Sentences with phrase «black schools tend»

For instance, the results for black students are consistent with the plausible alternative hypothesis that predominantly black schools tend to attract and retain high - quality black teachers but only low - quality white teachers.

Not exact matches

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.

In a 2012 article, «Civil Rights, Charter Schools, and Lessons to Be Learned,» Black suggests that charter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local commuSchools, and Lessons to Be Learned,» Black suggests that charter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local commuschools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local communities.

Similarly, the results for white students could merely reflect the possibility that the black teachers in predominantly white schools tend to be of lower quality than the white teachers in those schools.

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.

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

On the other hand, schools with higher clusters of black male teachers tend to be among the hardest to staff, economically disadvantaged, and lowest performing schools.

Further, initial enrollments appear to be related to changes in racial demographics whereby schools that opened with enrollments of a single race in higher proportion than IPS (e.g. more black or white than IPS) tended to become more racially isolated over time.

The reality is that schools serving high proportions of black and Latino students — typically in low - income communities — tend to suffer from a range of stresses that affect the quality of the education they can provide, including factors such as high teacher turnover, shortages of basic materials, fewer counselors, overcrowding, and poorly maintained facilities.

[T] he findings tend to favor charter schools when one focuses on black, Hispanic, and low - income students within the large cities.

TRP teachers who moved to different schools in the same district tended to join ones where a similar proportion of students were from low - income families, a lower percentage were black, and achievement was higher.

When it comes to racial makeup of charters, Duke professor Helen Ladd recently surveyed the state's charter schools and found schools tended to be either primarily white or black.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

Charter schools in North Carolina tend to be either overwhelmingly black or overwhelmingly white — in contrast to traditional public schools, which are more evenly mixed.

Young said the charter schools in the South L.A. area tend to have a larger Black population than the noncharter schools, and the area has also seen a growing population of Latino students.

However, the statisticians were rightfully concerned that this simplistic approach might have simply captured the fact that poorer students tend to be at schools with larger numbers of black students.

About 40 percent of all white students are enrolled at the most selective schools, which also tend to have the best graduation rates, compared with 25 percent of all black students.

But the enrollment issue also raises questions about the district's strategy for schools in vulnerable neighborhoods that tend to serve poor black students who often fall behind academically.

But Clark worries that stand - alone schools that aren't part of a larger network and that are headed by black leaders, tend to get short shrift when it comes to funding and support.

Schools with the longest hours tend to be charters and to serve a larger percentage of low - income, black, and Hispanic students than all other schools, according to a new report from the U. S. Government Accountability Schools with the longest hours tend to be charters and to serve a larger percentage of low - income, black, and Hispanic students than all other schools, according to a new report from the U. S. Government Accountability schools, according to a new report from the U. S. Government Accountability Office.

She also noted that since school closures tend to disproportionately affect low - income and black students, «this holds the potential to contribute to the already troubling achievement gap between historically disadvantaged populations and their peers.»

Charter schools attract a higher percentage of black students than traditional public schools, in part because they tend to be located in urban areas.

The online schools tend to have few Latino, limited English proficient, black and poor students.

White and black math achievement tends to be lower at public schools whose LEP enrollment exceeds 5 to 10 percent.

In turn, that brings us to perhaps the most powerful lesson to emerge from our focus group discussions: While we learned much about the strengths and ideals that black teachers tend to bring to their work, we were struck mainly by the urgent need to support those teachers professionally and help them build long, productive, and satisfying careers in the public schools.

In many schools, though, people do tend to make that assumption, which creates a burden for black educators.

Those kids that don't attend private schools tend overwhelmingly to be from families with less political power and resources than Emanuel's: 87 % of them are from low - income families, and 86 % are black or hispanic.

The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.

Relative to the other states, in Florida ELL students and black students tend not to be enrolled in the same set of public schools.

Increased exposure to Hispanic math and science teachers in middle and high school tends to increase the likelihood that Hispanic students take STEM courses during their first year in college, though pairing black students and black math / science teachers does not have the same positive effect.

Ladd's report also found that charters» overall demographics tend to mask the fact that a large percentage of the schools are either predominantly white or black.

I thought my message of reverence and thanks to my high school teachers — who were, with the exception of one, all white — for holding me to the same high... Continue reading White Teachers Tend To Have Consistently Lower Expectations of Their Black and Brown Students

Specifically, research indicates that Black students tend to be field - dependent, visual, and concrete learners (Hale - Benson, 1986), whereas schools teach more often in verbal, abstract, and decontextualized ways.

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