Sentences with phrase «disproportionate number of those students»

The government hopes that changing the system will help get more people from more deprived backgrounds into Britain's top universities, many of which are still taking a disproportionate number of students from the private sector.

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

Relative to statewide averages, charter schools tend to attract a disproportionate number of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch as well as minority students, especially African Americans.

The recent release of the 2015 - 16 Civil Rights Data Collection shows the continued disproportionate number of students of color in suspensions, expulsions, and school - based arrests.

Linda Darling - Hammond and colleagues have cautioned that statistical models can not fully adjust for teachers who have a disproportionate number of students with greater challenges, or whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning, such as special education students; English language learners; and those affected by poor attendance, homelessness, or severe problems at home.

It is true that there were guidelines initiated by the federal Department of Education under the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002 that no doubt put pressure on the states not to have a disproportionate number of students in special education and the law actually put limits on the percentage that could be exempted from the required achievement assessments.

However, students are not randomly assigned to teachers — and statistical models can not fully adjust for the fact that some teachers will have a disproportionate number of students who have greater challenges (students with poor attendance, who are homeless, who have severe problems at home, etc.) and those whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning (e.g. those who have special education needs or who are new English language learners).

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

Not exact matches

Additionally, a disproportionate number of arrested students had special needs or were black.

Schools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white students.

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.

Though vague on how the city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need» students, their likelihood of failure had increased.

A 2009 report by Parthenon Group, a private consulting firm commissioned by the NYC Department of Education, showed that the city's «failing schools» had enrolled a disproportionate number of «high need» students.

But these standards do not by themselves necessarily account for the gains in achievement by all demographic groups and by our regional vocational / technical high schools (which enroll a disproportionate number of special education students and below - grade level readers).

Furthermore, it was found that a disproportionate number of African - American students and students with disabilities were suspended or expelled.

Some examples of systemic intolerance and institutionalized racism include the disproportionate number of African American or Latino students who are suspended and expelled, or when the academic proficiency standards for certain ethnic groups are lower than others, as is true in Florida and Virginia.

One of the major issues behind diversity and education today is that a disproportionate number of educational institutions have welcomed diverse students without really considering the conditions of their experience.

The agreement also calls for districts that have disproportionate numbers of minority students in separate placements to take corrective action.

The studies found that grossly disproportionate numbers of minority students are identified as eligible for services, and too often placed in isolated and restrictive educational settings.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

The County and state's support of policies that facilitated white flight to private academies allowed for a disproportionate number of black and white students to be enrolled in the County's schools compared to the County's population.30 In the 1971 - 72 school year, only 5 percent of students in the County's K - 12 public schools were white.31

Let's dig deeper into the disproportionate number of suspensions received by black students and see how schools with high suspension rates for black students differ from schools with low rates.

Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus have attacked the gainful - employment proposal and other regulations as discriminatory, as for - profit colleges enroll disproportionate numbers of low - income students and nonwhites.

This disparity, as well as national trends toward disproportionate numbers of suspensions for African American and Latino students, led LAUSD to reexamine school discipline policies in 2013 with the School Climate Bill of Rights.

The Court specified courses to be provided and required that ``... districts with disproportionate numbers of disabled students, economically disadvantaged students, and students with limited English language skills...» be taken into account.

MSIs serve a disproportionate number of first - generation students, and therefore play an important role in ensuring their academic success.

Black and Latino students live disproportionately at or below the poverty line, and it is no accident that we are faced with the most segregated school system in history, with a disproportionate number of school closures happening in the poorest communities - all at the hands of using invalid metrics.

Detractors often challenge these results by accusing charter schools of skimming the cream of the crop or selecting a disproportionate number of gifted students compared to traditional public schools.

High stakes testing has only had horrible consequences for schools with disproportionate number of Black and Latino students.

It is simply unacceptable that a vastly disproportionate number of minority students fail to learn to read.

«This legislation is crucial for the thousands of students, a disproportionate number of whom are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), who face bullying and harassment each year in America's schools,» said Dr. Byard.

Should the state set standardized requirements for completion of elementary school and high school graduation, at the risk of holding behind disproportionate numbers of poor students?

Most recently, SFUSD announced last week that efforts to reduce the disproportionate number of suspensions among black students has been a success, bringing them down 17 percent from last year as the district implements more proactive policies, ranging from daily check - ins to rewards for good behavior, according to a district press release.

Sarah Alvarado Díaz is a research assistant for Equity Alliance and a first - year doctoral student in the Learning, Literacies and Technologies program, with a special interest in students who are labeled as English language learners, as students who receive special education services, and in particular, looking at disproportionate numbers of English language learners being referred for special education services or being placed in special education programs.

Looking at achievement - gap data, Superintendent Runcie said one of the first things he noticed was the large number of students being arrested for misdemeanor offenses they committed in school, such as throwing spitballs, getting into shoving matches, or cursing — and in particular, the disproportionate number of arrests of African - American males.

As with students who have special educational physical or emotional needs, the Academy should provide support to ensure that a disproportionate number of behaviour issues do not arise from these more vulnerable students.

Teachers of color push within their unions to raise issues affecting English - language learners getting reclassified as fluent or decrying the disproportionate numbers of Black students in special education or being disciplined.

Far too many children — disproportionate numbers of low - income students and students of color among them, but many white students as well — have such low reading and mathematics skills that they will be forever locked out of decent jobs and full participation in our democracy if we don't do something different, and do it fast.

Brown's Local Control Funding Formula increased funding for districts with disproportionate numbers of English - language learners, foster students and students from impoverished families to help them all have better chances at leading successful lives.

There were a disproportionate number of lower income students in special education.

In a school such as mine, where there is a disproportionate number of such students, the effects will be disastrous.

Part of the problem is that for the past decade all of us over here at Title I schools [i.e., schools with disproportionate numbers of disadvantaged students] have been saying «[our state test] is not fair....

A Harvard professor of education and economics provided the Vergara plaintiffs powerful testimony today when he told the court that schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have ineffective teachers and a disproportionate number of them are assigned to minority and low income students.

He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.

A disproportionate number of private student loans are used at for - profit colleges.

The goal of the project is to keep more kids in school and reduce the minority achievement gap that results from the disproportionate number of minority students being expelled.

The same student opined that the reputation of the Law Society would suffer «when a disproportionate number of LPP students are found to be minorities, racialized groups, etc.» The LPP will perpetuate the systemic disadvantages that already face students from equity seeking groups.