Sentences with phrase «widening achievement»

The program, in fact, is sometimes characterized as «a superhuman effort» to save children from falling into the widening achievement gap that threatens so many kids.

Concerned about a widening achievement gap in Putnam City schools, the Oklahoma Education Association, with the support of the NEA, hosted a series of community conversations with parents and community members to determine people's perspectives on the achievement gap.

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.

But urban superintendents are hard to come by in an era of high - stakes testing and widening achievement gaps.

Missing too much school during preschool, kindergarten, and first grade has long - term and costly impacts that lead to widening achievement gaps in later years, according to a study by Attendance Works, a national initiative that promotes awareness about the importance of school attendance.

The reforms currently under way in Minneapolis have been driven by the board, not the superintendent, as in other urban districts facing falling enrollment, widening achievement gaps and shrinking budgets.

At a time when economic, social and educational inequities have contributed to a widening achievement gap across the nation, Community Schools have emerged as a promising strategy for addressing this opportunity gap and promoting success for all students, in school and in life.

Even cursory research about Chicago and Philadelphia will reveal widening achievement gaps, increased segregation, and other deteriorations either under Vallas» tenure, or under systems he put in place.

The struggle to communicate can stymie both content mastery and academic language acquisition in ELLs, widening the achievement gap between them and their native English - speaking peers.

Feinberg told the court that there are socio - economic factors outside a teacher's control, which are responsible for the widening achievement gap.

With an ever - widening achievement gap, urban educators face much different challenges in the classroom than suburban or rural teachers.

Thanks to the No Child waivers, which exclude all but a few schools from sanctions, highly - rated schools aren't likely to ever be penalized for widening achievement gaps.

Notably, these widening achievement gaps between the strongest and weakest students aren't reflected in the racial or income data.

This widening achievement gap may be largely the result of different rates of learning during the summer months (e.g., Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2001; Cooper, Nye, Charlton, Lindsay, & Greathouse, 1996; Heyns, 1978).

Fiske and Ladd point to a widening achievement gap between successful and unsuccessful schools.

Over the last two decades, policymakers, compelled by the demands of equal opportunity and aghast at widening achievement gaps — particularly for poor and minority youngsters — have focused resources on the neediest kids.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

Children with worse executive functions benefit most from these activities; thus, early executive - function training may avert widening achievement gaps later.

Unfortunately, it is likely that Caucasian and Asian students would disproportionately obtain places in these elite schools, which in the eyes of some would only widen the achievement gap.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

Their higher cut scores for proficiency will automatically widen achievement gaps, at least at first.

EW: You write that homework is the great social class discriminator and that it hurts poor, disadvantaged kids and widens the achievement gap between the poor and the privileged.

And homework can widen the achievement gap, putting students from low - income households and students with learning disabilities at a disadvantage.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

Summer is a popular time to write opinion pieces calling for the end of summer vacation as an anachronism that widens achievement gaps between rich and poor students.

«Inequitable school funding means that my students, and many across Connecticut, are shortchanged when it comes to classroom resources and access to experienced teachers, which widens the achievement gap and perpetuates the cycle of poverty in our state,» said Margaret O'Connor, a tenth - grade civics teacher at Central High School in Bridgeport.

Maybe they will widen the achievement gaps between haves and have - nots.

Difference is, the Sheff efforts are rooted in Brown vs. Board of Education and other Civil Rights legislation, whereas the Common Core and other «reformy» actions are untried ploys that ultimately will increase the racial and economic segregation of our Two Connecticuts and further widen the achievement gap for our students.

Related: Common Core tests will widen the achievement gap at first Thirty - five states have no exit exam at all and seven have exit exams of some other kind — end - of - course tests, New York's Regents tests, California's CAHSEE, a civics exam, etc. — but will not be using a sole test score to allow seniors to graduate or not.

Some education advocacy groups have also expressed concern that these higher standards might inadvertently widen the achievement gap between students whose native language is English and English learners.

In the absence of such guidance, technology tends to widen the achievement gap.

Not exact matches

The latest entrant last week was the NAACP: A letter from the group, distributed by NYSUT, argued the cap was hurting poor and minority school districts by widening the state's achievement gap.

The result is a widening gap between urban and rural educational achievement in China, Rozelle says.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

As a result, inequalities in access to a full, rich curriculum widened, while achievement dropped on measures assessing higher - order thinking skills, like the international PISA tests.

The achievement gap between white and minority students is widening again after decades of progress, warns a comprehensive analysis of the 50 states that is scheduled to be released this week.

As the achievement gap has widened over the past quarter century, educators have increasingly focused on summer pastimes as both a key factor and a solution.

For example, do you ever quietly worry that ten years from now, we'll look back and see that some states reverted to pre-NCLB behavior and their achievement gaps widened?

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

With growing inequality now a greater danger than middle - class pupils» inadequate achievement, policies that widen learning differences should be avoided.»

Disare goes on to look closely at the pros and cons of a system that sorts students into schools this way, including the concern that it might «widen racial achievement gaps and leave lower - achieving students in less demanding classrooms with fewer resources.»

Earlier this year, an Indiana University study found that the «Excellence Gap,» the racial achievement gap at NAEP's advanced level, widened during the NCLB era.

The charity contends that the achievement gap between pupils in England in receipt of free school meals (FSM) and Department for Education targets is actually widening.

The data also reveal that this achievement gap widens throughout the middle - school years.

the achievement gap between high - and low - poverty high schools has widened. . .

The plaintiffs argued that the curriculum would widen rather than narrow Seattle's achievement gap between minority and white children.

In the years since people first began talking about the achievement gap, Ferguson has widened his scope of inquiry, developing a broad vision for correcting inequities that centers less on the differences between groups and more on raising the bar for all students.

Since the implementation of Open Court Reading and its assessment system, the school has seen a widening gap between the achievement of English Learners and English Only or Fluent English Proficient students.

Since the Common Core standards have never been field - tested, no one knows whether they will raise test scores or cause the achievement gap among different racial, ethnic, and income groups to narrow or to widen.

Considerable research shows that the primary reason the achievement gap between poor children and their more affluent peers widens over the course of their school careers is the long break in learning over the summer.