Sentences with phrase «white students tend»

In each state, and in both elementary grades and middle school grades, a significant portion of the aggregate difference in math proficiency can be accounted for by the fact that ELL students and white students tend not to attend the same public schools.

On standardized tests, white students tend to perform significantly higher than black and Latino students.

Not exact matches

Activists usually are from the middle class; in the United States they tend to be white, from the northeast or from large cities in the west and midwest; women, college students and «modernist» Protestant clergy have been conspicuously represented.

Schools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white students.

For students of color, in particular, this means that attendance at a desegregated school tends to make them more likely to enter and persist in white - dominated or racially diverse settings when they perceive opportunity there.

Black, Hispanic, and white 3rd graders all tend to perform worse in reading and math when they are in classes that have a larger share of black students.

This framing tends to fuel what Warikoo calls «the diversity bargain,» in which white students support affirmative action as long as black and Latino students on campus do not form their own organizations and friend groups, and whites do not feel overlooked through «reverse discrimination» when they apply for fellowships, jobs, and graduate school.

Students who are most willing to contribute to the discussion from the start are not only more confident and extroverted; they also tend to come from more privileged backgrounds — white, male, straight, or wealthy.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

«When we have been successful in bringing parents into the school, they tended to be white, middle class parents who had done well when they were students in school,» Ehrich said.

Similarly, the results for white students could merely reflect the possibility that the black teachers in predominantly white schools tend to be of lower quality than the white teachers in those schools.

In the St. Louis area, school districts tend to be divided along racial lines, and a New York Times reporter covering the story of the transfers heard from white parents in receiving districts who expressed concern that troublemakers will be among the transfers, and that teachers may have to slow down to allow the students from struggling districts, which are predominantly black, to catch up.

For instance, the results for black students are consistent with the plausible alternative hypothesis that predominantly black schools tend to attract and retain high - quality black teachers but only low - quality white teachers.

In two of the school districts he visited, white parents tended to be the ones most involved in the parent — teacher associations.They know, for example, about mathematics placement tests in fifth grade that dictated which classes students will take.

Disproportionately poor, and sometimes not speaking English at home, Hispanics tend to score considerably lower than white students.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

We need to improve identification and eligibility criteria and procedures, including multiple gateways and types of data to make sure we aren't only identifying the same «type» of student (usually upper - middle class white students, who tend to behave in ways pleasing to mostly - white teachers) and neglecting minorities and English Language Learners.

The schools, which deliver instruction entirely or primarily via the internet, tend to attract lower - income, lower - performing white students, then fail to provide those children with the supports they need, the study concluded.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

And the county, which has a high poverty rate, has seen significantly different results, with students in the predominantly white district tending to fare better.

Increasingly popular dual - language programs don't just benefit white, English - speaking students — but education reporters tend to cover them that way.

Recently I wrote about the differences in expectations that White and Black teachers tend to have for their students.

About 40 percent of all white students are enrolled at the most selective schools, which also tend to have the best graduation rates, compared with 25 percent of all black students.

ELL student math proficiency rates tend to be highest at ELL reporting schools with sufficient numbers of white students to report the white results (Table 2).

These mindsets tend to be less systematically reinforced for black students than for their white peers.

This mismatch in ethnicity is a problem because white teachers tend to have lower expectations for black students than black teachers have for the same students.

The mentorship program is particularly valuable for students who may be attending predominantly white schools that look and feel different than KIPP schools, which tend to be more diverse, because «there's something special about knowing there's someone who's gone through a similar journey as you on campus,» Stith explains.

While the performance of the district's middle schools tended to break along familiar lines — with the top schools filled with high levels of white students in less impoverished areas — the CORE data for high schools reveal a different story in several key categories.

Since poverty and race are closely tied in the United States, African - American and Latino students are at a significant disadvantage to the White students who tend to live in more affluent communities.

Rather, their teachers tend to punish them harshly for the very same behaviors that earn White and Asian students a warning, at most.

Segregated schools tend to lead to better schools for white students and often impoverished schools that don't have the same resources for minorities (Walsemann, 2010).

In particular, low - income students and students of color tend to benefit more from using a school voucher than their more affluent, white peers.

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According to the White House College Scorecard, about 40 % of students of for - profit schools don't end up graduating, and those who do graduate tend to earn under $ 30,000 a year on average.

There were no significant differences between the students who were retained and those who dropped out of the study, except that retained students tended to be slightly older and were more likely to be white.