Sentences with phrase «black students took»

In high school, 74 % of black students took the SAT in 2009, compared with 66 % in 2006 — again shrinking the gap with white students, whose participation rate rose from 82 % to 84 %.

The board voted unanimously in approval, and black students took turns raising the flag this week.

11 states had no black students take the exam: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming

The report said the 71,174 black students taking the 1983 - 84 test raised their mean verbal score to 342, up 3 points over the previous year's level.

Not exact matches

But as one of two black students and the only black woman in an entry - level class of hundreds, Baker felt a cold shoulder and took it personally.

Around 30,000 students took the AP computer science exam, and only around 20 % were female, according to the analysis, 3 % were black, and just 8 % were Hispanic, for example.

You don't go to these institutions and feel overwhelmed by the number of black and brown students you see there and say, «Oh, they're taking Asian - American spots.»

Actor Michael Ian Black took to Twitter on Sunday, a day after thousands of students marched in favor of gun control, and claimed that a solution to gun - related violence is «to repeal and replace and the Second Amendment.»

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.

When even key IVCF supporters questioned her decision to include black students, the organization's board took a radical stance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The students did not take the prank lightly, and many of them worked together to get the A «fixed,» and ended up painting it black.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

It took 9,000 signatures from an online petition set up by NUS Black Students to achieve the climbdown, however.

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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.

Police say Justin Tavarez, who's a student at Skidmore College in upstate New York, took offense when he saw a white man dining with a black man and smashed a plate over the white man's head.

«The College Corps helps place students in jobs that are enhancing their education as well as keeping them in the Mohawk Valley... we take pride in this area and what it has to offer as we continue to recruit new employees,» said Lisa Kimmel of Black River Systems, one of the many high tech employers in the program.

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.

Helping to found a Black Women's organization; allocating money through the Finance Board of the Student Government; taking classes; tutoring; TAing; working at the front desk of my dormitory; acting; and my friends all kept me happy and busy.

Black students in the study who participated in MESA in the fall of their freshman year were more likely to take one or more Advanced Placement (AP) classes in a STEM subject later on in high school.

«One could say this is a progressive outcome, because black students are actually being affected in a behavioral manner — they're taking more AP STEM classes.

Compared to White students, Latino students were 45 percent less likely to take the test, Black students were 35 percent less likely, and Asian students were 32 percent more likely.

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What's more, in a follow - up experiment, the researchers found that simply having to specify their race before taking the test was enough to drastically worsen a black student's performance, while when white students did this, their performance actually increased.

The black squares represent the students after they'd taken the course of fish oil capsules.

It took a student of mine to point out to me that the top before the seam is green with black spots and the bottom after the seam is black with green spots.

Black female very intelligent, student 47 yr young children@home takes care of my mother and I'm a at home mother!

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.

Olivia took to her Twitter account to comment on the Spring Valley High School incident in which a police officer in South Carolina arrested a black student in her classroom by dragging her from her desk to the front of the room.

Ten years later, I remain stunned that Reese Witherspoon was not nominated for her brilliant work in «Election» as a pathologically ambitious, grasping social climber student doing anything it takes to head up the student council in Alexander Payne's astute and black comedy.

However, Mark learns that life isn't as easy for Black people as on «The Cosby Show», and further complicates his life when he begins to fall head over heels for a fellow Black student, a single mother named Sarah (Chong, American Flyers), from whom he took her scholarship money away.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

Nearly every student in America has learned something since a jury virtually exonerated four white police officers accused of severely beating the black motorist Rodney G. King and rioters took to the streets in Los Angeles, educators said last week.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

DPS has more than doubled the number of students taking and passing Advanced Placement courses, and black students now take advanced math classes at the same rate as whites (Hispanic students lag by only 1 percentage point).

According to the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, skills in these areas are particularly lacking among minority students; only 6 percent of blacks and Latinos, for example, take precalculus or physics in high school.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

I think it can be valuable to use Black Panther for education, but it is also necessary to be mindful of where students actually are, as they demonstrate that to you, regarding their own take on the film and its impact.

The early reform coalition took shape around 20 years ago, with shared goals of increasing economic competitiveness and addressing achievement gaps among low - income, black, and Latino students.

The steps taken to desegregate schools and increase black student exposure to white students were not strong enough after 1980 to offset the demographic shifts that were increasing the amount of contact between both whites and blacks and the children of immigrants from Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere.

This lesson takes students through the the concept of a ritual with sport - Usian Bolt and the NZ All Blacks rugby union team as a case study

Study 1 involved black and white college students who took a difficult test using items from the verbal GRE under one of two conditions.

As a finale to the unit, he takes the students outside and teaches them how to march and drill like Civil War soldiers, and at the end discharges the musket with a burst of black smoke.

For example, Delpit sees a problem when a typical white, middle - class teacher uses a passive communication style with her low - income black students, such as asking them to take their seats instead of telling them to take their seats.

Blacks constitute about 7 percent of the 1 million college - bound high - school students who take the sat annually, according to the report, College Bound Seniors, 1984.

For instance, although black students represented 14.5 percent of the 2009 graduating class, they were just 8.2 percent of those who took an AP exam, and 3.7 percent...