Sentences with phrase «likely than their white peers»

African - American students are far more likely than their white peers to receive a subpar education, in larger classes taught by unqualified teachers in decaying buildings, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

«But,» he writes, «schools serving more students of color are less likely to offer advanced courses and gifted and talented programs than schools serving mostly white populations, and students of color are less likely than their white peers to be enrolled in those courses and programs within schools that have those offerings.»

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Overall black students are 4 times more likely than their white peers to be suspended.

High - achieving, Black, elementary school students are much less likely than their White peers to receive assignments to gifted and talented programs in math and reading, according to a new study.

As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Looking at the exact same behavior, a study in 2011 found that «African American and Latino students were more likely than their White peers to receive expulsions or OSS as consequences for the same or similar problem behaviors.

Not exact matches

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

Furthermore, say the researchers, youth who have been diagnosed with depression are six times more likely to commit suicide than their peers, and Black youth have a much higher suicide rate than their White peers.

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

They find black and Hispanic students were more likely to be disciplined conditional on receiving a referral for «minor misbehavior» than were their white peers.

A recent U.S. Census Bureau study found that though often poorer than their white peers, Hispanic college students are less likely to receive financial aid.

And African American and Latino students are three times more likely to be suspended than their white peers, according to 2014 data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

And once at college, blacks are less likely to graduate in six years than their white peers.

But the numbers show that even when blacks are successful in attending and completing college, they're still less likely to be gainfully employed than their white peers, hinting that less education isn't the entire problem, and that attempts to boost educational attainment figures among blacks won't be the entire solution.

Although the percentage of juvenile offenders under the age of 18 confined in a correctional facility declined from 1 percent to half that level between 1997 and 2011, they were still five times as likely to be in detention or correctional facilities in 2011 than their white peers.

However, the authors of a new study say that minority students are less likely than similar white peers to be in one of five common disability categories — emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, «other health impairment,» specific learning disability, and speech and language impairment.

Moreover, punishments given out by school administrators, such as suspensions and expulsions, are three times more likely to be meted out to black students than to their white peers.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

In fact they found that black teachers were slightly more likely to return to New Orleans schools than their white peers.

Discipline disparities between students of color and white students in Minnesota are severe, with black students being eight times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

Emmanuel: With all of this, the original idea was that these measures would only be needed temporarily, but that was assuming policies would work in concert — that policies aimed at reducing housing segregation would have worked, and we wouldn't see that black and Hispanic students are still much more likely to attend high poverty schools than their white peers.

Research has shown that minority students attending inner - city campuses are more likely to be held back a grade than their white peers at more affluent neighborhood schools.

Black elementary school students are 2.65 times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

While the number of students who are expelled or sent home for misbehaving in D.C. public schools and public charter schools has decreased overall, recent findings show that black students are nearly seven times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

Culling through federal Office for Civil Rights data for 3,022 districts in 13 southern states, researchers Edward J. Smith and Shaun R. Harper determined that black kids were far more - likely to be suspended at more - disproportionate levels than white peers.

African American students suffer the most: in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, they are three times more likely to drop out of school than their white peers.

Black students are nearly seven times more likely to be suspended than their white peers, the report found.

Starting in prekindergarten, black boys and girls were disciplined at school far more than their white peers in 2013 - 2014, according to a government analysis of data that said implicit racial bias was the likely cause of these continuing disparities.

Boys were more likely to consume energy drinks than girls, and black and Hispanic students were more likely to consume the drinks than their white peers.

Close to 3 out of 4 African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant, and African - American children have an 80 percent higher rate of asthma and are nearly three times more likely to die from asthma than their white peers.

Four in ten Latinas will become pregnant before the age of 20 and Latina teens are 1 1/2 times more likely than their white non-Latina peers to have a repeat teen birth.

Black children and youth are more likely than their white and Hispanic peers to have had three or more adverse experiences (15 percent, compared with 11 percent, each).

Data from the U.S. Department of Education show that African American schoolchildren of all ages are more than three times more likely to be suspended and expelled than their non-Hispanic white peers.