Sentences with phrase «for white peers»

These mindsets tend to be less systematically reinforced for black students than for their white peers.

This has resulted in states such as Tennessee letting traditional districts get away with low bar goals, such as ensuring that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

In Tennessee, districts will only need only to ensure that two - thirds of all black high school students are proficient in Algebra in the next few years, 15 points lower than that for their white peers.

But she, along with Ushomirsky and Williams illustrate that in the case of Florida, where the proficiency levels for black students in A-ranked schools are, on average, four percentage points lower than for white peers in C - ranked schools.

While the state eventual aims to ensure that two - thirds of all black high school students are proficient in Algebra, that level of proficiency is still nearly 15 points lower than that for their white peers.

In Tennessee, for example, the state's traditional districts need only to ensure that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

Not exact matches

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

The white paper outlined the concept for a peer - to - peer version of electronic cash that would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another, anonymously and without counterparty risk or intermediation from financial institutions.

Western countries, especially America, may be targeted for critiques of overconsumption, but white students lead the charge and through it find camaraderie with their black, Hispanic, and Asian peers.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

Late at night, splashing my face and neck, through sounds of water running I hear cruel cuts like pencil points fine sharpened snapping against a smooth white page.Quick rinsing, covered now and tense, all stiff, peering alarmed from broken privacy, I for a moment harden, with nor one clue, against....

They do join gospel choirs and (like their white peers) take part in fundamentalist movements, but these involvements call for action, not for reflection.

Dylan White peers into his crystal football in an attempt to figure out what the future may hold for the Red Devils in seasons to come with their new men at...

The white paper calls for 20 % of peers to be elected by the public and the axing of the 92 hereditary peers.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

Paul White - the Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield - is accused of «dishonestly» submitting claims «for expenses to which he knew he was not entitled» - including overnight stays in London.

On January 12, AAAS responded to a Request for Information by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on public access to peer - reviewed publications resulting from federally - funded research.

AAAS Comments on Public Access On January 12, AAAS responded to a Request for Information by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on public access to peer - reviewed publications resulting from federally - funded research.

DOE is responding to a February 2013 memo from the White House directing federal research agencies to come up with a plan for allowing free access to taxpayer - funded, peer - reviewed manuscripts within 12 months after the paper appears in a journal.

Peering deep into the Milky Way's crowded central hub of stars, Hubble researchers have uncovered for the first time a population of ancient white dwarfs — smoldering remnants of once - vibrant stars that inhabited the core.

It's a black - and - white issue for the Veep, who attends the Television Academy's Performers Peer Group celebration of the Emmys in Beverly Hills wearing a simple color - block Narciso Rodriguez sheath.

This allows for far larger reassurance and comfort than conventional Tooth White lightening kits allow, which is especially helpful for teenagers that face the daunting pressure of their peers on a daily basis.

I mean, for all the lip service the picture plays to a more liberal worldview, what with its woman doctors, massaging of the nobility of the «Third World,» and punishing jerks with fifteen - hundred dollar raincoats, there's a disturbing moment where, preparing to run from a tidal wave, the main white hero Sam grabs his white love interest (Emmy Rossum), the white hero's romantic subplot's white rival grabs a black peer, and the black homeless comic relief grabs his dog.

A white flagpole out front brandishes a wind - snapped flag, and just inside the heavy metal - and - glass entrance doors are six Depression - era frescoes portraying industrious Americans gainfully employed for the national good: building airplanes, working in engineering and industry, peering into microscopes.

According to a 2014 Center for American Progress report, high school teachers believe that high - poverty, black, and Hispanic students are 53, 47, and 42 percent less likely to graduate from college compared to their white peers.

Though not all scholars define acting white in precisely the same way, most definitions include a reference to situations where some minority adolescents ridicule their minority peers for engaging in behaviors perceived to be characteristic of whites.

University of Illinois Associate Professor Amanda Lewis and HGSE Assistant Professor John Diamond presented research on a suburban school in the Midwest, studying why African American students and Latinos lagged behind white students, even though there was no presence of peer pressure for the minority student to perform worse or be accused of «acting white.»

That confusion, coupled with parents» high expectations for success in school and careers, the frustration of having white peers constantly question their «American - ness,» as well as body image and other concerns that are common to all teens are among the factors that put Korean American students at risk for a growing list of emotional and psychological issues.

Troubled peers increase disciplinary problems for all subgroups except for white girls.

Too many black students, even those in predominantly white schools, continue to trail their white peers; too many schools have remained segregated for too long; too little attention is being given to teaching students how to read, write, and calculate.

We know for a fact that balanced literacy has had little effect on closing stubborn achievement gaps separating black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian peers.

They find black and Hispanic students were more likely to be disciplined conditional on receiving a referral for «minor misbehavior» than were their white peers.

African - American students are far more likely than their white peers to receive a subpar education, in larger classes taught by unqualified teachers in decaying buildings, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Based on this information, Kissam makes several recommendations that could not only help to close the attainment gap between rural Hispanic students and their white peers but could also improve outcomes for all rural students:

At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

Hispanic students for the first time outnumber their peers in other racial and ethnic groups in Montgomery County's public schools, a milestone for diversity in a suburb long regarded as largely white and affluent.

Many described a common experience in the corps: In addition to the challenges of being a first - year teacher and the rewards of giving back, they felt the burden of serving as interpreters of minority cultures for their white, often affluent peers.

In Washington, D.C., for example, the average white student is 2.7 years above grade level; her black and Hispanic peers are 2.2 and 1.4 years below respectively.

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Moreover, all students — rich or poor, white and nonwhite alike — miss out on the substantial benefits of learning in richly diverse classrooms.9 As the research shows, students across the spectrum are better prepared for post-secondary success when they have been educated in diverse schools and have learned alongside peers who come from all walks of life.10

Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress's nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration's efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

Achievement gaps between Native Hawaiians and their White peers were estimated at grades 8 and 10 respectively, with academic readiness statistically controlled for.

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White peers.

That's nearly 20 percentage points lower than the proficiency expectations the Evergreen State has set for districts in improving achievement of white middle - school students, which, in turn, are slightly lower than for Asian peers.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

In this webinar, sponsored by the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Opportunities (CEELO), Dr. Steven Barnett, Principal Investigator of CEELO and Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and Dr. Milagros Nores, Associate Director of Research at NIEER, will present data that looks at how children from various language and immigrant backgrounds participate in pre-K programs and at how these children perform relative to their White peers at Kindergarten entry.

Read more of the interview at http://dailyedventures.com/?p=5553 Technology, Coaching, and Community: Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education by Monica Beglau, Jana Craig Hare, Les Foltos, Kara Gann, Jayne James, Holly Jobe, Jim Knight and Ben Smith; ISTE White Paper; June 2011 Peer Coaching is highlighted in this White Paper as one of three coaching models «that provide highly effective professional development.»

As Ushomirsky, Williams, and Hall point, out, the average gap in on - track performance rate for black and white students in Recognized schools is 18 percentage points, a mere two points better than for peers in low - performing schools.

In fact, Black children account for 78.8 percent of all children suspended by the district in 2013 - 2014 — or four out of ever five kids suspended one or more times that year — while White peers accounted for a mere 33.7 percent of students suspended.