that's our achievement gap. how do african-american students compare to white and chinese and how do latino students compare? and there was a big difference in achievements between african-american and white and chinese students and for latinos this is the achievement gap so over five years all sub groups have increased in terms of student learning. all student groups are learning more. the tide is rising for all groups. however in order to narrow or close the achievement gap african-american, latino students must accelerate their learning at a greater pace than the other sub groups in order to close the w=ó/Ñhachievement gap if you notice even though we have tremendous cause for celebration in 2012 the achievement gap still looks for african-american students 38-point 2% so we have narrowed it from where we started. for the latino students it's almost identical, 37%. 35%. we narrowed it by 2% but we have by no means closed the achievement gap. we started to narrow the gap and that's an important distinction to

there was quite a margin or gap there, 22 and 27%. if you fast forward to 2012, our latest test results, you'll notice that one really hasn't budged in the english language arts and the other one has shrunk by just a few percentage points. so, in this next slide, instead of actually comparing to the district average we've actually disaggregated in this line graph, the top line graph actually represents our chinese and white students. so, you also see the achievement gap illustrated not just in comparison to the district average, but actually in comparison to those subgroups. and what you'll notice there is that the achievement gap actually gets even more significant. so, five years ago you saw 43.4 gap with one subgroup and 37.7 with one. and while there's been a slight narrowing, that gap persists and is still wide. so, it's worth noting that everybody's performance is going up. the african-american and latino is narrowing slightly but there is still a persistent gap there. this slide is similarly shows the same trend only it's in ma

, so we have this achievement gap but we is a larger gap with the graduation rate and look at class of 2014. 2015 it could i think make owl of us at this dais weep so i would like to include this somewhat into our conversation about graduation, and about us setting up this higher much more rigorous course of reqens of classes and i understand we're preparing them for that but if we lees them before that they won't graduate and what do we do about the students now and what is the safety net for them? and will we be able to give them that sense of resiliencies and not eanl through graduation and carry them through life and it's tough at some times and we want every student to feel successful and if they're not entering college at 18 and like my husband and going at 40 and perhaps they can do that and perhaps we could have a conversation at the curriculum meeting and how this relates to the graduation rate and do projections about looking where we are at the graduation rates and how this is going to be -- what we have learned from this and how can it be aligned through the graduation rate

the affordability gaps have also come down. one of the benefits of the global economic crisis, few though they may be, it is that the gap in affordability for ownership has come down. however, a that gap still persists across a lot of income levels. if you jump to owning your own home, it continues to be a difficult leap for people to make. looking at our population trend as related to income level, this attempt to show that over a quarter -- about a quarter of the population is the upper income group. our two largest categories are lower in, and upper income. that trend has become more pronounced. folks who are leaving the city are in a low income range or moderate income range. we are at risk of becoming a city of the wealthy and the poror should this trend continu. a couple of notes about the important role the house in place in our local economy. new housing units are important source of jobs, both construction and construction- related jobs. these are numbers that come from the national association of home builders. if you

and then the orb of the moon rose into this narrow gap between two twin towers looking north into the rocky mountains. and as that happened, i turned around and as the south -- and i see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. and in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. you could send messages over mountain ranges. there are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. i talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70's and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of -

two slides where we listed the school, what their achievement was in terms of closing the achievement gap? did they have high achievement in english language and math and how the principal is approaching it and how we're approaching this and what happened in schools to give us the acceleration we're seeing in certain schools so as we come to the board not only in board meetings but also committee meetings, in committee of the whole reports our intent is always show you what the root cause of what is actually improving and i will tell you that the lessons we're learning -- when you have six times the rate of growth in mathematics for example in the sub set of the lowest performing schools -- previously the lowest performing schools in the district and see that increase in mathematics achievement we want to mine every nugget from that school and how did you do it? what did you focus on first and what did you focus on next? we want to share it with the board and the public as well. >> and i'm sorry i just want to follow up with that. i appreciate you telling me that and i appreciate and i wi

