Such disparity in test performance, which has also been seen from analysis of SAT scores, has become one of the most challenging issues in American education.
It may seem counterintuitive, but schools don't seem to produce much of the disparity in test scores between high- and low-income students.
Long ranked near the top of the city in mathematics, the district has held its place, although there is still a disparity in test scores between the poorest schools and the more affluent ones.
How can he try to organize a surgery schedule without a background in medicine?" Vivian Isom, a spokeswoman for the Roosevelt school district, discounted the disparity in test scores between the charter school and the school district.
The city and the schools have since taken many court-approved steps, and after its initial desegregation efforts (establishing magnet schools, for example), the schools tried to implement a plan to remedy the vestiges of segregation -- like the disparity in test performance.
Despite nationwide curriculum standards, there exists a substantial disparity between test results of examinees from big cities and those from rural areas.
We used the Disparity Index test [ 52] with P-values estimated from 1000 Monte Carlo based replicates (Additional File 2).
The disparity index test in MEGA further revealed that 10.8% of all pairwise comparisons were significantly heterogeneous across all codon positions in sequences of the primary data set (outgroups excluded).
Concatenations of slow evolving proteins also show compositional homogeneity (pairwise disparity index test, P < 0.05) [ 21], suggesting the basal position of the nematode results from true phylogenetic signal and not compositional bias.
B1 Racial Disparity in Tests Grows A gap between test scores of black and white students that narrowed through the 1980's widened from 1990 to 1999, federal data shows.
