Sentences with phrase «when black students»

But when black students are taught by black teachers, the racial gap largely disappears.

When black students have black teachers in elementary school they perform better on standardized tests.

When black students went to schools with white ones, they were able to access good teachers, principals and guidance counselors, updated textbooks and more advanced classes.

When the Black Students Association at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology threw a pizza party in September for new members, every African American freshman on campus showed up.

And what do you think it meant when black students were given secondhand books and had to walk miles to substandard schools?

When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

Stereotype threat can occur in situations where students perceive that a stereotype regarding their ability will come into play - such as when a black student is taught by a white teacher.

When a black student has a black teacher, that teacher is much less likely to see behavioral problems with that student than when the same black student has a white teacher.

Not exact matches

I was faced with the depth of the problem when one of my Duke students, a black woman, Viva Leigh Miller, approached me in March 2010 to help her get a job in Silicon Valley.

Professor Matthew Colless, Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ANU, when he was a graduate student at Cambridge, had Hawking as a lecturer on gravitational physics and black holes.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

That was meant to address black lawmakers» concerns that teachers with guns might discriminate against black students in deciding when to use them.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

When even key IVCF supporters questioned her decision to include black students, the organization's board took a radical stance.

These words were spoken to Ernest Grey in 2002 when he was a young, black student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

The challenge to say something about God and the black liberation struggle was enhanced when Ronald Goetz (a classmate during my student years at Garrett) invited me in February 1968 to lecture at Elmhurst College, where he was teaching.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

When 16,000 college students gathered at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's latest Urbana conference to talk about missions, one of the main debates became how evangelicals should engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

«When I read about the recent column in the Columbia Daily Spectator by a black student saying that Jews were responsible for spilling African blood, I felt a chill.

Black students are on the mark when they say that religion is what black folk do when they are not able to do anything Black students are on the mark when they say that religion is what black folk do when they are not able to do anything black folk do when they are not able to do anything else.

When most students are busy sun bathing, breaking out the bikinis, and reveling in the lovely spring weather, we were busy putting on our heaviest winter gear, wiping out on black ice, and freezing our butts off braving the long walk to lecture halls.

«When you are in the kitchen, you can reflect your passion in your cooking and you can tell if [the students] are having fun being in there,» said Beriau, who added that Black and her closest competitor «were totally focused and at the top of their game, and it showed through the whole competition.»

Originally a prank by students who'd speed unsanctioned on horseback across the football field before games, the mysterious rider on a black horse became the official mascot at the 1954 Gator Bowl, when Joe Kirk Fulton's official entrance as the Masked Rider inspired The Atlanta Journal's Ed Danforth to write, «No team in any bowl game ever made a more sensational entrance.»

When Trice arrived, Iowa State only had about 20 black students, a tiny fraction of its student body of nearly 4,500.

Watch: the extraordinary moment when The Labour Party campaign chief Douglas Alexander realised he'd lost his seat to Scottish National Party (SNP) 20 - year - old politics student Mhairi Black by six thousand votes.Watch more: Douglas Alexander's concession speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-ZMZeR6a4

The attacks continued when Assemblywoman Inez Barron (D - Brooklyn) blasted Deputy Chancellor John White over the difference in performance between white and black students.

In Syracuse, black and multiracial students slightly outperformed their white peers when it came to graduation rates.

When it comes to studying sexual violence, college surveys often don't include students at historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs.

Police say Justin Tavarez, who's a student at Skidmore College in upstate New York, took offense when he saw a white man dining with a black man and smashed a plate over the white man's head.

New York University served up a «Black History Month» meal at one of its dining halls — complete with watermelon - flavored water and collard greens — and had to apologize when students called the school out for playing into racist stereotypes.

When Mhairi Black, the 20 - year - old student who unseated Douglas Alexander, made her victory speech, she denounced austerity, the bedroom tax and Trident.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollwhen there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollWhen are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

White students in Troy were graduating at higher rates than all others until last year, when they were edged out by black and Hispanic students.

The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs by both black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.

Researchers used sophisticated eye - tracking technology and found that preschool teachers «show a tendency to more closely observe black students, and especially boys, when challenging behaviors are expected,» the authors found.

Eberhardt and Stanford psychology graduate student Jason Okonofua examined the psychological processes involved when teachers discipline black students more harshly than white students.

«When students come into the university, the numbers of white and black students with an interest in the sciences are about the same.

After adjusting the results to account for variability between each person's ability, they found that the black students» scored lower when they were told that the task was a test of their intellectual ability.

What's more, in a follow - up experiment, the researchers found that simply having to specify their race before taking the test was enough to drastically worsen a black student's performance, while when white students did this, their performance actually increased.

«When we analyzed the Keck data, we found the emitting region of SDSS1133 is less than 40 light - years across, and that the center of Markarian 177 shows evidence of intense star formation and other features indicating a recent disturbance that matched what we expected for a recoiling black hole,» said Chao - Ling Hung, a UH Manoa graduate student performing the analysis of the Keck Observatory imaging in the study.

Description: Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) had retired from his secret identity of Black Lightning many years ago, but when danger threatens his twenty - something daughter, Jennifer (Nafessa Williams), and a student at her school is being lured by a gang, he returns to the fight.

When unsuspecting high school students reunite, they face a bout of vengeance for their past deeds as black magic goes wrong in this gruesome horror.

I have to admit to feeling dismay when I heard we were in for another white teacher / black student piece, but Half Nelson manages to sidestep the standing - on - desks bullshit, replacing it with something that feels like The Big Chill in its throwback to good old - fashioned Flower Power outrage.

(In French with subtitles) Spinning into Butter (R for profanity) Hate crime saga, set on the verdant campus of a college in Vermony, finds the school's dean (Sarah Jessica Parker) reexamining her feelings about prejudice when racial epithets threatening lynching are plastered to the dorm room door of a black student (Paul James).

When we briefly reminded Femi about the debate spearheaded by Samuel L Jackson that argued black British actors are cast because they are cheaper than their US counterparts, the actor — who has four black British students and clients with a Bafta Award under their belt — did not respond directly to Samuel's comments, but focused on offering a different perspective.

However, Mark learns that life isn't as easy for Black people as on «The Cosby Show», and further complicates his life when he begins to fall head over heels for a fellow Black student, a single mother named Sarah (Chong, American Flyers), from whom he took her scholarship money away.

In other cases it resulted when students had not followed the instruction on the front of each examination paper to use black ink or black ballpoint pen.»