Sentences with phrase «enrollment by minority students»

January 4, 2013 Study identifies strategies to help minority students in med school While minority populations are rising throughout the country, enrollment by minority students in the nation's medical schools has stagnated.

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The three - year Concurrent Courses initiative, launched in 2008 and funded by the James Irvine Foundation, partnered high schools with colleges to create dual enrollment programs - high school students take college courses and earn college credit - and make them available to low - income youth who struggle academically or who are from minority college populations.

In 1991, 33 percent of black students in the South attended schools with 90 percent or more minority enrollment — but by 2009 - 2010 that level had crept up to 38 percent.

«As demonstrated by the record high school graduation rate and record college enrollment rates for minority students, states, districts, educators, and students across the country are making real progress.

Moreover, the process for identifying «failing schools» was neither consistent nor research - based, and disproportionately affected low - income African American and Latino students by closing schools in disadvantaged minority neighborhoods while leaving untouched those schools in more affluent areas with comparable performance and enrollments.

School leaders hope to add an eighth - grade class in the coming years, with enrollment of more minority students likely made easier by the school's new location.

[From 2000 to 2010] minority enrollment in the J.D. programs of ABA - approved law schools increased by 6,752 students, or 1.8 percent (from 20.6 percent in 2000 - 2001 to 22.4 percent in 2009 - 2010).