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Closing in on the achievement gap.
The achievement gap--the difference in school performance among students of different backgrounds--is a serious and persistent problem. In enacting the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has made a commitment to do its part in addressing the problem. ETS is dedicated to doing its part in this vital effort also.
A new ETS report, Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress, clarifies fourteen factors in the challenge, including everything from birth weight, nutrition, parental support, and pupil mobility, to class size, school safety, teacher preparation and experience, and rigor of the curriculum. The ETS report found minority and low-income students are at a disadvantage relative to White and more affluent students in these conditions and experiences conducive to student achievement.
Our research confirms that what happens in the classroom is key to educational excellence. A teacher's skills have an enormous impact on how well a child learns. Class size, school safety, and the rigor of the school curriculum can also make or break a child's learning experience. Nothing that occurs before, or outside of, the school experience should be a basis--or an excuse--for lowering expectations for what can be accomplished by teachers and schools. And schools must be held accountable for their performance.
At the same time, total responsibility for a child's education cannot be placed solely on the ...
- ETS Report: Achievement Gap Will Not Close Without Understanding Both School...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 20, 2003 700+ words
...to close the achievement gap will fail unless...In Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for...levels. The ETS report specifies 14...addressing the achievement gap, the question...instance, the ETS report found minority...
- New ETS Report Sheds Light on Success of Minority Superstar Students.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 1, 2005 700+ words
...the nation's governors and educators search for ways to improve the achievement of today's high school students, a new ETS report sheds light on the success of minority "superstar" students who excel on the College Board's SAT and in school. "Characteristics...
- ETS Report: Much Unfinished Business in School Reform Efforts.
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 18, 2005 700+ words
PRINCETON, N.J. -- While the education reform movement has come a long way in the past two decades, there is a need for better use of tests, the avoidance of unintended consequences, and getting more information from standardized tests that can improve instruction, says a new report from the ETS
- ETS Report: Credentialing Taking on Expanded Role in the Workplace and in...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 7, 2001 700+ words
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- ETS Report: One-Third of Those Who Enter High Schools Do Not Graduate; High...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 23, 2005 700+ words
PRINCETON, N.J. -- As Congress, governors, and state education officials turn their attention now to high school reform, a new report from ETS warns that little is being done to address rising dropout rates, declining earnings for dropouts in the job market, and reduced public investments in
- ETS Report Offers Guidance for Realizing the Promise of Brown v. Board.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire May 17, 2004 700+ words
(From US Newswire) Byline: Rhonda Schaffler, Harris Whitbeck, Satinder Bindra, Greg Clarkin To: National Desk, Education Reporter Contact: Thomas A. Ewing of Educational Testing Service, 609-734-1615 or tewing@ets.org PRINCETON, N.J., May 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Fifty years to the day after the U.S.
- Good and Bad News in Latest ETS Report on Nation's Fourth-Grade Reading...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 11, 2004 700+ words
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The overall health of the nation's fourth-grade reading instruction is good, however many minority students do not share equally in educational resources, quality teachers, and smaller classes, reports a new ETS study. The Fourth-Grade Reading Classroom examines data from the
- ADVISORY/ETS Issues New Report on Achievement Gap.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 18, 2003 700+ words
...Educational Testing Service What: Release of the ETS Report Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress. The report...to leverage the political will to solve the achievement gap problem, and offer insights on the challenges...
- Achievement gap tough to bridge.
- Newspaper article from: Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, NC) March 20, 2007 700+ words
...Nobody wants to talk about the achievement gap." If poor, black students consistently...t have to worry about closing an achievement gap at E.E. Smith," Corders said...resegregation of schools plays a role in the achievement gap between white and black students...
- Which achievement gap?(educational achievement)
- Magazine article from: Phi Delta Kappan Anderson, Sharon Medrich, Elliott Fowler, Donna March 1, 2007 700+ words
The terms "achievement gap" and "AYP" are often bandied...making AYP the same as closing the achievement gap? And shouldn't we be talking...have tossed around the term "achievement gap" as though we all know precisely...
Source: HighBeam Research, Closing in on the achievement gap.