised concerns about how class groupings can widen «gaps in attainment» and worsen inequalities that already exist in the system, such as the underachievement of summer - born children.

Although successive government reforms in the UK have driven up standards overall in the last 10 years, the gap between the attainment of children from poor and affluent homes has remained roughly the same, in some areas it has widened, and there is a long tail of underachievement.

Closing the ATTITUDE Gap The discussion on gaps in student achievement continue to be one of the most important discussions in education today; particularly as it relates to the underachievement of children of color.