Sentences with phrase «wide achievement gaps when»

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.

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The rosy proclamation obscured the fact that racial achievement gaps were nearly as wide as when he entered the White House.

Given that accountability is being limited to the worst five - percent of schools within a state and at least 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps, reformers (especially centrist Democrats) should be skeptical about what the administration means when it says «ambitious» and «achievable».

A new study from the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University is just the latest to suggest that preschool, when it's high - quality, can narrow achievement gaps before they grow too wide.

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.

Meanwhile, when Goldhaber and Cowan (2014) parsed student achievement data for graduates of various U.S. teacher preparation programs, they found a wide gap in the effectiveness of the graduates of these programs in terms of catalyzing student achievement.

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.