Sentences with phrase «as their white peers»

And while these illnesses are consistent across demographic lines, people of color are more sensitive to the stigma of a diagnosis and are less likely to get the same level of care as their white peers.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

Black children, in particular, are less likely to be viewed as children as their White peers.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

For example, black children are twice as likely as their white peers to have no parent with secure employment.

Astonishingly, more than half of respondents said that students of color have the same opportunities as their white peers.

Bryan has been the subject of investigation by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights where Black students are almost four times as likely to be suspended or referred to a disciplinary school as their white peers.

Are students of color participating in the AP coursework that is offered, and are they performing at the same level as their white peers?

These low - expectations are grounded in the belief that communities of color are deficient in some way and that students, being the product of these deficient communities, can not be held to the same standards as their white peers because of how much they have to overcome.

Not exact matches

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

In the white paper, it is described as a «free open source peer - to - peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized».

President Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

The Washington Post's Tony Romm: «Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

The blanket of white that greeted me was an unexpected shock as I peered through the kitchen...

The mass audience will not be able to relate to him, to assemble an image of him, to measure him against his peers as they do the white player.

The tall se √ ± ora, dressed in slacks and a sport shirt and missing absolutely nothing as she peered through a pair of white - rimmed sunglasses, led the way carefully into a shady glade and up a cliff to the edge of a small natural pool.

The small group of attendees, which included a mix of long - time supporters and curious onlookers, spent the evening sipping free glasses of red and white wine — presumably courtesy of Mr. Spitzer — as reporters and tabloid photographers peered in at them through floor - to - ceiling window glass outside.

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

Blair's second Queen's speech was dominated by the question of Lords reform, mention of which by the monarch resulted in «an unprecedented ripple of disapproval from peers, calls of «Shame» mingling with «Hear, hears» from assembled MPs», as Michael White reported.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

Yet the report notes that a longitudinal survey of freshmen finds «underrepresented minorities aspire to major in STEM in college at the same rate as their white and Asian - American peers, and have done so since the last 1980s.»

I love everything about it: the deep blue, the way my skin shows through the gaps (it's a much better contrast then when the dress was white) and I love how the sun casts interesting shadows about my legs as it peers through the lacing.

Moretz (Kick - Ass 2, Dark Shadows) stars as Carrie White, a teenager who barely registers among her peers until she freaks out in the showers after experiencing her first menstrual cycle, something her fanatically religious mother Margaret (Moore, Don Jon) never deemed to make her aware of.

As The Huffington Post reports, it's been found that children of color who consume mainly white media report lower self - esteem than their white peers.

Now, it appears the Thai government has assigned him his final resting place, as death waits to strike like a cobra at any second; his laughing, maniacal peers in this prison all desiring to take a piece of his white flesh as a souvenir.

Applying this model of behavior to minority and white students yields two important predictions: A positive relationship between academic achievement and peer - group acceptance (popularity) will erode and turn negative, whenever the group as a whole has lower levels of achievement.

WASHINGTON — Black and Hispanic students in an affluent Maryland school district fall behind their white and Asian peers in mathematics as early as the 3rd grade, and the gap widens steadily through the elementary grades, a new study concludes.

That confusion, coupled with parents» high expectations for success in school and careers, the frustration of having white peers constantly question their «American - ness,» as well as body image and other concerns that are common to all teens are among the factors that put Korean American students at risk for a growing list of emotional and psychological issues.

As a group, Hispanics perform well below average on national achievement tests, and their high school dropout rate is nearly four times that of their non-Hispanic white peers.

• In what is known as the «peer effect,» poor students [and minority students] do better in schools where the student body is more middle class [white].

African - American and Hispanic adolescents care about succeeding in school as much as their white and Asian peers, and work hard to do so, a new survey shows.

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

As Matt Barnum put it in a recent Chalkbeat article, «black and poor students have substantially higher suspension rates than white and more affluent peers.

So, a Latino peer from a wealthy Mexican family or the African American daughter of a physician who grew up in a predominantly white suburb are not seen as contributing to the diverse learning environment.

Hispanic students for the first time outnumber their peers in other racial and ethnic groups in Montgomery County's public schools, a milestone for diversity in a suburb long regarded as largely white and affluent.

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

Commissioned by Congress as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Coleman Report sought to close the dogged educational separation between poor African - Americans and Latinos from their better - off white peers.

Many described a common experience in the corps: In addition to the challenges of being a first - year teacher and the rewards of giving back, they felt the burden of serving as interpreters of minority cultures for their white, often affluent peers.

Although the percentage of juvenile offenders under the age of 18 confined in a correctional facility declined from 1 percent to half that level between 1997 and 2011, they were still five times as likely to be in detention or correctional facilities in 2011 than their white peers.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

First, ethnographic studies have suggested that black students are less inclined to try hard in school because their peers may view academic effort as characteristic of «acting white.»

Moreover, all students — rich or poor, white and nonwhite alike — miss out on the substantial benefits of learning in richly diverse classrooms.9 As the research shows, students across the spectrum are better prepared for post-secondary success when they have been educated in diverse schools and have learned alongside peers who come from all walks of life.10

Second, NCLB relies on a simplistic difference in the proportion of proficient students between a minority group and the White peers, ignoring confounding factors such as social - economic inequities and differences in school qualities.

Most importantly, serving as a teacher exposed me to one of the greatest injustices of our time - the achievement gap that exists between students of color and their white peers.

Read more of the interview at http://dailyedventures.com/?p=5553 Technology, Coaching, and Community: Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education by Monica Beglau, Jana Craig Hare, Les Foltos, Kara Gann, Jayne James, Holly Jobe, Jim Knight and Ben Smith; ISTE White Paper; June 2011 Peer Coaching is highlighted in this White Paper as one of three coaching models «that provide highly effective professional development.»