Sentences with phrase «as a black student»

He describes what I have known to be true as a Black student who had a plethora of Black teachers.

«As a black student in the public education system, historically and systemically, the odds are not in my favor.

Asian and white student whose families have money score twice as high in math as black students from similar economic backgrounds.

In the subsequent decade, roughly half of black teachers lost their jobs, as black students were sent to presumptively superior white schools to be taught by white teachers.

* Latino, American Indian, and low - income students attend poorly resourced, low - performing schools at similar percentages as Black students

Brent Staples, a product of Chester, Pennsylvania, recently wrote about his experiences as a black student with black teachers as well.

During the December hearing, Sen. Chris Murphy (D - CT) asked Marcus what he thought about racial disparities in student discipline, such as black students facing harsh discipline at much higher rates than white students.

That is to say, a white student who gets a large preference (because of alumni connections, for example) has the exact same problems in law school as a black student who gets a large preference.

Not exact matches

In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as «a cowardly, honky group» who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous «dirty work.»

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

But as one of two black students and the only black woman in an entry - level class of hundreds, Baker felt a cold shoulder and took it personally.

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, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Restudent body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican ReStudent Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

In addition to industry and geographical diversity, this year's cohort includes students who identify as Black or African American; Asian or Pacific Islander; Hispanic or Latina; or Caucasian.

2017.02.03 RBC announces 30 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from thBlack History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from thblack Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from them...

2016.02.04 RBC announces 25 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As the cost of tuition continues to rise, scholarships are helping students to offset some of those costs.

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.

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But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrblack racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrBlack Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrBlack Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

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.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

Black students are twice as likely as white students to report that they fear for their physical safety (28 percent versus 13 percent).

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

Hundreds of monuments to slavery still stand throughout the Southeast, such as Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama, where a student population that's 94 percent black attends classes in a building that honors a man who claimed the horrors of slavery.

And then that young black student said this: «You can't understand why I'm crying, try as hard as you will.»

At the University of Virginia as at other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college students.

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune Constantly practicing, Madeline Black, a 19 year old Utah Valley University culinary student applies her knowledge in the school kitchen as she prepares for a public luncheon recently.

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune Working a public luncheon at UVU, culinary student Madeline Black pays attention to detail and presentation as she sets up for a recent event.

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune One delivery down another to go, UVU culinary student Madeline Black takes the service elevator at Utah Valley University after setting up food for an event as part of the school's student run restaurant called Restaurant Forte.

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune Cheff Todd Leonard guides Madeline Black, as she works an event through UVU's student r

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune Madeline Black, a 19 year old Utah Valley University culinary student, tosses dumplings as she prepares for a public luncheon recently.

We have also been lucky enough to attend and enjoy events such as Student Lock - In, the Dodgeball Charity event, Asda Black Friday and Parklife Festival as well as attend many games and tournaments such as American Football.»

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.»

That black children are twice as likely as white children to be placed in a class for students with intellectual disability.

As Trevor Phillips pointed out, studies have indeed shown that «[w] hen black students present themselves, they ARE less likely to be admitted.»

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State's K - 12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state's teachers — leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without access to educators of color.The gap is...

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State's K - 12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state's teachers — leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without access to educators of color.

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of...

«As a city it is imperative that we make the success of Black and Latino students our top priority.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

«The College Corps helps place students in jobs that are enhancing their education as well as keeping them in the Mohawk Valley... we take pride in this area and what it has to offer as we continue to recruit new employees,» said Lisa Kimmel of Black River Systems, one of the many high tech employers in the program.

They argue that a case built to help black and Latino students from Hartford has also empowered white privilege, as magnet schools covet families that are not black or Latino to meet integration quotas.

As part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg» s initiative on black and Latino males, a school now gets extra points for making significant progress with students in that group whose prior performance has put them in the lowest third academically.

Since August 2016, Carranza, 51, has been serving as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student population.

What this approach ignores, to be frank, is that most victims of crime in New York City belong to Mark - Viverito's «communities of color» — just as black and Hispanic students suffer most from disruptions in the city's 70 % - plus black and Hispanic public - school system.

Hrabowski also used his personal experience as an undergraduate at Hampton University, a historically black university, and as a graduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

These data also allow the researchers to draw conclusions about a causal mechanism that can explain the observation that black students are more likely to be identified as gifted with black classroom teachers.

After watching the videos, students were quicker to associate white faces than black ones with positive terms such as peace and love.