institutionalized way of delivering education and it's so long engrinned in ssz that the achievement gap is from way back before my time in school, so how are we able to sort of attack that, that mind set, that institutionalized systematic bureaucratic behavior really with our educators understanding how they can transform and change lives immediately but also going forward, and so i would like to hear from you now but again incorporate that in your next presentation. i think it's an important part to hear about. thank you. >> commissioner murase. >> i'm sorry. there is no response to that? that was for now and if you have a response and yes, i would like you to incorporate that understanding in your ongoing updates about this work. sorry. if you have something now i would most certainly like to hear about it. >> sorry about that. >> there is no question in order for us to be successful where we're seeing acceleration is because we're student centered but none of that is possible. we know that the teachers are at heart of this reform. some of the things you heard about today it's because

what did that skills gap look like? how big is the gap? is it just the six week course? or is the gap larger the amount? we are having geographic and job function information. >> the other piece of that equation that we are thinking a lot about in san francisco -- once you have assessed a skills gap, you begin to work with the training components enabling those, whether they are higher ad or the non-profit sector. there are jobs that are current or coming. we are trying to build the continuing, so the gaps are assessed correctly, the training components are appropriate and adequate, and there are opportunities waiting. we have about nine minutes. here is what i am going to try to do. i am going to go to susan, and then to chris. i want to go down to glenn. we are going to finish with a young person. so andrew, get ready. >> the social media point -- i think particularly, we need to focus on the underserved communities. if you think about it, social media levels the playing field. everybody has an equal voice. but a lot of our communities are not using the social web for

but make no mistake, we have a huge achievement gap. and if we are to ready our students prepared for the 21st century, they must be properly educated and be able to survive in the 21st century and be viable participants in the 21st century. and i think we have depended heavily on the generosity of the people of san francisco, particularly at city hall. i mean, prop h has been huge, dcyf supports given us. i think the one thing, what is sad about the san francisco family is we understand it takes a village to raise a child here, and definitely san franciscanses have embraced that. i think you will see coming up that we are in a panic mode also about -- we know that we can track certain students and how we can get them ready, but the 2014-2015 class is in need of crisis mode, i think, because these students are juniors now. the acdc deputy superintendent mentioned sequentially gets much more rigorous. we could be looking at much larger numbers come senior year. this is daunting, it is extremely daunting. it is the thing i think that keep

why is there a gender gap there? the gender gap among women is so much greater than among men who are going to be analytical say, what are they thinking about, the economy is not what anybody wants it to be. it does seem to me that it's important, if republicans get anywhere women that women are complicated and they have issues, they put them all together in sizing up a candidate and it's not their reproductive system do matter to women especially when you consider that until the 20th century, child birth killed more women than men and you had women died sooner than men. having the government cut off family planning you bet you. >> that is not a winning issue for women -- for the women's vote just the reproductive part of it since the 1980s. is this year going to be different? >> i think this year already is different. because it used to be just about abortion now it's about birth control and the vast majority of women, the vast majority of american catholics use birth control, that's been a huge issue. the other iss

however, the gap has widened, especially for african-american students. many of you might have seen the report that came out talking about the 2011 released analysis comparing the progress of california school districts. unfortunately san francisco received an overall grade of d. and in particular the african-american students as it relates to sfusd, we ranked 127 out of 128. i want to have one of our parent leaders, olivia gudeau, give a statement. >> hi, my name is olivia harris. i am a san francisco resident, also a native san franciscan. i have four children in the san francisco unified school district, at george washington carver elementary school, and martin luther king school. i'm the president of the ptsa at my child's elementary school and a member of coleman advocacy for children and youth. i am here today to talk about the achievement gap and how our african-american children are falling behind and how the gap is growing between african-american children as a group. this summer i took part in a leadership academy with coleman advocacy and learn

