Sentences with phrase «by minority students who»

Bergeson singled out improvements by minority students who outstripped their white peers in terms of the increase in the percentage meeting standards: by Hispanic students in reading and writing in grades four, seven, and ten, and in math in grade four, and by black students in reading in those three grades and in writing in grade ten.

Not exact matches

The changed legal positions already advanced by Sessions means minority voters looking to prove that the state's strict voter ID law is intentionally discriminatory will probably have to do without the federal government's backing, as will transgender students who argue that the law allows them to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

Those who share in the criticisms but believe that they can be internalized into Christianity are in the minority among the academic students of religion and are often ridiculed and ostracized by the dominant group.

Also on Sunday, Cuomo reiterated his proposals to award 30 percent of state contracts to firms owned by women or racial minorities and to have the state cover student loan payments for up to two years for SUNY and CUNY graduates who remain in - state.

The plan, detailed in an 18 - page report prepared by the minority Democrats» Policy Group, includes proposed tax benefits for employers who offer student loan assistance, expansion of state tuition assistance programs and implementation of different student readiness metrics used to determine whether students must take remedial courses.

Few U.S. college students have the necessary academic background to transfer into a STEM field, experts say, and many women and minority students who want to pursue STEM degrees are said to be frozen out by a chilly climate.

Students were protecting themselves from extra work by ostracizing high achievers, «constraining the fast minority,» and holding down the achievements of those who were above average, «so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.»

Those most victimized by this regime were high - achieving poor and minority students — kids who were dependent on the school system to cultivate their potential and accelerate their achievement.

Minority students who want to learn will see their education hijacked by troublemakers, and the troublemakers will learn that they can misbehave, with limited consequences.

Like in the case of elementary grades, minority and disadvantaged students, who tend to blindly trust the information given out by schools, will be particularly hardly hit by this fog of doublespeak about college readiness.

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

Acting white was once a label used by scholars, writing in obscure journals, to characterize academically inclined, but allegedly snobbish, minority students who were shunned by their peers.

The book is edited by Nancy Kreinberg and Harriet Nathan, who are both associ - ated with EQUALS, a program at the University of California - Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, which helps K - 12 teachers retain more female and minority students in mathematics.

They wrote in the Kappan magazine, «The conventional wisdom on which detracking policy is often based — that students in low - track classes (who are drawn disproportionately from poor families and from minority groups) are hurt by tracking while others are largely unaffected — is simply not supported by very strong evidence.»

Given that the targeted school population for charters is almost all low - income minorities, the contrast seen during school visits can be startling: black and brown students who are taught by white teachers.

Cobb still recalls the day in the fall of 2002 when he looked over the crowd gathered for a Growth Fund meeting in Seattle: nearly all the attendees were white, a sharp contrast to the students in the schools funded by the Growth Fund, who are nearly all minority.

Minority students from low - income families who take part in early - intervention programs in high school have a better chance than comparable nonparticipants of enrolling in a postsecondary institution, concludes a report by the Washington - based Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

The resulting separation between white suburbs with new schools and middle - class students and an increasingly minority central city are all vividly recounted by Grant, who with his wife was deeply involved in efforts to counter the decline, and who in one neighborhood had some success in doing so.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

The tenure laws that provide job security for 277,000 California schoolteachers, and a target for opponents who claim they shield incompetent instructors and victimize low - income and minority students, were upheld Thursday by a state appeals court.

For example, one study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that charter schools do a better job teaching low income students, minority students, and students who are still learning English than traditional schools.

Those groups include racial and ethnic minorities and students who are from low - income families, speak limited English, or have disabilities — as long as enough students in each category meet minimum group sizes set by each...

KIPP started in Houston 10 years ago, founded by two young teachers who believed low - income, minority students could excel with intensive teaching in fifth through eighth grade.

