Sentences with phrase «by students of color»

Last step: Create a chart (select icon «Insert chart» on google sheets) of the difference of student enrollments by students of color between your charter schools and the surrounding district.

There was a subtle but monumental change to the advice given during the second session, which was primarily attended by students of color (blackboys).

Even if your school tends to meet AYP or other defined goals, the same can not be said for all schools — especially those in under - resourced areas and disproportionately those populated by students of color

Perhaps one of the few things most educators can agree on as a clear benefit of NCLB was the extent to which associated standardized assessment requirements highlighted massive opportunity gaps faced by students of color and students living in poverty.

The organization has been heavily criticized in the past for dispatching fleets of young, white, mostly affluent college graduates to poor schools made up predominantly by students of color.

As with many purported «school safety» policies, the impacts of this misguided proposal will be felt disproportionately by students of color, students with disabilities, and other groups who are already negatively impacted by punitive and discriminatory school policies.

The module addresses Standard 2 by focusing on how educational leaders can understand and facilitate teacher learning focused on the obstacles faced by students of color and students who are situated in poverty.

Recognizing that disparities in disciplinary rates may be caused by a range of factors, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice said in a joint letter that these differences can not be explained by more frequent or more serious behavior by students of color, but rather, «schools may be engaging in racial discrimination that violates the federal civil rights law.»

The letter stated that «research suggests that the substantial racial disparities of the kind reflected in the [Civil Rights Data Collection] data are not explained by more frequent or more serious misbehavior by students of color.»

It acknowledges that different rates of discipline per se do not reveal discrimination, citing scholarly research and past investigations by the Departments to support the assertion that the disparities «are not explained by more frequent or more serious misbehavior by students of color.»

Not exact matches

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

Students of color at Moody were outraged at being chastised online by a professor for merely hosting the event.

And by the way, Cal ain't as liberal as folks like to think, especially if you're a student of color.

All that said, when it comes to Michigan vs Wisconsin, I'll always be rooting for the Maize and Blue, as evidenced by numerous forays into the halls of the Kohl Center and the UW Fieldhouse, and even the drunken student infested sections of Camp Randall stadium wearing the enemy colors.

Waldorf School of Princeton welcomes students and employees of any color; race; sexual orientation; ethnic, national, cultural, social, or religious backgrounds; and any other characteristic protected by law in its admissions and employment practices, as well as in participation in its programs and events.

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out... [Continue reading]

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out by politicians, lobbyists and the School Nutrition Association.

What we mean by that is that our food system and our educational system are set up in ways that produce different and worse outcomes for students of color and low - income students.

As I explained in that post, students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet their voices often go unheard in Congressional debates about how the program is funded or should operate.

The Executive Budget takes two steps backward for one step forward — with improvements to target poverty this year outweighed by the loss of predictability and transparency in future years and by not doing enough to ensure that schools serving low - income students and students of color receive the resources they need to increase achievement and opportunity.

Also at noon, Urban Youth Collaborative, Desis Rising Up and Moving, The Point, Girls for Gender Equity, and Rockaway Youth Task Force are joined by NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso to protest what they describe as «the unrelenting over-policing of students of color in New York City,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

By shining a light on school - level funding inequities before the school year begins, the final budget can serve as an important new protection for students of color, low - income students, and other historically under - served groups of students across the state.

First - Ever Research Study of NYC's Teacher Rating Data: Students of Color and High - Needs Students Most Likely to be Taught by Teachers Rated «Unsatisfactory»

Students in schools with high percentages of students of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students oStudents in schools with high percentages of students of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students ostudents of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students ostudents in schools with low percentages of students ostudents of color.

A label on the device helps with interpretation of the color, or the device could be photographed with a smartphone running an application written by Georgia Tech undergraduate student Alex Weiss and graduate student William Stoy.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, led by PhD student Leslie van der Leer, assigned participants a computer task in which they observed the color of a black or white fish caught from one of two lakes and were then asked to choose to see further fish or decide on one of the lakes as the source of that sequence of fish.

