Sentences with phrase «yawning achievement»

According to Education Week, the U.S. Department of Education's Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Jason Botel told a gathering of state school chiefs recently «that he wants states to be innovative in working to close the nation's yawning achievement gap, but also wants them to make sure they comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act in doing so.»

Nine out of 10 Ross students receive free or reduced - price lunch, and the school has faced an all - too - familiar slate of challenges — a yawning achievement gap, low enrollment, teacher attrition, and minimal parental engagement.

According to Education Week, the U.S. Department of Education's Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Jason Botel told a gathering of state school chiefs recently «that he wants states to be innovative in working to close the nation's yawning achievement gap, but also wants...

Growth measures won't magically ensure that all students reach college and career readiness by the end of high school, or close our yawning achievement gaps.

Now a new study suggests that race plays a big role in influencing how teachers see their students» potential for academic success, raising questions about whether teachers» biases could be holding back black students and contributing to the nation's yawning achievement gap.

With all of the state's progress, however, Massachusetts — like all states — continues to have yawning achievement and opportunity gaps between low income students and their more affluent peers.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

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And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

The mainstream media have done a great disservice in failing to point out the yawning gap between your scientific achievements and your lionization by certain elements of the business and political elite.

Is your resume a yawning chronological history of your work or is it chock full of achievements?