Sentences with phrase «because black students»

In our focus groups, some participants even argued that because black students don't share the same connection and familiarity with white teachers, they often behave more respectfully toward them.

Because black students in the Golden State are about three times as likely to live in single - parent homes, this out - of - school factor explains a big part of California's racial suspensions gap.

«One could say this is a progressive outcome, because black students are actually being affected in a behavioral manner — they're taking more AP STEM classes.

Not exact matches

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Since we generally accept that African Americans are not intellectually inferior to whites, then we are led to conclude that black students do better in integrated school settings because the school district and faculty are better invested because of the presence of the white students.

But Benjamin cautioned that members of the black and Latino caucus are very much opposed to the idea of untethering SUNY from the Legislature's control, in part due to a concern that tuitions would rise out of the reach of low and middle - income students, but also simply because lawmakers don't like the idea of giving up control of anything.

«Minority students come in without that; so do white students; but because it's transmitted culturally, it's hard for white faculty to transmit it to black students.

Our findings suggest that rising student loan debt may serve to make the black middle class more fragile, because the latest generation of black young adults are more burdened with debt while also getting fewer payoffs to college.

acknowledge this, but I had grown accustomed to being ignored by yoga teachers who were uncomfortable with my being there, to being judged for being too new or assumed not trained enough to be in an advanced class, or to being verbally harassed by being repeatedly singled out and highlighted for the doing what everyone else in class was also doing because it looked «different» on my curvy, black body, and for being physically harassed through inappropriate touch in these spaces as a very vulnerable student.

When we briefly reminded Femi about the debate spearheaded by Samuel L Jackson that argued black British actors are cast because they are cheaper than their US counterparts, the actor — who has four black British students and clients with a Bafta Award under their belt — did not respond directly to Samuel's comments, but focused on offering a different perspective.

Troy is the son of the Dean of Students (Dennis Haysbert), and is dating the white daughter of the school President, whose son Kurt (Kyle Gallner) is one of those sorts of people who think the black population is no longer oppressed because Affirmative Action exists.

Because charter school students are disproportionately likely to be black, they are somewhat less likely to be Hispanic (27 percent versus 39 percent).

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Sometimes the personality and personal choices can be as minor as washing your hair every day until it turns brittle because you're tired of explaining why most Black students don't wash their hair every day.

Third, just the other day, a USA Today column called for shuttering a Kansas City charter school whose students recently won the National Society of Black Engineers Robotics Competition because its test scores are only average.

[3] The old conventional wisdom may be intuitively appealing because aggregate disability rates — with no adjustments for family income or other student characteristics — are higher for students who are black (1.4 times) or Native American (1.7), and lower for whites (0.9) and Asians (0.5), with Hispanic students about as likely to be identified as the rest of the population.

DeVos says that because of racism, black students did not have choices in those days, and that she meant to praise HBCUs for «pioneering on behalf of students that didn't have another choice.

Here, however, are the eighth - grade math results for black students in all participating cities (Albuquerque is excluded because its sample of black students is too small to permit a reliable estimate).

As Loveless explains, «critics argue that tracking creates or reinforces social inequities because black, Hispanic, and socioeconomically disadvantaged students are historically underrepresented in accelerated tracks.»

While pass rates in the first college - level course («gateway» course) in each subject decreased modestly (from 75 to 73 percent in English composition, and from 65 to 58 percent in math), because more students attempted these gateway courses the overall percentage of students successfully completing them rose markedly (by 7 percentage points in English and 4 percentage points in math), with larger increases for black students.

Because of the state's segregated school system, W. S. Creecy's students were all black.

We examined syllabi because there, in black and white, one can find exactly what students are expected to read, the topics they are supposed to study, and the work they are assigned.

Case in point: in the past few years, when new games of any import (according to the students) were released, many of them missed school because they attended the midnight release of the game (e.g. Skyrim, Assassin's Creed III, Black Ops and so on).1

• Are black students losing ground because they attend worse schools?

For instance, because there was greater between - school variance in outcomes for African American students than for white students (especially in the South), Coleman concluded that black students would be more responsive to school differences.

These learning gains are especially noteworthy because students «displaced by closure were disproportionately black, economically disadvantaged, and low - achieving.»

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.»

One can not infer that any administrators treat white and black students differently, because all administrators are dealing with students of only one race.

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

Because your policy of suspending students who get into fights on school grounds will be said to have had an «adverse impact» on black students, you will face, at minimum, the negative publicity that comes from a civil rights investigation.

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

The issue of teacher diversity is important because research has suggested that students who are racially paired with teachers — black teachers working with black students and Hispanic teachers working with Hispanic students — do better academically.

The effects of the reform on the teacher workforce have been particularly meaningful in schools with higher percentages of black students because they were more likely to have teachers extended rather than granted tenure.

Changing this is the great challenge for schools, because the share of black and Hispanic students is growing.

Inference 3 is closely related to Inference 2, because students who develop only a «black box» view of technology may also come to trust the technology to produce answers for them even when it is not an appropriate tool to use for approaching a given problem.

But that was because white non-Hispanic students regressed; Hispanic and black student proficiency held steady.

I realize now that part of the reason that I never felt pressed to attend, was because I had been privileged to work in school communities (mostly) that believed in me as a Black male educator, that were full of Black men choosing to show up excellent for the students that we served, and that supported my growth.

In 1969, the Pike County Superintendent in Georgia refused to let over 40 Black students graduate because they protested against unequal and unjust laws against some students.

Schools should hire someone who speak Spanish / other languages because there are ELL students or Black teachers because there are Black students.

But I am intentionally — and unapologetically — focusing on black male teachers because black male students continue to be one of the most underserved populations in schools.

A growing body of research shows that in many instances gifted black and Hispanic students are disproportionally denied access to gifted education because of the methods and instruments used.

Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino students» «urban culture.»

Colleges that say they can't improve graduation rates for their black students because they enroll too many poor students or too many who are academically unprepared are sometimes just making excuses, a new report says.

That's because there are disproportionately so many more black students at colleges with abysmal graduation rates.

The contending theory asserts that black students underperform because they are likely to be poor and underprivileged, and that addressing the academic achievement gap therefore requires first changing the economic and social conditions in which these students grow up.

Because our students are Muslim, gay, Black, female, Mexican, disabled, immigrant, trans, Native, Asian, white, and more, a school leader's responsibility is daunting.

And it is obvious that this is a «black on black» crime because the mojority of the students appear to be African Americans and the head of the union is black himself.

I have had teachers consult me about bringing criminal charges against black boys because of incidents that were very damaging, but could have been resolved by asking me to model the appropriate adult behavior to mend the student - teacher relationship.

Charter schools attract a higher percentage of black students than traditional public schools, in part because they tend to be located in urban areas.

It's not a huge disparity, but Ervin says hiring more black teachers is a priority because they have the lowest retention rate in the district and often feel overwhelmed helping students of color work through issues the students are facing in their community.