Sentences with phrase «focus on black students»

During the press conference, Cheatham also recognized how great the charge is to show academic improvement for the district's most vulnerable populations, with a particular focus on black students.

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The Trump administration and the GOP - controlled Congress should focus on saving millions of American students and their families — not to mention the larger US economy — from this long - term financial black hole.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

At an Albany press conference later that month, Nixon called his focus on transparency a «classic stall tactic,» and said, «Cuomo's entire argument on school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working - class.»

Researchers trying to figure out how to get more black and Latino students into science, technology, engineering and mathematics usually focus on those students» college years.

While a raft of past research focused on factors that enable the academic failure of young black men, the special issue spotlights key academic and social factors — both positive and negative — that affect black students, through the eyes and in the words of the students themselves.

Focusing solely on graduates of Harvard Business School and on alumni of a program for gifted minority students called A Better Chance (ABC), the author discovered this time that bourgie blacks, like First Lady Michelle Obama, finally feel pretty darn good about being American.

Featuring a new cast of faces, the film focuses on high school student Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), who just can't stop himself from tearing up the pavement.

When we briefly reminded Femi about the debate spearheaded by Samuel L Jackson that argued black British actors are cast because they are cheaper than their US counterparts, the actor — who has four black British students and clients with a Bafta Award under their belt — did not respond directly to Samuel's comments, but focused on offering a different perspective.

Most of the discussion around the disproportionality of black students» suspension or expulsion from K - 12 schools has focused on boys.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

The data clearly paint the need to focus on students of color and low - income students: nationally, only 73 percent of black students, 76 percent of Latino students, and 75 percent of low - income students graduate, compared to 87 percent of white students and 89 percent of middle - and high - income students.

The idea was simple enough: draw white students to predominantly black schools by offering a special education with a focus on a particular aspect of the curriculum, such as performing arts, or Montessori, or advanced math, science, and technology.

Students to select an area with a view finder / close up and recored using white pencil on black sugar paper focus on line, tone and markmaking when visually recording.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

At a gardenless charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test scores have been rising steadily.»

For example, we will focus on culturally responsive teaching as it relates to the cultures of Black teachers responding to Black and non-Black students.

They use the same research - based formative learning processes that raise student achievement by focusing on three powerful sources of evidence, knowing where learning is headed, having a clear understanding of where it is now and using up - to - the - minute evidence to decide what to do next to improve understanding (Black & Wiliam, 1998; Moss & Brookhart, 2009, 2012).

In sum, the analysis focuses on two groups of schools, one numbering nearly 2,000 and the other about 3,500, with profoundly different propensities toward suspending black students.

A recurring theme was the laser - like focus not on the deficits of Black and Latino male students, but on the responsibilities of the adults to disrupt legacies of oppression in a systemic way.

[T] he findings tend to favor charter schools when one focuses on black, Hispanic, and low - income students within the large cities.

In addition, this state's largest charter authorizer, Miami - Dade — run by the terrific Assistant Superintendent Tiffanie Pauline, who happens to be a Black woman — oversees a strong portfolio of schools and is leading efforts to focus more heavily on student outcomes and promoting transparency.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

The report, while focused mostly on Florida, suggests schools all over the country (again, possibly in TN) may be pushing low - performing students, many of whom are black, into «alternative schools,» as a way of preventing their low test scores and graduation rates from dragging down the average.

Master's level students in the ACMH concentration are required to complete a Capstone Project with a focus on Black / African / African - American and / or Caribbean populations.

As a local example, one study focused on Charlotte - Mecklenburg shows both black and white students who attended desegregated elementary schools performed better on standardized tests than peers who attended segregated schools.

The Education Trust West recently released a report, Black Minds Matter, that lays out the troubling impact, on students and their future, if «the California Department of Education [continues to] lack an office, initiative or committee focused on African American achievement or the achievement gap, more generally.»

