Sentences with phrase «for high minority schools»

Moreover, he found that the negative effects of collective bargaining are much greater for high minority schools than for other schools.

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For many American Indian student - athletes, already just a sliver of a minority (the NCAA estimates about 3 percent of all high school basketball players will make it to the next level) this is the best opportunity they have to play college sports.

The proposal would ease admissions rules for a few of the higher - performing schools with the intent of attracting more minority students, and parents who fear that their children will lose out are pushing back.

According to Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, the government has denied about 565,404 students in Senior High School from benefiting from the free second cycle education for all.

In a pattern that has remained unchanged for years, minority children got just 10 percent of the spots at New York City's specialized high schools.

He went on to say that it was «disgraceful» that the state administration had not paid money owed to schools through the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, especially because most of that money would go to high need schools in minority neighborhoods.

To be fair, he likely promised as much to win the union's backing to take over the Assembly leadership — and no matter that some Assembly Democrats oppose the UFT's efforts to, for example, kill the charter schools that are working miracles in high - poverty, minority neighborhoods.

She has defended her schools» high standards and has railed against the city's de-escalation of discipline policies that led to skyrocketing rates of suspensions for minority students.

The Minority in Parliament has described as illegal, government's decision to allow the Scholarship Secretariat to administer funds for the implementation of the free senior high school policy.

Ms. Moskowitz has drawn plenty of praise for the high test scores her schools achieve despite operating in poorer, minority - heavy neighborhoods.

Georgia Tech has invited SpelBots team members to give a demonstration for their Summer Program for Women and Minorities, which is for high school students.

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Program.

After high school, Ford attended Clark Atlanta University, earning a B.S. and M.S. in a 5 - year accelerated program in chemistry at the minority - serving institution with a PRISM - D (Program for Research Integration and Support for Matriculation to the Doctorate) Scholarship.

Higher education has already opened the door to equal opportunities for women and minorities in the U.S. — so is it possible that elementary school, as a new Tel Aviv University study suggests, is the critical juncture at which girls are discouraged from pursuing science and mathematics?

He argues that those preferences should not replace minority preferences — as affirmative action opponents propose — because most minority students at elite schools come from middle - and high - income families.9 These new economic preferences will definitely improve the situation for low - income students.

Blaney's argument is relevant, considering that Pennsylvania's private universities accounted for 60 % of the state's minority bachelor's degrees in math, science, and engineering, despite the significantly higher tuitions.9 There is evidence to show that decreasing and eliminating debt for lower - income students would likely increase the number of minority students majoring in science and engineering at elite schools and overall.

It affects a disproportionally higher percentage of low - income, urban minority children, and is also the most common disease - related reason for children missing school.

During the summer months, it was customary to see his laboratories filled with enthusiastic high school students who were participating in science projects for minority high school students.

Few reading this need a history lesson on the Nazi treatment of the Jews, and other minority groups such as gypsies and homosexuals, for it is basic high school history if nothing else.

Another school profiled is the Denver School of Science and Technology, which enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved «national renown» for its results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statschool profiled is the Denver School of Science and Technology, which enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved «national renown» for its results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statSchool of Science and Technology, which enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved «national renown» for its results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.

Between 1991 and 2007, the Washington, D.C. - based Center for American Progress found that more than 300 initiatives across 30 states had expanded learning time, primarily in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

Because test scores will be used to penalize low - scoring schools, they will act as high - stakes tests for teachers and administrators especially in schools serving high proportions of poor and minority students.

The report says that charter school enrollment shows patterns of a high level of minority segregation, which is particularly evident for black students.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

A human investment strategy for education would have an explicit strategic focus: to increase access of all students, particularly low - income, minority students, to high - level academic work, and to invest in the human capital infrastructure for schools that will promote this access.

Dr. Douglas N. Harris: There are two basic reasons for this: First, high - minority schools receive less funding and have difficulty attracting and retaining quality teachers and administrators.

In particular, Smith says she has one big goal: for every student — but particularly low - income, minority, and first - generation college students — to have adequate preparation in high school for college, and for them all to have the opportunity to go to four - year colleges without incurring significant debt, if that is what they desire.

Together, they have prepared over 3,000 low income, mostly minority high school students with disabilities for competitive employment.

According to the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, skills in these areas are particularly lacking among minority students; only 6 percent of blacks and Latinos, for example, take precalculus or physics in high school.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

Urban charter schools are another exception: They yield strongly positive outcomes for low - income and minority students despite high rates of teacher and principal turnover.

The formula included weights for housing prices, minority, English - as a second language learners, children with special needs, children who are permitted free school meals, schools located in rural under - privileged areas, rusting economic areas and with high percentages of «working classes».

The letter warns that if the percentage of minorities receiving disciplinary action is disproportionately high, even when resulting from ostensibly race - neutral policies such as zero - tolerance, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

Nine major civil rights organizations today called on Congress to make reforming America's high schools and improving graduation rates for minority students the most urgent priority as it moves forward on renewing the No Child Left Behind Act.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Today's research shows that, especially for urban minority students, charter schools and voucher programs improve high school graduation rates and college enrollment.

«This framework was designed specifically for Early College high schools — which serve low - income and minority students — as a way to quickly raise the students» proficiency and college readiness,» explains Donna Engelhart, a Trinidad Garza instructional coach.

At both the middle - and high - school levels, the initiative seems to have worked well for many teachers, but a significant minority of teachers has chosen not to participate.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

High school graduation and college attendance rates are substantially higher for participating minority students compared to peers.

They don't know, for example, that schools like Stanford will offer full scholarships to students from a household income below $ 125,000 and that schools like Amherst have the highest graduation rates for low - income and minority students in the country.

Indeed, in many large cities during the 1960s and 1970s, the problems facing minority high - school students actually worsened, as their schools became battlegrounds for such issues as busing and identity politics, issues that overwhelmed more routine efforts to improve the quality of education.

Minority students from low - income families who take part in early - intervention programs in high school have a better chance than comparable nonparticipants of enrolling in a postsecondary institution, concludes a report by the Washington - based Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

Schools should help boost the number of women, minorities, and handicapped people in those fields by requiring four years each of math and science for high - school graduation and providing a math and science specialist in every elementary school, according to a report issued by the panel last month.

Alternative high schools and better academic support for poor and minority students have been among the methods used to help at - risk students stay in school.

For instance, did the requirement that all students pass a minimum - competency test in order to graduate from high school encourage more students (in particular, minorities) to drop out of high school, as many critics feared?

The college - going rate rose to 58 % for graduates of Low - Income / Low - Minority Urban high schools.