Sentences with phrase «between white students»

The achievement gaps between white students and black and Hispanic students are massive and well - documented; the larger the socioeconomic disparity, the larger the achievement gap.

If you've heard of what's commonly called the «achievement gap» — the shocking difference in educational outcomes between white students and students of color — you probably have standardized tests to thank.

There were no statistically significant changes in the achievement gaps in fourth - grade reading between white students and black and Hispanic students.

While graduation rates improved for all student subgroups, large gaps between white students and students statewide of color remain.

States applying for the grants will also asked to show that they are paying teachers based on performance, intervening faster to turn around their lowest - performing schools, authorizing more charter schools and closing achievement gaps such as those between white students and their black and Latino peers.

There were no changes in the achievement gaps in fourth - grade reading between white students and black and Hispanic students.

The statement also touted the narrowing of the graduation gap between white students and students of color.

A third area of assessment in the report is a comparison of achievement gaps, specifically the gap between white students and African - American students and the gap between white students and Hispanic students in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science and Social Studies.

Today, staggering educational achievement gaps exist between white students and those of color.

The gap is even larger between white students and other groups, such as students in special education (SPED) and English Language Learners (ELL).

WASHINGTON, DC — As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low - income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

According to the study's authors, this effect is equivalent in magnitude to cutting about 43 percent of the gap in graduation rates between white students and students of color in New York City.

Substantial opportunity and outcome gaps are also prevalent between white students and students of color, students with disabilities and students without, and English learners and those proficient in English.

The urgency is certainly clear: The latest in a string of research showing stark educational inequities in America's schools, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) revealed that wide gaps persist in reading and math proficiency between white students and students of color.

We still find huge gaps in achievement between white students and many students of color, between the children of college graduates and those of high school dropouts, between students in the Northeast and those in the South, and between students learning English and those who are not.

She said that to her, funding students as they come into the school district — or earlier — would shrink the gap between white students and students of color as they proceed through grade levels.

Referencing research she writes, «Removing students from classroom instruction for disciplinary reasons may explain some of the achievement gap between White students and students of color.»

But officials didn't like to mention that proficiency rates of D.C. students would still be considered failing in a high - performing district or that a wide achievement gap persists between white students and black and Hispanic students.

Local funding practices perpetuate vast inequities that contribute to the glaring achievement gap between white students and brown and black students, between rich and poor.

The tests also show the gap between white students and their African - American and Hispanic peers.

Boston has a smaller gap than most other urban districts in achievement between white students and black and Hispanic students.

Gaps in educational achievement between white students and black and Hispanic students have persisted for decades.

Over the last decade, the graduation gap grew by 19 % between white students and underrepresented minorities...

The state touted progress in closing the achievement gap between white students and Hispanic and black students, particularly since the introduction of the harder tests three years ago.

The split between white students and Latinos grew by 10 percent after a decade.

The large gap in student performance between white students and minority students is one of the most serious problems facing the United States.

But it is unclear to what degree they reflect racial bias as opposed to differences in socioeconomic status and levels of academic preparation between white students and black students that could influence both expectations and outcomes.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

Closing the academic achievement gap between white students and disadvantaged minorities has been repeatedly called the «civil rights issue of our time.»

While the achievement gap between white students and their low - income, minority counterparts on tests has received a great deal of attention, the gap in high - school graduation rates is even more critical.

On the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Chicago was the sole district to narrow its test - score gap between white students and black students in 4th - grade math compared to 2015.

The truth is that, after decades of progress in closing the outcome gaps between white students and students of color, the disparities are just as profound today as they were in the 1950's when the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education was decided.

While its overall graduation rate increased 6 percentage points to 80 percent last year, it managed to close an achievement gap between white students and everyone else.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg bragged in March 2012 to a panel in Washington, D.C. that his policies had cut the achievement gap between white students and students of color in half.

Not exact matches

White college students have the biggest discrepancy between male and female graduates.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

And the students» reception at the church reflects the complicated relationship between white evangelicals and Muslims shown in the surveys and the news.

The students had a choice between a Sunshine egg biscuit (whole grain biscuit, egg, and cheese) or granola bar with fresh orange slices, and juice or skim / 1 % white milk.

The attacks continued when Assemblywoman Inez Barron (D - Brooklyn) blasted Deputy Chancellor John White over the difference in performance between white and black studWhite over the difference in performance between white and black studwhite and black students.

Patricia Morgan, executive director of JerseyCAN said the data showed a persistent performance gap between urban and suburban, high to low income kids and / or white compared to hispanic or black students.

When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was elected four years ago, Connecticut had the worst achievement gap between poor minority students and suburban white students in the country.

Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.

The achievement gap between minority and white students in Erie County is wider than it is statewide.

Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi teenagers overtake white students academically between the ages of 11 and 16.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

Performance gaps between black and Latino students and their white and Asian counterparts remained wide — some 30 points in ELA and even more in math.

And nationwide scores for students classified as Hispanic rose in both grade levels; the score gap between white and Hispanic eighth - graders shrunk by three points between 2009 and 2011.

«Disparity in student loan debt between blacks, whites: Black - white disparity in student loan debt affected by family background and parental wealth.»

A study of one Texas school district reveals one of the best evidence - based ways ever found to close the educational achievement gap between black and white students.

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