students' performance and achievement gaps. i will be outside, and if you have further questions, as a matter of fact, the floor is open for questions. >> i have one. >> say more about the culture that is required in schools for maximum student success. >> the culture, i talked about the vocabulary, the words we use, i've talked about, um, i call it power talk. and it's being positive. it's watching what you say. it's monitoring what you say. and in the book i give specific examples of language we use now, and i actually got the words from educators. real words that we use now versus what we could be using. because every time we communicate, we're sending a message, and communication is about more than reading and writing. it's about what you say, what you don't say. it's about your body language. so the culture, it's rich, but you're also supportive of one another. you're results-driven, and you know how to get there. when you go to the doctor, for instance, i always say one of the biggest myths about education that we don't s

s thees accurately pinpoint empathy gap. problem for romney is that there's no huge romney movement in the country. there is a sizable anti-obama movement, and when obama cuts into that feeling, it boosts him and sinks romney. >> i thought one of clinton's lines really hit home. the amount of hate that the r barackans have fou obama is just astounding. it is not just political differences, it is really visceral 8. and you hear it week after week, day after day, moment after moment from the fox crowd. >> that is complete rubbish. i have not heard one republican use the language that the leader of the california delegation used in describing paul ryan as goebbels of our time. he had to excuse himself and returned home after that because of a previously scheduled root canal. >> if you are saying you have not heard a visceral hatred expressed for barack obama, maybe i will stop the show -- >> let's not, just to be nice to me. the first lady wins rave reviews, but not from everyone. >> when you work hard and have done well and wa

mitt romney has a 20% gap with women. getting 20% fewer women votes than barack obama is. that is perhaps s the most important voting bloc in america. >> charlrleses? >> i am stl struck by how much -- you must have spent a fortune on all those extras. and it looooked so spontanus. >> walking down the stet -- >> look, this win and stuff -- there were two excellent spches selius and rahm emanuel. neither was in prime time, nobody saw it but they are exact what you want i can mention -- focused and sha did her thing was defending obamare and she didxtremely well, and rahmm said that i w was at the scene when he saved the west, eentily. in a little bit of a tall tale but he did it. the worst speech was -- sandra fluke is her name? the civil-rights issue for time is thahat she ought to have on this day for contraceptives. remarkably entitled- have others pay for contraceptives. remarkably entitled an unpealing argument. >> i thought one of the effective moments of the convnvention was in the tin can in the segment where they -

the other thing to look at is the gap. you can see men earn more than women, and the bottom part of the chart shows the ratio of women to men's earnings. it's 77% but it's up from 61% back in 1960. but again it's been pretty flat over the past few years. >> we have a lot of questions related to this chart. first of all, i've seen a lot of reporting on the recession hitting men harder. why is that? >> at the beginning of the recession it was fueled by housing and construction, and those were specifically judges are meant gravitating towards. i have seen some other data about how women have been able to be more flexible in this economy and may be retrained himself a little more towards the industries that are growing. but initially it was housing and construction, but they get spent women today make up 65% of all college graduates. is an education gap between men and women. so how is that reflected in the job statistics and also the earnings? >> that is a big, big question. there is a big gap and it's still growing between m

how about if you make the gap this big? gonna clear that gap? how about you make the alley this big? here's the alley, now here's your gap, get it going 8 kilometers per second, what are you gonna do? you're gonna clear the gap, you come right back again. take it away and send it-- so it keeps moving at steady speed because it's always being pulled sideways to the way it's moving, yeah? have we got that? someone asks you, how come the satellites keep going the same speed, oh, maybe there's a rocket pushing it all the time. what do you guys say? uh-uh, it's coastin'. it must be coasting where there's no gravity. uh-uh, there is gravity. why don't gravity speed it up? if i take that object and let go, gravity speeds it up. why doesn't it speed up the satellite? well, that's the characteristic of satellite motion, honey, that's just the way it is, no reason for that. what do you guys say? because, why? 'cause it's moving, but gravity pulling sideways and so instead of moving out here, it moves to here. but then it's pulling sideways again, so it's

