Sentences with phrase «many white students»

«Or when they come late and sit next to a white student they notice less communication.»

White students?

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

The same argument was made when african americans started playing white student in sports.

That doesn't mean white students should be separated from «colored» students, just because some might think it's okay.

In fact, «Catholic high schools seem to correct the tragedy where minority students fall further and further behind white students the longer they stay in school.»

It is true that private academies for white students sprang up in the South after the historic Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

Taylor is also one of several black students who told me that white students would often touch her hair without permission and make comments about its texture and differences from white hair.

During a lecture by a black person last spring, I overhead a white student mutter, «We should have killed them all.»

They were spoken by a white student who was waving a baton — similar to the kind a police officer might carry.

Taylor remembers one white student joking that they were «as free as Rosa Parks» grandchildren,» prompting laughter from others.

Five years after Ernest Grey's frightening incident with a baton - wielding white student, he returned to Moody's campus.

Given experiences like these, Taylor wasn't shocked by white students» and faculty's resistance to Embrace's white privilege event.

In his freshman orientation class, a white student remarked, «God can't use hip - hop because it is evil.»

Western countries, especially America, may be targeted for critiques of overconsumption, but white students lead the charge and through it find camaraderie with their black, Hispanic, and Asian peers.

Efforts by white students especially to join in diversity discourse, to become «allies,» are treated with suspicion and frequently renounced as covert assertions of «privilege.»

Black students watch more TV than Hispanic students, who, in turn, watch more than white students.

This pushes white students — in most cases the campus majority — to the moral sidelines.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

Black students are twice as likely as white students to report that they fear for their physical safety (28 percent versus 13 percent).

Ms. Hinlicky has clearly not exorcised all the demons of what I take to be her former liberalism if she still reflexively shudders at the notion of black and white students eating at different tables, i.e., segregation by choice.

No general rule can justify condemning the idea of white student unions while at the same time applauding the creation of black ones.

White students seem deeply interested in the study and practice of religion, but religion apparently holds little or no appeal for black students.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

But as it stands now, all we can say for certain is that in 1988 at Clemson University, among the mostly young white students questioned, men had a greater tendency than women to try and like fiery - foods.

White students, who have little reason to believe they'll be judged via teachers» stereotyped views of their race, were only slightly more likely to revise their paper if they got the «high expectations» message.

Based on 2010 statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of black students, 77 percent of Latino students, and 68 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native students were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, compared to only 28 percent of white students.

Since we generally accept that African Americans are not intellectually inferior to whites, then we are led to conclude that black students do better in integrated school settings because the school district and faculty are better invested because of the presence of the white students.

The Fayetteville - Manlius and Jamesville - Dewitt school districts just outside Syracuse both have a significant majority of white students, at 83 percent and 76 percent, respectively, according to the education department website.

A gap continues to be seen, too, among black and Hispanic students compared with white students.

Nonprofit Film Documents School Desegregation «Two Schools in Hillburn» is a documentary that details the struggle to integrate the schools, Main School for white students and the Brook School for black students located in Rockland County in 1943.

«How come schools with 82 percent white students have 44 teams,» asked Bestabe Cordero, a 16 year - old senior at International Community High School in the Bronx, «And my school, which is almost 100 percent students of color, Latino and black students, we only have two teams.

When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was elected four years ago, Connecticut had the worst achievement gap between poor minority students and suburban white students in the country.

Rates also increased for white students, by 3 percentage points from 76 to 79 percent.

In all three, the population of white students is greater than 90 percent.

White students in Troy were graduating at higher rates than all others until last year, when they were edged out by black and Hispanic students.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg bragged in March 2012 to a panel in Washington, D.C. that his policies had cut the achievement gap between white students and students of color in half.

While its overall graduation rate increased 6 percentage points to 80 percent last year, it managed to close an achievement gap between white students and everyone else.

The achievement gap between minority and white students in Erie County is wider than it is statewide.

Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi teenagers overtake white students academically between the ages of 11 and 16.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.

In contrast, the assignment showed no effect on white students.

This kind of institutional support follows impressive results: The program graduates minority students with a biology degree at the same rate as Asian and white students, and at twice the rate of minorities not in the program.

«It is not surprising that increasing school diversity is important to reduce both African American and White students» delinquent behaviors,» said corresponding author Dr. Brittany Darlene Chambers, of the University of California, San Francisco.

His previous teaching experience was limited to being a teaching assistant at Cornell, instructing a predominantly white student body.

Nearly half of white students who expressed interest in biological sciences went on to earn a bachelor's degree in those fields, compared to only 25 percent of URM students.

He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has become the gold standard for providing a path into academic research for groups — African - Americans, Hispanics, and disadvantaged white students — now underrepresented in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.

Compared to White students, Latino students were 45 percent less likely to take the test, Black students were 35 percent less likely, and Asian students were 32 percent more likely.