Sentences with phrase «majority students»

These are skills that majority students often get at top high schools.

He has conducted extensive research on alternative forms of bilingual and immersion education for language minority and language majority students.

That reading Twain — and more specifically, in participating in a class discussion dominated by the interventions of the white majority students in the class — could cause significant discomfort for African American students in the room is certainly an understandable expectation.

«There are lots of other opportunities for majority students on this campus who want to do research,» says Tischler.

«While it's wonderful that there are all these new majority students coming to university,» says Ross,» [but] the fact of the matter is that... the percentage of those students earning degrees is much lower than people coming from continuing generation families.»

«While it's wonderful that there are all these new majority students coming to university,» says Ross,» [but] the fact of the matter is that... the percentage of those students...

The district encompasses 357 schools and approximately 8,000 square miles in southern Nevada and is a minority majority student district.

The most notable exception is the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), which coincidentally has the largest MARC program in the country, where majority students from disadvantaged backgrounds typically fill about half a dozen of its 40 slots.

It is important that all students see diverse faculty members, which leads me to the second reason you might want to consider a PWI over an HBCU: Majority students need to see minority professors in their classrooms if they're going to develop healthy respect for minorities (and women!)

Unfortunately, when majority students are not exposed to minority professors, they are more likely to buy into the myth that we do not exist or that our skills are not up to par with everyone else's.

The current formula bases the score on test results broken down into four categories — achievement, growth, closing scores between minority and majority student groups and college readiness — with deductions for poor test participation, dropout and graduation rates.

Statistics show great disparity between the education that middle - or upper - class majority students receive, versus that of low - income, minority children.

The Court Minority Language Education for Majority Students: CS Francophone du Yukon v Yukon Territory

Since 1996 each class has included about 15 majority students, their presence due in part to a court ruling that broadened the eligibility requirements.

«Majority students are more likely to say, «Hey, this is a great opportunity.»»

After all, there are lighthouse schools all over the country serving low - income students where the achievement gap between minority and majority students has been eliminated.

In Connecticut, a plan was unanimously approved last month by the Board of Governors of Higher Education to bring rates of «access and retention of minority students up to those of majority students,» according to Peter M. Rosa, director of educational opportunity for the Connecticut Department of Higher Education.

While student bodies elected most student representatives, facts were not available on whether those elected were representative of the majority student body, either by race, academic achievement, or other standards.

In fact, so many students have opted out of the Common Core tests that the decision whether to administer the test or not was taken away from Garfield educators; with so many opt outs, the majority students in every class wouldn't be taking the exam and therefore it is against the testing rules to have them in the computer lab while the test is being administered.