Sentences with phrase «dominated by minority students»

He flew to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to consult with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and learned of Tony Alvarado, the former New York City schools chancellor and head of District 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority students.

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While at the Ed School, Johnson taught history at a high school and focused his program on underprivileged, inner - city schools that were dominated by impoverished minority students.

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.

The students in our study are urban, dominated by racial and ethnic minorities, and largely disadvantaged.

What's so intriguing about the Charlotte - Mecklenburg study is that in this case, resegregation was accompanied by increased funding to minority - dominated schools, to diminish the impact on student performance in high - poverty neighborhoods.

Long - term benefits to good teaching were smaller in schools dominated by minority and low - income students.

How would your administration work to ensure all students including women and minorities are prepared to address 21st century challenges and, further, that the public has an adequate level of STEM literacy in an age dominated by complex science and technology?