Sentences with phrase «larger white enrollments»

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Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

The Li and Scott - Clayton study does indeed show that 1) the black - white debt gap is in large part due to greater graduate school enrollment and borrowing among blacks, and 2) blacks are much more likely to attend a for - profit graduate school, a sector in which black enrollment grew rapidly in recent years.

Hispanic students have now passed white students as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school enrollment, the Dallas Morning News reports.

They also have much larger black and Hispanic enrollment shares and lower white enrollment shares.

The program seeks to address the many disparities in outcomes for black men, including large gaps with white men regarding high - school graduation rates, college enrollment and completion rates, lifetime earnings, longevity, and the likelihood of incarceration.

The report shows that all racial groups except white people experienced considerable diversity in their schools; however, white students remain overwhelmingly in white schools, even in regions with very large non-white enrollments.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

Notice, first, that the 106 large districts in the sample are roughly evenly split in terms of white, black, and Hispanic enrollment.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59