Sentences with phrase «minority student achievement»

On Wednesday at the Chapel Hill Public Library, students from Blue Ribbon Youth Leadership Institute and Minority Student Achievement Network led a workshop in both English and Spanish.

Now, the independent federal agency is taking a new tack by turning to universities and nonprofit groups to address specific problems, such as a dearth of science and math educators, inadequate teacher knowledge of those fields, and disappointing levels of minority student achievement in the subjects.

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.»

Today, Louie focuses on getting beyond the stereotypes to the real forces that underlie minority student achievement.

Though they differ in their interpretation of the «success» (or not) of desegregation, they agree on the fundamentals: Integration helps to raise minority student achievement, but it's not nearly a strong enough intervention by itself to close achievement gaps.

Indeed, student input had a powerful effect at the Kentucky Department of Education Minority Student Achievement Task Force in 2000, yet that effect was not an accident.

Owens and members of a research team from the Peabody Center for Education Policy at Vanderbilt prepared the report, March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools in 2001 for the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP).

Dora Silva, center, of Centro Hispano, makes a point during an August 1996 Schools of Hope meeting on minority student achievement.

Here are some key results from the Minority Student Achievement Network's survey of students» attitudes toward school.

Diamond has also been the research director of the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN).

There are some lessons to be learned, even with differences between DoDEA schools and the public school system, said Debra E. Owens of Vanderbilt University, one of the researchers for the study March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools.

He also has been the research director of the Minority Student Achievement Network, a consortium of 21 school districts in diverse middle - to uppermiddle - class suburbs where achievement is generally solid, but not always for minority students.

He served as the first Research Director for the Minority Students Achievement Network (a national consortium of school districts working to address the racial disparities in students» outcomes), working with district leaders to study patterns of racial inequality in their schools and enact practices to reduce such inequalities.

Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham said the report cards could help the district identify strategies used by those other districts for raising low - income and minority student achievement.

She also has school - level experience, having been a high school principal and assistant principal, a minority student achievement mentor, and a secondary English teacher.

Between 1998 and 2007, Delaware led the nation in narrowing the minority student achievement gap in fourth - grade math and eighth - grade reading scores.

Members of the African American Youth Council and the Minority Student Achievement Network speak with board members during the Madison School Board meeting at the Doyle Administration Building in Madison on Oct. 30.

March toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools.

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