Sentences with phrase «black student bodies»

To help fill this gap, we studied five urban schools in the northeast that serve predominantly black student bodies and include critical consciousness development in their mission.

I was the first Black Student body President there.

Transferring from a 100 percent black student body to one that is 85 percent is only a «marginal improvement,» says Professor Wolf, who supports school choice.

Tyler's mostly black student body has diversified to include more white, Latino and Asian students drawn to the dual - language program.

Programs like ULEAD are the embodiment of education reform and can and should be replicated and scaled at every CMO serving a majority Black student body.

Not exact matches

According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Restudent body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican ReStudent Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

The second blow was encountering a student body that was approximately 50 percent women and 50 percent black.

When Trice arrived, Iowa State only had about 20 black students, a tiny fraction of its student body of nearly 4,500.

The Amundsen student body is 47 percent Hispanic, 27 percent white and 15 percent black.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

Take the desperate situation involving the school district in East Ramapo, where a school board dominated by Orthodox Jewish members is at odds with the parents of a student body that is largely black and Hispanic, in a situation that seemed to be crying out for some resolution at the state level.

acknowledge this, but I had grown accustomed to being ignored by yoga teachers who were uncomfortable with my being there, to being judged for being too new or assumed not trained enough to be in an advanced class, or to being verbally harassed by being repeatedly singled out and highlighted for the doing what everyone else in class was also doing because it looked «different» on my curvy, black body, and for being physically harassed through inappropriate touch in these spaces as a very vulnerable student.

Your gonna go and your gonna fall for some head - shaven, black - wearin, tattoo - covered, body - piercing philosophy student.»

An over-achieving student (Reese Witherspoon) runs for student body president and a popular teacher (Matthew Broderick) resorts to drastic measures to keep her from winning in this black comedy.

As a college student, he and fellow hacker Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) had arranged for electronic «donations» of funds from bodies like the Republican Party to organizations like the Black Panthers.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

• Under the guidelines, the switch to a policy that substitutes lesser sanctions than suspension or expulsion raises the same civil - rights problem if it captures a fraction of black students that is larger than their proportion in the student body.

Students will draw on their ladybugs (if not pre-drawn) a black line to bisect the ladybug's body into two equal sections (left and right) that are the ladybug's wings.

Students use a large red circle as the body of a ladybug, one black circle as the head, and other black circles as the ladybug's spots.

The student body is 38 percent black, 31 percent white, 12 percent multiracial, and 6 percent Hispanic.

Not only does the Whitefield student body seem cohesive, but the black students are achieving at high levels.

In 2006, Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men (also known as Urban Prep Academies) opened its doors in Chicago's South Side with the goal of providing the young black boys of its student body the tools for post-secondary success.

The racial and ethnic composition of the student bodies attending pilot elementary and middle schools is similar to that at traditional BPS schools: around 45 % black and 30 % Hispanic.

The school district in 2016 - 2017 is 30 percent Hispanic, 29 percent white, 22 percent black and 14 percent Asian, according to school district data, a student body that would have been difficult to imagine five decades ago, when Montgomery's enrollment was 94 percent white.

It then created a «mixed» student body by assigning to those schools students who would otherwise attend predominantly white, or predominantly black, schools elsewhere.

On average, a black student with a black teacher in a school where more than two - thirds of the student - body is black is still more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, compared to a black student assigned to a white teacher in a school where black students accounted for less than a third of the student population.

The switch to a policy that substitutes lesser sanctions for suspension or expulsion raises the same civil - rights problem if the incidence of disciplinary action also captures a fraction of black students that is larger than their proportion of the student body.

Nevertheless, it is promising to note that «Tee - Jay» has a substantial white minority student body (16 percent), while Freeman has a sizable black minority (13 percent).

Even in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.

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

Still, in the 2015 - 2016 school year, black students made up 53 % of the district's student body, but 80 % of its suspensions and 87 % of its expulsions, according to the state Department of Public Instruction.

Blacks comprise 95 percent of GCP's student body.

Racial demographics across the four school districts are similarly varied: Lincoln and Cumberland have student populations that are 80 — 90 percent white, whereas Central Falls is roughly 75 percent Latino, and Pawtucket's student body is roughly one - third white, one - third Latino, and one - third black.»

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.

Black and white students each make up around 15 percent of the student body.

KIPP Bridge's student body is 86 percent free and reduced - price lunch and 61 percent Black.

The student body is 49 percent black, 30 percent multiracial, 9 percent white, 9 percent Asian and 3 percent Latino, he said.

There's little racial diversity at this Minneapolis K - 4 charter school, where the student body is nearly three - quarters black, 14 percent Hispanic and only 3 percent white.

As a teacher at Walden Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia, whose student body was 100 percent black and poor, her school's rigorous curriculum was centered on black culture, and her students were engaged and inspired.

According to a 2012 study, despite all the choices theoretically available to them, 100 percent of black students in the area attend hyper - segregated schools, where they make up at least 90 percent of the student body.

A growing body of research shows that in many instances gifted black and Hispanic students are disproportionally denied access to gifted education because of the methods and instruments used.

The student body is 49 percent black and 48 percent Latino, half are foster youth, and 30 percent require special education services — more than twice the district average.

Small City School has a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse student body composed of 40 percent white, 36 percent black, 11 percent Latino, and 10 percent Asian students; 30 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

In the decade since Katrina, New Orleans» teaching force has dropped from 71 percent black to 49 percent black, according to Tulane University's Education Research Alliance — in a city where black children are 85 percent of the student body.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

During the 2014 - 15 school year, the student body was 21 percent Middle Eastern, 39 percent white, 17 percent Hispanic, 17 percent black and 5 percent Asian, according to the school.

The most recent teacher data available, from 2013, shows that the New Orleans teaching force is now 54 percent black, while the student body is 87 percent.

JPS is a majority - black district, with African American students making up over 96 percent of the student body.

Racial demographics across the four school districts are similarly varied: Lincoln and Cumberland have student populations that are 80 — 90 % white, whereas Central Falls is roughly 75 % Latino, and Pawtucket's student body is roughly one - third white, one - third Latino, and one - third black.

Blacks make up 35 % of the student body, but only 20 % of teacher corps.