Sentences with phrase «color than white students»

Growth was also lower for students of color than white students: students of color had an (Median Growth Percentile) MGP of 48.5 in English Language Arts in and 51.5 MGP in Math.

Myers - Wilkins is the district's only such school, designated by the state for having more students of color than white students.

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.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

«But,» he writes, «schools serving more students of color are less likely to offer advanced courses and gifted and talented programs than schools serving mostly white populations, and students of color are less likely than their white peers to be enrolled in those courses and programs within schools that have those offerings.»

By exploring districts» racial makeups, we see that across the board, Illinois has historically funded student groups in majority - White school districts better than their peers in districts with more students of color.

Achievement gaps between students of color and white students are higher than the national average, as are the gaps between the college enrollment rates of students of color and white students.

• With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - priced lunch and students of color in the cities were less likely than white students to enroll in high - scoring elementary and middle schools, take advanced math courses, and take a college entrance exam.

While a majority of kids in American public schools today are students of color, more than 80 percent of teachers are white.

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

Students of color «are three to four times more likely to attend schools with higher concentrations of first - year teachers than White studentsStudents of color «are three to four times more likely to attend schools with higher concentrations of first - year teachers than White studentsstudents.»

Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz said flatly, «a student of color in New York City is less than half as likely to have been taught to read or do math as a white student.»

More than half of the American public school student population are students of color, yet more than 80 percent of teachers are white.

«a student of color in New York City is less than half as likely to have been taught to read or do math as a white student.»

«The ones that have a few more students of color get lower funding than the ones that are 100 percent or 95 percent white,» he told The Atlantic.

Since programs for students of color often receive less funding than their white counterparts, legislation is needed...

Students of color even graduate from college at lower rates than their white peers.

By every possible indicator, the kids that both of us care so much about — low - income students of color — are doing worse than their higher - income white counterparts.

Of further concern is the fact that low - income students and students of color usually report a lower level of community in school than do affluent or white students.

The author points out that disproportionate suspension and expulsion rates are more often the result of inequitable discipline practices than differences in behavior between students of color and their white peers.

Petrilli argued that it required schools to reduce suspensions without providing any supports, but Jimenez and Kristen Harper of Child Trends argued that it did not require any changes without supports, but instead called attention to a discipline crisis where students of color were punished more regularly and harshly than their white peers.

Laura Jimenez of CAP noted that Petrilli's framing implied that children of color are less well behaved than white students.

Discipline disparities between students of color and white students in Minnesota are severe, with black students being eight times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

Cami Anderson, former superintendent of Newark public schools, talked about the way that current discipline policies negatively impact students of color, referencing research that shows that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts as early as kindergarten.

The bottom line: Across our country we are spending less on students of color than on white students, at least when it comes to state and local dollars.

Students of color have significantly lower college enrollment rates than do white sStudents of color have significantly lower college enrollment rates than do white studentsstudents.

But even so, white students in the South are more likely to be exposed to students of color than in the past, mostly attributed to the rising number of Hispanic students attending schools with them.

Astonishingly, more than half of respondents said that students of color have the same opportunities as their white peers.

However, comprehensives studies show Consortium Schools have higher graduation rates, better college attendance rates, and smaller gaps in outcomes between students of color and their white peers than the rest of New York's public schools.

Coleman's arguments lamenting students of color score worse on the tests than their white peers — without acknowledging the ways in which systematic underfunding of schools, poverty, and institutional racism have disfigured our school system — end up pathologizing communities of color rather than supporting them.

Students of color are disciplined in far greater numbers than their white peers, according to research released by The Equity Project at Indiana University.

Students of color are more likely than White students to be suspended one or morStudents of color are more likely than White students to be suspended one or morstudents to be suspended one or more times.

More than two decades later, Hartford schools were still predominately composed of students of color, while schools in the surrounding suburbs were predominately white.

A widely circulated report from the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education found that in 2009 - 10 students of color, students with disabilities and English language learners were suspended and expelled at higher rates than their white peers.

«Effective Schools» are high achieving schools with a high percentage of their students from low - income families and a high percentage being children of a color other than white.

School officials are more likely to refer incidents involving students of color to the police than those involving white students: Native American students are 3.4 times more likely, Black students are 2.7 times more likely, and Hawaiians / Pacific Islander students are 1.4 times more likely to be referred to police.

Low - income students and students of color enroll in remediation at higher rates than their white and higher income peers.

In addition, when asked during the hearing if he would intervene as Assistant Secretary if Black students in a school district were receiving lower quality teachers, fewer books, fewer AP classes and fewer educational resources than White students, Mr. Marcus would not commit to addressing this clear violation of civil rights laws that prohibit districts from providing students of color with inferior resources.

Discipline Disparities Students of color in North Carolina schools have significantly higher rates of both short - and long - term suspensions than their white counterparts.14 Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Consolidated Data Report 2014 - 15 (Rep.).

I don't know if this was a simple mistake or a targeted attempt to impart separate expectations, but the message this counselor was sending (intended or not) is that students of color should aspire to less than their white counterparts.

The analysis shows that students of color suffer harsher discipline for lesser offenses than their white peers and that racial bias is a driver of discipline disparities.»

In fact, more than 80 % of teachers in the U.S. are white, while more than half of our students are of color.

Specifically, in 2012, white students graduated at a rate 26.5 percentage points higher than students of color.

Second, the gains were larger for kids of color than for white students, suggesting that this could make a slight dent in longstanding test - score gaps.

These ineffective practices, which disengage students and can lead to imprisonment or dropping out, impact youth of color far more than their white peers.

In every instance except in Wisconsin and Oregon, where the white populations are a supermajority in both district and K12 schools, students of color make up a significantly smaller portion of the student body than white students.

Have we never encountered White teachers who are afraid of their students for no other reason than their misconceived notions of their students» skin color?

In particular, low - income students and students of color tend to benefit more from using a school voucher than their more affluent, white peers.