Sentences with phrase «while narrowing the gaps»

«The achievement gap is pernicious and persistent and we all need to work together to find solutions that help all groups rise, while narrowing the gap,» said Torlakson in a statement.

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While historically white men and women drink more than their black and Hispanic counterparts, that gap is narrowing — again, primarily driven by white Gen Zers drinking less.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

While shale production has narrowed the gap between supply and demand, it is nowhere close to zeroing out and allowing one to speak of energy independence.

(While Donovan has deployed this advice in helping women to narrow the gender pay gap, she points out that her advice applies to job candidates of both genders; women just tend to be less aware of these issues going into a negotiation.)

Well, the labour gap's been narrowing while the output gap has nearly certainly expanded.

Mr Palmquist said growers were at times $ US30 per tonne to $ US40 per tonne more expensive than their global peers and while this gap had narrowed to about $ US15 per tonne it highlighted the importance of improving the supply chains, including government - owned railways.

But now, views are hardening up; and while more people still approve than disapprove of the Government's performance, the gap has narrowed sharply in recent weeks.

The «Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis of Latent Fingerprint Analysis» report makes clear that while latent fingerprint examiners can successfully rule out most of the population from being the source of a latent fingerprint based on observed features, insufficient data exist to determine how unique fingerprint features really are, thus making it scientifically baseless to claim that an analysis has enabled examiners to narrow the pool of sources to a single person.

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepares to shoot the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings for the second time in its Grand Finale, Cassini engineers are delighted, while ring scientists are puzzled, that the region appears to be relatively dust - free.

While squinting and trying to narrow gaps, it's easy to lose the scale and product of our work.

While 2009 grads were 23 percent less likely to be employed after one year than 2006 grads, that gap narrowed to less than 10 percent after three years.

While race - and income - based gaps are narrowing to some extent (especially in the earlier grades), four common but faulty assumptions could block progress toward closing these and other serious achievement gaps:

NCLB, while broadening awareness of the achievement gap, simultaneously narrowed the purpose of our nation's schools, boiling the whole endeavor down to the incremental movement of testing numbers as an attempt to say something about student literacy and numeracy.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

For example, how do we know that the performance gap between minority and white students has been slowly narrowing while that between poor and well - off students has been widening?

His story illustrates that political and educational leadership are inextricably linked, as he describes his 14 - year focus on and commitment to narrowing the achievement gap while working tirelessly with his different constituents to bring them into the process.

SEL creates a positive school climate that supports learning and academic success while narrowing the achievement gap.

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

Oklahoma's program has narrowed the achievement gap between lower - and higher - income children while elevating early math and literacy skills for all participants.

While both countries, especially Chile, have made progress in narrowing test - score gaps among their students, large differences persist.

«While the performance of Virginia students compares favorably to that of students in other states, the disparities between subgroups underscore the importance of the Board of Education's policies and initiatives aimed at narrowing, and ultimately closing, achievement gaps,» Board of Education President David M. Foster said.

While students from the majority of the states analyzed posted achievement gains and narrowed gaps, the gaps for students of different races, ethnicities, and income levels remain large.

And while the degree to which any particular factor gets blame or credit for widening or narrowing the gaps is debatable, the authors in this issue of The State Education Standard agree that differences in educational opportunity play a key role.

There's really no way to create a tutor - proof test so while you've got entry by selective test, it is going to benefit the better - off families - and that is why Michael Wilshaw is right to say that it is not a system for the future of this country if what we want is all children to do well and the gaps to narrow.»

Peer tutoring could reduce racial segregation both within and between schools while narrowing the achievement gap.

So while genetics may well place an upper limit on intelligence, poor children are often denied the opportunity to reach their own maximum potential — meaning that, in the right environment, the achievement gap might be significantly narrowed.

And while researchers have just detected a narrowing of the achievement gap for the first time in decades, bringing us closer to our ideals, those same researchers predict the gap won't completely close for another 60 to 110 years.

The modern - day history of the community education concept explains the outstanding results our country saw in narrowing the achievement gap while improving the overall performance of our schools.

Over the past two years, McREL has worked extensively with teachers and administrators in the district to help them narrow their achievement gaps while increasing overall student performance.

For decades, the standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling — tended to narrow over time.

While narrowing achievement gaps and ensuring all students are proficient in academic subjects is at the core of our educational policy and practice, strategies designed to accomplish those goals don't work for all students.

While the university access gap between disadvantaged students and their more advantaged peers has narrowed somewhat in recent years, the gap at the most selective universities remains stubbornly wide.

While recent reforms are promising, more rigorous research is needed to assess whether they improve student outcomes over the long term and narrow achievement gaps.

While white, black and Hispanic children all made modest test score gains in DC since 2003, the Rhee agenda has not significantly narrowed achievement gaps between the various demographic groups, nor has it brought disadvantaged DC youth up to the national average scores for peers of their same race and class in other cities.

In math, Michigan's students in 2015 showed no improvement at all over students from 2000, and while the gap between White and Black students did narrow from 45 points in 2000 to 35 points in 2015, the gap between students in poverty and student not in poverty was essentially unchanged in the same period.

And while the gap in scores between white and black students has narrowed, Koretz says that much of that progress started — and ended — before test - based accountability became widespread.

While this represented a significant gain for black students, the improvement did not translate into a statistically significant narrowing of the achievement gap with white students.

These gaps are shrinking fast in D.C.: from 2010 - 11 to 2014 - 15, the African American to white students gap narrowed by 9 percentage points while gaps in other cities with available data [9] did not shrink.

While domestic auto makers narrowed the gap in initial vehicle quality, they didn't fare as well in plant rankings.

However, BMW narrowed the gap by providing us with a test car optioned up to $ 90,875, while our Porsche had a sticker of $ 106,210.

While Jaguar has narrowed the gap between itself and its rivals, it still lags, and quality and reliability issues contribute to the XJ's lower resale value.

While the gap between these high - end sedans is narrow, the Audi A8 distinguishes itself as a bona fide driver's car.

As for their ability to bring in cash for their respective companies, the Apple App Store continues to be at the top while the Google Play Store has managed to narrow down the gap considerably over the year.

And while that gap is narrowing all the time it's still clear that some people prefer to hold a physical copy of a book in their hands.

«As we saw with Android smartphones over the course of 2010, we do expect Android to narrow this huge gap in tablet activations, the company revealed, while also adding, «However, we don't see that happening in 2011.

Using a pinch - to - zoom gesture will let you make that window bigger or smaller (touch two opposite corners of the window, while touching widen or narrow the gap between your fingers).

While there's nothing to suggest this trend is going away anytime soon, you can take heart in knowing that the gender wage gap appears to be narrowing.

While the pay gap between men and women has narrowed, female CEOs still earn about 80 % of what their male counterparts receive to do the same job.

While equilibrium isn't likely, The Dating Ring hopes to narrow the gap.