that is a huge gap for perhaps the most important voting bloc of america. >> charles? >> i am still struck -- you must spend a fortune on all those extras in the shot with mark. and looks so spontaneous. >> walking down the street. >> look, this women stuff -- there were excellent speeches, sebelius, and rahm emanuel. they were not in prime time, but they were exactly what you want at the convention did her thing was on obamacare and she did extremely well. rahm spoke about "i was on the scene when the guy came in office, and he saved the west," essentially. a little bit of what tall tale. the worst speech was -- sandra fluke is her name? -- that the civil-rights issue of her time is that she ought to have others pay for contraceptives. a remarkably entitled an appealing argument -- and u nappealing argument. >> colby? >> i thought one of the effective moments of the convention was the teddy kennedy tribute, where they showed the excerpt of the debate between ted kennedy and mitt romney, in which mitt romney declared his unswerving commitment to a woman's right to choo

-- paul ryan. >> i was going to say, if you talk about enthusiasm gap, look at the gap between top and second guy on the republican ticket. this is the second straight republican convention that is -- that fell in love with its vice presidental nominee and thinks the nominee is just ok. >> now very conservative voters are as enthusiastic about the romney ticket as very liberal voters have been about obama. gwen: as paul ryan a great help to mitt romney as joe biden was at this time four years ago for barack obama? >> oh, yeah. i definitely think so. gwen: you do? his speech got some criticism for being selective in its facts, is what -- >> that's a whole other interesting dynamic of where we are in this race and that is do facts matter? watch at the white house or with the obama campaign the frustration that they feel because as the president, there's a feeling that we can have our campaign surrogates tell you some whoppers but the president is somewhat more wedded to something related to the facts. and they're concerned that the direction that the campaign has gone in both ways, direc

we need to be overcoming some of the poverty gap. we need to be bilingual. we have a native indian population of which i am one. -- we have a native indigent population of which i am one. on top of that, that we provide our students with an interest and an aptitude with more than one language. that is a required part of our curriculum as well. >> do you believe that quality education requires quality teachers? >> absolutely. we know that the biggest difference that can be made to a lerner's achievement pathway is the quality of the chair in -- of teacher that they have in the learning space. we absolutely have to prioritize how we prepare our teachers, how we support them in educational development and learning. >> is that an ongoing process. >> it is, and it not only involves time out of school to give subjects specific knowledge, but we also have within the education system, partnering, collaboration, ogling mentoring. we believe it in continuous improvement, -- and ongoing mentoring. we believe in continuous improvement. we do it annual or triannual, or a

gap this income inequality gap from widening well we've got to make sure that they hit the issue of poverty head on talk about a fairly clear mitt romney very much a right wing candidate very much called open to wealth inequality increasing decreasing taxes on the well to do but we've got to put pressure on obama and we've got to create a social movement we need organize and mobilize people some of whom are willing to hit the streets and go to jail to bear witness to the plight of poor people sort of reshape the public conversation and we see just how serious what these numbers coming out proving how serious and pervasive the problem and poverty in the last really is do you think that this is discussed enough in the media or live not at all not at all in fact i was one of the few advocates in the mass media who hits his head on and of course the debate coming to us that's a key issue be have these four debates coming of course three presidential as you know one vice presidential just back up to two thousand and eight when obama ran the first time he and john mccain had three presidential de

the gap between the have gotten the have nots continues to widen but it's not even just these probably numbers this week it's the job numbers on top of that from last week it's on top of that the report from the agriculture department that said the other day that tonight in this country the richest nation in the world fifty million people will go to bed hungry non-meat of them children on top of that it's a report. from the capital kids foundation here in the nation's capital defies the child poverty in washington the nation's capital is worse than in mexico the point is the data keeps coming at us day in and day out that poverty is the new america norm is threatening our democracy it's a matter of national security so by any industry one has to understand that poverty is a major problem that we've got to get addressed in this country and we are in an election year what can the candidates focus on to help this problem poverty in the last and prevent this gap this income inequality gap from widening where we've got to make sure that they hit the issue of poverty head on talk about it is

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