Humphries said in an interview that Evers was too focused on objecting to the expansion of private voucher and independent charter schools and not focused enough on raising student achievement and closing the gap in academic achievement between white and black students.

But I am intentionally — and unapologetically — focusing on black male teachers because black male students continue to be one of the most underserved populations in schools.

Although we've focused more and more attention on dealing with the seemingly intractable gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and white students in the last quarter century, we've made little progress in closing the gaps.

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Rankings and honors are compiled from data on overall student performance, with a focus on effectiveness at education students from black, Hispanic and low - income students, and students» college readiness based on results from Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.

Summary: Most of the discussion around the disproportionality of black students» suspension or expulsion from K - 12 schools has focused on boys.

A strict focus on test preparation and behavior has helped the network, which serves mostly low - income and black and Hispanic students, to significantly outperform the city's public school students on state reading and math tests; however, critics charge that student attrition skews the results (2015).

But Holtz said focusing on the job offer deal is simply diverting attention from the state's gap in academic achievement between black and white students, which he said he blamed Evers for letting become the worst in the nation.

He breaks the students down into racial subgroups (Black, Hispanic, Economically Disadvantaged, Special Needs, etc.) and advocates most instruction to be focused on the students within those groups that can most help bring a school's scores up.

Rather than focus attention and resources on schools that serve just 4 % of our students, let's focus resources and support on the schools that serve the vast majority of all students: rich and poor, black and white, typical and disabled, English speakers and English language learners.

The majority of articles and studies on gifted minority students have focused on issues of identification, primarily because some minority groups of gifted learners, particularly Black, Hispanic American, and Native American, have been underrepresented in gifted programs.

While this lack of proportional diversity exists in several professions, when your job focuses on leading a mostly black and Latino student population to succeed academically and socially in a predominantly white society, race matters so much more.

Her research interests include racial literacy development in urban teacher education (with a specific focus on the education of Black and Latino males), literacy practices of Black girls, and Black female college reentry students.

Black and William discuss what makes for effective feedback from teachers, such as opportunity for students to express their understanding, classroom dialogue that focuses on exploring understanding, and feedback which includes opportunities to improve and guidance on how to improve.

They conclude with policy prescriptions, starting with the need to change from a focus on standardized tests to what is still the «black box» of actual student learning and to changing classroom practices, particularly formative assessment.

Later in 2016, Yale research revealed that preschool teachers focus more on black students, especially black males, when looking for poor behavior, even when no such behavior is taking place.

Now is the time to focus on providing the necessary supports to better engage young, low - income black and Latino students and truly close those gaps.

Her research interests center on family, higher education, and race, with a focus on how Black college students engage in a balancing act of academic responsibilities and family obligations.

While Gleason focuses on the struggles of black teachers, some of the problems they face are relevant to Asian American teachers — particularly that their high attrition rates result from feeling isolated and furthermore, stereotyped by white teachers and their students.

The project space's first few shows have focused on younger black artists who have had little market exposure, such as the Yale MFA student Vaughn Spann and painter and sculptor Leonardo Benzant, subjects of the current show «Homeostasis,» curated by black curator and Aljira Center director Dexter Wimberly.

A complementary show, «Josef and Anni and Ruth and Ray,» which opens on September 20 at Zwirner's new space on East 69th Street, focuses on the constellation of creative relationships between Josef and Anni Albers — émigrés from Germany who brought Bauhaus principles to their teaching at Black Mountain College — and their student Ray Johnson, who met Asawa at the Milwaukee State Teachers College and convinced her to come to North Carolina in 1946.

I'd like to be in a position where I can have my own foundation where I can give money to students to go to school, with particular focus on black and brown students, making sure they can go to school without having a financial burden, to make an impact on the education of young people.

In addition to the Black Mountain's focus on interdisciplinary learning, they promoted an environment of self - governance and collective organization in order to lessen the power divide between students and teachers.