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The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools


The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools

In particular, the wide variation in performance among schools and school systems serving similar students suggests that the opportunity and output gaps related ...

The economic cost of the US education gap - McKinsey & Company

If the United States had closed educational-achievement gaps by 1998, its GDP in 2008 could have been $1.3 trillion to $2.3 trillion higher.

Detailed findings on the economic impact of the achievement gap in ...

on the economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools. April 2009. Any use of this material without specific permission of McKinsey & Company is ...

"THE HUGE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP ...

McKinsey concluded that the combined impact of the educational achievement gaps in the United States is the “economic equivalent of a permanent, deep recession.

The economic cost of the US education gap - McKinsey & Company

1Read the full report, The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools, free of charge at mckinsey.com/mgi. 2A Nation at Risk: The ...

The Socioeconomic Achievement Gap in the US Public Schools

The achievement gap reduces the potential of thousands of profitable workers and damages the US economy. Poor school performance in lower-income ...

What are the economic and social impacts of the achievement gap?

The analysis shows that states could save over $17 billion nationally, a savings that could be earned for each class of students who graduate high school rather ...

The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools

McKinsey & CompanyApril 2009Consulting giant McKinsey's new report on the achievement gap might not turn many heads in education-policy circles.

The Economic Benefits of Closing Educational Achievement Gaps

From 2014 to 2050, federal revenues would increase by $4.1 trillion, or an average of $110 billion per year. State and local government revenues ...

Get the Facts on the Achievement Gap - Walton Family Foundation

Low-income and black and Hispanic students are less likely to graduate from high school, less likely to enroll in college, and less likely to ...

Education inequalities at the school starting gate: Gaps, trends, and ...

Low educational achievement leads to lowered economic prospects later in life, perpetuating a lack of social mobility across generations. It is also a loss to ...

The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools

The report finds that the underutilization of human potential as reflected in the achievement gap is extremely costly. Existing gaps impose the economic ...

The Socioeconomic Achievement Gap Hasn't Budged in Half a ...

The study concluded that socioeconomic achievement gaps “have been wide and persistent for the last half century,” despite decades of ...

commission on children - Connecticut General Assembly

The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools. “These educational gaps impose on the United States the economic equivalent of a permanent ...

Closing Education Gap Will Lift Economy, a Study Finds

Study after study has shown a yawning educational achievement gap between the poorest and wealthiest children in America.

Economic impact of the achievement gap - St. Louis American

In April, they released the report The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools, and in it they concluded our nation's ...

Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black ...

Americans have come to the conclusion that the achievement gap is the fault of “failing schools” because it makes no common sense that it could be otherwise.

The Huge Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap - HuffPost

Our failure to educate all our children to the highest levels means students in America overall are being left behind in a world where global ...

I Want to Know More - New England Secondary School Consortium

When considering the costs of low educational attainment and underperforming schools, America's persistent achievement gap—the difference in educational ...

The Economic Impact of Achievement Gaps in Pennsylvania's Public ...

Notably, race-ethnic academic achievement gaps amount to an estimated annual cost of $1 billion to $3 billion in lost earnings, which equates to ...