Sentences with phrase «black enrollment»

Of course the heart of the problem is that most white parents perceive that their children will be made uncomfortable and even unsafe in a school that has a heavy black enrollment and identity.

Maryland has the fifth - largest percentage of black enrollment in the nation, according to the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

• Her fierce efforts to improve schools with high black enrollment often earned her credit for a «white agenda.»

Mr. Agnew's provocative assertion that increasing black enrollment in universities will produce inferior diplomas gives high level approval to the assumption of black inferiority that is already written so deeply in our white bones.

A review establishes that the higher suspension rates for black students in the district were primarily due to the harsher attendance rules at the schools with majority black enrollment.

Even after Brown, some schools with predominantly black enrollments have achieved outstanding educational results.

There the school board tries to keep black enrollment in most schools in the range of 15 to 50 percent by encouraging or compelling white students to attend schools in black neighborhoods and vice versa.

Note: Percentage black enrollment sample mean = 6.0 %, SD = 9.4 %.

Among the states with significant black enrollments, blacks are least likely to attend intensely segregated schools in Washington, Nebraska, and Kansas.

The 20 highest - suspending charter schools in 2011 - 12 all suspended more than two - thirds of their student body at least once; all but six of these schools had Black enrollment greater than 50 %.

Even larger gains occurred in schools with high numbers of poor students, and in schools that had 100 percent black enrollment, lowering class size resulted in 14.7 percent more students exceeding the national median in math, and 18.4 percent more in reading.

David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy questions the premise of a recent law review article asserting that law schools» overemphasis on rankings and LSAT scores is hurting black enrollment.

White parents tend to choose schools with higher white enrollment, while black parents select schools with higher black enrollment.

Schools in my sample showed three main patterns in changes in racial demographics from their opening year through 2009; schools that increased black enrollment and lost white enrollment, schools that lost black students but increased white and Latino enrollment, and schools that maintained stable enrollments across racial groups.

Black enrollment in colleges and universities increased between 1986 and 1988, reversing a decline that had been evident through much of the 1980's, according to an analysis by the National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Black enrollment has gone down, but black students still make up 39 percent of the district.

As illustrated in the following figure, adapted from that previous report, the average white student's public school had a black enrollment of about 10 percent in 2010, about the same degree of white exposure to blacks as in 1980.

However, to draw such a strong conclusion, despite the explicit RAND conclusion that charter students moved into schools with «racial distributions similar to the TPSs from which they came,» the CRP authors ignored the magnitudes of the changes in black enrollment.

The district, which has a black enrollment of approximately 36 percent, is unusual in that it includes suburbs as well as the central city.

Schools with the lowest percentage of black enrollment (0 % -6 %) do not suspend black students as frequently as schools with larger black populations.

Eighty - two percent of new white enrollments attended these schools, while only 13 percent and 9 percent of new Hispanic and black enrollments, respectively, attended them.

The share of white students in the Richmond - Petersburg metro declined by almost ten percentage points to 51 % between 1989 and 2010, even as the share of the black enrollment remained steady at 37 %.

There are no schools in Howard, Harford or Carroll counties with a black enrollment as high as 75 percent, but together those districts have nearly 75 schools that are more than 90 percent white.

... And vouchers can't end the resistance of many suburban schools to black enrollment.

Parent Kawana Midgette, a human resources specialist, considers the black enrollment a bonus at View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter Middle School; it helps instill strong engagement with black culture and history, she said.