Sentences with phrase «with wide achievement gaps»

Although the Sunshine State has borrowed the gap - cutting proficiency targets part of the EdTrust plan, it hasn't embraced its accountability aspects, leaving vague what state education officials will do if the worst five percent of schools and the 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps fail to improve student performance.

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.

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).

«Providing a summative measure does not have to conflict with the multiple indicator approach that California has adopted and can build on it, to ensure that parents have a clear entry point to interact with the richer performance data and the state can clearly identify those LEAs and schools with wide achievement gaps and in need of extra attention,» the letter says.

The decision by the administration to limit accountability to the worst - performing five percent of schools (along with at least 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps) will allow warehouses of mediocrity off the hook for providing high - quality education to all children regardless of background.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

By allowing states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps), the administration is also letting districts not under watch off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

Add in the fact that waiver states only had to focus on the worst - performing five percent schools along with schools with wide achievement gaps (and ignored the mediocrity of the remaining 85 percent of schools), and it is clear, as EdTrust President Kati Haycock declared today, that the administration's gambit «invited [states] not to actually make those goals meaningful for the vast majority»

Given that accountability is being limited to the worst five - percent of schools within a state and at least 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps, reformers (especially centrist Democrats) should be skeptical about what the administration means when it says «ambitious» and «achievable».

Does a district with wide achievement gaps and napping high - school students meet minimum quality standards?

The two candidates vying to become the next superintendent come from school districts with limited similarities to Boulder Valley, but both say they have the skills to lead a high - performing district with a wide achievement gap.

Not exact matches

Head teacher Derek Peaple said: «Our partnership with Achievement for All has developed at the heart of a wider approach to school improvement that has seen Park House identified as one of the top 100 state schools in the county for closing the achievement gap and securing continuous improvement in good GCAchievement for All has developed at the heart of a wider approach to school improvement that has seen Park House identified as one of the top 100 state schools in the county for closing the achievement gap and securing continuous improvement in good GCachievement gap and securing continuous improvement in good GCSE results.

He has worked closely with the Ed School in the past both as a former part - time lecturer and as faculty cochair and director of the AGI at Harvard, a university - wide initiative to help close the nation's achievement gaps by supporting new research and connecting research to policy and practice.

Professor Sonia Blandford, founder and CEO of education charity Achievement for All, which developed and delivers the programme, said: «The UK has one of the widest attainment gaps in education anywhere in the developed world with one - in - five children currently underachieving at school.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

Rising proficiency for students with disabilities across most subjects (exceptions for middle school writing, high school math, and high school social studies), at a pace that can contribute importantly to narrowing one of our widest achievement gaps

• Overall score gains may mask wider achievement gaps between high - scoring and low - scoring students, with percentages of students scoring in the lower ranges stuck or increasing.

A centerpiece of the administration's plans throughout the state is the creation of seven new «regional achievement centers» that will serve as the hub of turnaround efforts for schools with low student achievement overall or wide gaps in achievement levels.

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.

The data show that even when scores are rising, the so - called achievement gap between low - income and minority students and their non-disadvantaged counterparts remains wide, with students from low - income families at least twice as likely to fail.

The letter said pupils» achievement by the age of 16 is poor in comparison with pupils elsewhere in the west midlands and nationally; secondary schools are too often failing to build on the success of pupils in primary schools; the gap between the GCSE attainment of disadvantaged pupils and their better - off peers is wide; and not enough has been done to address these failings over the years.

The plans focuses on schools ranked among the very lowest performers on state tests, now called Priority Schools, or those with the widest gaps in achievement between different racial groups and other groups of children, labeled as Focus Schools.

Four - year (on - time) graduation rates for Wisconsin's Latino students (77.5 percent) were close to the national rate (77.8 percent), but still result in wide achievement gaps when compared with white students.