Closing the Town’s Achievement Gap Through “Greenwich Parents as Teachers”
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Greenwich Sentinel·
- January 29, 2021·
Achievement gaps occur when one group of students outperforms another and the difference in average scores for the two groups is statistically significant. The Greenwich United Way developed GPAT to tackle this inequity specifically. For the last three years, the organization has been hard at work developing and implementing a program that aims to close this gap – Early Childhood Achievement Gap Solutions (ECAGS). It is a two-pronged approach consisting of a pre-natal to three years old portion – Greenwich Parents as Teachers (GPAT) – and the Pre-School Instructional Coaching (PSIC) prong for 4- and 5-year-olds. A high-quality, evidence-based program like GPAT makes it possible to overcome the achievement gap that students may begin their academics with.