Sentences with phrase «growing racial gap»

Preston Hampton, a Seattle Public Schools graduate, recalls what it was like attending a junior - high school where his principal lamented a growing racial gap on...

Second, these increases occur alongside evidence of growing racial gaps in college graduates» labor market outcomes, suggesting graduate school may for some students be a response to the weak post-recession labor market.

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The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

Only half of students in large urban school systems graduate from high school, US students lag behind their international counterparts, and racial - ethnic gaps in achievement are large by kindergarten and continue to grow thereafter, she said.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

I was a statistical anomaly growing up in New Orleans: a black boy from a relatively well - off family in a city with one of the widest racial wealth gaps in the country.

While the racial discipline gap has always been largest in middle schools and high schools, it has grown dramatically at the secondary level since the early 1970s.

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to

This report finds that while the population of teachers of color overall is growing, Black and Native American teachers are a declining share of the teacher workforce and the gap between the percentage of Latinx teachers and students is larger than for any other racial or ethnic group.

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to establish conditions that enable students — primarily poor students of color — to achieve at levels far higher than their social background predicts.

Due to that homeownership gap, America's racial wealth gap grew.