Sentences with phrase «among black students»

The statewide four - year graduation rate and the graduation rate among black students have both increased in recent years, although racial gaps are still striking.

These effects are most pronounced among black students linked with black teachers.

One study found that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects concentrated among black students.

However, the disparities in rates of placement essentially disappear among Black students who have Black teachers.

Among black students with similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those who attended an integrated school with more white students scored higher.

And the number of students graduating with science - related degrees has doubled among black students.

For example, both minimum - competency testing and increased coursework requirements led to reductions in educational attainment that were most pronounced among black students.

According to DPI data, suspensions among black students nearly quadrupled the number among white students in 2014 - 2015, despite the fact that black students make up less than 30 percent of total enrollment.

This year Leopold Elementary School became the first Madison elementary school to be hit with a second - level sanction under the federal No Child Left Behind law for insufficient reading test scores among black students.

Waldfogel noted that trends in black - white test scores over the last 30 years indicate that we may be entering a period of steady gains among black students in America.

Using state - of - the - art techniques, Dee finds that earlier standards - based reforms lowered graduation rates but improved students» employability, especially among black students.

For example, among fourth graders, Wisconsin's black students scored 193 in reading compared to a national average among black students of 206.

According to Florida's Annual Measure of Objectives [Excel file], in 2014, 70 percent of white students scored satisfactory or above in both reading and math while among black students, 39 percent scored satisfactoty or above in reading and 43 percent scored satisfactory or above in math.

[17] The largest declines occurred among black students and students under age 25.

Cleveland — Black educators meeting here this month were told that they must lead the way in improving the outlook for academic excellence among black students, in part by incorporating Afro - American perspectives into the general curriculum.

They had negative effects on students» educational attainment, particularly among black students.

More than half of the black - white test - score gap could be erased by steady gains of 5 percent a year among black students.)

Davis's experiences in D.C.'s public schools mirror nationwide trends among black students, a group that often gets shortchanged on teacher quality.

The gap between achievement among black students and white students over that time has changed little, according to DPI data.

Chapin's graduation rate went from 82 percent to exceeding 96 percent, with proficiency rates continuing to climb, including a 16 - point spike in math proficiency among Black students.

Opponents of zero tolerance often cite research that shows these policies have resulted in disproportionately higher suspension rates among black students and students with disabilities.

Most recently, SFUSD announced last week that efforts to reduce the disproportionate number of suspensions among black students has been a success, bringing them down 17 percent from last year as the district implements more proactive policies, ranging from daily check - ins to rewards for good behavior, according to a district press release.

On what planet does it make sense for the NAACP to tell a black charter school leader like Christopher Goins, whose black students average 19.5 on the ACT, to stop serving students when the national average for ACT scores among Black students is 17?

The researchers, led by Paul E. Peterson, director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, acknowledge that the gains among black students who used vouchers were concentrated heavily in Washington, where the improvement was twice as great as in New York and one - third greater than in the third city studied, Dayton, Ohio.

Marijuana use soared, especially among black students, the study found.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

Among black students, higher curricular requirements reduced the probability of graduating from high school by roughly 2 percentage points — four times the impact that these reforms had on white males.

By contrast, among black students, the benefits of having a black teacher were concentrated in schools with higher levels of disadvantage and racial segregation.

Durham Public Schools and Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools are both struggling to reduce suspensions among black students.

But disparate discipline rates among Black students, combined with a lack of Black educators and a rampant belief gap, prove how incomplete the dream remains.

Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or -LSB-...]

Among black students, 64 percent hit the literacy benchmark in 2015 - 16, up from 52 percent the previous year.

An estimated 30 percent of U.S. high school students drop out or fail to graduate from high school; the dropout rate among black students is closer to 50 percent (America's Promise Alliance, 2008).

Meanwhile, controlling for math and reading scores alone does not yield the same effect among Black students.

The school must provide tutoring as a penalty under the federal No Child Left Behind law for insufficient reading scores among black students.