Arizona has a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in NAEP than
White students at grade 4.
In 2009, California, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, and Texas have a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in NAEP than
White students at both grades.
Not exact matches
At Audubon Park Elementary in Orlando, Florida, fifth -
grade students will observe a moment of silence for the Parkland victims; younger
students will participate in age - appropriate observances, and their parents will write letters to Congress and the
White House.
T - Shirt Memories When Donna Thomas, a teacher
at Heritage Prep Middle School in Orlando, Florida, was teaching first
grade, she had each of her
students bring a
white T - shirt to school on one of the last days of the year.
Fifth -
grade lead teacher Joshua
White looks
at student performance on each «strand» of standards in reading, writing, and math, both within his own class and across the
grade.
At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance,
student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth -
grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly
white.
In math, the size of the gap has fallen nationally by 0.2 standard deviations, but that still leaves the average black 12th -
grade student at only the 19th percentile of the
white distribution.
At the 8th - grade level, 54 percent of black students scored at or above basic, compared with 83 percent of white student
At the 8th -
grade level, 54 percent of black
students scored
at or above basic, compared with 83 percent of white student
at or above basic, compared with 83 percent of
white students.
The case was brought last month by the parents of three
white preschoolers who were denied admission to next fall's kindergarten class
at the Arlington Traditional School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300
students in
grades K - 5.
In California, 75 % of
white third -
grade students who attend public schools without the minimum threshold number of ELL
students perform
at or above the proficient level on the state's mathematics assessment test, whereas just 67 % of the
white California third - graders who attend schools with the minimum threshold number of ELL
students score
at or above the proficient level.
By the end of 1st
grade, however, the black -
white test - score gap is greater for
students who have
at least one black teacher.
Among Florida ELL eighth - graders
at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of
white eighth -
grade students, only about 10 % scored
at or above the proficient level in math.
The 2017 NAEP eight -
grade reading assessment shows that while 33 percent of
White students in the Milwaukee public schools can read
at grade level (proficient or above), the school system teaches less than one - fifth of that percentage, six percent, of the Black
students in its care to read proficiently
at the crucial
grade 8 level.
And it thereby required, for example, all fourth
grade students from the previously black and previously
white schools first to attend together what would now be a «mixed» fourth
grade at one of the school buildings and then the next year to attend what would now be a «mixed» fifth
grade at the other school building.
If black
students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th
grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind
white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).
For example, among eighth -
grade ELL
students in Florida, about 30 % score
at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of
white students.
A Black
student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more likely to read
at or above
grade level
at eighth
grade than a
White student eligible for the National Lunch Program.
Notice in my example that the average score of black
students lies
at the same point in the
white distribution in both the 5th and the 8th
grades: around 75 percent of
white students score higher than the average black
student in both
grades.
To get specific: In Chicago Public Schools ~
white and Asian
students made minor gains on NAEP in reading between 2003 and 2009 ~ but Hispanic
students gained little and blacks gained nothing ~ so the achievement gap widened between whites and minorities
at the fourth and eighth
grade levels.
Too many
students can't perform
at grade level, and there is a significant achievement gap between
white and minority
students.
One could speculate that if Rochester's male Black
students moved to New York City (preferably to eastern Queens, but whatever) eight times as many would learn to read
at grade level, as would four times as many of the male Hispanics and twice as many of the male
White.
Take reading, for example: According to the U.S. Department of Education; in 4th
grade 44 % of
white students, 16 % of black
students, 28 % of Hispanic
students and 57 % of Asian
students are performing
at or above proficiency.
But only
white students and advanced learners of all races were more than 50 percent reading - proficient in
grades 3 - 5,
at 70 percent and 93 percent, respectively.
By 8th
grade, 36 % of
white students, 13 % of black
students, 23 % of Hispanic
students and 46 % of Asian
students are
at or above proficiency.
White students in the district outperform white students across the state on all tests at all grade levels, and black students outperform other black students across the state on most state t
White students in the district outperform
white students across the state on all tests at all grade levels, and black students outperform other black students across the state on most state t
white students across the state on all tests
at all
grade levels, and black
students outperform other black
students across the state on most state tests.
Twenty - one percent of Latino eighth - graders read
at the highest levels on NAEP in 2015 (unchanged from 2013, but five points higher than in 2002); 44 percent of
white eighth - graders read
at Proficient and Advanced (two points lower than in 2013, but three points higher than levels 13 years ago); 22 percent of Native eighth -
grade students read
at the highest levels (three points higher than in 2013, and four points higher than in 2002); and 52 percent of Asian eighth - graders read
at Proficient and Advanced levels (unchanged from 2013, but 16 points higher than levels 13 years ago).
