Sentences with phrase «widening socioeconomic gaps»
«I think it's certainly conceivable that that's a real phenomenon — that there's a widening of the gaps, and you sort of imagine that that might have something to do with widening socioeconomic gaps or increases in the degree of poverty among relatively poor people in the U.S.,» he said.
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Just occasionally are they less equivocal, as when they observe that aggressive integration policies helped black children during the 1970s, that mounting socioeconomic inequality after the late 1980s contributed to the subsequent widening in the test - score gap, and that inequality in the preschool environment plays an important role in determining later educational outcomes.
Uruguay in the last decades: widening and crystallizing gender and socioeconomic gaps among youth
Moreover, after many years of widening inequality, socioeconomic gaps in college attainment appear to have stabilized or slightly declined.
Income and socioeconomic gaps, which had widened dramatically in the 1980s and 1990s, also appear to have stabilized or slightly declined.
In a second study, Supovitz and Brennan (1997) found that gender, socioeconomic, and racial inequities existed when portfolio performance was compared to standardized test performance, although the Rochester portfolios closed the gaps between blacks and whites and widened the gaps between boys and girls.
It's safe to assume that the learning gap tied to socioeconomic status can only widen given these conditions.
There also is growing evidence that widening differences in socioeconomic status, not race, are driving academic achievement gaps.
Reardon describes a constellation of socioeconomic trends that have led to the widening gap, and discusses the role that schools can play in helping to close the gap.
The achievement and attainment gaps in Illinois between students of different races, native languages, and socioeconomic statuses are among the worst in the country, and they have been persistent, in some cases even widening.