Sentences with phrase «more nonwhite students»

In California schools serving 90 percent or more nonwhite students, per - pupil spending is $ 191 less than at all other schools, and $ 4,380 less than at schools serving 90 percent or more white students

In Texas schools serving 90 percent or more nonwhite students, per - pupil spending is $ 514 less than at all other schools, and $ 911 less than at schools serving 90 percent or more white students

Not exact matches

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

According to federal data, more than 40 percent of students are nonwhite, compared to just 17 percent of teachers, and that mismatch appears to be on the rise.

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

During the past two decades, the percentage of nonwhite students has more than doubled, from roughly 20 percent in 1980 to slightly more than 50 percent in 2002.

Where Prior Lake enrolls a little over 1,000 students, more than 90 percent of them white and only 1 in 20 on free or reduced - price lunch, Berkeley houses 3,000 students, one - fourth of whom are low - income and two - thirds of whom are nonwhite.

Compared with a decade ago, more black students — especially in the South and some Mid-Atlantic states — are attending majority - nonwhite schools, the report by the university's Civil Rights...

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

Mostly white schools (90 percent or more white) spent $ 733 more per student than mostly nonwhite schools (90 percent or more nonwhite)

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19