Sentences with phrase «made for white students»

Although achievement is not where it should be, notable improvements have been made for white students, African American students, and Latino students.

Not exact matches

Hard to believe, but I'm not making my own Thanksgiving dessert this year — I gave in and am buying a white chocolate pumpkin cheesecake from the local culinary institute as part of a fundraiser for my college's business students.

White stated that the move was made to address an education system in Ramapo which he says is failing, specifically mentioning a 50 percent graduation rate for Hispanic students and private school placements which the organization stated was discriminatory and illegal.

White House wants to make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs and STEM students to stay in United States

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

For students of color, in particular, this means that attendance at a desegregated school tends to make them more likely to enter and persist in white - dominated or racially diverse settings when they perceive opportunity there.

Moreover, teacher feedback on suspension forms for white students included notes that compassionately described extenuating circumstances that might have caused the behavior, i.e. «John's parents are going through a difficult divorce, and this may have affected his decision - making.»

Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for students to add their own doodStudents can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for students to add their own doodstudents to add their own doodles too!

Our year - end adventure began in Washington, D.C., where my students» work with design earned us an invitation to the White House for the kickoff of the 2016 National Week of Making.

Making turned New Jersey middle school students into teachers for a weekend — and sent some of them to the White House.

On the other hand, Delpit provides counterexamples of success, for instance, Afrocentric assignments, inspiring teachers who love and sympathize but maintain rigor, and a beloved white teacher whom the students consider «black» for this reason: when asked «how he felt as a white man teaching black history... tears came to his eyes as he answered that when he learned about Emmett Till and other terrible things white people had done to black people, it sometimes made him ashamed to be white.»

In most fields, prospective students can only make an educated guess about the payoff to a post-graduate degree, but, for public school teachers, it appears in black and white on the salary schedule for their district.

In this investigation for KS3 students answer the following questions: Using only the red and white rods, how many different ways are there to make up the other colours of rod?

The first two saw improvements for their Hispanic students; the latter made gains for its white and black students.

(Of course, D.C. has so few white students that they would have to make enormous gains in order for it to register statistically.)

Standing before an audience of high - school students in New Hampshire early this year, George Bush made a proclamation that would become a hallmark of his campaign for the White House: «I want to be the education President.»

Props: (Optional) toy or student - made microphone (paper, cardboard or other available materials) for Ms. Watercolor; student - made picture frames for the gallery; student - researched pictures of numerous White House pets including Millie the Springer Spaniel, Macaroni the Pony, Socks the Cat, Buddy the Labrador Retriever, Liberty the Golden Retriever, Fala the Scottish Terrier, and Woodrow Wilsons sheep; pictures of an alligator, silkworm and hounds.

Students can make lanterns like the ones hung in safe houses along the Underground Railroad, bake gingerbread cookies like those Eliza baked for her white slaveholders back on the plantation, or make a cornhusk doll like the one Eliza's mother made for her (that — Shh!

The issues it highlighted included the labelling of «working class boys», as the DfE does not collect information on pupils» socio - economic status and the statistics quoted were actually about white make students who were eligible for free school meals in year 11.

Based on this information, Kissam makes several recommendations that could not only help to close the attainment gap between rural Hispanic students and their white peers but could also improve outcomes for all rural students:

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Tables of elderly black matrons in their Sunday finest buzz with neighborhood gossip, while just a few feet away union reps pass the inexpensive red wine to their wives, and elsewhere unreserved tables of strangers make nice with college students, entrepreneurs, government workers — white, black, and Hispanic — all bonding over their common hopes for the city.

Learning why, for instance, white teachers are not as effective with black students as black teachers appear to be might suggest improvements in training that could make teachers equally effective for all students, regardless of race.

For the black and white puzzles, print and allow students to color them to make their own puzzles.

Without denying that the paucity of high - achieving students within minority populations is a serious issue, let us consider the performance of white students for whom the case of discrimination can not easily be made.

So, the scores of black students and Hispanic students went up as did their proportion of the students tested; but, the increased scores were not enough to make up for fewer white students who scored higher.

