Sentences with phrase «black and white students on»

The current performance gap between 4th - grade and 8th - grade black and white students on the more reliable National Assessment on Education Progress (NAEP) isn't substantively different from the gap in the 1992.

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«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.

These words, printed in white letters on a black T - shirt, are the foundation of Laurel resident Luke Roberts» new mobile app, which raises funds for food to serve students in need and their families through a Maryland...

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.

Based on 2010 statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of black students, 77 percent of Latino students, and 68 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native students were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, compared to only 28 percent of white students.

Students have started reporting on the first day in their uniforms — the boys in white shirt and black shorts while the girls dressed in green check uniform.

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 research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

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.

Not surprisingly, the more teachers believed they could make a difference, the better both black and white students scored on achievement tests.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

Psychology student that wears a bit too much black and white, aspires to seek out the answers to those million dollar style questions, and sporadically documents her style musings on chicademics.tumblr.com.

But the chief divisions in Dear White People aren't necessarily between the black students and the white ones: Teyonah Parris's Coco, who has little interest in racial politics (or so she thinks), merely hopes to become a reality TV star; striving for notoriety, she attacks Samantha on YouWhite People aren't necessarily between the black students and the white ones: Teyonah Parris's Coco, who has little interest in racial politics (or so she thinks), merely hopes to become a reality TV star; striving for notoriety, she attacks Samantha on Youwhite ones: Teyonah Parris's Coco, who has little interest in racial politics (or so she thinks), merely hopes to become a reality TV star; striving for notoriety, she attacks Samantha on YouTube.

Mixed - race student Sam (a terrific Tessa Thompson) dishes «dear white people» advice on her college radio show («you now need two black friends to not appear racist, and your weed dealer doesn't count») and enters student politics with a pledge to bring more black culture to the school.

A gay black student Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams) who writes for the campus newspaper is assigned to write about Sam and her controversial radio pieces «Dear White People» and about the reality of black student life on campus.

Chazelle's passion for the movie musical was evident in Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench his no - budget, 16 mm, black - and - white, Harvard - film - student ode to the French New Wave and its love for postwar song»n' dance flicks.

Shot black & white in the 1.33:1 aspect ratio on 16 mm and running just 70 minutes with credits, Following has a distinct student film feel, but it also manages to be an arresting, fully realized tale loaded with promise.

Four different black students are followed as a controversial event on an Ivy League campus creates issues with the students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.

Students can read a standard textbook in the font size of their choosing, and they can adjust the color contrast (white on black, black on white, color, and so on) to suit their needs.

Print in black and white and then have students color the pictures lightly on all 3 sheets.

While one finds some evidence that high - achieving students are more popular among students of other ethnicities, the increment is not enough to offset the decline in popularity within their own ethnic group — a predictable finding, given that black and white students have only, on average, one friend of another ethnicity, and Hispanics just one and a half.

The achievement gap between Black and Hispanic students and white students remained, but the minority students outperformed their counterparts on a national level.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

On the other hand, Delpit provides counterexamples of success, for instance, Afrocentric assignments, inspiring teachers who love and sympathize but maintain rigor, and a beloved white teacher whom the students consider «black» for this reason: when asked «how he felt as a white man teaching black history... tears came to his eyes as he answered that when he learned about Emmett Till and other terrible things white people had done to black people, it sometimes made him ashamed to be white.»

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.

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.

Consider the substantial improvement of black students relative to white students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) during the 1970s and 1980s.

In most fields, prospective students can only make an educated guess about the payoff to a post-graduate degree, but, for public school teachers, it appears in black and white on the salary schedule for their district.

When I thought about Mr. Cassar and his student after the AEI meeting on race, social justice, and school reform, I realized I didn't know if that student was black or white.

The data clearly paint the need to focus on students of color and low - income students: nationally, only 73 percent of black students, 76 percent of Latino students, and 75 percent of low - income students graduate, compared to 87 percent of white students and 89 percent of middle - and high - income students.

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.

For example, from 1990 to 2007, black students» scale scores increased 34 points on the NAEP 4th - grade mathematics tests (compared with a 28 - point increase for whites), and the black - white achievement gap declined from 32 to 26 points during this period.

Studies show a familiar pattern: middle - income black and Latino students faring worse than their white counterparts with respect to grades, enrollment in advanced courses, and performance on standardized tests.

This framing tends to fuel what Warikoo calls «the diversity bargain,» in which white students support affirmative action as long as black and Latino students on campus do not form their own organizations and friend groups, and whites do not feel overlooked through «reverse discrimination» when they apply for fellowships, jobs, and graduate school.

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).

The survey, which gauges racial attitudes in schools a half - century after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate schooling for black and white students, found differences between teachers and students on questions of race and education.

We know for a fact that balanced literacy has had little effect on closing stubborn achievement gaps separating black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian peers.

Day, nearly 50 years since the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision in which the Supreme Court found that «separate - but - equal schools» for white and black students were unfair and unconstitutional, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) announces a new study on national resegregation trends in American public schools.

Nationwide, on average, black students are four times more likely to live below the poverty line and 30 percent less likely to have a college - educated mother than white students.

Depending on time and resources, you might want to print the bookmarks in color or on colored paper, print them in black and white and let students color them, have students cut them out using pattern - making scissors, laminate them, or decorate them with a hole and string.

Comparing two teachers» expectations — one black and one white — for the same student at the same point in time eliminates the effect of other aspects of the educational environment on teacher expectations and student outcomes.

They find black and Hispanic students were more likely to be disciplined conditional on receiving a referral for «minor misbehavior» than were their white peers.

[8] While the Broward district is overwhelmingly low - income, black and Hispanic, its gifted program was filled with upper - income, white students when it relied on teacher and parent referrals to fill seats.

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.

For example, on the grade 10 MCAS science exam, just 28 percent of black students and 24 percent of Latino students scored proficient or higher compared to 65 percent of white students and 68 percent of Asian students.

In the traditional lectures, black students and students whose parents did not attend college performed worse than white students on exams.

While there is about a 12 percent relative increase in white students scoring above 1100 on the SAT and above 24 on the ACT, there is a 50 percent relative increase for Hispanics, and an 80 percent relative increase for black students.

... sports participation has a negative effect on the educational attainment of white male student athletes, a positive effect on the educational attainment and earnings of black male student athletes, and a positive effect on the educational attainment of white female student athletes.