Sentences with phrase «black students at»

Hispanic students outnumber Black students at all but one of the charter schools (Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy).

That's because there are disproportionately so many more black students at colleges with abysmal graduation rates.

Overall, the graduation rate for black students at HBCUs is 32 percent versus 45 percent at the other 676 public and nonprofit four - year institutions in the study's sample.

This finding confirms that the racial gap in expectations for college attainment documented above puts black students at a disadvantage.

They find it «astonishing» that 43 percent of black charter - school students attend schools where 99 to 100 percent of students are minorities (compared to 15 percent of black students at traditional public schools where that is the case).

My research shows that on average, 50 percent of the lower - income black students at elite colleges graduated from private high schools, which is remarkable.

Recent studies purport to show that voucher programs result in better achievement by black students at private schools, and that vouchers motivate public schools to improve.

Although noting that power ultimately corrupts the militants, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. reminisced that he and fellow black students at Yale loved the film as a utopian fantasy that offered them a realistic path — infiltration, then transformation — for social change.

Irony and satire roam unchecked in film that follows four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular «African American'themed party thrown by white students.

Her storyline intertwines with three other black students at Winchester who are also struggling: Lionel (Tyler James Williams) wrestles with not being «black enough,» Coco (Teyonah Parris) steps away from black culture unless it can get her places and Troy (Brandon P. Bell) needs to impress his father instead of himself.

The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.

On the other hand, «historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) such as Howard, Fisk and Clark Atlanta» enroll students who are «on average significantly weaker academically than the black students at Dartmouth and the other Ivies,» the book states.

Of the black students at Oberlin, considerably more were female than male — a circumstance that many of the males were quick to take advantage of.

Black students at the University of Pennsylvania were added to a racist GroupMe message on Friday that included violent threats toward them.

These words were spoken to Ernest Grey in 2002 when he was a young, black student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

The department received a complaint that a black student at the Lodi Unified School District in California, about an hour south of Sacramento, received harsher punishment than a white student after the two were in a fight.

Not exact matches

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

Professor Matthew Colless, Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ANU, when he was a graduate student at Cambridge, had Hawking as a lecturer on gravitational physics and black holes.

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.

Law students say they are committed to fighting racism after the recent vandalism of two posters at Osgoode Hall Law School commemorating Black History Month.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

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At a press conference Wednesday, black students said that they were being ignored in coverage of Parkland, noting that media coverage hasn't reflected the fact that their school is 11 percent black.

On May 2 and May 6, six student survivors of the Stoneman Douglas massacre will appear at Boca Black Box Center for the Arts in a production of «Spring Awakening,» the hit Broadway musical that has eerie parallels to the Feb. 14 shooting.

When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.

The images of him standing at the door at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students from entering had been seared into my mind.

The challenge to say something about God and the black liberation struggle was enhanced when Ronald Goetz (a classmate during my student years at Garrett) invited me in February 1968 to lecture at Elmhurst College, where he was teaching.

«The Concerned Asian, Black, Latin @, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently - Abled students at Dartmouth College» storm President Phil Hanlon's office with a list of seventy counts of «racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism,» of which, they claim, the college is guilty.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

Ms. Hinlicky has clearly not exorcised all the demons of what I take to be her former liberalism if she still reflexively shudders at the notion of black and white students eating at different tables, i.e., segregation by choice.

No general rule can justify condemning the idea of white student unions while at the same time applauding the creation of black ones.

The blacks, advised by two white women students from Cape Town University, are to put on a play in their own tribal language, whose general drift, if not clear from the action, will be explained by locals at your side.

When 16,000 college students gathered at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's latest Urbana conference to talk about missions, one of the main debates became how evangelicals should engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

USA Today interviewed African American students at Wheaton frustrated with Hawkins's treatment, given that she is the college's only tenured black female professor.

At the University of Virginia as at other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college studentAt the University of Virginia as at other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college studentat other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college students.

Luther and Karlstadt had a discussion at the famous Black Bear pub at Jena where Luther had been mistaken for Hutten by the Swiss students.

I'm in culinary school to be a pastry chef, and after one student made a disappointing black bread from Hamelman's «Bread» book (admittedly a stellar bread book, but a totally lackluster black bread recipe) I whipped this up at home and brought in samples.

Students at Boston Public Schools are finding more prominent placement of meat - free dishes in their cafeterias on Mondays and are filling their trays with black bean burrito bowls, garden fresh salads topped with chickpeas, protein - packed chili, and more.

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune Working a public luncheon at UVU, culinary student Madeline Black pays attention to detail and presentation as she sets up for a recent event.

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune One delivery down another to go, UVU culinary student Madeline Black takes the service elevator at Utah Valley University after setting up food for an event as part of the school's student run restaurant called Restaurant Forte.

«When you are in the kitchen, you can reflect your passion in your cooking and you can tell if [the students] are having fun being in there,» said Beriau, who added that Black and her closest competitor «were totally focused and at the top of their game, and it showed through the whole competition.»

Courtesy of the American Culinary Federation For her competition dish, Madeline Black, a rising second year culinary student at Utah Valley University, prepared a duck roulade with Utah honey lacquered duck thigh - riblet and pan seared foie gras with port and morel mushroom sauce.

Francisco Kjolseth The Salt Lake Tribune Working a public luncheon at UVU, culinary student Madeline Black pays attention to det

I protested at St. Joseph's [University] to create a black students» union.

Originally a prank by students who'd speed unsanctioned on horseback across the football field before games, the mysterious rider on a black horse became the official mascot at the 1954 Gator Bowl, when Joe Kirk Fulton's official entrance as the Masked Rider inspired The Atlanta Journal's Ed Danforth to write, «No team in any bowl game ever made a more sensational entrance.»

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Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or better facilities than those available at schools in their own neighborhoods.

A typical black student gets up at 5 a.m. and rides a bus for more than an hour to get to the school.

Here is where we would pick up the boat, stopping at Coimbra on the way, a university town where the students all wear black clothes and black capes so that no - one knows if you are poor or rich, a town of more narrow streets, alleyways and pavement cafes.