Sentences with phrase «black students from»

Each year the University enrolls, on average, four Black students from the Rochester school district, one of whom is male.

That's particularly true regarding how well schools are using billions of dollars in extra state aid to close the «achievement gap» separating poor, Latino and black students from their more affluent white and Asian classmates.

Asian and white student whose families have money score twice as high in math as black students from similar economic backgrounds.

White students from poor families are doing better in schools across the state than black students from families with money.

But just 30.3 percent of black students from families with money score that well.

In the process, Wiseburn has taken in hundreds of black students from nearby struggling districts like Los Angeles Unified and Compton Unified.

Previously, during times of segregation, the school operated as a high school that served black students from across a 30 mile radius.

«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic] gains were not equal across groups: white students gained more than black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income students may have resulted in inflated growth scores for the charter schools.

The grant requires that the schools reduce the percentage of Hispanic students by attracting white, Asian, and black students from outside of the neighborhood.

Private schools have little effect on the educational opportunities of Black students from low - income families in either Mississippi or Michigan.

Just 8 percent of the Black students from poor families and 15 percent of those from more prosperous families score at the proficient or above levels.

For black students from low - income backgrounds, the gains were even more impressive.

It serves no purpose but to prevent low - income black students from attending the schools of their choice, forcing them to remain instead in the underperforming schools to which they were assigned.

Houston, for example, is starting a school where students will learn in Arabic for half the day, a program that has drawn white, Latino, and black students from English - speaking families.

With four black students from Birmingham, the return trip to Dartmouth began with a noontime eviction from a packed, then hushed, Holiday Inn dining room in Athens, Georgia.

Recently, the Superintendent of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, a Boston suburban school system, proposed terminating a small program enrolling black students from Boston.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

Secret Service agents kicked out dozens of black students from a Trump rally in Georgia, hours after the front - runner's agent assaulted a news photographer for documenting booted «Black Lives Matter» protesters in Virginia.

The governor of Alabama himself «stood in the door» to block black students from entering the University of Alabama

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.

Mr. Perry, a black student from Harlem who attended Phillips Exeter Academy under the abc program, was shot to death by an undercover New York City police officer he allegedly was trying to rob, just 10 days after his graduation from the respected New Hampshire preparatory school.

A White student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more than four times as likely to be brought to grade level in eighth grade reading than a Black student from a lower - income family.

A Black student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more likely to read at or above grade level at eighth grade than a White student eligible for the National Lunch Program.

White students from families with below average incomes are much more effectively taught mathematics in the City's middle schools than are (the relatively few) Blacks students from more prosperous families:

Sasha, a white genderqueer high school student, was wearing a skirt on the bus when Richard, a black student from a struggling neighborhood, set Sasha's skirt on fire.

Not exact matches

Uber's black cars (and regular cars and SUVs and taxis) offered free rides for families and students to and from any Boston public school, no promo codes required or questions asked, according to VentureBeat.

The Trump administration and the GOP - controlled Congress should focus on saving millions of American students and their families — not to mention the larger US economy — from this long - term financial black hole.

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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.

The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of female black graduates who have earned degrees from the school.

Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

However, if a group of students wants to be able to discriminate — say a Catholic group wants to forbid women from being in leadership, or a fundamentalist groups wants to forbid blacks from joining, they will need to go off campus.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

Taylor is also one of several black students who told me that white students would often touch her hair without permission and make comments about its texture and differences from white hair.

For example, one black student who asked to remain anonymous recounted a frightening story from the early 2000s just after one of the Men in Black films had been released in theablack student who asked to remain anonymous recounted a frightening story from the early 2000s just after one of the Men in Black films had been released in theaBlack films had been released in theaters.

What did Friedrich Schleiermacher, Adolf Harnack and Karl Barth have to do with young black students who came from the cotton fields of the south, looking to create a new future for their lives?

Bob Jones University had policies that refused black students enrollment until 1971, and admitted only married blacks from 1971 to 1975.

The Civil Rights Bill had recently been passed by Congress, and, along with other students from the North, I was in Mississippi helping blacks register to vote.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

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.

He was the only black student delegate to be chosen from Missouri to attend the conference that met on a college campus in Iowa.

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.

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Courtesy of the American Culinary Federation Madeline Black, a 19 - year - old from Provo, took home the American Culinary Federation's Student Chef of the Year title last week.

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Courtesy of the American Culinary Federation Madeline Black, a culinary student from Utah Valley University, competed last wee

Players and students from the Japanese national female team met the Black Queens of Ghana today in training to associate...

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.