In this book, Johnnie McKinley presents the results of her in - depth study of a group of teachers in grades 3 — 8 who managed to radically narrow the achievement gap between
their black and white students by using a set of culturally responsive strategies in their classrooms.
There's one thing that has been proven to cut the achievement gap between
black and white students by half: integration.
Not exact matches
Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers
and staff — also ignore that
students of color, especially
black students, are more likely to face discipline
and punishment in schools than their
white peers,
and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated
by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.
The platform us Parkland
Students have established is to be shared with every person,
black or
white, gay or straight, religious or not, who has experienced gun violence,
and hand in hand, side
by side, We Will Make This Change Together.
«The platform us Parkland
Students have established is to be shared with every person,
black or
white, gay or straight, religious or not, who has experienced gun violence,
and hand in hand, side
by side, We Will Make This Change Together,» she also wrote on Twitter.
That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young
black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided
by about 800
white college
students from the North, tried to bring
blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political
and social awareness.
Ms. Hinlicky has clearly not exorcised all the demons of what I take to be her former liberalism if she still reflexively shudders at the notion of
black and white students eating at different tables, i.e., segregation
by choice.
The 2009 biographical film about a
black high school
student adopted
by a
white Christian family is rated PG - 13
and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today
and Focus on the Family.
«Project Understanding» was a two - year effort
by teams of theological
students, laymen,
and clergymen to devise methods for reducing
White racism in suburban congregations.4 The training of participants included plunges into the inner city
and encounters with
Black and Brown rage.
Three
black female college
students say they were physically assaulted Saturday
by a group of
white men
and women during a racially motivated attack aboard a city bus in Albany.
White students in Troy were graduating at higher rates than all others until last year, when they were edged out
by black and Hispanic
students.
The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that
black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs
by both
black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.
He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined
by Justices David H. Souter
and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American
and Hispanic
students have higher poverty rates than
white students (22.1 percent
and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent),
and that
black and Latino
students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken
and underperforming institutions.»»
Here, a referral suggests that the teacher perceives the
student as having social, emotional, or behavioral skills that are problematic enough to warrant outside help, reaffirming earlier research showing that teachers perceive misbehavior
by black boys as more aggressive
and problematic than misbehavior
by white boys.
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, led
by PhD
student Leslie van der Leer, assigned participants a computer task in which they observed the color of a
black or
white fish caught from one of two lakes
and were then asked to choose to see further fish or decide on one of the lakes as the source of that sequence of fish.
«Disparity in
student loan debt between
blacks, whites:
Black -
white disparity in
student loan debt affected
by family background
and parental wealth.»
Middle
and high school
students, regardless of their race
and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their
Black and Latino teachers than of their
White teachers, finds a study
by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education,
and Human Development.
Black middle - class students take the lead, followed by black middle - income, black low - income and white middle - class stud
Black middle - class
students take the lead, followed
by black middle - income, black low - income and white middle - class stud
black middle - income,
black low - income and white middle - class stud
black low - income
and white middle - class
students.
Meanwhile, there are larger issues for him to untangle, involving the university's housing policy
and the conflicts between the residence containing the largest number of
white assholes (one of whom is the president's bratty son, played
by Kyle Gallner)
and the house where most of the
black students land (
and where the dean's upstanding, tweed -
and - pocket - square - wearing son, played
by Brandon P. Bell, strives to be a leader).
And the most compelling character of all, a sci - fi nerd named Lionel (played, wonderfully, by Tyler James Williams), becomes a pawn of three distinct parties: The (white) editor of the student newspaper, the (white) housemates he's been unhappily thrown in with, and the (black) students who don't know what to make of h
And the most compelling character of all, a sci - fi nerd named Lionel (played, wonderfully,
by Tyler James Williams), becomes a pawn of three distinct parties: The (
white) editor of the
student newspaper, the (
white) housemates he's been unhappily thrown in with,
and the (black) students who don't know what to make of h
and the (
black)
students who don't know what to make of him.
Their journeys to define themselves clash
and intertwine as the film builds to its harrowing climax, a
black - themed party thrown
by white students.
Several critics have compared the character to Woody Allen,
and in its content
and black -
and -
white photography, C.K.'s movie also consciously echoes Allen's 1979 film Manhattan, in which Allen's character dates a high - school
student, played
by Mariel Hemingway.
Irony
and satire roam unchecked in film that follows four
black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular «African American'themed party thrown
by white students.
Approximately 38 percent of
white students and only 20 percent of
black graduates met the academic - curriculum requirements adopted in 1985
by the state's Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning, the report says.
