Sentences with phrase «widest test score gaps»

(Connecticut also has one of the widest test score gaps in the nation between low - income students and their more affluent peers.)

Not exact matches

The low group could be defined by sub-basement scores on achievement tests and wide gaps between groups on achievement - test results.

For example, the state plans to continue identifying some high - poverty schools as «priority» or «focus» schools based on low test scores or wide achievement gaps.

This school test - score gap is even wider between black and Latino students and white students.

We in CT have some very wealthy areas where students score extremely high on tests - higher than students in many other states - which creates a wider gap between low poverty and high poverty students.

When over 80 % of our children can not read proficiently by the third grade, it is a travesty of enormous proportions, particularly when compared with the TAKS reading test results (even after a significant standard deviation adjustment), their comparison with national norm - referenced test scores, and the wide gap between scores of white and minority children.

The Smarter Balanced tests have revealed wide gaps in subgroup scores that education analysts said reflect the challenges of online tests and the rigors of the Common Core standards that they assess.

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).