Sentences with phrase «black and white students performed»

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This Wednesday «rally follows the release of Families for Excellent Schools» white paper, «A Tale of Two School Systems, «in August, which found that black and Hispanic students are confined to a second - class system of the city's worst performing schools.

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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.

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

On standardized tests, white students tend to perform significantly higher than black and Latino students.

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

America's white and Asian students perform among the word's best; our black and Hispanic students are battling it out with OECD's worst.

A study by Brian Kisida, Anna Egalite, and Marcus Winters that was published in the Economics of Education Review last year found that black, white, and Asian students benefit from being assigned to a teacher of the same ethnicity as them, and that elementary - aged black students and lower - performing students seem to particularly benefit from having a demographically - similar teacher.

Take reading, for example: According to the U.S. Department of Education; in 4th grade 44 % of white students, 16 % of black students, 28 % of Hispanic students and 57 % of Asian students are performing at or above proficiency.

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.

But in other areas, the «achievement gap» — the ethnic disparity between higher - and lower - performing students — widened, as white students jumped further ahead of black and Hispanic students.

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.

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.

When we improve instruction and curricula for our students who have been the most ill - served by American public education — including for young black, white and Latino men — we are improving education for our high - performing students as well.

Northern had gone from being predominantly white and high performing to having mostly black students and poor academic results — three quarters of the sophomore and senior classes scored below the national average on math, science, and reading tests.

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.

Texas, like the nation, has stagnated in elementary and middle school academic achievement and continues to fail to get black and Hispanic students performing as well as white students, according to a national «report card» out this week.

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.