Sentences with phrase «minority schools across»

«Systemic inequities exist that shortchange students in high - poverty, high - minority schools across our country,» Duncan said.

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

Not exact matches

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

Minority students across Erie County would do better in school if they saw more teachers who look like them in the classroom or in the halls.

At the same time, schools remain heavily segregated - particularly across district lines - with most minority children heavily concentrated in certain urban districts.

Whether it is working hand - in - hand with community leaders to empower minority candidates running for office or working to ensure that African - Americans have access to quality health care, schools and employment, I feel privileged to have the opportunity to lift up our communities and work with and for African - Americans in the Bronx and across New York.

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

Between 1991 and 2007, the Washington, D.C. - based Center for American Progress found that more than 300 initiatives across 30 states had expanded learning time, primarily in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

Central to the mission of this low - income, minority school is a commitment to the Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound model of instruction and schoolwide reform that emphasizes project learning that extends across curriculum areas and takes students out of the classroom and into the community.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

With a focus on increasing access to STEM careers for «girls, underrepresented minorities, and low - income children,» US2020 and Citizen Schools have partnered to provide expanded STEM learning opportunities for students across the country.

The reports demonstrate that federal accountability rules have derailed state reforms and assessment strategies, that the requirements have no common meaning across state lines, and that the sanctions fall especially hard on minority and integrated schools, asking for much less progress from affluent suburban schools.

Since minority students tend to come from lower income families, racial integration might be achieved indirectly by giving low - income families their choice of school, whenever that would facilitate integration across socioeconomic lines.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

Dr. Roza's analysis demonstrates that, despite district bookkeeping practices that make funding across schools within the same district appear relatively comparable, substantially less money is spent in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

«Quoting flawed research and making specious links to Jim Crow - era tactics can not diminish the fact that today's private school choice movement has been overwhelmingly embraced with open arms by minority families across the country.

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

IDRA works with school systems, institutions of higher education, and communities across the country to create education that works for all children, particularly those who are minority, poor or limited - English - proficient.

Kevin P. Chavous: «Quoting flawed research and making specious links to Jim Crow - era tactics can not diminish the fact that today's private school choice movement has been overwhelmingly embraced with open arms by minority families across the country.»

«As the new school year begins, newspapers across the country are reporting on school districts» search for minority teachers, especially African American teachers — evidence that we, as a society, continue to navigate around the color line,» Bristol wrote in a guest column on the Albert Shanker Institute blog.

This is especially important to students of color, of whom US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said,»... minority students across America face much harsher discipline than non-minorities — even within the same school... some of the worst discrepancies are in my home town of Chicago.»

Moreover, «[w] hile there has been a dramatic increase in [the number of] minority teachers, this growth has not been equally distributed across different types of schools,» the report continues.

Inland Empire School District Repeats as Finalist for Academic Prize The Corona - Norco Unified School District was named as a finalist Thursday for the prestigious Broad Prize, which honors academic excellence by minority and low - income students in urban districts across the nation.

Yet, staff stability actually varies considerably across schools with similar numbers of poor and / or minority children.

This discovery was highlighted in a StudentsFirstNY report released last month that examined the distribution of teacher quality across NYC and found that students in schools with high poverty or percentages of minority students were more likely to have teachers rated «Unsatisfactory.»

Across the country, voucher and tax - credit programs are allowing low - income parents, many of them minorities, to choose better schools for their children.

Based on more recent data, Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy speculated in 2005 that, because students across the income and ability spectrum can be shown to benefit from attending high - performing schools, aggressive efforts to homogenize schools» demographic profiles will likely hurt better - prepared students, with predicted declines for the highest - achieving students (who are now concentrated in high - income schools) exceeding the expected gains for low - income and minority students.

«For decades Navajo and Indian people, and many low - income and minority students and families across the country, have struggled to gain access to great schools.

In spite of the dramatic suburbanization of nonwhite families, 80 % of Latino students and 74 % of black students attend majority nonwhite schools (50 - 100 % minority), and 43 % of Latinos and 38 % of blacks attend intensely segregated schools (those with only 0 - 10 % of whites students) across the nation.

«As demonstrated by the record high school graduation rate and record college enrollment rates for minority students, states, districts, educators, and students across the country are making real progress.

Civil liberties advocates have been among the loudest voices pushing for restorative justice, and were sharp critics of Bloomberg's discipline policy, which they said helped create a «school to prison pipeline» of minority students across the city.

Surprisingly, a negative association between students» STEM course participation and success in STEM is consistently documented across both states, in addition to low participation of underrepresented minority students in successful schools in STEM.

The consideration of teacher movements across schools suggests that principals follow patterns quite similar to those of teachers — preferring schools that have less demands as indicated by higher income students, higher achieving students, and fewer minority students.

To politicians like de Blasio, I — an educator of poor and minority children — am public enemy number one, but to thousands of families across New York, Success Academy schools are proof of what children can achieve and they have raised their voices to demand educational opportunity for more students.

As leaders and educators, we know that enrollment of minority students is not equally balanced across schools, and that today's children see variations of the segregation their grandparents faced in past decades.1 We know that poverty is becoming more concentrated, and that, in the 2015 - 16 school year, 65 percent of students attending city schools did so in high - poverty or mid-high poverty districts.2 We also know that achievement gaps persist among low income3, special education4 and minority students.5

Slate's Jamelle Bouie wrote that it shows, «minority students across the country are more likely to attend majority - minority schools than they were a generation ago.»

But perhaps this problem has never been stated as starkly as in a recent paper examining the distribution of teacher quality in Washington state: «We demonstrate that in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms (both math and reading), every measure of teacher quality — experience, licensure exam score, and value - added estimates of effectiveness — is inequitably distributed across every indicator of student disadvantage — free / reduced lunch status, underrepresented minority, and low prior academic performance.»

Each year, students from 28 school districts across the country attend a four - day conference organized by the Minority Student Achievement Network.

Claud is the creator and promoter of Black Angel, a culturally diverse black and minority ethnic lesbian (and their friends) club night playing Bhangra, RnB, funk, soul and old school; the first night of its kind outside of London based in Manchester with events across the UK.

And the capstone ought to be hands - on experience in the smallMorschth business clinics (whether based in university technology transfer or low - tech entrepreneurship, or urban or minority entrepreneurship) that are springing up at law schools across the country (as to which Tom Morsch (right) at Northwestern has been one of the guiding lights).

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

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