Sentences with phrase «wide achievement gaps between»

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.

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.

• 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.

Not exact matches

The achievement gap between minority and white students in Erie County is wider than it is statewide.

Reading's results show a wide and worsening gap between the achievement of these pupils and their more advantaged peers, both locally and nationally.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

The low group could be defined by sub-basement scores on achievement tests and wide gaps between groups on achievement - test results.

The counties have been criticised for an «unacceptably wide» gap between the achievements of young people who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those from more advantaged backgrounds.

Both counties are criticised for an «unacceptably wide» gap between the achievements of young people who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those from more affluent families.

3) We've made progress in narrowing resource gaps between schools, but the achievement gaps that vex us remain nearly as wide as ever.

Interestingly, in this case and in others where district - wide differentiated instruction initiatives were underway, the explicit rationale provided by district personnel was to help teachers ensure that the needs of «high - ability learners» were not being ignored, given the predominant state emphasis on interventions to close the achievement gap between low - and high - achieving students.

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.

Recent developments have galvanized people anew to address the racial achievement gap, from a jarring 2013 report called» Race to Equity» that showed the gulf in quality of life between whites and blacks is wider here than nationally, to the current «Black Lives Matter» movement, which has called out racial inequities in numerous public institutions, including schools.

That gap is wide: Data from the state Department of Education shows the achievement gap between white and black students in Mississippi is 28 percent, larger than the gaps for other traditionally disadvantaged subgroups in the state, including those between English speakers and English - language learners and between students in special education and general education, according to Mississippi Department of Education data.

Two state legislators» assessment of the results of a test showing Wisconsin's achievement gap between black and white students is the widest among all 50 states?

For example, in 2013 the achievement gap in reading between white and black 4th - graders was 30 points — more than the national average and a wider gap since the 2011 NAEP exam.

The school's data showed a wide gap in reading and math achievement between white and Hispanic students in 3rd grade; it looked like an insurmountable chasm at 5th grade.

But scores are still low, and achievement gaps between students of differing race and incomes remain wide.

Oakland Tech High School teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his school.

Meanwhile the tactic of putting all minority kids into super-subgroups ends up being a subterfuge because it hides the performance of kids from different backgrounds; a district can, say, do poorly in providing college preparatory curricula to Native Hawaiian children in its schools and still appear to do fine so long as the achievement gaps between groups don't appear to be so wide.

The data show that even when scores are rising, the so - called achievement gap between low - income and minority students and their non-disadvantaged counterparts remains wide, with students from low - income families at least twice as likely to fail.

The letter said pupils» achievement by the age of 16 is poor in comparison with pupils elsewhere in the west midlands and nationally; secondary schools are too often failing to build on the success of pupils in primary schools; the gap between the GCSE attainment of disadvantaged pupils and their better - off peers is wide; and not enough has been done to address these failings over the years.

But as student demographics change and achievement gaps between white and minority students remain wide, principals face growing challenges to serve an increasingly diverse population.

The plans focuses on schools ranked among the very lowest performers on state tests, now called Priority Schools, or those with the widest gaps in achievement between different racial groups and other groups of children, labeled as Focus Schools.