Sentences with phrase «education than their white peers»

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African - American students are far more likely than their white peers to receive a subpar education, in larger classes taught by unqualified teachers in decaying buildings, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

And African American and Latino students are three times more likely to be suspended than their white peers, according to 2014 data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

Over 50 years since the Civil Rights Era, there is perhaps no issue in American education more intractable or more painful than the persistent gaps in educational outcomes between black and brown students and their white peers.

But the numbers show that even when blacks are successful in attending and completing college, they're still less likely to be gainfully employed than their white peers, hinting that less education isn't the entire problem, and that attempts to boost educational attainment figures among blacks won't be the entire solution.

Commissioned by the Charleston, W.Va. - based Education Alliance, the report found that African - American students rated their schools significantly lower than their white peers did in seven out of eight categories: academic expectations, instruction, course - taking, counseling about education options, respect, mentoring and caring relationships, and Education Alliance, the report found that African - American students rated their schools significantly lower than their white peers did in seven out of eight categories: academic expectations, instruction, course - taking, counseling about education options, respect, mentoring and caring relationships, and education options, respect, mentoring and caring relationships, and fairness.

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

Significantly higher percentages of low - income, black, and Hispanic students enter remedial education than their white or affluent peers.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

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.

As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

But on most measures being considered — from GPAs to test scores — minority candidates tend to do less well than their white peers, said a story in Education Week.

Data from the U.S. Department of Education show that African American schoolchildren of all ages are more than three times more likely to be suspended and expelled than their non-Hispanic white peers.