Sentences with phrase «class white students»

Eliminating those differences in test scores between middle - class white students and minority, low - income and non-native English - speaking children is one of the key components of Obama's Race to the Top initiative and the proposed changes to No Child Left Behind.

Students from disadvantaged groups experience two to three times the average gains from smaller classes than middle class white students.

But middle - class white students are also harmed by segregation.

We need to improve identification and eligibility criteria and procedures, including multiple gateways and types of data to make sure we aren't only identifying the same «type» of student (usually upper - middle class white students, who tend to behave in ways pleasing to mostly - white teachers) and neglecting minorities and English Language Learners.

Middle - and upper - class white students may need help recognizing their own racial status and the privilege it affords them.

Twenty percent of lower income White students in city schools read proficiently in eighth grade, as do more than half of urban middle class White students.

And in suburban schools nearly a third of lower income and nearly two - thirds of middle class White students are taught to read proficiently.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

More than one - third are middle - class white students who would otherwise be attending their suburban neighborhood public school.

Not exact matches

He was his class's valedictorian, homecoming king, and a White House Presidential Scholar, a program reserved for only two students per state.

But it's hard to imagine students from the largely white, solidly middle - class Florida suburb being painted as «thugs» or «extremists» for their actions.

One student said in a class session, «What is so great about «white» that it is always good, clean and pure?

In his freshman orientation class, a white student remarked, «God can't use hip - hop because it is evil.»

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

Activists usually are from the middle class; in the United States they tend to be white, from the northeast or from large cities in the west and midwest; women, college students and «modernist» Protestant clergy have been conspicuously represented.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

That reading Twain — and more specifically, in participating in a class discussion dominated by the interventions of the white majority students in the class — could cause significant discomfort for African American students in the room is certainly an understandable expectation.

That black children are twice as likely as white children to be placed in a class for students with intellectual disability.

Last spring, a class of fifth - grade students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District descended on the South Lawn of the White House to help us dig, mulch, water and plant our very first kitchen garden.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

This Wednesday «rally follows the release of Families for Excellent Schools» white paper, «A Tale of Two School Systems, «in August, which found that black and Hispanic students are confined to a second - class system of the city's worst performing schools.

An eye witness, Ayinde Abeeb told Nigeria Politics Online that, «students were seen in the class, school premises putting on white garments, boys brigade, choir robes, girls» guide uniforms, among others».

White and Hagerman connected only because the university started requiring students to see their advisers before registering for classes, White says.

The pupils the teachers concentrated on and earmarked for university were mostly white middle - class students, he says.

Black middle - class students take the lead, followed by black middle - income, black low - income and white middle - class students.

The researchers found that 37.5 percent of white students are from middle - class families, compared to 15.7 percent of blacks.

The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.

Also, more American black students — irrespective of their class or background — will set off on this education path than their white counterparts.

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In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

Calling it the Bieber Challenge ~ I hung a poster of the celebrity on my white board an told my students that everytime they scored a 90 percent or higher class average on a test ~ I would tear a piece of the poster down.

The majority of advance placement course seats are filled by white students whereas minority students often were held in «regular» classes and discouraged from choosing higher level courses or questioned on their placement.

Fifth - grade lead teacher Joshua White looks at student performance on each «strand» of standards in reading, writing, and math, both within his own class and across the grade.

Students of all ages will learn from six great sites; among them are sites created by a high school history teacher, the White House, and a class of first graders.

For every 10 percentage point rise in the share of their class that is black, black students» reading scores fall by 0.250 points, Hispanic students» reading scores fall by 0.098 points, and white students» reading scores fall by 0.062 points.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

In fact, with the possible exception of minority boys from the Caribbean, schools whose student population had shifted from white working class to minority were usually schools with high gain scores.

For the same 10 percentage point change in the share of their class that is black, black students» math scores fall by 0.186 points, Hispanic students» math scores fall by 0.086 points, and white students» reading scores fall by 0.043 points.

Black, Hispanic, and white 3rd graders all tend to perform worse in reading and math when they are in classes that have a larger share of black students.

Given that time, our scholars consistently out - perform wealthy Westchester County on their Regents exams in nearly every subject and our first class of graduates outperformed white students on their SAT's.

The federal government put districts on notice that if they had a disproportionate number of white students in AP classes, they could be immediately subject to civil rights enforcement.

The data, presented in several tables, show that 55 percent of students in the class of 2003 who haven't passed the English and mathematics exams that they take for the first time in 10th grade are white.

In fact, district efforts to «recruit» middle - class white families can further marginalize existing low - income, minority students and families, and lead to further segregation if white and middle - class families cluster in the same schools.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

Our ability to conduct these subgroup analyses is further constrained by the relative homogeneity of the students in our sample, with most being white and in advanced classes.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

After two years of interviewing more than 100 black, Latino, and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty and socioeconomic segregation — segregation by class — shape the way students experience college.

This entire year I have learned so much about the increase of punitive punishment for mostly students of color, the statistics that show 80 percent of students are taught by white educators while their classes are filled with students who have entirely different identities, fact - based knowledge about the brain, trauma, and so many other components of the educational system that need to be unpacked.