Looking
at students in
grades 4 - 8, the researchers found that the regular public school population in North Carolina has become less
white over the past 15 years (from 64.1 percent
white to 53 percent
white), while the charter school population has grown more
white (from 58.5 percent
white to 62.2 percent
white).
In Louisiana, 30 percent of
white, non-Hispanic
students whose family incomes are low enough to qualify them for the National Lunch Program read
at or above
grade level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
grade 4 reading test.
Research has shown that minority
students attending inner - city campuses are more likely to be held back a
grade than their
white peers
at more affluent neighborhood schools.
The District of Columbia,
at grade 8, did not have enough
White students.
The gap also narrowed between
White and non-ELL Hispanic
students at both
grades in mathematics and reading.
For both
grade levels, there was generally a larger percentage of
White than Hispanic
students who participated in the 2009 assessments
at the national level.
Nationally, scores for Hispanic
students have increased in 2009 since the early 1990s in both subjects and
at both
grades, but scores for
White students have increased as well.
In Louisiana, the gap between 4th
grade white students and their black peers on a national reading test has been
at least 22 points since 2003 (when it was 35 points).
For example, the 2009 mathematics assessment
student sample was 54 percent
White and 22 percent Hispanic
at grade 4 and 56 percent
White and 21 percent Hispanic
at grade 8.
Kayleigh
White: Kayleigh
White is a special education social studies teacher of 9th
grade students with severe emotional and behavioral disorders
at Manhattan High School in New York City.
Findings show that, generally, girls self - report as being more engaged than boys,
White students and Asian American
students are more engaged than other races across all three dimensions,
students in advanced classes are more engaged, non-low-income
students report more engagement, and
students who begin and stay
at their high school starting in the ninth
grade are higher across the dimensions of engagement.
At both
grades, black and Hispanic
students posted lower average scores than
white students and Asian
students.
The school's data showed a wide gap in reading and math achievement between
white and Hispanic
students in 3rd
grade; it looked like an insurmountable chasm
at 5th
grade.
Students in Lori
White's third
grade class
at Knox Elementary used problem - solving skills to design environments that answered the question, «Would you rather live underground, underwater or in the sky?»
At the same time, no matter how you look at it, one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian fourth - graders — an one out of every five white and Asian students in the same grade — are unable to read at levels needed for future succes
At the same time, no matter how you look
at it, one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian fourth - graders — an one out of every five white and Asian students in the same grade — are unable to read at levels needed for future succes
at it, one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian fourth - graders — an one out of every five
white and Asian
students in the same
grade — are unable to read
at levels needed for future succes
at levels needed for future success.
Oakland Tech High School teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide
grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between
white, African American, and Latino
students at his school.
TK - 5th
grade students wear navy pants / dresses / skirts and a
white shirt with the ASCEND logo, or a plain
white shirt with no logo
at all.
23 percent of black fourth graders, and 32 percent of Hispanic fourth graders achieved
at or above the proficient level, compared with 63 percent of
white fourth -
grade students.
The 5th
grade scores of black
students who enter school with average math and reading skills are one - half a standard deviation below those of their
white peers and place
at the 20 — 25th percentile of the
white distribution.
Also, if you look — and I am assuming that Rich
White reads
at at least a 4th
grade level — you will see that the Magnet school forecasts 20
students per classroom, has paraprofessionals, curriculum specialists, etc, while the differentiated classroom often has 27
students, some of whom are not
at grade level, and maybe no paraprofessionals or teacher's aids.
Out of the 59 magnet high schools (
grades 9 - 12) for which data was available, only 13 had
at least 25 %
White students (search.lausd.k12.ca.us).
In its recent
White Paper, the government outlined plans to allow universities to offer as many places as they want to
students with AAB
grades at A-level.
Since very few have
grades that meet the firms» usual standards, the firms hire many minorities with
grades «far below those of the
white students hired
at the same firms.»
In the case of black heritage graduates it was a numbers issue: as a percentage of those achieving high
grades at A Level; 22 per cent of Chinese
students, 10 per cent of
white students and 9.9 per cent of Asian
students achieved three As
at A Level in 2015, while only 3.9 per cent of black heritage
students attained the same.