Sentences with phrase «mostly black and white students»

The 100,000 - student school district was previously comprised of mostly black and white students, but in the last decade, Jefferson County doubled in Latino student enrollments.

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To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

50 percent of its student population is white, 37 percent is Latino (mostly from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico), and 6 percent is black.

Black and brown students have a first row seat to the racial differences between them and their mostly white, less experienced teachers.

But although its ranking improved and the math and English scores of black students rose, critics and researchers have pointed to the fact that the scores of white students — who make up about 85 percent of the state's student population — remained mostly stagnant on both NAEP and the ACT.

Northern had gone from being predominantly white and high performing to having mostly black students and poor academic results — three quarters of the sophomore and senior classes scored below the national average on math, science, and reading tests.

While this lack of proportional diversity exists in several professions, when your job focuses on leading a mostly black and Latino student population to succeed academically and socially in a predominantly white society, race matters so much more.

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.

Tyler's mostly black student body has diversified to include more white, Latino and Asian students drawn to the dual - language program.

Her life as a black teen from a crime - heavy neighborhood and a student at a mostly white private school provide points of conflict.