Sentences with phrase «few black students»

That's where I — one of only a few black students in my class — spent countless afternoons.

«In actuality,» writes historian Robert A. Pratt, «race was the only criterion considered; the Pupil Placement Board assigned very few black students to white schools in Virginia while it remained in operation.»

I already know that I will be attending the first few Black Student Union meetings to get to know a few more black students on campus.

A review reveals that in schools with majority black populations, principals adopted suspensions for truancy and tardiness as a matter of policy, while principals at schools with fewer black students do not suspend for any attendance issues as a matter of policy.

These schools also have fewer black students than the statewide average, with 15.7 percent black students versus 24.9 percent statewide for students with third grade test scores.

Schools enrolling a greater percentage of black students exhibit higher suspension rates for black students than schools with fewer black students.

More than three - fourths of New Orleans schools are at least 95 - percent black, according to New Schools for New Orleans, but those that do draw larger populations of white students often have far fewer black students than the city as a whole — Lycee has 17 percent black students, Lusher has 28 percent, Ben Franklin High has 33 percent, Hynes has 39 percent and so forth.

In another part of its annual education issue, the Times magazine notes «White families in cities like Washington are flocking to private schools, where fewer black students are in attendance.»

Not exact matches

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

I hope that funds from the proposal are concentrated more in those districts where the fewest students have access to the type of gifted and talented programs that feed into the specialized high schools,» said Carole Brown, member of Stuyvesant Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, Stuyvesant High School Class of 1981, Fordham University» 85, Columbia University «90.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

ELIZA SHAPIRO REPORTS: «BLACK, LATINO and POOR STUDENTS IN NEW YORK CITY HAVE FEWER RESOURCES, PARTICULARLY IN SCIENCE AND MATH, according to a new report released Sunday by the Independent Budget Office.

Only a few months ago, he got his facts wrong on the number of black students studying at Oxford university.

«A year at Brown costs $ 34,000, and in addition there are very few students of color in computer science,» says James Wyche, associate provost at Brown University and head of a national project that partners the Ivy League schools and other elite universities with so - called historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

«She was one of the few black guidance counselors at my high school at the time, so she had close attachments to the black students,» he says.

Our findings suggest that rising student loan debt may serve to make the black middle class more fragile, because the latest generation of black young adults are more burdened with debt while also getting fewer payoffs to college.

Even though black students tend to possess fewer resources, they activate and use cultural resources better.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

As one of a few minority boys in his class, his mother was astonished that even black middle class families must find ways to navigate around the low expectations some may have of their students.

Normally, if we say that a traditional public school is «more black» or «more Hispanic,» we mean to imply that the school has fewer white students.

The Student Interaction Plan, which was designed to encourage visits once a month between students in majority black schools and majority white schools, was only implemented for a few years (with minimal participation), and was cut entirely from the budget in 1994.

While a couple of charter schools — Harriet Tubman and Sisulu - Walker — are named after a black person, most of the charter schools, not a few, disproportionately draw black students.

Black and Hispanic students with a GPA above 3.5 actually have fewer cross-ethnic friendships than those with lower grades, a finding that seems particularly troubling.

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

The effectiveness - based layoffs result in fewer layoff notices and are much more equitably distributed across student subgroups; black students in particular are only marginally more likely to have been in a classroom with a teacher who received a layoff notice under this system.

Studies also find that circular or semicircular arrangements produce more on - task comments, more questions, and fewer indications of withdrawal from the class activity, as compared to seating students in rows and columns (Marx, Fuhrer, & Hartig, 1999; Rosenfield, Lambert, and Black, 1985).

Case in point: in the past few years, when new games of any import (according to the students) were released, many of them missed school because they attended the midnight release of the game (e.g. Skyrim, Assassin's Creed III, Black Ops and so on).1

From Mormon enclaves in Arizona to black liberationists in Michigan to Web entrepreneurs in California, this breathtaking array of sponsors soon will serve 500,000 students via an archipelago of small schools, enrolling fewer than 200 children on average.

The results are quite surprising: after adjusting the data for the effects of only a few observable characteristics, the black - white test - score gap in math and reading for students entering kindergarten essentially disappeared.

It also shows that white and black students who attend the public schools in which ELL students are concentrated are doing worse than their peers who attend public schools with few English language learner students.

And education studies have shown Black and Latino students taught by teachers who share their racial background have improved academic results, benefit from a culture of higher expectations and fewer discipline referrals.

Finally, Figure 5 illustrates that schools that serve many underrepresented minority students (URM, defined as American Indian, Black, or Hispanic) have considerably greater difficulties recruiting teachers than schools that serve fewer URM students.

White students from families with below average incomes are much more effectively taught mathematics in the City's middle schools than are (the relatively few) Blacks students from more prosperous families:

Player also found that while rural schools employ fewer black and Latino teachers on average, when controlling for student demographics, these schools employ a greater percentage of black teachers than urban and town schools and a greater percentage of Latino teachers than suburban and town schools.

If, as is likely to be the case, fewer black and Hispanic students are enrolled in advanced courses, will that finding be interpreted as discriminatory or a nearly inevitable result of the very racial achievement gap we are trying to reduce?

Hispanic students with disabilities are far more segregated in American high schools than black special - education students, and they get fewer classroom opportunities to learn vocational skills, according to a national study.

after adjusting the data for the effects of only a few observable characteristics, the black - white test - score gap in math and reading for students entering kindergarten essentially disappeared.

Tables of elderly black matrons in their Sunday finest buzz with neighborhood gossip, while just a few feet away union reps pass the inexpensive red wine to their wives, and elsewhere unreserved tables of strangers make nice with college students, entrepreneurs, government workers — white, black, and Hispanic — all bonding over their common hopes for the city.

Consider that in the nation's largest cities, where well over 80 percent of charter - school students are black or Latino, fewer than 33 percent of teachers are black or Latino, and fewer than 10 percent of charter schools are founded and led by blacks or Latinos.

So, the scores of black students and Hispanic students went up as did their proportion of the students tested; but, the increased scores were not enough to make up for fewer white students who scored higher.

You have to ace an entrance exam to get in, but affluent parents send their kids to rigorous test prep centers and now few poor black and Latino students can get in.

The reality is that schools serving high proportions of black and Latino students — typically in low - income communities — tend to suffer from a range of stresses that affect the quality of the education they can provide, including factors such as high teacher turnover, shortages of basic materials, fewer counselors, overcrowding, and poorly maintained facilities.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

between Black and Hispanic students; about 8 percent are White and there are very few Asian students.

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Newark's traditional district, which serves 35,329 students, is pretty evenly divided between Black and Hispanic students; about 8 percent are White and there are very few Asian students.

On cross examination, plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae tried to chip away at the heft of Fraisse's testimony by having the witness concede that the districts he led were relatively small with few schools and had student populations that were largely white, with much smaller percentages of blacks and African Americans.

All enroll fewer than two percent black students, according to a Hechinger report analysis.

For example, White students are more than 4 times more likely to be meeting or exceeding standards in Math than Black students, and this has remained consistent since testing began a few years ago.