A 2010 study
by Mark Berends
and Roberto Penaloza of longitudinal data over 30 years demonstrates a relationship between increasing segregation of
black and Latino
students and growth in math achievement gaps between these groups
and white students.
• A 2014 study
by Goldrick - Rab, Kelchen,
and Houle
and a 2015 report
by Demos show that
black students borrow more than other
students for the same degrees,
and black borrowers are more likely than
white borrowers to drop out without receiving a degree.
Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between
black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college
and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data
by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.
Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating
black and white students in 1963, despite public protests
by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»
• Two recently published studies (
by Addo, Houle,
and Simon
and Grinstein - Weiss et al.) use national survey data to show that
black students hold substantially more debt
by age 25 compared to their
white counterparts,
and that disparities are evident even after controlling for family income
and wealth, indicating that differences in postsecondary
and labor market experiences contribute to the debt gap.
Brown sought to tie the fates of
white and black students together
by declaring that «separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,» but the promise of Brown has never fully been realized.
Technology, Mathematics Grades 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted
by Linda Scudder]
Students discuss heroism
and make a collaborative
black -
and -
white mural of a hero.
For every 10 percentage point rise in the share of their class that is
black,
black students» reading scores fall
by 0.250 points, Hispanic
students» reading scores fall
by 0.098 points,
and white students» reading scores fall
by 0.062 points.
A translation of the results shows that being surrounded
by peers who score 1 point lower on average has the following effects: it lowers a
black student's own score
by 0.676 points in reading
and 0.402 points in math; it lowers a Hispanic
student's own score
by 0.266 points in reading
and 0.185 points in math;
and it lowers a
white student's own score
by 0.168 points in reading
and 0.092 points in math.
For the same 10 percentage point change in the share of their class that is
black,
black students» math scores fall
by 0.186 points, Hispanic
students» math scores fall
by 0.086 points,
and white students» reading scores fall
by 0.043 points.
In the second episode of Walking the Talk, we explore obstacles on the road to college,
and other issues affecting
student equity, in a conversation with John Silvanus Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College
and former executive director of the
White House Initiative on Historically
Black Colleges
and Universities, a position to which he was appointed
by President Barack Obama.
Adding one troubled peer to a classroom of 20
students reduces
white boys» reading
and math scores
by 1.6 percentile points
and black boys» reading
and math scores
by 0.9 percentile points (the effects on girls are negligible).
After two years of interviewing more than 100
black, Latino,
and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty
and socioeconomic segregation — segregation
by class — shape the way
students experience college.
Given that the targeted school population for charters is almost all low - income minorities, the contrast seen during school visits can be startling:
black and brown
students who are taught
by white teachers.
The idea was simple enough: draw
white students to predominantly
black schools
by offering a special education with a focus on a particular aspect of the curriculum, such as performing arts, or Montessori, or advanced math, science,
and technology.
Though justified
by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on
white working - class young people
and the growing number of
black students who entered high schools in the 1930s
and 1940s.
[10] The authors then attempt to get closer to studying disparities in discipline conditional on
student behavior
by comparing outcomes for
black and white students who participated in the same fight.
Specifically,
white students increased
by 3.2 percent,
and black students increased
by 6.3 percent in their exam performance.
By the third year of the program, APIP increases the number of white and Hispanic graduates scoring above 900 on the SAT and above 19 on the ACT by 26 percent and 38 percent, respectively, although there is no change for black student
By the third year of the program, APIP increases the number of
white and Hispanic graduates scoring above 900 on the SAT
and above 19 on the ACT
by 26 percent and 38 percent, respectively, although there is no change for black student
by 26 percent
and 38 percent, respectively, although there is no change for
black students.
-- According to findings released today
by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between
black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement
and socioeconomic background is accounted for.
My Hero — A Class Mural Submitted
by Linda Scudder
Students discuss heroism
and make a collaborative
black and white mural of a hero.
Nationwide, the typical
white student attends a school in which 72 percent of
students are
white and only 8 percent are
black, according to a 2014 report
by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The relatively poor proficiency levels at public schools with high concentrations of ELL
students is underscored
by comparing the standardized test scores of
white and black students who attend the schools in which ELL
students are concentrated with the scores of
white and black student who attend other public schools.
The four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate reported
by Pennsylvania for the 2014 - 15 school year was 72 percent for
Black students and 89 percent for
White students.
If
black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind
white students on average
by a full standard deviation in raw math
and reading scores
and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).
By 2009, the passing rates of
black students on English exams had narrowed to within 22 percentage points of
white students»,
and within 17 points on the math exams.