Sentences with phrase «white and minority student scores»

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers highlighted the continued closing of the gap between white and minority student scores on the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination and Wisconsin Alternative Assessments for Students with Disabilities.

Not exact matches

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

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.

But after its passage into law, white, black and Hispanic students all made gains and the widening of the white - minority test score gap was reversed.

A study of test scores in each of the city's public elementary schools finds that diversity does not erase achievement gaps between white and minority students.

The third problem, Ho explains, raises concerns about achievement gaps — for example, average differences between test scores of white or higher - income students and minority or poor students.

Gaps in test scores between minority and white students have also narrowed over the past 30 years for some groups, especially Latino students.

Reform efforts in this state are paying off in higher test scores and lowering the achievement gap between minority and white students.

«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.

The latest scores were especially disappointing because score gaps between white and minority students did not diminish at all since the last time the math test was administered, in 2007.

In Denver, white students are much more likely than Denver's majority racial - minority student population to enroll in high - scoring schools and in advanced courses.

«The magnitude of the test - score gains from one year are equivalent to 10 percent to 20 percent of the achievement gap between minority and white students,» reads the report.

Never mind that, in Abigail Fisher's case, only five of the 47 students admitted with lower grades and test scores than Abigail's were minority, while 42 were white.

That test - focused approach served to highlight the vast difference in scores between more affluent students — who, in D.C., are almost all white — and poor and minority students.

Eliminating those differences in test scores between middle - class white students and minority, low - income and non-native English - speaking children is one of the key components of Obama's Race to the Top initiative and the proposed changes to No Child Left Behind.