Sentences with phrase «as 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).

Policies that would put black students on the same footing as white students in terms of how teacher expectations are formed could narrow attainment gaps.

Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as my white students.

For example, districts could evaluate fairness in student promotion by analyzing whether minority students who have similar test scores as white students are less likely to be promoted.

African - American students were almost six times as likely to be disciplined as white students.

This report further explores this phenomenon in terms of minority student exposure to white students and found that it has been declining over time as the white student population decreases in public schools.

• Black students were twice as likely as white students to receive out - of - school suspensions.

In 2014, in response to findings that African American students were three times as likely to be suspended as white students, the Obama Administration sent a lengthy «Dear Colleague» letter to school districts nationwide, spelling out a new policy on school discipline, motivated by disparate impact theory.

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

Between 1996 and 1998 almost twice as many black and Hispanic students as white students had not completed the TAAS exit - level tests required to obtain a Texas high school diploma.

Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz said flatly, «a student of color in New York City is less than half as likely to have been taught to read or do math as a white student.»

Schools in Mississippi give Black students more than one - out - of - school suspension three times as often as they do to White students; Michigan does this four times as often to Black as White students, resulting in nearly a fifth of Michigan's Black students being kept out of the classroom at some point in their school careers.

As African Americans are three times more likely to grow up in poverty as white students (36 percent versus 12 percent, as of 2015), we would expect to see racial differences in student behavior, just as we see racial differences in achievement — which are not driven by race, but by socioeconomic differences.

Latino students borrow as much as white students, but they default on their loans at twice the rate, according to a Brookings Institution report.

But in other areas, the «achievement gap» — the ethnic disparity between higher - and lower - performing students — widened, as white students jumped further ahead of black and Hispanic students.

Diverse student groups (Hispanic, African American, English language learner) have not achieved at the same levels as White students (IES, 2009).

The help is seen as white students.

Texas, like the nation, has stagnated in elementary and middle school academic achievement and continues to fail to get black and Hispanic students performing as well as white students, according to a national «report card» out this week.

Latino students borrow at about the same rate as white students but borrow smaller amounts, on average, in part because they attend less - expensive institutions.

There have also been shown to be many benefits of racially integrated schools such as obviously allowing minorities to get the same opportunities as white students but also to socialize students and prepare them for a diverse workforce where employers value people who can work with others from diverse cultural backgrounds (Stuart, 2016).

Because of this, people often have a stereotype that African - American students are not as smart as white students.

African - American students in Kentucky, Montana, Utah, and Minnesota were three times more likely to be identified as emotionally disturbed while black students in Louisiana, Washington, Oregon, West Virginia, and North Carolina were more than twice as likely as white students to be targeted for such special programs.

He argues that suspending black students more often for truancy is not discriminatory if the disparity was the result in behavioral differences, and not intentional different treatment, and supplies evidence that black students self - report being truant nearly twice as often as white students.

But there is so much right with that bill because it FINALLY brought to light that black and Hispanic kids are clearly still not getting the same educational experience as white students, even within the same schools, and it works to hold schools accountable for it.

The rate of in - school classroom removals was well over three times higher for African American students as white students.

«a student of color in New York City is less than half as likely to have been taught to read or do math as a white student.»

For African American students in the San Francisco Unified School District, they were six times as likely as white students to test into the lowest level of the same standardized tests.

Why are black students half as likely as white students to be assigned to gifted classrooms in U.S. public schools?

Among the 676 institutions analyzed, 22 percent had a black - white graduation gap of less than 5 percentage points, and at 8 percent of the colleges, black students graduated at the same rate (or higher) as white students.

OCR's Civil Rights Data Collection has uncovered that 1.6 million students go to a school where there is a sworn law enforcement officer but no school counselor; that in 22 states, physical consequences are still used as a tool for discipline; and that significant implicit bias exists in our schools where, for example, black students in preschool are 3.6 times as likely to be suspended as white students.

Although most U.S. teachers are certified, for example, black students are more than four times as likely (PDF) as white students to attend schools where uncertified and unlicensed teachers are concentrated.

When pre-college differences in income and math achievement are taken into account, black and Hispanic students are at least as likely as white students to successfully complete a STEM major.

I thought my message of reverence and thanks to my high school teachers — who were, with the exception of one, all white — for holding me to the same high academic standards that they did as the white students was both obvious and genuine.