Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority students with»

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Today those percentages have grown to 16 percent (for staff) and 35 percent (for students), which compares favorably with the national average of 27 percent of all college students who identify themselves as ethnic minorities.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

Broadly speaking, Labour's gains were in places with ethnic minorities, social liberals, students, and graduates.

Conservative support was flat or falling in areas with large concentrations of ethnic minorities and students, and in the poorest parts of England and Wales.

If Corbyn's appeal to young voters is mostly restricted to ethnic minorities and university students / graduates, that won't take him very far in Walsall North - especially with 8,000 Ukip voters from 2015 likely to lean towards the Tories.

If Corbyn's young support is concentrated among ethnic minorities and the university educated, that will only help him in certain marginals - most seats with lots of ethnic minorities, university students or metropolitan young professionals are already safely Labour.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.

According to the EUA report, although nearly 80 % of European higher education institutions have a policy in place to support students with disabilities and 69 % to support socioeconomically disadvantaged students, less than one - quarter have specific policies for ethnic minority groups and immigrants.

More than half of the university's graduate students are from outside the U.K., with students coming from more than 130 countries, and 20 % of its academic staff is from ethnic minority backgrounds.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.

Additionally, a workforce with a better representation of ethnic minorities will help attract more students from these groups in particular.

The first is the role - modeling hypothesis just described — minority students might benefit from seeing adults with a similar racial / ethnic background in a position of authority.

The students in grades 2 through 6 in the district are predominantly white (73 percent), with a sizable ethnic minority (Latino students compose 21 percent of the elementary population); 48 percent of them receive a free or reduced - price lunch.

Progress is to be measured both for all students and for students disaggregated into various subgroups, including disadvantaged students, those with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities, and those from racial or ethnic minority populations.

SDP works with over 10 school districts and charter management organizations that collectively serve over 1.5 million students, 65 percent of whom are eligible for free or reduced lunch and 82 percent of whom are ethnic minorities.

In Hartford, 97 percent of students are members of racial or ethnic minority groups — in a state with a total minority student population of about 27 percent, said Thomas W. Murphy, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Education.

A significant factor Rastrick High School in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, has approximately 1400 students on its books with 40 per cent of those black or ethnic minority and 12 per cent currently on the Free School Meals programme.

In an area where the majority of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds, the school will provide 750 students with the opportunity to excel academically, and gain skills and experiences needed to make informed choices about their future.

Schools must report «adequate yearly progress» for groups that tend to struggle: racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, English language learners, and those with learning disabilities.

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).

In elementary schools with the highest ethnic minority populations, regardless of poverty levels, there are fewer libraries specialists per 100 students than low ethnic minority status.

The percentage of students in public schools who belong to a racial or ethnic minority group increased from 22 percent in 1972 to 43 percent in 2006, with a corresponding decrease from 78 percent to 57 percent in the percentage of white students enrolled (Planty et al., 2008).

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

''... new instruments and methods need to be developed for identification of gifted students in specific populations, such as disadvantaged, ethnic minorities, students with limited English - speaking ability, exceptionally gifted students and handicapped students» (pp. 77 - 78, emphasis added).

They've got to look at how all kids are doing at the school overall, but also how specific groups of students are doing — like students with disabilities, those from low - income families, non-native English speakers, and every major racial and ethnic minority.

Establish partnerships with ethnic minority communities to develop strategies to close the gaps in student achievement.

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

No Child Left Behind, on the books since 2002, was supposed to close achievement gaps for disadvantaged students (racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, youngsters with special needs and English learners) and to eliminate what President George W. Bush decried as «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

More specifically, they found that for the Danielson Framework and CLASS (the two more generalized instruments examined in this study, also of main interest in this post), teachers with relatively more racial / ethnic minority and lower - achieving students (in that order, although these are correlated themselves) tended to receive lower observation scores.

Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) strives to provide an opportunity for ethnic minority, low - income, and first - generation college - bound students to explore college majors and career interests with a group of peers interested in attending college.

By allowing states to ditch racial, ethnic, and economic subgroup categories and replace them with a super-subgroup subterfuge that commingles poor and minority students into one, the administration is making it difficult for families, especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — to get the information they need to make smart decisions for their kids, and impede them from helping to advance systemic reform.

However, high performing schools with high poverty and minority populations also retain effective teachers, which indicates that teacher turnover is more closely related to the environment and support that teachers receive than socioeconomic and ethnic status of the students (Johnson, Kraft, & Papay, 2012).

«That helps to ensure that all students are held to the same high standard and that schools are making progress toward closing achievement and opportunity gaps, which is especially important for students living in poverty, racial and ethnic minorities, those with disabilities, those still learning English and other historically underserved groups,» Nolt added.

Based on Focus On Ethnic And Minority Concerns: Critical Teaching Behaviors And Instructional Strategies For Working With Culturally Diverse Students by Cathy Kea.

Focus on ethnic and minority concerns: Critical teaching behaviors and instructional strategies for working with culturally diverse students.

Many candidates start the conversation with, «Well, the first school must be a Title I school,» or «I understand that the first school has many second language students and ethnic minorities; it must face extraordinary challenges.»

According to the articles «Integrated Schools: Finding a New Path» (Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg, and Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, p. 22) and «Overcoming Triple Segregation» (by Patricia Gándara, p. 60), segregation by ethnic background of public schools in the United States is on the upswing, a reality which limits minority students» prospects for a high - quality education and all students» prospects for learning to work and interact with students from varied cultures.

If a law student with an ethnic minority background is unable to impress an interviewer because of a failure to meet the above criteria, that failure should not be attributed to ethnicity unless there is overwhelming evidence showing that to be the case.

Description: The American Psychological Association (APA), with funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, offers assistance to students enrolled full time in APA - accredited doctoral programs who have a strong commitment to a career in ethnic minority behavioral health services or policy.

Description: The American Psychological Association (APA), with funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, offers assistance to students enrolled full time in APA - accredited doctoral programs who have a strong commitment to a career in ethnic minority behavioral health services.