Sentences with phrase «better than white students»

Asian students have generally performed better than white students on state math tests in the city, and about the same on English tests.

White students in these cities do quite well — even better than white students elsewhere.

Not exact matches

A student of the Great Depression and a former economics professor at Princeton, he likely knew better than anyone in the Bush White House what was at stake when so many major U.S. investment banks were poised to fail in the panic of 2008.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

«However, in our study, we were surprised to find that minority teachers are not just viewed more highly than White teachers by minority students, but in many cases by White students as well.»

In Season 2, the Netflix dramedy about black students attending a predominantly white university is better than ever.

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.

The researchers found that citizens who are less educated, of lower income, or minority are no less able than better - educated, higher - income, or white citizens to evaluate the schools on the basis of student achievement.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the national average.

Empowering parents is one of the best ways to combat the persistent finding that black children are statistically more likely than white children to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities.

However, research shows that black students are more likely to be categorized as «acting white» based on their style or the music they listen to than on getting good grades.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

By exploring districts» racial makeups, we see that across the board, Illinois has historically funded student groups in majority - White school districts better than their peers in districts with more students of color.

It may also be that black teachers simply have more effective classroom - management practices than white teachers, on average, and are therefore better able to induce misbehaving students to exhibit better behavior.

The other good long term news is that Black and Hispanic students, who usually have much lower test scores than white students, are making greater long - term progress than whites — shrinking the achievement gap between whites and the other two groups.

And while I am the first to say we need better data and analysis in Oakland, according to the latest Oakland Achieves study, 95 percent of African - American charter high schoolers completed the A-G requirements, which is a higher rate than White students districtwide.

As Ushomirsky, Williams, and Hall point, out, the average gap in on - track performance rate for black and white students in Recognized schools is 18 percentage points, a mere two points better than for peers in low - performing schools.

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

White students from poor families are doing better in schools across the state than black students from families with money.

As a local example, one study focused on Charlotte - Mecklenburg shows both black and white students who attended desegregated elementary schools performed better on standardized tests than peers who attended segregated schools.

Laura Jimenez of CAP noted that Petrilli's framing implied that children of color are less well behaved than white students.

When the study compared white students of similar backgrounds, they were not scoring any better in the «whitest» schools than they were in the «blackest».

However, comprehensives studies show Consortium Schools have higher graduation rates, better college attendance rates, and smaller gaps in outcomes between students of color and their white peers than the rest of New York's public schools.

White students did far better than average on the PARCC tests, while minority and low - income students did worse.

Meanwhile, 8th grade reading scores were even worse — with 8th graders in 2015 also performing no better overall than in 2000, but with the gap between Black and White students remaining unchanged in that time and the gap between students in poverty and students not in poverty growing from 13 points to 23 points.

Another interesting factor is that even minority students have a far higher graduation rate than the state averages as well as achieving a far closer graduation rate to white students than one would normally predict given usual patterns of educational inequity [9].

There's no better place to enjoy Mexico's unspoiled beaches and soft white sands than Puerto Peñasco, where outdoor adventures, sublime sunsets and pulsating nightlife await college students.

That to require students to sign a community covenant eschewing same - sex expressions of love will be viewed as no better than requiring students to be white, something of which any virtuous person would be ashamed, and in which no right - thinking person would participate.