Sentences with phrase «increasing numbers of minority students»

This brief summarizes the results of a study of the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority k - 12 teachers, examining the extent and sources of the minority teacher shortage and offering evidence - based solutions to addressing the low proportion of minority teachers in comparison to the increasing numbers of minority students in the school system.

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.

Over the past four years, ACC has increased the numbers of minority students who have attended.

are going to dramatically increase the number of minority students on our elite college campuses and in higher education as a whole,» said Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a pro-charter think tank in Washington.

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Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Beginning in the late 1960s, the school implemented several initiatives designed to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority students attending HMS.

Those three professors, Gerry Dozier, Juan Gilbert, and Cheryl Seals, talked about their educational backgrounds, how they came to Auburn, and how they have increased the number of minority and women graduate students in their department.

If, as it seems, it becomes ever more important for a university to attract increasing numbers of students (for example, to obtain an economically favourable ratio of student to staff) what will happen to the «minority» disciplines?

According to data collected since the program's inception a decade ago, the number of STEM degrees earned by underrepresented minority students at VA - NC Alliance partner schools has increased by more than 150 percent.

To increase the number of students interested in STEM careers, especially in scientific and medical fields, the Gladstone Institutes supports summer internships for community college students through the Promoting Underrepresented Minorities Advancing in the Sciences (PUMAS) program.

A dramatic increase in the number of Asian - American students enrolling in the nation's independent schools in the past four years has bolstered their overall minority enrollment, despite the fact that the proportions of black, Hispanic, and Native American students enrolled have increased only slightly, according to a new report.

The Court of Appeal acknowledged that the challenged statutes increase the number of ineffective teachers in California schools and that low - income and minority students in California are disproportionately taught by less effective teachers.

In some states, there are concerns that charter schools are increasing segregation, but as Scharfenberg notes, some of the charter schools in Massachusetts that serve large numbers of minority students are among the highest - performing charter schools in the nation.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

While the number of school - based health clinics has gradually increased, they still provide only a small minority of students remedial and preventive care.

The grants are part of the foundation's Campus Diversity Initiative, a program that helps independent colleges and universities increase the number of minority faculty members, raise the retention rate for underrepresented students, and encourage students of color to enroll in a wider distribution of majors.

(For instance, the quickest way to appease OCR will be to increase the number of AP courses available to minority students, regardless of whether this is the school's most pressing need.)

By 2025, the MDE has set a goal of increasing the number of minority teachers in critical shortage school districts by 25 %, better reflecting the student population in these districts.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

• AB 1078 (Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen, R - Riverbank) would have increased the number of ratings teachers could be assigned and would require educators to be evaluated in part based on student test scores.

In June 2015, she received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama, for her work increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning doctoral degrees in STEM fields.

Rural schools are also serving an increasing number of low - income and minority students, according to the Rural School and Community Trust.

Although the number of students of color increases year after year, the number of minority teachers fails to keep pace.

Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.

The school is producing more National Merit honorees than ever before and, in the past five years, has doubled the number of students taking and passing advanced placement exams, even as the percentages of low - income students, minority students, and English language learners have increased.

The programs are a small part of a growing national imperative: to increase the number of black men working in the nation's public schools, where «minority» students now constitute a majority.

The win for struggling students: Alternative certification — or alt cert, in the argot of policymakers — is designed to increase the number of minorities, career - changers and teachers with specialized training in instructional strategies to close the achievement gap.

And while the number of minority students taking the exam increased, the percent of African American and Hispanic students that reached the desired benchmark (scoring at least 1550 out of 2400) dipped slightly.

I wanted to help increase the number of minorities in engineering, and to give a better foundation to students interested in STEM because I didn't have that foundation growing up.

An increasing number of reports show that LGBT students, racial minorities, and disabled students are more frequently expelled and suspended than other students, which leads to the dreaded «school - to - prison pipeline.»

Expand statewide incentives designed to increase the number of minority and low - income students taking pre-college exams, such as AP, SAT, or ACT.

Since the early 1990s, the number of Hispanic students has increased over 200 percent, and the overall minority population has doubled.

At last, grueling effort has translated into test score gains at a school serving poor, minority students and a continually increasing number of children with learning and emotional disabilities.

The purpose of MESA is to increase the number of under - served ethnic minority and female students who pursue coursework, advanced study and careers in the fields of mathematics, engineering and science.

In addition, SAMHSA supports the Now Is The Time: Minority Fellowship Program — Addiction Counselors, which supports students pursuing master's level degrees in addiction / substance abuse counseling as well as the Minority Fellowship Program whose purpose is to reduce health disparities and improve health care outcomes of racially and ethnically diverse populations by increasing the number of culturally competent behavioral health professionals available to underserved populations in the public and private nonprofit sectors.