Sentences with phrase «black and white students who»

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.

Other studies have found that both black and white students who attend integrated schools are more likely to work in desegregated companies after graduation than students who attended racially isolated schools.

[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.

Not exact matches

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.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entireAnd it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entireand research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entireand drop out of school entirely.

Taylor is also one of several black students who told me that white students would often touch her hair without permission and make comments about its texture and differences from white hair.

Police say Justin Tavarez, who's a student at Skidmore College in upstate New York, took offense when he saw a white man dining with a black man and smashed a plate over the white man's head.

Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»

Nearly 33 percent of White and Black students, who dated together, faced a problem from other Black and White's.

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.

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 hAnd 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 hand the (black) students who don't know what to make of him.

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.

Troy is the son of the Dean of Students (Dennis Haysbert), and is dating the white daughter of the school President, whose son Kurt (Kyle Gallner) is one of those sorts of people who think the black population is no longer oppressed because Affirmative Action exists.

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.»

These data include the percentage of students who are from low - income families; the percentage who are white, black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American; and the percentage who are Limited English proficient (LEP).

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.»

Using the B&B: 08/12 data, we examine total debt - to - income ratios for individuals who are employed full - time in 2012 and not currently enrolled, and find that black students with graduate degrees have debt - to - income ratios that are 27 percentage points higher than white graduate degree holders (even after controlling for other characteristics such as parental education and income).

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.

The percentage of white students has fallen steadily in the Northeast and Midwest, with modest upticks in the proportion of students who are black, Hispanic, or from other groups.

Study 1 involved black and white college students who took a difficult test using items from the verbal GRE under one of two conditions.

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 teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

The vast majority of the recipients are black students who left schools with student populations that were disproportionally black relative to the broader community and moved to private schools that had more white students.

She asserts that white, liberal educators who value student - centered pedagogy and soft, conversant, negotiated power end up alienating and confusing children who are used to explicit instructions and assertive, strong authority figures, a parenting style more common in the black community.

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.

To investigate this question, we compared the progress of white and black students who attended the same school.

In 2012, 85 percent of black, and 86 percent of Hispanic students had parents who attended a general meeting, compared with 89 percent of white students.

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.

It also shows that white and black students who attend the public schools in which ELL students are concentrated are doing worse than their peers who attend public schools with few English language learner students.

Thirty - two percent of Hispanic students and 31 percent of black students had a parent who volunteered their time, compared with 50 percent of white students.

Sixty - eight percent of black, and 64 percent of Hispanic students had a parent who attended school events, while 82 percent of white students had a parent who had done so.

The move was seen as a way to achieve full integration of black and white students while avoiding the inflammatory issue of who got bussed where.

In the St. Louis area, school districts tend to be divided along racial lines, and a New York Times reporter covering the story of the transfers heard from white parents in receiving districts who expressed concern that troublemakers will be among the transfers, and that teachers may have to slow down to allow the students from struggling districts, which are predominantly black, to catch up.

This is consistent with the notion that the apparent achievement gains associated with having a black teacher reflect in part the relatively low quality of white teachers who work in more disadvantaged schools and in schools with large populations of African - American students.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

Similar patterns are observed for most subgroups — black and white students are approximately equally likely to move between groups, as are students who are eligible and ineligible for a free lunch.

Minority students — particularly black and Latino / a students who live and learn in homogeneous neighborhoods — may need assistance understanding white communities and how to navigate them.

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.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

And teachers who help reduce the achievement gap between black and Latino students and their white peers would receive a 10 % bonAnd teachers who help reduce the achievement gap between black and Latino students and their white peers would receive a 10 % bonand Latino students and their white peers would receive a 10 % bonand their white peers would receive a 10 % bonus.

So, the scores of black students and Hispanic students went up as did their proportion of the students tested; but, the increased scores were not enough to make up for fewer white students who scored higher.

Bergeson singled out improvements by minority students who outstripped their white peers in terms of the increase in the percentage meeting standards: by Hispanic students in reading and writing in grades four, seven, and ten, and in math in grade four, and by black students in reading in those three grades and in writing in grade ten.

Listen to Thomas, a white Harvard student who admits to feeling «personally disadvantaged at times,» and goes on to explain, «If you're Latino or if you're black you could have a lower GPA and lower test scores and get in and then I could have the same test scores and maybe not get in.»

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

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.

It is 61 percent white and 35 percent black, a sensitive subject among many students and parents who would prefer more black teachers.

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.

But although its ranking improved and the math and English scores of black students rose, critics and researchers have pointed to the fact that the scores of white students — who make up about 85 percent of the state's student population — remained mostly stagnant on both NAEP and the ACT.

Students who identified with two or more of the other racial / ethnic groups (e.g., White and Black) would have been classified as «other» and reported as part of the «unclassified» category prior to 2011, but from 2011 on were classified as «Two or More Races.»