Sentences with phrase «wide achievement gaps»

• Overall score gains may mask wider achievement gaps between high - scoring and low - scoring students, with percentages of students scoring in the lower ranges stuck or increasing.
Such disparate school spending is frequently identified as a primary culprit in our nation's wide achievement gaps between students of different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds.
«We have the second - widest achievement gap in the country and the fact that we are talking about putting more on our schools and disproportionately on charters — it's just amazing to me.
New federally - compiled graduation rates for 47 states and the District of Columbia left many states reeling this week as more rigorous and uniform standards highlighted wide achievement gaps and lower...
There's also the Obama Administration's No Child waiver gambit, which has allowed 43 states and the District of Columbia to ditch AYP for accountability systems that have allowed districts and schools to proclaim themselves as high - performing even when they have not reduced wide achievement gaps, especially between white and black children.
Even as Wake County was paraded around by the Kahlenberg crowd as an exemplar of how integration improves student achievement, the district itself admitted there were still wide achievement gaps along race and economic lines.
Four - year (on - time) graduation rates for Wisconsin's Latino students (77.5 percent) were close to the national rate (77.8 percent), but still result in wide achievement gaps when compared with white students.
Even worse, the current draft of the Student Success Act doesn't even require states to still subject the nation's 5,000 dropout factories and the five percent of schools with wide achievement gaps, something that Harkin's plan and the Obama Administration's waiver gambit requires.
Overall score gains may mask increasing or unchanging percentages of students scoring in the lower ranges and wider achievement gaps between high and low scoring students.
New federally - compiled graduation rates for 47 states and the District of Columbia left many states reeling this week as more rigorous and uniform standards highlighted wide achievement gaps and lower numbers than previously reported.
But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in...
The report, «Boosting Performance and Containing Cost through Mayoral Academies,» contrasts the low performance of low - income and minority students and the wide achievement gaps in traditional district schools, and the high performance of low - income and minority students and smaller achievement gaps in high - performing charter schools in neighboring states.
While it is difficult to assess definitively the impact of NCLB, the best evidence suggests that it has had positive impacts on student performance as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress; it has narrowed some of the wide achievement gaps by race and ethnicity; and it has generally led to much more attention to the importance of student performance.
Other groups have wide achievement gaps and low college success rates.
Does a district with wide achievement gaps and napping high - school students meet minimum quality standards?
For example, the state plans to continue identifying some high - poverty schools as «priority» or «focus» schools based on low test scores or wide achievement gaps.
No civil right mandates the one thing that we know from research closes even the widest achievement gaps: excellent teachers for multiple, consecutive years.
But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.
Amani Charter School exists because Debra and her husband, Charles Stern, realized that there is a wide achievement gap in Mount Vernon and that it becomes even more persistent in the middle and high school years.
States have a moral and economic responsibility to enable continuous, sustained improvement processes that include differentiated support to districts and schools — particularly those that are the lowest performing and have the widest achievement gaps.
But officials didn't like to mention that proficiency rates of D.C. students would still be considered failing in a high - performing district or that a wide achievement gap persists between white students and black and Hispanic students.
Add in the fact that waiver states only had to focus on the worst - performing five percent schools along with schools with wide achievement gaps (and ignored the mediocrity of the remaining 85 percent of schools), and it is clear, as EdTrust President Kati Haycock declared today, that the administration's gambit «invited [states] not to actually make those goals meaningful for the vast majority»
This is particularly true in states such as Indiana and Florida that have implemented A-to-F grading systems that essentially allow schools proclaim they are high - performing even when they have wide achievement gaps.
For one, instead of focusing on how schools addressed achievement gaps and subgroup accountability, the administration allowed states to develop accountability systems that primarily focused on the worst - performing five percent of schools along with an another 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps.
Rising proficiency for students with disabilities across most subjects (exceptions for middle school writing, high school math, and high school social studies), at a pace that can contribute importantly to narrowing one of our widest achievement gaps
As a result, dropout factories will be allowed to slip under the radar, a troublesome issue given that the footprint of accountability is already being shrunk to only the worst five percent of schools and at least 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps.
The decision by the administration to limit accountability to the worst - performing five percent of schools (along with at least 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps) will allow warehouses of mediocrity off the hook for providing high - quality education to all children regardless of background.
The state Department of Education said that, for the first time, it steered these particular federal funds aimed at students with disabilities to districts deemed «Priority» or «Focus» schools the administration's new nomenclature for schools with either the lowest performance overall or the widest achievement gaps, respectively.
It's widely acknowledged that Milwaukee boasts one of the widest achievement gaps in the country among public school students.
«Providing a summative measure does not have to conflict with the multiple indicator approach that California has adopted and can build on it, to ensure that parents have a clear entry point to interact with the richer performance data and the state can clearly identify those LEAs and schools with wide achievement gaps and in need of extra attention,» the letter says.
The groups, which include the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Education Trust, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, were also displeased that the bill targets the bottom 5 percent of schools with the lowest performance and the bottom 5 percent with the widest achievement gaps in lieu of a broader focus, though this is generally consistent with the administration's ESEA blueprint (PDF).
Efforts underway to expand access to high - quality child care and pre-K programs in Pennsylvania are aimed at improving school readiness for low - income children and mitigating the wide achievement gaps plaguing them in the later grades.
New York and Kentucky showed dramatic drops in proficiency and wider achievement gaps.
Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).
Public schools here in the St. Louis region, as in many other metropolitan areas across the country, have struggled for decades to bridge a wide achievement gap between school districts — a divide that often runs along racial and socioeconomic lines.
It has also been clear that the administration's decision to allow states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps)-- and ignore those districts serving up mediocre instruction and curricula — will lead to widening achievement gaps.
The two candidates vying to become the next superintendent come from school districts with limited similarities to Boulder Valley, but both say they have the skills to lead a high - performing district with a wide achievement gap.
Several participants offering feedback on the qualities they seek in the school district's next superintendent said they want an innovative leader who's not afraid to push change and take on wide achievement gaps.
Wide achievement gaps between large cities, often with huge concentrations of low - income minorities, and the average U.S. student have closed by as much -LSB-...]
By allowing states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps), the administration is also letting districts not under watch off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.
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