Sentences with phrase «black calculus students»

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For black and Hispanic calculus students, the figures are staggering.

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

This problem persists in high school: Only 29 percent of schools with the highest percentage of black and Latino students offer calculus, compared with 55 percent of schools with the lowest percentage of black and Hispanic students.

Only a third of high schools with high numbers of Black and Latino students offer calculus, compared to 56 percent of high schools with low numbers of these students.

Part of the problem is access to challenging high school curriculum: Only 33 % of high schools with high black and Latino student enrollment offer calculus, compared to 56 % of high schools with low black and Latino student enrollment.

A mere 17 black students and two white students took calculus, abysmal levels similar to those of Ferguson - Florissant kids.