While black students were only 11 percent of the district's enrollment, they received 51.3 percent of the short - term suspensions, compared to 23.6 percent for white students who made up 51.5 percent of the enrollment.

The persisting racial and ethnic gap between teachers and their students that makes it difficult for majority white teachers to relate to, and to have discussion with, their racially, culturally and ethnically different students.

Publishing Made Simple, Google Docs / Google Sites, Ipod Touch for the Classroom, Ipad in the Classroom, Developing an Online Collaborative Learning Community, Teaching Parents to Use Technology to Support Student Learning, and Effective Use of Interactive White Boards in the Classroom.

The rate of suspensions for Black children in Kent is double the 11.8 percent suspension rate for White children, who, by the way, make up 65.6 percent of students in the district.

Citing the intriguing life story of former New York Times book editor Anatole Broyard, an African - American who spent much of his adult life passing as a white man to achieve career success and broader opportunities, and research on gender stereotypes and math skills and race stereotypes and I.Q. tests, Steele offered three recommendations for making classrooms places where students feel a sense of belonging:

The organization has been heavily criticized in the past for dispatching fleets of young, white, mostly affluent college graduates to poor schools made up predominantly by students of color.

White students make up 15 percent of the NYCDOE but only account for 8 percent of the days lost due to suspensions.

Then, for instance, when it came to me having to confront students about not completing work or give reminders about classroom rules, it could hopefully be perceived less as «Here's another white guy claiming power over me as a person of color,» but more as «Here's someone who knows me and is trying to help me do what I need to do,» which obviously makes for a more productive interaction.

Propelled toward making a difference for all students, early in her career Molly dedicated over eight years to teaching and learning, where she contributed to growing students as a mathematics instructor, and growing teachers as a Cognitive Coach, for White Pine Middle School and Arrowwood Elementary, respectively.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

Democrats, including the one in the White House, need to make clear that they won't accept any bill that leaves out protections for vulnerable students.

Parents, teachers and students especially need to advocate for social and emotional conditions that influence learning so we can create classrooms where youth can thrive — rather than be punished or made whiter.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

However, all available data for a state appear in the report, even if no comparisons of Hispanic and White student performance could be made.

This white paper provides an overview of educational technology policy and practice with concrete examples of how teachers, students, and parents can use Apple technology to make a difference for students with sensory and learning disabilities.

Lara White, a new language arts teacher for Milner's middle school grades, said she makes a point of telling students who are used to staff turnover, «We're not going anywhere.»

In 2013, he briefly suggested that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was «impolitic» to place opposition to the Common Core State Standards upon «white, suburban moms» who don't want to find out that their children are not brilliant — just before he jumped in and declared that Secretary Duncan was right to be concerned that «a laudable set of guidelines» would be rejected for making kids work too hard, characterized most opposition to the standards as «welling hysteria» from the right and left wing, and chided parents concerned about the increasing lack of joy in school with declarations that portions of school ought to be «relatively mirthless» while blaming stories of students breaking down from stress upon their parents.

Second, the gains were larger for kids of color than for white students, suggesting that this could make a slight dent in longstanding test - score gaps.

While each subgroup of students — including economically disadvantaged children — made progress this year, achievement gaps remained stubbornly large: 92 percent of white students were proficient in reading, for example, compared with 52 percent of Hispanic students, 44 percent of black students and 42 percent of poor children.

Most multimedia features minority students, and the website is available in 100 languages, suggesting that Rocketship makes few attempts to subtly select for wealthier, whiter students (Rocketship Schools 2017a).

A Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1942 enabled White to study at the Art Students League in New York and to travel throughout the south, doing research and making studies for his mural The Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America.

For Beyond The White Cube four curators associated with CCS Bard organize projects with the same resources made available to second - year graduate students for their thesis projecFor Beyond The White Cube four curators associated with CCS Bard organize projects with the same resources made available to second - year graduate students for their thesis projecfor their thesis projects.

Dr. Block, from the University of California, Davis, and a graduate student there, Matthew Keller, make the case for what Dr. Block calls «stim - novation» in «Building on Success: Reforming the U.S. Innovation System,» a white paper (posted as a pdf on the Longview Institute Web site).