Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority students»

The schools chosen for the project had a high percentage of ethnic minority students and a high percentage of students who qualified for free and reduced - price lunch.

Membership is open to anyone interested in working to address the educational needs of racial and ethnic minority students in our communities.

Research indicates that holding high expectations can make a positive difference for certain ethnic minority students.

Segregation of low - income and ethnic minority students makes closing achievement gaps virtually impossible.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Last week, The Guardian published an article suggesting that white students have a 20 % better chance of being accepted to study medicine at the University of Cambridge than ethnic minority students with equally good grades.

«You have sometimes one professor... who can encourage you to achieve your research or your studies, but... at the moment, it's quite difficult for ethnic minority students [and] women students to collectively get support at the university,» says Nouria Ouali, a social researcher at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.

He also notes that Trump has heightened the anxiety of U.S racial, religious, and ethnic minority students not only by rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, but also through bigoted rhetoric.

These are the rural, inner city, low SES, ELL, and ethnic minority students who, for a wide variety of reasons, continue to show up toward the bottom of the achievement scales used by schools and American society.

On the other hand, the wealthiest schools with the fewest ethnic minority students have five times more library specialists.

Mr Johnson wants to double the proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and to have 20 % more ethnic minority students across higher education by 2020.

Universities are being accused of «complacency» over a lack of senior black academics and lower achievement among ethnic minority students.

Because most ethnic minority students find comfort in knowing that their teachers, counselors, and other school staff are interested in their futures, they're often receptive to receiving support, especially when it means they will be better able to advance in the education system.

This has potential concerns for equity, as lower - income, first - generation, adult, and racial / ethnic minority students often need additional supports to succeed in college compared to their more advantaged peers.

The Minority Affairs Conference addresses the challenges facing ethnic minority students and educators in Tennessee, including the need for adequate funding for schools serving minority and disadvantaged students.

«Through our research we are seeking to understand and explain how the processes used to identify, assess, and place students in high incidence special education programs may contribute to the overidentification and overrepresentation of ethnic minority students in such programs,» Harry explains.

Students on the march (they are mostly students) will also demand action to increase the number of black and ethnic minority students in Oxford.

Racial and ethnic minority students make up the majority of students in public schools, especially in urban areas.

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

Yet, says Ouali, in many European countries, universities «are not encouraged to develop specific policies to open the Ph.D. to ethnic minority students or the recruitment of staff.»

Werner - Washburne mentored undergraduate students in her laboratory through programs that encouraged underrepresented racial and / or ethnic minority students to pursue doctorates and through the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos / Hispanics and Native Americans in Science SACNAS.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

[6] And same - race teachers may be more able to link cultural contexts to learning in ways that could benefit racial and ethnic minority students.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.

The different assessment style of Pisa appears to have the biggest impact on the performance of disadvantaged and ethnic minority students, and seems to explain the weaker results in London in comparison to the rest of the UK.

[2] They consistently find that racial and ethnic minority students are underrepresented in special education, conditional on individual student characteristics.

White British students are far less likely to go to university than ethnic minority students: Indian (72 per cent), Pakistani / Bangladeshi (57 per cent), Black (72 per cent) and White British (36 per cent).

White British students are more likely to drop out of post 16 education than ethnic minority students: Indian (3 per cent), Pakistani / Bangladeshi (8 per cent), Black (7 per cent) and White British (10 per cent)

In this article, the authors examine the question of whether high - stakes tests will mitigate or exacerbate inequities between racial and ethnic minority students and White students, and between female and male stu - dents.

For example, In all ‐ elementary districts, those with the highest ethnic minority status (25 ‐ 100 % ethnic minority students), regardless of poverty levels, have fewer library / media center specialists per 100 students than low ethnic minority status districts (0 ‐ 6 % ethnic minority students).

Racial / ethnic minority students in the schools ranged from 27 percent to 99 percent of the student populations, and the percentage of disadvantaged students ranged from 38 percent to 77 percent.

CMAC's Purpose: To be an effective advocacy group for the educational needs of ethnic minority students.

Encourage the use of disaggregated demographic data — such as on first - generation, low - income, racial / ethnic minority students; adult students; students with second - language backgrounds; undocumented students; veterans; students with disabilities; and foster care, disconnected, and formerly incarcerated youth — to inform the practices and policies that may hold promise for specific groups of students

As for policy, Senator Murray asked a lot of questions about civil rights and the protection of racial and ethnic minority students.

Many students still struggle to graduate on time within traditional school systems, particularly racial and ethnic minority students, English language learners, and students with disabilities.

Advise the Utah State Board of Education, its offices and other public and private groups concerned with the provision of educational services to ethnic minority students and

Through accomplishing these two purposes, CMAC becomes an effective advocacy group for the educational needs of ethnic minority students.

Racial / ethnic minority students and students eligible for the federal school lunch program participated in acceleration programs and were awarded dual credit by the college in which they enrolled at lower rates than their peers.

Increasing opportunity to learn via access to rigorous courses and programs: One strategy for closing the achievement gap for at - risk and ethnic minority students.

Speaking about equal opportunities for black and ethnic minority students, Yinka Shonibare MBE said «Colleges should actively seek to promote their college in a wider range of schools in minority areas.»

The Suinn Minority Achievement Program Award is presented «to a program that has demonstrated excellence in the recruitment, retention and graduation of ethnic minority students.»