Education Week: Do Charter Schools
Enroll More White Students?
Not exact matches
[xv] While this may be a positive trend in general, we also find that among graduate school enrollees,
more than a quarter (28 percent) of black graduate
students enroll in for - profit institutions — compared to just 9 percent among
white graduate
students.
Where Prior Lake
enrolls a little over 1,000
students,
more than 90 percent of them
white and only 1 in 20 on free or reduced - price lunch, Berkeley houses 3,000
students, one - fourth of whom are low - income and two - thirds of whom are nonwhite.
In Denver,
white students are much
more likely than Denver's majority racial - minority
student population to
enroll in high - scoring schools and in advanced courses.
Black and Latino
students were
more likely to
enroll in Northern Virginia's urban schools than in suburban settings (though by increasingly smaller margins), while the reverse was true for Asian and
white students.
Across the 50 cities,
white students were four times
more likely than black
students to
enroll in a top - scoring elementary or middle school.
This brief, prepared for the
White House Summit on Community College, discusses models of partnerships between community colleges and high schools designed to increase the likelihood that
students will
enroll in college, to raise the college - readiness of entering
students, and to ease
students» transition to college so that they are
more likely to persist through completion.
«What's happening, as the American population becomes
more diverse, is that the lawyer corps and judges are remaining predominantly
white,» said John Nussbaumer, associate dean of Thomas M. Cooley Law School's campus in Auburn Hills, Mich., which
enrolls an unusually high percentage of African - American
students.