Sentences with phrase «minority school settings»
Almost 90 % of students in apartheid school settings were low income in 2010, along with nearly 80 % of students in intensely segregated minority school settings.
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While some proponents advocate a flat monetary settlement to every descendant of a slave, others seek a social or political settlement — a percentage of the U.S. budget that would be allotted to improving schools with large minority populations, for example, or set aside for job training programs.
The new head warned that intervention in places such as Sunday schools and Bible clubs was needed due to ensure «the small minority of settings that promote extremism are not able to evade scrutiny».
«The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today,» said Bronx Assemblywoman Jeff Dinowitz in a statement.
The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today.
Assemblyman Brian Kolb, who leads the chamber's Republican minority, says the commission could look at setting uniform security standards for schools throughout the state.
I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.
David W. Gordon has been elected to a three - year term on the board of directors for the Advancement Via Individual Determination, or AVID, Center, a San Diego - based organization that sets up programs in schools to help prepare minority and low - income students for college.
Other NEA solutions include more aggressive recruitment activities and various financial and social supports, such as financial aid geared to minority education students and mentoring in the school setting.
The same 50 % rate held for graduates of Low - Income / Low - Minority schools located in Suburban and Rural settings.
Supporting the school boards, one amicus has assured us that «both early desegregation research and recent statistical and econometric analyses... indicate that there are positive effects on minority student achievement scores arising from diverse school settings.»
«Students with disabilities served in urban settings, in which minorities predominate, have higher likelihood of being placed in segregated settings, and lower likelihood of accessing challenging curricula,» said Tom Hehir, lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Striking a blow against «set aside» policies, the U.S. Supreme Court limits the ability of school districts and state and local governments to reserve percentages of their construction contracts for minority - owned firms.
By 2025, the MDE has set a goal of increasing the number of minority teachers in critical shortage school districts by 25 %, better reflecting the student population in these districts.
The federal law passed in 2001 set ambitious goals for schools, particularly around improving outcomes for poor and minority students.
That skepticism should grow after looking closely at the individual state targets set for districts and schools to improve student achievement, especially for poor and minority children.
The parents of Admissions, like the parents and politicians currently arguing about a proposal to diversify Upper West Side middle schools by setting aside 25 percent of seats for low - performing students (because low - performing equals low income and minority, natch) are both under the assumption that education is a zero - sum game.
Part of this is because so many foundations and funders have found common cause in supporting what they hope will become «90/90/90» charter schools: Ones where at least 90 percent of students are low - income, 90 percent are minorities, and 90 percent meet set academic standards.
Among those are preservice teachers» understanding of and ability to address student differences, the nature of the change process in schools implementing differentiation, achievement impacts of differentiation in middle school, elementary, and high school settings, and profiles of teachers whose classroom practice enhances success of students from low - economic and / or cultural minority groups.
But the fact that the Obama administration granted Virginia a waiver in the first place in spite of its record of obstinacy on systemic reform, along with the fact that many of the 32 other states granted waivers (along with the District of Columbia) have also set low expectations for districts and schools to improve the achievement of the poor and minority kids in their care, has put President Obama in the uncomfortable position of supporting the soft bigotry of low expectations for children — especially those who share his race and skin color.
Districts also expressed concerns that low - income and / or minority students may be further disadvantaged because they may not have home support or can not afford a tutor, making it difficult to learn outside of school settings.
Two arguments were advanced for targeting low - income, minority, and immigrant groups in racially and economically isolated charter schools: the need to maximize bang for the educational buck, and the belief that the special needs of these communities could be better addressed in concentrated settings.
This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.
Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).
The report stated: «Academies are unlikely to welcome the ongoing (though diminishing) role of local authorities in setting school budgets, but will almost certainly accept this as a consequence of a minority government.»
To repeat, the Common Core SBAC pass / fail rate is intentionally set to ensure that the vast majority of public school students are deemed failures, and making the situation even more unfair, the Common Core SBAC scheme particularly targets minority students, poor students, children who are not proficient in English and students with disabilities that require special education services.
She is especially interested in understanding these processes among adolescents from groups that have been historically stigmatized in school settings, such as racial and ethnic minority adolescents.
However, recently, dual language immersion (DLI) programs have emerged in the country as effective ways to bring together language minority and language majority speakers in school settings with the goal of bilingualism and bi-literacy for all.
In 2011 - 12, a majority of magnet schools and technical schools were «integrated,» as measured by the standard set forth in the 2008 settlement agreement of the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case: a school with a student body composed of between 25 % and 75 % minority students... In contrast, only 18 % of charter schools met the Sheff standard.
The damaging message to the public would be denying minority evangelical Christians the opportunity to earn their law degree in a private, faith - based setting that meets the technical requirements to qualify as a law school.
Last week, I blogged about whether law schools» affirmative action programs set minority law students up for failure.
In Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, Dean David Thomas of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business states that minorities in corporate settings are often overlooked for promotions because people tend to view members of their own racial groups as more promotable, and often give them higher performance ratings.
Some 150 debaters from 18 schools across the U.S. and Canada were set to debate last weekend in the North American Women's and Gender Minorities Debate... Read More
It also recognises that a small minority of pupils with significant and enduring needs may require a more specialist setting (for example, special class or special school placement).