Sentences with phrase «wide gaps persist»
The urgency is certainly clear: The latest in a string of research showing stark educational inequities in America's schools, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) revealed that wide gaps persist in reading and math proficiency between white students and students of color.
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Despite the high - profile tension between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police department, Mr. de Blasio's approval rating remains steady at 49 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today — but a wide racial gap persists.
«The longer a delay persists, the wider the gap may become.
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.
On all these financial questions, a wide partisan gap persists from year to year, and when it comes to teacher salaries, that gap seems to be widening.
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.
«Despite NCLB's stated goal of closing the achievement gap, wide disparities in academic outcomes persist.
Breaking with its steadily upward trend, California's annual test scores have stagnated, with fewer than half of students proficient in math and English, and a wide ethnic achievement gap persisting.
Despite a wide range of reforms — based mostly around «academic rigor, discipline, and the value of test scores» (Sajnani et al. 2014, 207)-- the gap in test scores, graduation rates, and college acceptances persists between children in poverty and not in poverty (McAlister 1998, 69).
Why does the achievement gap not only persist but continue to grow wider?