Sentences with phrase «large numbers of minority students»

Citing multiple studies by reputable scholars, it reports that schools with large numbers of minority students tend to employ less - experienced and less - effective teachers, which adversely affects student achievement.

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.

Despite loud demands for greater education equality, access to first - rate college preparatory programs for large numbers of minority students remains an unrealized goal.

Not exact matches

The large number of women and minority students has transformed the schools into new kinds of communities.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

The Department of Education focused upon discipline management because of the disproportionately large number of suspensions, particularly out - of - school suspensions, being given to minority students.

Undoubtedly, most nations count large numbers of students whose immigrant or minority families do not share a common historical experience.

The State Report examines how six states (Arizona, California, Illinois, Georgia, New York, and Virginia) designed their accountability systems to meet the Title I requirements and the implications of these provisions for schools with large numbers of low - income and minority students.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

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Those numbers mean it's nearly impossible for school districts to raise their minority teacher ranks to a level comparable to their students of color, who account for 52 percent of students nationwide — and 80 percent or more of students in the nation's largest districts.

To some experts, this research suggests that a teacher with a large number of low - achieving minority children in a classroom, for example, might have a more difficult job than another teacher with few such students.

They note that a large number of minority families are entering charter school lotteries and more than 500,000 students are on charter waiting lists nationally.

The program targets all students in middle schools and high schools serving large numbers of minority youths in inner cities and impoverished rural areas.

As a recent issue brief on the achievement gap from the Educational Testing Service points out, schools having high numbers of minority students tend to have larger classes of 25 students or more, and the class size gap between high - minority schools and low - minority schools actually worsened between 2000 - 2004.

In Vergara v. California, nine students sued the State of California, claiming that ineffective teachers were disproportionately placed in schools with large numbers of «minority» and low - income students.

Good as far as it goes, but this is also another call for Idaho's charter school sector and its allies to do more to grow and expand schools that serve larger numbers of economically disadvantaged and minority students.

-- Contributing $ 375,000 to a number of charities, notably America's Second Harvest, the largest US food bank, the Tom Joyner Foundation, which raise funds for minority students, and Canine Companions, a non-profit organization that trains assistance dogs for the disabled.