Sentences with phrase «black students face»

Other studies show that black students face discrimination within schools that leads to them receiving more frequent and harsher discipline than their peers, which disrupts their educational process.

A relative scarcity of black teachers may partially explain why black students face exclusionary discipline at much higher rates than other students.

During the December hearing, Sen. Chris Murphy (D - CT) asked Marcus what he thought about racial disparities in student discipline, such as black students facing harsh discipline at much higher rates than white students.

Not exact matches

I was faced with the depth of the problem when one of my Duke students, a black woman, Viva Leigh Miller, approached me in March 2010 to help her get a job in Silicon Valley.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

They remembered the courage and determination of the young civil rights workers («The real heroes were the black «Snick» [SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] personnel, who faced the worst dangers and took more than their share of the violence.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

After watching the videos, students were quicker to associate white faces than black ones with positive terms such as peace and love.

But instead of «ewwwwws» and twinging faces, the students from Decatur's Renfroe Middle School were excited to know even more about each part of the brain — asking Black, a postdoctoral researcher, more about the parts controlling speech, taste and sight, for example.

Plus, I haven't stumbled on a med student's beauty blog yet (there's ton on fashion lol — just give me all black and I'll make my face my canvas — aka my fashion ain't so forward!)

Nearly 33 percent of White and Black students, who dated together, faced a problem from other Black and White's.

When unsuspecting high school students reunite, they face a bout of vengeance for their past deeds as black magic goes wrong in this gruesome horror.

Featuring a new cast of faces, the film focuses on high school student Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), who just can't stop himself from tearing up the pavement.

They hope the changes will mark a turning point for the 28,000 - student district, which faces declining enrollment, a persistent achievement gap between black and white students, and a failure to meet federal academic standards...

Third, even if graduate degrees remain a good investment on average, black students clearly face substantially greater financial risk in pursuing them given their higher levels of borrowing and lower average earnings.

When most of us think about minority students facing discrimination, we picture an event like the one in Lodi — two kids in a fight, one white, one black, and the black student is allegedly given a tougher punishment than his white peer.

Our students face many risk factors once they leave us — peers who do not always encourage good decisionmaking, bureaucratic educational institutions, employers who do not always treat them well, family members who do not necessarily believe in their ability to succeed, and a society that has too little regard for low - income black teens.

For example, before they even enter our classrooms, black and Latino students from low - income communities face an opportunity gap that affords them unequal access to schools, curricula, and teachers that promote «deeper learning» experiences and STEM dispositions.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

Because your policy of suspending students who get into fights on school grounds will be said to have had an «adverse impact» on black students, you will face, at minimum, the negative publicity that comes from a civil rights investigation.

Related: New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

When I was superintendent of schools in Stamford, Conn., a very diverse system (40 % Hispanic, 22 % black, 8 % Asian, 30 % white, 40 % free and reduced - price lunch, 15 % English learners), I was faced with institutional segregation of students within desegregated schools.

(Calif.) Past studies have established that, separately, Black children and students with disabilities face disproportionately high suspension rates.

And of the cities studied, only in New Orleans did white students face longer school commutes than their black peers.

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The No Child Left Behind law, the major education reform effort of the last decade, is overlaid by a gloss of civil rights rhetoric, but it has done nothing to address the concentration of black and Latino students in the same schools, and the lack of resources they face.

Fifty years after the March on Washington, a major challenge facing California and the West in general is increasing segregation of black and Latino students, reviving a debate that Brown v Board of Education was supposed to resolve: whether it is possible to have «separate but equal» schools.

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On most days, King says, those things take a back seat to doing what matters most to him as a teacher: imparting life lessons to Black boys that he, alone, can deliver and that they can grasp and embrace; and it is being the face of the professional, college - educated, Black man that some of his students rarely get to meet.

The stubborn achievement gaps facing Black students can be mitigated with more — not less — access to better schools like Shoemaker.

If we are truly committed to educating our black male students then our discipline model must change or we face losing another generation of under - educated black male students who will not contribute to society in a positive manner.

Black and Latino students live disproportionately at or below the poverty line, and it is no accident that we are faced with the most segregated school system in history, with a disproportionate number of school closures happening in the poorest communities - all at the hands of using invalid metrics.

Filtered by the works of Milton Friedman, the educational - choice movement in particular has been applied so loosely that basic ethics and notions of fairness have been trumped by stereotypical corporate values that fly in the face of what black, brown and girl students need.

As a part of Ed Trust's ongoing work around teachers of color, the assets they bring to the classroom and the challenges they face, we sat down with longtime educator and former Washington State Teacher of The Year and Milken Award - winner Nate Bowling to hear his ideas about the challenges surrounding recruiting talented Black teachers, the experiences that drive too many talented Black teachers out of the field, and what it will take to ensure that America's teaching workforce reflects its student body.

It's not a huge disparity, but Ervin says hiring more black teachers is a priority because they have the lowest retention rate in the district and often feel overwhelmed helping students of color work through issues the students are facing in their community.

While racial segregation in schools has been unconstitutional for over fifty years, Black students continue to face discrimination in the form of excessive school discipline.

my sisters and I began demanding change and forcing it upon them when necessary... We were tired of a van service that only took students to a Catholic Church when none of us were Catholic, we demanded that they invite Nikki Giovanni as a guest speaker (and they did), we researched and slowly changed the face of some of the «required events», we invited teen black boys from Hartford to spend the day on campus (this made many nervous, including the security guards who would grow frustrated with their inability to curtail this), we grew tired of the school dances that invited other boarding schools and included a DJ that played other music so we invited kids from Hartford, including a DJ and began hosting our own parties... I never forgot who I was and the rich history of my ancestors...... I am thankful for my varying educational experiences for they have shaped the educator that I have become.

Skunkworkers need to be prepared to suspend their beliefs and face the «Men in Black» mind eraser pen to delete their past memories as a student (or what Dan Lortie called «the apprenticeship of observation»).

«Feds investigate claims that black and disabled students face harsher discipline in Richmond»

While Gleason focuses on the struggles of black teachers, some of the problems they face are relevant to Asian American teachers — particularly that their high attrition rates result from feeling isolated and furthermore, stereotyped by white teachers and their students.

Likewise, the Madison School District faces potential sanctions in the future for insufficient reading scores among black and disabled students.

In his early works, Ruff uses black - and - white photography to produce portraits of his friends and fellow students, who pose for him with emotionless faces.

At least half of the commenters criticized Alston for her remarks about the racism she faced at Washburn, where she was one of only twelve black students in the entire class:

Ruby suggests that the reason black lawyers face increase disciplinary charges is that minority groups have fewer and less meaningful articling opportunities to gain experience compared to «non-racialized» lawyers, law students and others in the profession.