Sentences with phrase «especially black students»

But at the same time, the district's minority students, especially black students, do worse than their peers throughout the state.

«The high amount of lost instruction time and the large disparities documented in this report are large enough to suggest that at least some students with disabilities, and especially Black students with disabilities, are punished for behavior that is caused by their disability,» Losen wrote in the report.

Now, she tries to give all her students — and especially her black students — that same assurance.

The school is making progress in improving academic achievement for students, especially black students and students with special needs, the report found.

Not surprisingly, the problem is worse for students of color — especially black students.

The Advocate Report: Louisiana too quick to toss troubled, especially black students; alternative schools not helping

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.

Not exact matches

«Student Land had a shock of black hair, dark piercing eyes, a jerky manner, and a sophisticated but incurable enthusiasm about almost everything in the world but especially about a light polarizer that he had devised in his teens in a rudimentary home laboratory,» we said in a 1938 profile.

One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

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.

Researchers used sophisticated eye - tracking technology and found that preschool teachers «show a tendency to more closely observe black students, and especially boys, when challenging behaviors are expected,» the authors found.

Also, I think screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has a great story that most people, especially college students, don't know much about.

I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.

The impact that the changing demographic composition of schools could have on the achievement of black students is not clear, especially given the difficulty of isolating the effects of desegregation.

They find that these effects are especially pronounced for economically disadvantaged black male students.

Inside HigherEd claimed in the first sentence of its article on the research that the disparities in debt were «partly attributable to higher enrollment rates for black students in graduate programs, especially at for - profit institutions.»

Reality: There's some evidence indicating that integrated schools have a positive impact on the achievement of minority students, especially blacks.

Using state - of - the - art techniques, Dee finds that earlier standards - based reforms lowered graduation rates but improved students» employability, especially among black students.

Marijuana use soared, especially among black students, the study found.

The benefits of attending a selective college appear to be especially large for lower - income black and Hispanic students.

This effect is driven almost entirely by black students, especially black boys, who are markedly less likely to be subjected to exclusionary discipline whentaught by black teachers.

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.

To our knowledge, there is no compelling explanation for the overall growth in the 2000s or for the especially large increases in the graduation rates of black and Hispanic students.

There are three leading explanations: 1) the sample of children included in the data set used by Phillips, the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY), especially in the early years, may be nonrepresentative; 2) better information on students» background characteristics is available in the Early Childhood survey; and 3) blacks born into recent cohorts have made real gains relative to blacks born a decade earlier.

«We are particularly encouraged to see the increases posted by black and Hispanic students, especially in math and reading, and we will continue to work to close these achievement gaps,» said Deputy Superintendent Steve Lockard.

Compared with a decade ago, more black students — especially in the South and some Mid-Atlantic states — are attending majority - nonwhite schools, the report by the university's Civil Rights...

These learning gains are especially noteworthy because students «displaced by closure were disproportionately black, economically disadvantaged, and low - achieving.»

This effect is driven almost entirely by black students, especially black boys, who are markedly less likely to be subjected to exclusionary discipline when taught by black teachers.

However, deans of education schools, especially those with large numbers of black and Hispanic students, disagreed, and argued that the exam was exacerbating a shortage of teachers of color.

These trends were most visible in black students, especially black girls.

Supporters, including a group of black Louisville pastors and the Bluegrass Institute, a conservative education think tank, say they would be more free to adopt innovative approaches that could help students, especially in urban areas where some schools repeatedly fail to meet goals.

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

The «gifted gap» that shortchanges black and Hispanic students across America is especially intense in North Carolina, a new study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute shows.

American students — especially the black and brown ones — are doing poorly.

Johns Hopkins University recently released a study that highlights the need and impact of having Black teachers leading our classrooms, especially for younger students.

In some cities, the problem is especially acute: In Boston, there is one Hispanic teacher for every 52 Hispanic students and one black teacher for every 22 black students.

Our students need to be exposed to more black male educators especially during their tenure in early childhood classrooms.

Segregated schools continue to disproportionately harm Black and Latino students and schools are becoming more and more segregated by race and socio - economic status every day, especially in states like California.

Breaking large schools up into smaller units may reduce suspension rates for all students — and especially for black students — but that means reassigning students to new schools.

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

And a study of a privately - financed voucher program in New York City found that black students, especially, enrolled in college in higher numbers when they attended a small, private high school.

Goldsmith (2004) found that Latino and black students held more optimistic, more pro-school beliefs in schools with high numbers of minority students, especially when the school employed many minority teachers.

Researchers found significant achievement gains for students in small kindergarten classes and additional gains in 1st grade, especially for black students.

Overall results show that gains are especially pronounced for black, Hispanic, low - income and special education students.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

Educators need to become agents of change in regards to our discipline and approach to black students and especially to black male students.

In its proposal guidelines, the foundation said it is «guided by the belief that all lives have equal value, and that all students — especially black, Latino and low - income students — must have equal access to a great public education that prepares them for adulthood.»

Performance differences between charter school students and their traditional public school peers were especially strong among black and Hispanic students in poverty and Hispanic students who are ELL in both reading and math.

These teachers have the ability to create examples that bring the curriculum to life for students, and their own lived experiences can be used to help their students (especially black males) connect to and maximize learning opportunities.

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