Sentences with phrase «black students lose»

With controls, black students lose ground slightly to whites over the summer in math, but the result is not statistically significant.

The patterns in the teacher assessments mirror those in the test - score data: black and Hispanic students start out substantially below whites, and black students lose ground over the first two years of school, whereas Hispanics maintain their position relative to whites.

From the beginning of kindergarten to the end of first grade, black students lose 20 percent of a standard deviation (approximately 10 percent of a standard deviation each year) relative to white students with similar characteristics.

• Are black students losing ground because they attend worse schools?

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Articulate and personable, he humiliatingly lost his Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat to a 20 - year - old student, Mhairi Black of the Scottish National Party, who has since become something of a social media star.

Watch: the extraordinary moment when The Labour Party campaign chief Douglas Alexander realised he'd lost his seat to Scottish National Party (SNP) 20 - year - old politics student Mhairi Black by six thousand votes.Watch more: Douglas Alexander's concession speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-ZMZeR6a4

In the «No to Scapegoating» session, Murad Qureshi AM said the Home Office «Go Home» vans demonstrated Lynton Crosby's dog - whistle politics, while NUS Black Students Officer Aaron Kiely said Labour would only lose votes in ceding to the right on immigration.

Labour's Douglas Alexander has lost his seat to SNP's Mhairi Black, a 20 - year - old politics student at Glasgow University.

As the only black student in the materials science department, I felt lonely and lost.

But the script takes it even further with suggestions of a lesbian relationship, attempts to lose one's virginity and a flirtation between a teacher and student that gets down to the characters» black underwear.

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The old Locke students were organized into two subschools, one called «white» and one «black,» with appropriate uniform dress requirements, and these were slated to disappear, losing a grade a year as the baby Lockes added new grades.

But once the data are adjusted for the effects of the key background characteristics identified above, black students appear to lose much more ground than they do in the raw averages, falling 0.16 standard deviations in math and 0.19 standard deviations in reading relative to white students (see Figure 1).

If, as some have argued, white teachers have lower expectations for black children, one would predict that black students with white teachers would lose more ground than black students with black teachers.

If black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).

If the importance of parental and environmental inputs grew as children age, black students would be expected to lose ground relative to whites.

Thus black students are losing ground not only relative to whites, but even more relative to Hispanics.

Another school lost six black students and saw a change in racial composition from 30.1 percent black to 29.2 percent black.

The Black community better stop feeling sore & sorry for Bad Workers who justifiably Lose Their Jobs For Bad Performance & Recognize that Black Teachers that are GOOD at what they do don't want to have to be grouped in with Bad Black Teachers that don't care about students!

Her newest book, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (The New Press, 2016), explores a world of lost potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.

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.

In the subsequent decade, roughly half of black teachers lost their jobs, as black students were sent to presumptively superior white schools to be taught by white teachers.

The irony was lost on DOJ that they were using a desegregation order in an attempt to keep black students in mostly black schools and prevent them from attending other schools that may not enroll mostly black students.

Analysis of 9th grade suspension data finds that black students, students who are economically disadvantaged, and special education students are three demographics subgroups that are disproportionately suspended, both in the frequency of suspensions and the duration in number of school days lost.

However, averages rates hide the fact that some schools lose teachers frequently, particularly schools serving black and low - achieving students (Hanushek et al., 2004; Boyd et al., 2007).

In other words, during the span of 4th to 8th grade poor Black and Hispanic students lose between 2 and 3 grade levels.

The [DOJ's] petition also cites Cecilia Primary School, which in 2012 - 13 «lost six black students as a result of the voucher program,» thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district.»

The latest attrition study by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) shows that 53 percent of Hispanic students and 48 percent of Black students were lost from public school enrollment, compared to 31 percent of White students, between 1995 - 96 and 1998 - 99 in Texas.

Ludicrously, the initial brief pointed to only two examples: a school that «lost six black students as a result of the voucher program,» thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district,» and a disproportionately black school that «lost» five white students.

provides a state - by - state estimate of lost instruction due to discipline for black and white students with disabilities finds dramatic disparities in suspensions by race.

«The high amount of lost instruction time and the large disparities documented in this report are large enough to suggest that at least some students with disabilities, and especially Black students with disabilities, are punished for behavior that is caused by their disability,» Losen wrote in the report.

Over the past 5 years, the district has lost 216 white students, but gained 37 black students, 117 Hispanic students, and 9 Asian students (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016).

In the staid precincts of Yale University, she presented herself as a sexy urban black girl, confusing fellow students and faculty who mistook her for a lost resident of New Haven.

Simply by being Black and refusing to slavishly endorse a poorly written student report, I lost my capacity for independent thought.