For poor and minority students, risks are higher: 26 percent of those who face the «double jeopardy» of poverty and low reading proficiency fail to earn high school diplomas, and Hispanic and African American children who lack proficiency by third grade are twice as likely to drop out of school as their white counterparts.

Teachers are further challenged by students who are exceptional in more than one area (twice - or thrice - exceptional), are minority, or are from a low SES status.

The three - year Concurrent Courses initiative, launched in 2008 and funded by the James Irvine Foundation, partnered high schools with colleges to create dual enrollment programs - high school students take college courses and earn college credit - and make them available to low - income youth who struggle academically or who are from minority college populations.

Do we intend to continue to ignore a system that promotes and protects mostly white teachers who don't do right by their largely minority students?

But over the last few years, the Bloomberg approach has been vindicated by an innovative, multiyear study showing that the poor, minority students who attend small specialized schools do better academically than students in a control group who attend traditional high schools.

The most recent of those studies, by the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University, found that charter schools do a better job than traditional schools at teaching low income students, minority students, and students who are still learning English.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

As part of this vision, the NTC scales high quality teacher induction services to a national audience and works closely with educators and policymakers nationwide to serve low - income students, minority students, and English language learners, who are otherwise often taught by inexperienced teachers.

Charter public schools are working for families by providing high - quality school choices and improving the life trajectories of mostly low - income, minority students who before charter schools had no choice in the public school system.

This is the case for many low - income and minority students, whose education goals and aspirations can be significantly strengthened by educators who give them the guidance they need.

By deciding to roll back the college - preparatory standards, politicians in the Show - Me State have shown in deed that they have no concern for the futures of children, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds who will soon make up a majority of students in traditional public schools.

The students who are the most let down by the present state of affairs, however, are the high - potential children from poor and minority backgrounds whose gifts are badly neglected in today's education system.

According to the ruling, tenure affects minority students adversely and unequally by making it difficult to fire ineffective teachers, who predominantly teach low - income, minority students.

A vigorous dissent by three judges, argued, «By erroneously affirming the district court's decision, we allow the State of California to perpetuate discrimination against qualified minority teachers, who are already seriously underrep - resented in the California public school system, and, derivatively, against minority students as well.&raquby three judges, argued, «By erroneously affirming the district court's decision, we allow the State of California to perpetuate discrimination against qualified minority teachers, who are already seriously underrep - resented in the California public school system, and, derivatively, against minority students as well.&raquBy erroneously affirming the district court's decision, we allow the State of California to perpetuate discrimination against qualified minority teachers, who are already seriously underrep - resented in the California public school system, and, derivatively, against minority students as well.»

By allowing states to ditch racial, ethnic, and economic subgroup categories and replace them with a super-subgroup subterfuge that commingles poor and minority students into one, the administration is making it difficult for families, especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — to get the information they need to make smart decisions for their kids, and impede them from helping to advance systemic reform.

It would be great if you could conduct primary research and investigate the opinion of those people who were directly affected by the affirmative action (minority students and teachers, for example).

According to this article, the students who comprise the Building a Better Legal Profession, are handing out «diversity report cards» to the big law firms, ranking them by how many female, minority and gay lawyers they have.

And perhaps this should be their biggest concern, because the most intelligent and ambitious law students, who by sheer numbers will be equity - seeking groups like women, visible minorities, and LGBT students, simply won't see big law as the most intelligent option.

I also wonder about this statement: «the most intelligent and ambitious law students, who by sheer numbers will be equity - seeking groups like women, visible minorities, and LGBT students... «Since women are now a majority in Canadian law schools (I believe), I suppose you have the numbers here for them.

The best evidence a firm is serious about reaching out to professionals of different racial backgrounds is by hiring more qualified law students and lawyers who identify as minorities; to show their commitment to the cause.

With that bias in mind, Stafford and other African - American Democrats feared that a minority student who reaches for a phone during a mass shooting event could be mistaken for the shooter by school staff with firearms.