Sentences with phrase «with large achievement gaps»

Schools with large achievement gaps are expected to close them.

BCSE struggles with a large achievement gap in its own small school, and offers no educational practices that Stamford does not already do.

In addition, the bill requires states to develop a plan to address problems in their «achievement gap schools» — the 5 percent of elementary and middle schools and the 5 percent of high schools in each state with the largest achievement gaps among student subgroups, or the lowest student subgroup performance based on achievement tests and graduation rates.

In addition, the bill categorizes «achievement gap schools» as the 5 percent of elementary and middle schools and the 5 percent of high schools in each state with the largest achievement gaps among student subgroups, or the lowest student subgroup performance based on achievement tests and graduation rates.

The U.S. has been falling further behind other nations and has struggled with a large achievement gap.

This report quantifies the extent of ELL concentration in low - achieving public schools and the degree to which this isolation is associated with the large achievement gap in mathematics between ELL students and other major student groups.

In exchange, states implemented systems of differentiated accountability in which they identified and intervened in their lowest - performing schools («Priority» schools) and schools with the largest achievement gaps between subgroups of students («Focus» schools).

It's also fair to ask whether the percentages Obama set (in the NCLB waivers, it's 5 percent of the lowest performing schools and another 10 percent of schools with large achievement gaps) are the right ones.

States can focus turnaround efforts on schools with particularly low subgroup achievement — rather than schools with large achievement gaps.

AFT and CAP pitch their proposal as targeting interventions to schools with large achievement gaps.

The secretary of education would use a peer - review process to help states develop accountability plans, and would require states to intervene in 5 percent of their lowest - performing schools and 5 percent of their schools with the largest achievement gaps.

Additionally, it says that states do not need to continue to meet waiver requirements that ESSA doesn't address, such as teacher evaluations based on student outcomes, but that waiver states must continue to focus on the lowest performing schools and those with large achievement gaps.

As the bill moves forward, we hope the Senate will continue to strengthen important provisions related to state accountability systems, such as those that both support great leaders and also identify struggling schools in need of intervention — especially those with the weakest overall performance and those with large achievement gaps.

Under his 2010 «blueprint» for reauthorizing the federal law, Obama proposed an accountability system that focused on the worst 5 percent of schools, along with an additional 10 percent of schools with large achievement gaps.

requirements for Principle 2 in the application for building state, district, and school capacity to improve learning in all schools — particularly low - performing schools and those with the largest achievement gaps;

«Targeted Support and Improvement Schools,» which are schools with large achievement gaps.