Aug 27, 2013 ... The marchers did not need to be told what a half century of ... achievement also  remain unacceptable for black students: Housing for ... and economic justice still  unfulfilled, how did test scores become the civil rights issue of our time? ..... In the  1980s, 1990s, and late 2000s, the gap narrowed more slowly, ...
Aug 30, 2012 ... Gov. Romney's education plan not only contains weak or bad ideas, ... only did  test scores improve—we also narrowed the achievement gap.”.
Transformation goal is to narrow achievement gap, promote college and career ...  California's new standards, not only in English and math, but also in science, ...  and the governor purposely established an assessment system that helps  improve ... to student test scores as well as tools to differentiate progress among  various ...
Mar 24, 2015 ... Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush signs copies of his book "Immigration ... “ We're just basically casting aside large numbers of people,” he added of ... in  narrowing the nationwide achievement gap in grades K-12 between white ...  NAEP test scores also show “tremendous gains for low-income students.
2 | Closing the achievement gap: Will California's reforms make a difference? ...  The ongoing achievement gaps revealed by the Smarter Balanced test scores  released in ... nia is more likely to succeed in narrowing the gap, let alone close it . .... We must have intentionality not only about ... We did a paper looking at  whether.
When I was governor, not only did test scores improve – we also narrowed the achievement gap.