Sentences with phrase «minority schools»

The study looked at more than 1,200 teachers in predominantly minority schools in 14 states across the country.

Still, successful litigation and judgment awards such as this do not guarantee an increase in state funding for poor, high - minority school districts.

Even after things settled down, a sharp racial division was carved between the predominantly minority schools in central cities and the overwhelmingly white schools in suburban areas.

What percentage of that funding goes to poor minority schools?

Half of Latino charter school students, for example, attended racially isolated minority schools.

A majority of principals expressed satisfaction with teacher quality in their schools, although principals in mainly minority schools didn't voice the same level of satisfaction.

Thirty - four percent of schools serving a high proportion of minority students experience teacher shortages in one or more subject areas compared to only 18 percent of low minority schools.

Though extraordinary high - poverty, high - minority schools exist, social science repeatedly shows them to be the exception to the rule.

Fifty - two percent of city charter - school students were in 90 to 100 percent minority schools, compared to 34 percent of traditional public - school students.

In other words, high - poverty, high - minority schools suspend a lot more students than lower - poverty, lower - minority ones.

Teachers in high - poverty and high - minority schools tend to have higher rates of attrition, as do teachers of color, who are disproportionately represented in these schools.

This is especially important in low - income minority schools, where education is, for many, their only chance for a better life.

Either way, something must be done to recruit minorities into the teaching profession or to recruit individuals who are equipped and passionate about teaching in urban or majority - minority school districts.

Moreover, he found that the negative effects of collective bargaining are much greater for high minority schools than for other schools.

Black and Latino students are again increasingly isolated in predominantly minority schools.

This is not to say that high - minority schools do not receive lower grades (they do).

The percentage of Latino students in intensely segregated minority schools also increased (though it remains low), from less than 1 % in 2010 to almost 4 % in 2010.

«We do not want the search for superintendent to be limited to those individuals who have applied to be the deputy,» said Minority School Board member Barbara Seals Nevergold.

Increasingly we are seeing high - poverty, high - minority schools across the country that are achieving outstanding academic success.

If MA is a good sport, they would fight left handed - what chance does a majority - minority school system with half the spending per pupil have against the highest performing state education system in the nation many years running?

While the DeVos were unsuccessful in pushing school vouchers in Michigan, they were successful in creating an unregulated, wild - west charter sector in Michigan that has destabilized predominately minority school districts in the state.

Still, as U.S. schools become more culturally and ethnically diverse, current leaders have a duty to tap the untapped potential of minority school leaders.

Anne Pope, with the NAACP, says the cap unfairly hurts poor and minority school children.

EN: In a world of limited resources, what's the argument for trying to create racially or socioeconomically integrated schools, rather than making high - poverty, high - minority schools more effective?

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

The study found that most white students attend schools that are 73 percent white, that the percentage of Black students in mostly minority schools has risen over the last two decades, that Black and Latino students are mostly sharing the same schools, and that the rise in segregation has been most dramatic for Latino students.

Indeed, after controlling for poverty, urbanism, school size and other factors, «heavily minority schools actually offer more AP courses than mostly white schools.»

Number of Teachers May Not Be Significantly Different Than Five Years Ago Shortages Present in Many Districts and States and Staffing Gaps Persist Between High - and Low - Minority Schools as Well as High - and Low - Poverty Schools

Although we did not find a direct connection between school composition and math achievement, we did find an indirect effect of attending a high - poverty or high - minority school on dropping out of high school.

Now, however, most reformers take as a given that the typical low - income minority student will attend a racially isolated school, and the focus, under the banner of «No Excuses,» is to make high - poverty, high - minority schools effective.

For more than 25 years, the Efficacy Institute has supported success in high - poverty, high - minority schools with a bone - deep belief that all students can succeed.

But the rally also took a racial tone, with Barron accusing the state of holding minority schools chancellor candidates to a higher standard.

Forgione had to contend with the ever more intrusive state and national requirements (under No Child Left Behind) for testing and progress, the loss of confidence in school management, new budgetary problems under Texas's efforts to equalize funding between prosperous districts (such as Austin) and impoverished ones, and the permanent problem of low - achieving minority schools at a time when efforts at integration had been abandoned (see «Is Desegregation Dead?»

Dr. Douglas N. Harris: There are two basic reasons for this: First, high - minority schools receive less funding and have difficulty attracting and retaining quality teachers and administrators.

Environmental Injustice: Poor and Minorities Suffer Most from Sick Schools In the second part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines how poor and minority school populations are exposed to more environmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse health effects.

(Academic performance by nonminority students zoned into minority schools declined considerably, however.)

The same 50 % rate held for graduates of Low - Income / Low - Minority schools located in Suburban and Rural settings.

(Personal anecdote: as a teacher for over 28 years — almost exclusively in majority minority schools, including stints in Harlem and South Los Angeles — I have never seen a teacher or administrator act in a prejudicial way toward any minority kid.)

«The trends found in this study are similar to those found in other studies on school resources — poor, high - minority schools generally have the least access to instructional resources.»

Classroom Changes Give a «Feel» for Math, Science: Education: Minority schools take lead with hands - on techniques to help students grasp abstract concepts.

But it was true yesterday and it will be true tomorrow that if minority children are being educated in overwhelmingly minority schools this is hard evidence that equality (social, political, educational) is nowhere in sight.

In 1989, intensely segregated minority schools represented about 3 % of all schools in Virginia, more than doubling to almost 6 % by 2010.

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.

Malloy's proposal is to give Connecticut's charter schools an increase of $ 2,600 per student, $ 1,000 of which will be funds that are presently going to Connecticut's lowest performing, poorest and predominantly most minority school districts.

It just evolved, the Vox piece shows the dramatic increase in high - poverty / - minority schools over the past 17 years — roughly 70 percent — and explains many powerful dynamics that contribute to school segregation.