Sentences with phrase «attend schools with»

Moreover, black and Hispanic students are far more likely to grow up in poorer households, but middle - class black and Hispanic students are more likely than poor white children to attend schools with a higher percentage of poor students.

In communities with a number of distressed families, high - risk children may attend schools with a large number of other high - risk children, which creates a difficult learning climate and elicits further conduct problems.

# 3: When women are admitted to law school, they attend schools with significantly worse placement rates (and U.S. News rank) than men.

Not only do they frequently attend schools with strong college - going cultures and support networks, but they also have the means to afford private counselors to supplement their in - school counseling services (Avery, Howell, & Page, 2014).

In addition to socioeconomic realities that may deprive students of valuable resources, high - achieving black students may be exposed to less rigorous curriculums, attend schools with fewer resources, and have teachers who expect less of them academically than they expect of similarly high - achieving white students.

Making matters worse, compared to data from 2000, more students now attend schools with high concentrations of poverty.

More than half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, many minority students continue to attend schools with inferior resources, including less qualified teachers (Yun & Moreno, 2006).

Presently, incarceration disproportionately impacts people of color, and students of color disproportionately attend schools with fewer resources and less experienced teachers.

Seventy percent of today's students attend schools with more than 1,000 students, reflecting the belief that larger schools afford more opportunities, a richer curriculum, and economic efficiencies.

Levine found that 73.5 % of black students in the metro area now attend schools with 90 % or more non-white students, so - called «intensely segregated» schools.

One of GPSN's key strategies in making sure all students get a great education is to increase the number of children who can attend schools with a history of academic success.

Children living below 100 % of the federal poverty line are twice as likely as children with family incomes over 200 % of the poverty line to attend schools with low academic standards (20 % versus 10 %).

As a result, many more students of color would be likely to attend schools with inadequate resources, ineffective teachers, and larger class sizes in the early grades.

According to the pro-privatization advocacy group, Ed Choice, about 400,000 children in 29 states attend schools with the help of vouchers.

About 90 percent of Whites attend schools with gifted programs, while only 83 percent of Blacks do.

Analyzing the math achievement of elementary school children, Stephen Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art find that students learn less if they attend schools with high student turnover during the school year — a common occurrence in poor schools.

We will advance policies that ensure K — 12 students attend schools with high - quality educators, graduate high school with the momentum they need to be successful in college, and attain college credentials that lead to careers with family - sustaining wages.

We pursue policies to ensure that K - 12 students attend schools with high - quality educators, graduate with the momentum they need to succeed in college, and attain postsecondary credentials that lead to careers with family - sustaining wages.

In a city where housing segregation parallels that of our schools, there are no easy solutions to improving academic outcomes of children of color by having them attend schools with their white and Asian counterparts.

This oversampling of students who attend schools with high levels of poverty and undersampling of students from schools with less poverty results in artificially low PISA reports of national average scores.»

According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights data collection, Black, Latino, American Indian, and Alaska Native students are more likely to attend schools with high concentrations of inexperienced teachers.

A Century Foundation study, «Housing Policy Is School Policy,» found that low - income students in Montgomery County who attend schools with low levels of poverty significantly outperform low - income students who attend schools with high poverty rates.

«We believe that all Reading children should expect to attend schools with decent learning environments,» he said.

Middle - class children attend schools with few children of poverty.

Today, 40 percent of all low - income children — or 10 million students — attend schools with poverty rates of 75 percent or higher.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

Others operate only in particular regions within a state or only issue scholarships to students seeking to attend schools with a particular pedagogy or religious affiliation.

A recent study noted that parents whose children attend schools with mostly white students are much more likely to rate their child's school as excellent: 61 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly white students rate their child's school as excellent, compared to only 14 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly Black students.

America Achieves pointedly doesn't talk about the first quartile of students, those who attend schools with less than about 10 % of the students receiving free and reduced lunch.

OECD finds that on average, students worldwide attend schools with increased funding, more qualified teachers, and better quality educational materials than before.

Students from disadvantaged communities are more likely to attend schools with substandard Internet connections, according to a November report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, nonprofit education policy groups.

For all these reasons, research has found that the extent to which students attend schools with other students from low - income families is one of the strongest predictors of their achievement.

Students of color «are three to four times more likely to attend schools with higher concentrations of first - year teachers than White students.»

Proposals to serve students who attend schools with free and reduced - price lunch eligibility of 75 percent or greater.

Students who attend schools with certified teacher - librarians and quality library facilities perform better on standardized tests and are more likely to graduate, even after controlling for school size and student income level.

In other words, most students in the district attend schools with students of similar income backgrounds, or most of the district's schools look very different from the district as a whole in terms of poverty levels.

According to the survey, Americans are aware that most students attend schools with peers of similar backgrounds.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

Clearly, the takeaway message from the RAND study — as the authors explicitly state — is that students who transfer into charters in these cities attend schools with racial compositions that are similar to the TPS attended in the prior year.

In Northeastern states like New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, more than half of black students attend schools with more than 90 percent minority students, a proportion that is higher than in any other region, including the South.

In California, 75 % of white third - grade students who attend public schools without the minimum threshold number of ELL students perform at or above the proficient level on the state's mathematics assessment test, whereas just 67 % of the white California third - graders who attend schools with the minimum threshold number of ELL students score at or above the proficient level.

And one reason may be that black students are more likely than students in any other racial or ethnic group to attend schools with police, according to the analysis of 2013 - 14 civil rights data, the most recent collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

Most children in Northern Ireland attend schools with an environment that is conducive to learning, according to the study.

Since African - American and Latino students are more likely to attend schools with more than one racial group, they are more likely to see their education disrupted arbitrarily.

Systemic inequality is certainly a factor as well, given that children of color are more likely to attend schools with lower funding levels and weaker teachers.

And because some Florida students attend schools with grade six through 12 or seven through 12 configurations, he was able to compare the effect of entering a middle school in grade six or seven to that of entering high school in grade nine.

They find over half the gap in racial discipline rates is generated within schools; that is, it is not simply a story in which black and white students attend schools with different discipline policies.

Note, for example, that black students and disadvantaged students are currently more likely to attend schools with full - day kindergarten than more advantaged students.

Worse, high - ability children from disadvantaged circumstances typically attend schools with many other disadvantaged youngsters.

Yes, some want their kids to attend schools with youngsters who look like them.