Sentences with phrase «with academic achievement gaps»

«We've seen that with academic achievement gaps.»

In this paper, I examine sixteen distinct measures of segregation to determine which is most strongly associated with academic achievement gaps.

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Researchers concerned with academic - achievement gaps have begun to study, with increasing interest and enthusiasm, a set of personal qualities — often referred to as noncognitive skills, or character strengths — that include resilience, conscientiousness, optimism, self - control, and grit.

We'll never close the achievement gap unless schools find ways to work with more families more deeply and respectfully around key academic goals, and unless we support parents as advocates for their children's education.

Academic Leagues at Edwards Middle School - Excerpt provided by NCTL from the Time Well Spent Report, explaining how Edwards has closed the achievement gap within Massachusetts in math, English language arts, and science with their Academic Leagues

To date, we can count a multitude of policy wins — better data, stronger accountability systems, and a move toward more rigorous academic standards — along with a universal acceptance that we must aim to close gaps in achievement and opportunity.

Particularly with online learning giving way to a suite of flexible learning experiences, schools may indeed move beyond their traditional role as sole academic provider, offering a breadth of non-academic resources such as mentoring, health services, and community - building activities — all of which can support healthy development and serve as powerful antidotes to chronic achievement gaps.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

YES Prep Public Schools, winner of the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public schools.

This School of Education, along with many of our peers, remains committed to the understanding that high levels of academic accomplishment for all demographic groups is an essential, if not fundamental, factor in closing the achievement and opportunity gaps that plague our nation.

Reardon's research on the relationship between academic achievement and family income found an increased link between family income and children's academic achievement, noting in earlier studies, «The income achievement gap does not appear to be a result of a growing achievement gap between children with highly educated and less - educated parents.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

By examining research - based techniques, exploring the role of race, class, and culture in the classroom, and growing effective practices that enable academic growth and close the achievement gap, attendees will leave with a singular blueprint for ways to improve their school.

Achievement gaps between Native Hawaiians and their White peers were estimated at grades 8 and 10 respectively, with academic readiness statistically controlled for.

«Given the strong influence of poverty on student academic achievement, these changes have increased the challenge of improving student outcomes in IPS,» the report read, promising a plan to cultivate schools capable of erasing the achievement gap associated with inner city schools where high levels of poverty and greater racial diversity exist.

The report provides data that indicate scholarship students are making academic progress and are closing the achievement gap with the statewide student average by almost half over the last five years, from 32 percentage points in 2011 to 18 percentage points in 2015.

The International School of Louisiana (ISL), receiving the Achievement Gap Award, was founded in 2000 by a group of parents who envisioned a public school offering a foreign language - based academic program with a global perspective.

School and district leaders can and must still act with the urgency necessary to close long standing academic achievement gaps.

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White peers.

With your support of publicly funded programs such as quality early childhood education, college and career prep, STEM initiatives, arts education, and extended - day learning, we will help existing schools work towards closing the achievement gap and help prepare our students for success in academics and in life.

The document indicated Holtz would receive a guaranteed three - year, $ 150,000 job with a personal driver at the Department of Public Instruction should Humphries win and would have authority to take over large districts with persistent gaps in academic achievement among groups of students.

As we have worked together to craft our revised Denver Plan this spring, I have spent much time engaging with our teams on how to best accelerate our academic improvements and close our achievement gaps.

The academic performance of these students trails that of other students — creating achievement gaps that have been with us for far too long.

While the Department will likely add more academic performance measures in the future, for 2014 officials also included the level of participation in state assessments, achievement gaps between students with disabilities and the general population as well as scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test used to gauge academic growth across the country.

Republicans also criticized Evers for the state's longstanding gap in academic achievement between black and white students, for his department's plan to comply with a new federal education accountability law and for a DPI software error that resulted in DPI unable to verify four - year graduation rates for 2016.

NEA's Priority Schools Campaign is working with Roberts and other priority schools to provide tips and techniques on how the community can work together in struggling schools, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all students.

Charter schools help close the achievement gap and raise the bar for academic achievement, particularly with low - income or minority students.

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They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that charter schools are making significant gains in narrowing the achievement gap, with African American students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide in many urban districts and across subjects.

ESL Newcomer principal Gwen Snow said the dual challenges of teaching students the English language and American culture while also keeping up with academic standards is often not fully shown in state accountability data or the state's achievement gap data.

With bilingualism linked to enhanced academic and social skills, educators say dual - language programs can be used to narrow the achievement gap and equip underserved students for a future in a competitive workforce.

Huge Spending Gaps Between School Districts, Report Finds Vast inequities still exist in education funding across the nation, contributing to an academic achievement gap that separates the students at well - funded schools from those who attend campuses with fewer resources, according to a report released Tuesday.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

With a diverse student body, Golden Lake is a top - performing school, earning the state's «Reward School» designation twice for remarkable achievements in individual academic growth, student proficiency and achievement gap reductions.

For example, they will acknowledge that it takes years to learn academic English and, in the next breath, bluster over the «achievement gaps» of English learners with graduation rates and national reading and math assessments.

The Connecticut Commission for Educational Achievement (CCEA), for instance, was formed by then - Governor Jodi Rell and tasked with developing a plan to address Connecticut's persistent and nation - leading gaps in academic performance.

Academics with the Civil Rights Project at UCLA say that softening disciplinary practices would be minimal and manageable, and that resolving unequal discipline is necessary to reduce the racial achievement gap.

When James Coleman, the great sociologist of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with greater academic intensity — a persistent, goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to raise academic achievement.

Goal: Provide charter schools with resources that promote (1) student learning through a clear vision, high expectations, and data - informed decision making at the school level, (2) measurable program goals and student learning objectives that increase the academic outcomes for all students, and (3) closing the achievement gap.

Fort Wayne Community Schools has addressed school funding challenges with a three - tiered approach 1) adopting district structures and processes that focus spending on activities that support student achievement, 2) participating in lobbying and other activities at the state level to improve funding and strengthen academic programs and 3) obtaining federal grants to help fill resource gaps.

Research from PISA shows that students from single - parent families aren't performing as well on average as students from other types of families, and this month, Burns explains some of the ways in which schools and educators can help, including «raising awareness of achievement gaps, providing hands - on support, establishing a good relationship with the student and his / her parent (s) or helping with homework and academic difficulties.»

Our mission is to close the achievement gap before students enter kindergarten by providing them with the social, emotional, and academic skills they need to thrive in school.

A 2016 meta - analysis of 78 studies published between 2000 and 2015 found that schools with positive climates narrowed income - based achievement gaps and gaps between students with different academic abilities.60

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

At Brown's urging, the Legislature overhauled state school aid laws to provide more funds to districts with large numbers of poor and / or English - learner students, aimed at closing the academic achievement gap between them and more privileged classmates.

They should devise metrics and evaluate principals and teachers with an eye to ensuring that the focus on «closing achievement gaps» does not serve as an excuse to ask more - prepared students to babysit themselves for large portions of the academic day.

High - quality tutoring can meet each student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25

Dozens of California school systems with some of the state's worst test scores and biggest academic achievement gaps won't get any extra help this year under a support system launched recently by the state.