Sentences with phrase «especially white students»

We should demand Black male teachers teach all students, especially White students.

In her Harvard Educational Review article «Talking about Race, Learning about Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom,» she collected the journal entries of her students, highlighting the various emotional reactions that her students, especially white students, had to conversations about racial identity.

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.

Western countries, especially America, may be targeted for critiques of overconsumption, but white students lead the charge and through it find camaraderie with their black, Hispanic, and Asian peers.

Efforts by white students especially to join in diversity discourse, to become «allies,» are treated with suspicion and frequently renounced as covert assertions of «privilege.»

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

The results provided some bragging rights for states like Massachusetts and Connecticut, but in general educators found little new or especially alarming in this report, with the possible exception of the persistent disparity between white and African - American students.

This is especially necessary for white students, for whom teaching about this history of racial inequality is more difficult at times because racial inequality is not interwoven into their lived experience.

Fire in the Heart is especially aimed at white students seeking inspiration and guidance in the effort to deepen their commitments to racial justice and activism.

For instance, because there was greater between - school variance in outcomes for African American students than for white students (especially in the South), Coleman concluded that black students would be more responsive to school differences.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

Gaps in test scores between minority and white students have also narrowed over the past 30 years for some groups, especially Latino students.

Thus, the higher - scoring group — white students — has significantly shrunk, while the two lower - scoring groups — African Americans and especially Latinos — have grown.

But because of a big decrease in the proportion of white students and the big increase in students of color, especially of Latino students, the teacher - student diversity gaps have widened in some cases.

As a result, black students, especially older ones, frequently struggle to perform at the same level as their white counterparts.

It's especially key for students of color, whose test scores still often lag far behind white students» performance in the district, Cheatham said.

The push is seen as especially important for students of color, whose test scores as a whole lag far behind white students» academic performance in the district.

The latest scores were especially disappointing because score gaps between white and minority students did not diminish at all since the last time the math test was administered, in 2007.

That's a potential problem especially because the Montessori method — a unique education approach built around customized learning plans and self - directed learning — has been touted primarily as a way to help the district narrow achievement gaps between white and minority students.

, the sickening core belief that certain students (especially Black, Latino and poor children) can not learn at the same levels as White or affluent children.

Parents, teachers and students especially need to advocate for social and emotional conditions that influence learning so we can create classrooms where youth can thrive — rather than be punished or made whiter.

These people suffer from the belief gap, the sickening core belief that certain students (especially Black, Latino and poor children) can not learn at the same levels as White or affluent children.

They do not, however, provide the optimal education option of an integrated learning environment, especially when it comes to those students who are white or living with special needs.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

In 2014, the percentage of students of color exceeded the percentage of white students in U.S. public schools for the first time.13 Meanwhile, 84 percent of all public school teachers identify as white.14 While this disparity occurs in classrooms across the country, the diversity gap is especially pronounced in many urban school districts.15 In Boston, for example, there is one Hispanic teacher for every 52 Hispanic students, and one black teacher for every 22 black students.

Out - of - school suspensions, about 3 percent for white students in 1972, have increased significantly for all groups over the past decade, but especially for African Americans.

And, while White students also benefit by learning from teachers of color, the impact is especially significant for students of color, who have higher test scores, are more likely to graduate high school, and more likely to succeed in college when they have had teachers of color who serve as role models and support their attachment to school and learning.

«While White students also benefit by learning from teachers of color, the impact is especially significant for students of color, who have higher test scores, are more likely to graduate high school, and more likely to succeed in college when they have had teachers of color who serve as role models and support their attachment to school and learning.

The fact that almost all achievement gaps have widened, and that narrowed gaps are due to a decrease in performance by white and non-low-income students shows that we are failing to lead our students, especially those who have been historically underserved students, from reaching their full potential,» says MarylandCAN executive director Jason Botel.

It means helping black and Hispanic students keep up with their white and Asian American counterparts at an early age, especially in math and science.

Poor Hispanic students attending charter schools did especially well, while the impact for black, white and Asian students was small.

He concluded that «The teaching - quality imbalance especially hurts the neediest students because «rather than assign them more effective teachers to help close the gap with white students they're assigned less effective teachers, which results in the gap being slightly wider in the following year.»

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