Apheloria polychroma was named for its rainbow of colors and was described by Marek; Jackson Means, a graduate student from Keswick, Virginia; and Derek Hennen, a graduate student from Little Hocking, Ohio.

Tracy Langkilde, an associate professor of biology at Penn State University, and Lindsey Swierk, a graduate student in Langkilde's lab, tackle this question by examining the mating behavior and blue - color patterns of fence lizards in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi.

Illinois electrical and computer engineering professor Viktor Gruev, right, and graduate student Missael Garcia have developed a camera capable of sensing both color and polarization by mimicking the eye of the mantis shrimp that may improve early cancer detection and provide new understanding of underwater phenomena.

I will eventually go to graduate school, but first, I'd like to help students of color by being a role model and dispelling the myths about majoring in science.

Review of The Color of Time by Associate Editor Brigid K. Presecky James Franco and 11 of his NYU graduate students attempt to bring C.K. Williams» poetry to life in The Color of Time.

Good news for students and schools: A new study, released last week by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), looks closely at four schools that are achieving positive outcomes for low - income students of color.

In 2003, she became the founding co-principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model identified by scholar Linda Darling - Hammond as having «beaten the odds in supporting the success of low - income students of color.»

Proceed by setting up a spelling bee, with students forming teams based on the color of their ribbons.

For middle school and high - school students, The Colors Of Freedom: Immigrant Stories (Franklin Watts), by Janet Bode, is a wonderful introduction to the American immigrant experience.

The «cultural understanding» theory also supports the idea that students of color assigned to diverse teachers might be more likely to feel cared for and happy in class as a result of feeling understood by a culturally sensitive teacher.

Students of color, immigrant students, refugee students, LGBTQ students — as well as their teachers and families — may feel targeted by federal policies and actions, and deeply Students of color, immigrant students, refugee students, LGBTQ students — as well as their teachers and families — may feel targeted by federal policies and actions, and deeply students, refugee students, LGBTQ students — as well as their teachers and families — may feel targeted by federal policies and actions, and deeply students, LGBTQ students — as well as their teachers and families — may feel targeted by federal policies and actions, and deeply students — as well as their teachers and families — may feel targeted by federal policies and actions, and deeply worried.

Rather, the results provide support for robust efforts to regulate the for - profit sector, to improve degree attainment and promote income - contingent loan repayment options for all students, and to more fully address the particular challenges faced by college students of color.

After her students complained that they were unable to find material they needed for a Black History Month assignment, Dorothy Winbush Riley, a Detroit teacher, set out to find and collect a volume of familiar quotations by people of color.

Occasionally students speak of not listening to their favorite music or avoiding friendships with other students of color because they don't want to be misunderstood by their hall mates.

In August 2016, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)-- supported by nearly 40 other public interest groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)-- sent a letter to Education Secretary John King demanding the department track and remedy the disproportionate consequences of student loan debt for borrowers of color.

Let me start out by assuring readers that I'm not suggesting it takes a magical coat of arms to survive life on a predominantly white campus if you're a student of color.

This color by number activity is a fun way for students to practice Converting between Standard and Vertex Form of Quadratic Functions.

Functions: Absolute Value Functions: Color by Number is a fun way for students to practice the transformations of absolute value functions.

Included are schemes of study, visuals, policy documents, student support documents, step by step guides, coloring sheets, art history information and much more.

Some white students do not comprehend the significance of racial discrimination or understand that their own experiences of race are different from those of students of color, leading them to discount feelings of exclusion by their non-white peers.

But all students, white students — I think that this country — can benefit by viewing people of color in positions of power that they trust and respect and grow to love.»

Converting between vertex and standard form of functions Color by Number Activity is a fun way for students to practice their skills at working with functions in different forms.

Have students follow the directions in the activity above, except instead of coloring a box on the graph, students should record the medal winners by posting next to each country's name an icon that represents the sport in which each medal was awarded.

Trueheart explains that the goal is to determine ways to help low - income students of color succeed in college and earn certificates or degrees of some kind, by directing private dollars to these institutions.