Sentences with phrase «isolated minority schools»

Higher percentages of charter school students of every race attend predominantly minority schools (50 - 100 % minority students) or racially isolated minority schools (90 - 100 % minority students) than do their same - race peers in traditional public schools.

Half of Latino charter school students, for example, attended racially isolated minority schools.

Not exact matches

In some school communities, like New York City, many poor and minority students are attending under - resourced schools that are not only separate and isolated, but that are also just as unequal as they were in the mid-20th century.

The data also shows that Latinos, the nation's largest minority, have become increasingly isolated for the last 30 years, with segregation surpassing that of blacks, and the rapid growth of suburban minorities has not produced integrated schools.

In their apology for the American school, David Berliner and Gene Glass seek to reassure Americans by trying to isolate the problem to minority groups or those of low income.

A new report released by the Government Accountability Office finds that poor, minority students are increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in school.

Critics worried that charters would target more advantaged suburban populations, skimming off the students most likely to succeed and leaving traditional public schools in low - income and minority neighborhoods even more isolated, underfunded, and burdened with the toughest student cases.

Two arguments were advanced for targeting low - income, minority, and immigrant groups in racially and economically isolated charter schools: the need to maximize bang for the educational buck, and the belief that the special needs of these communities could be better addressed in concentrated settings.

Since the support of families is considered crucial to educational achievement, weak relationships between schools and parents in segregated minority environments highlight a critical disadvantage that racially and socioeconomically isolated schools must overcome, on top of a myriad of other well - documented deficits, including high teacher turnover.

While Voices says it's not fair to compare schools that are serving fewer high - need students, the New Haven - based group says isolating minority students into charter schools is not the best practice.

And finally, in New Haven, where the commissioner portrayed the Amistad Academy as an extraordinary success, the public schools have 86.9 % minority populations while Achievement First's Amistad Academy is far more racially isolated with 98.1 % of students being minority.

This was nine years after the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools violated the constitution, but most minorities were still isolated in their own classrooms.

Connecticut's capitol city of Hartford has a school system that is 92.6 % minority and, once again, the charter schools in the city are even more racially isolated.

Black and Latino students are again increasingly isolated in predominantly minority schools.

Tracking, therefore, unfairly isolates low - income and minority students in what amounts to a resegregation of students within schools (Oakes and Guiton, 1995).

Could minority and students with disabilities isolate themselves and quit coming to school because of tracking or watered down curriculum that is boring lacking in inquiry?

If you've been isolated your entire life from the rich fabric of the Canadian population, attending prestigious private schools, and maintained a tight and homogeneous social network throughout university, you ultimately have no idea how to understand or advocate on behalf of minorities and historically marginalized populations.