Sentences with phrase «about minority students»

When most of us think about minority students facing discrimination, we picture an event like the one in Lodi — two kids in a fight, one white, one black, and the black student is allegedly given a tougher punishment than his white peer.

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In particular, Code.org strives to reach underserved minority groups such as girls and Hispanic and African American students so they, too, have a chance to learn about computer sciences.

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.

For Protestants, though, seminary need not be about ministry; at some of the more - established old line institutions in the U.S., for example, only a minority of students actually enter active ministry after graduating.

Religion is so deep - seated a human interest that it can be snowed under but never completely stifled, and on every campus there is a nucleus of students — sometimes a good many, sometimes a small minority — who care about their faith.

For many American Indian student - athletes, already just a sliver of a minority (the NCAA estimates about 3 percent of all high school basketball players will make it to the next level) this is the best opportunity they have to play college sports.

I'm sure there will be a vocal minority that does not want the fee, but there is plenty of support to get it done and most students don't think critically about the current costs of attending school, especially when those who use student loans to pay for college won't see the actual cost until after they graduate.

Explore African art, learn about STEM - related career opportunities for minority students, chug along a scenic route on a diesel train and more this weekend.

Minority students make up about 16.5 percent of Stevenson's population, Galloway said.

According to Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, the government has denied about 565,404 students in Senior High School from benefiting from the free second cycle education for all.

At Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting, the long struggle over getting more minority and women - owned businesses among the vendors to the district system turned into a discussion about using student labor.

The Erie County Legislature's Minority Caucus announces that Erie Community College has planned 15 College Planning Information Nights to learn about degree and non-degree training opportunities that will help students achieve their career and education goals.

During lunch, we talked about the retention of minority students in the department.

Its 450 current students — about 60 % minority and 70 % women — require easy access to the program staff and to one another if they are to keep from getting physically or academically lost in the shuffle of a large campus, Matsui says.

During office hours, ask minority students about working in small groups.

«For years we've been scouring the literature,» said lead author Steven Alvarado, assistant professor of sociology, «and we haven't found anything about how or if MESA is effective on the things it wants to be effective for: increasing the STEM engagement outcomes of minority and other underrepresented students.»

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

Before going to the campus, talk to other faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates about the treatment and feelings of minorities on campus.

Those three professors, Gerry Dozier, Juan Gilbert, and Cheryl Seals, talked about their educational backgrounds, how they came to Auburn, and how they have increased the number of minority and women graduate students in their department.

While Collins told the panel that he's worried about attracting enough smart students into science because «we have a mandate to ensure a strong pipeline,» the charge doesn't specifically discuss ways to attract minorities and women into the field.

«NIH expects to spend $ 240 million over the first 5 years of the initiative» to fund programs for minority students, and a program to evaluate the efforts and obtain rigorous data about what does and doesn't work.

For the undergraduate and graduate students we talked about health disparities and what they, as minority students, could bring to the table,» says Banks.

Aziza Baccouche — Dr. Z, as she calls herself — has made a career connecting scientific research to the people it could affect, such as informing patients about medical developments and getting more minority students interested in science.

The 22 - year - old college student, his parents, and his five younger sisters fled on foot to an arid mountain near the Syrian border, along with about 50,000 other Yezidis, members of a religious minority.

Several CEOSE committee members talked to MiSciNet about the report's findings and offered suggestions on how minority students may improve their chances of entering these fields and continuing on to establish rewarding careers as professional scientists.

In the past few years, another way that Kirschstein demonstrated her devotion to that future was by multiple visits, as part of an NIH outreach program for minority youngsters, to an elementary school in a low - income area of Washington, D.C., to talk about science with the students there.

Minority Admissions: Countering Cultural Blocks Anne Sasso, 10 March 2006 A recent study suggests that many minority or disadvantaged students have misconceptions about college and the application Minority Admissions: Countering Cultural Blocks Anne Sasso, 10 March 2006 A recent study suggests that many minority or disadvantaged students have misconceptions about college and the application minority or disadvantaged students have misconceptions about college and the application process.

«By elevating great American scientific communicators, we can empower students - especially girls and minorities - to get excited about science.»

But some perennial topics have acquired a different focus; for example, the question about the internet has shifted from ensuring access to cybersecurity and privacy, and the question dealing with education now focuses on attracting more women and minorities into the scientific workforce rather than on boosting overall student achievement.

Peter Delfyett - Brightening the Future for Minorities by C. Choi, 8 July 2005 Peter Delfyett, a professor of optics and university trustee chair at the University of Central Florida in Tallahassee, talks about his career and encourages minority students to enter science.

For the launch, we have gathered entertaining and thought - provoking essays about starting a family while pursuing your graduate degree, nonminority faculty mentoring minority science students, and making the successful transition from community college to a 4 - year institution.

Past research shows minority students can be helped by being prompted to think about things they care about like sports, friends, or religion.

Rita is also an advocate for the participation of women and minority students in plant science through her participation in career development workshops, and she has worked with Monsanto, Together, an outreach program, to inform elementary and middle school students about plant science and careers.

Focusing solely on graduates of Harvard Business School and on alumni of a program for gifted minority students called A Better Chance (ABC), the author discovered this time that bourgie blacks, like First Lady Michelle Obama, finally feel pretty darn good about being American.

Students in both systems are about 90 percent minority (Houston has more African - Americans, Los Angeles more Latinos), and about 80 percent come from low - income families.

If teachers of color hold higher expectations for minority students — stemming from their perceptions about student ability, effort, and behavior — they might be more likely to push students to work hard and to insist on their best effort in all assignments.

The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which schools their children will attend — and other desegregation efforts benefit minority students.

Like in the case of elementary grades, minority and disadvantaged students, who tend to blindly trust the information given out by schools, will be particularly hardly hit by this fog of doublespeak about college readiness.

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

Policymakers and reformers talk endlessly about the «achievement gap,» highlighting how much worse low - income and minority students are doing.

The CPS students in the program were primarily from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds and minority groups; about 90 percent were black or Hispanic.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

Marty West talks with Education Next about a new Harvard study that finds that parents grade their local schools based on student achievement, not minority enrollment.

The conference, held here Oct. 30 - Nov. 4, drew about 1,000 attendees interested in college access and the future of minority students.

Expanding school choice has been shown to improve achievement for minority students by about one - third of a standard deviation after a few years of intervention, according to seven of eight random - assignment evaluations (the eighth showed positive but statistically insignificant effects).

The famous Tennessee STAR random assignment study evaluated class size reduction, which also produced about a one - third of a standard deviation improvement in achievement for minority students.

If we were talking about the 1960s, I could easily offer Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age as the articulation of that era's strategy of increasing resources devoted to education, particularly for minority students.

And there is a reason why students learning about the plight of the homeless, the refugee, the hungry, the member of a minority group who is discriminated against, and the like are not moved to action with greater frequency.

What about Native American students, poor white students, or Asian students who do not fit into the «model minority» category?

About half the students are from various minority groups, and the number qualifying for free or reduced - cost lunch ranges from 9 percent at some schools to 74 percent at others.