Sentences with phrase «wide equity gaps»

And, with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, there is at least implicit acknowledgment that standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind Act have failed at closing stubbornly wide equity gaps by race, income, language, and special education status.

Not exact matches

I'm speaking in a special session about women in science — highlighting the great work by members of our scientific community, but also speaking to promote gender equity in a field where, sadly, there are still wide gender gaps.

And school and system leaders use data to evaluate the impact of school - wide and system - wide programs and initiatives to raise achievement levels and close equity gaps.

Faculty interests and experiences encompass ensuring equity of access to quality literacy instruction, especially in urban schools, addressing the opportunity gap, promoting effective data - driven school - wide literacy programs, and developing sustainable school - based professional development.

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.

We see a wider gap between the prospective returns for safe - haven and risk assets, reflected in higher expected returns for equities versus bonds and for non-U.S. equities versus U.S. equities.

Years ago when Fearon was a principal at private equity firm Allied Capital, he was struck by the wide gap in value the public and private equity markets assigned companies.