Sentences with phrase «black students who»

The article also focuses on how it was Alston's fellow black students who encouraged her to finish law school and cheered her on as she studied for — and subsequently passed — the bar.

Research found that nearly 50 percent of black students who borrowed money in 2004 for a bachelor's degree program had defaulted on a federal student loan by 2016.

Other research, however, suggests that black students who receive vouchers are significantly more likely to enroll in college, and that low - income minority students who receive vouchers are more likely to graduate from college.

Between 2003 and 2011, the percentage of all fourth - graders reading Below Basic proficiency declined from 39 percent to 33 percent in 2011; the percentage of black students who were functionally illiterate declined from 60 percent to 51 percent during that period, while the percentage of poor and minority kids reading Below Basic declined from 54 percent to 48 percent.

The 5th grade scores of black students who enter school with average math and reading skills are one - half a standard deviation below those of their white peers and place at the 20 — 25th percentile of the white distribution.

Similar gains have been made for the 75 % of black students who have graduated, up 7.6 % in the past five years from 2010 - 11.

Black students who completed the program were also more likely than their traditional high school peers to enroll in a four - year college.52

Some 70 percent of black students who attend charter schools attend «intensely segregated» schools — that is, schools with a nonwhite population greater than 90 percent.

Mystic Valley Charter School is in the news again for discriminating against Black students who...

Black students who participated in the program were 10.7 % less likely to repeat a grade, 7.1 % less likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability, 11.1 % more likely to graduate from high school, and 13.6 % more likely to enter college.

Two weeks ago, prominent researchers released a study showing significant gains by black students who had been given vouchers to help pay for private school.

But the enrollment issue also raises questions about the district's strategy for schools in vulnerable neighborhoods that tend to serve poor black students who often fall behind academically.

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But when the class consisted of black students who were doing poorly, that reaction was not acceptable.

In particular, black students who attend racially isolated schools are more likely to experience lower academic achievement, exposure to gangs, and disruptions during classroom instruction.

In February, DeVos referred to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as «real pioneers when it comes to school choice,» failing to mention that these institutions emerged to serve black students who were being shut out of institutions of higher education that were discriminating against them.70 And President Trump has also shown a lack of appreciation for the history of racism in the country.71

The researchers studied approximately 100,000 black students who enrolled in third grade in North Carolina's public schools between 2001 and 2005 and found that the risk of dropping out for black students decreased by 29 percent if they had at least one black teacher in third through fifth grades.

Ta - Nehisi Coates demonstrated well in a recent interview how a lack of cultural awareness on the part of White teachers can lead to serious consequences for Black students who grow up in violent neighborhoods.

Cohen, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, says the OCR quickly resolved his group's complaint against the state of Georgia for failing to identify black students who may be learning - disabled.

The government points only to studies that show the proportion of black students who receive certain penalties to be greater than their proportion of the students in the government's data set.

It is unclear whether similar patterns would emerge for black students who experienced black teachers for multiple consecutive years.

The cause of equity will be ill - served if suspensions of African - Americans are reduced, but black students who come to school ready to learn are increasingly exposed to unruly peers.

He publicizes the names of black students who get a perfect score on state tests.

It also shows that white and black students who attend the public schools in which ELL students are concentrated are doing worse than their peers who attend public schools with few English language learner students.

The relatively poor proficiency levels at public schools with high concentrations of ELL students is underscored by comparing the standardized test scores of white and black students who attend the schools in which ELL students are concentrated with the scores of white and black student who attend other public schools.

To investigate this question, we compared the progress of white and black students who attended the same school.

For example, a recent study from Louisiana found that black students who were in fights with white students received longer suspensions — but the differences were tiny.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

After one year, black students who switched to private schools scored 0.17 standard deviations higher than the students in the control group.

Black students who attended D.C. private schools for two years scored 9.0 percentile points higher on the two tests combined than did students in the control group.

The vast majority of the recipients are black students who left schools with student populations that were disproportionally black relative to the broader community and moved to private schools that had more white students.

Those black students who transferred to majority - white schools encountered a deeply hostile atmosphere where a range of practices kept them segregated, only now within the school's walls.

Maybe the media believes that for - profit enrollment and the debt gap are linked under the assumption that the debt gap would be smaller if black students who attended for - profit graduate schools attended other graduate schools instead.

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).

Using the same data, we can simulate what the debt gap might be if the black students who attended for - profit graduate schools instead went to private nonprofit and public universities.

In South Africa, where I had the chance to work in the early 1990s, black students who had not received their textbooks boycotted their schools.

Just 17 percent of the black students who received the bland «so you'll have feedback» Post-it revised their paper, compared with 72 percent of those who got the «high expectations» Post-it.

In a second, parallel study in which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-it.

People bring up they don't want government in their business, but look if it wasn't for the government the 9 black students who went to school in the south for the 1st time after slavery and aparthied was abolished wouldn't have gotten to that school if the people with their fear and hatred had their way.

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?

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 theaters.

He describes what I have known to be true as a Black student who had a plethora of Black teachers.

For example, a white teacher compliments a black student who has gotten her hair straightened for school pictures.

Expected to be relatable, a discouraging or unsupportive black teacher can devastate a black student who is looking for someone to trust.

That is to say, a white student who gets a large preference (because of alumni connections, for example) has the exact same problems in law school as a black student who gets a large preference.

Not exact matches

In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as «a cowardly, honky group» who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous «dirty work.»

Initially, Powers and Walker started a paid internship program, and traversed the country looking for ambitious black and Hispanic students who wanted a chance to work in big tech companies.

In addition to industry and geographical diversity, this year's cohort includes students who identify as Black or African American; Asian or Pacific Islander; Hispanic or Latina; or Caucasian.

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.