Cal State also has a graduation initiative designed to narrow achievement gaps.
Students who are performing below grade level need extra time to gain academic skills, narrow achievement gaps, and succeed in the classroom.
A $1.25-billion College Completion Incentive Grant would award competing states that set graduation goals, narrow achievement gaps and provide performance-based funding.
Until the federal government takes a comprehensive approach to education - acknowledging and addressing the powerful impact of out-of-school factors on student success - we will only marginally narrow achievement gaps.
While there is a clear need to improve course design and instructional practices (Handelsman et al., 2004; AAAS, 2011), intervening with educationally disadvantaged students before their entry into high-stakes gateway courses has the potential both to narrow achievement gaps and to contribute to students' academic adjustment and sense of belonging.
Interventions that are designed to improve student performance and narrow achievement gaps have taken multiple forms, focusing on either instructor pedagogy (Deslauriers et al., 2011; Haak et al., 2011) or student preparation (Maton et al., 2000; Matsui et al., 2003; Barlow and Villarejo, 2004; Dirks and Cunningham, 2006; McGuire, 2006; Wischusen and Wischusen, 2007).
Sarkozy would do well to adopt an approach to fatherhood based on the fundamentals of political survival: incessantly trumpeting the narrowest achievements and the flimsiest knowledge.
Despite some test scores indicating a narrowing achievement gap over forty years, and other scores indicating black and brown students achieving at a higher rate, the wealth gap is growing.
Exit exam promoters promise narrowed achievement gaps and overall score increases.
The results showed minimal progress in narrowing achievement gaps between white and minority students.
