Sentences with phrase «mostly white students»

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

A recent study noted that parents whose children attend schools with mostly white students are much more likely to rate their child's school as excellent: 61 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly white students rate their child's school as excellent, compared to only 14 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly Black students.

Local charter schools that serve mostly white students have nearly non-existent discipline rates.

It was my understanding that the report talked about the growing disparities, preparationally and economically... [between schools with mostly minority students and those with mostly white students].

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

Not exact matches

Apstein's students — mostly hotel and restaurant employees and young professionals — sit at cafeteria tables that are draped in gracious white linens.

But as it stands now, all we can say for certain is that in 1988 at Clemson University, among the mostly young white students questioned, men had a greater tendency than women to try and like fiery - foods.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

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.

The pupils the teachers concentrated on and earmarked for university were mostly white middle - class students, he says.

According to a March 31 white paper from the Institute for International Education in New York City, more than 15,000 university students — mostly in graduate programs — and 2,100 scholars currently in the US are from the six countries named in Trump's executive order.

Nevertheless, over the Fall, confrontations continued to escalate, mostly a reign of terror on the part of white vigilantes, including an incident in which black students had to wrestle a white adult wielding a shotgun to the ground.

Mostly affluent and white, the 350 students who attend his schools have histories of drug abuse, drinking, violence, prostitution, and attempted suicide, among other problems.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

She found that, in states with the largest number of students opting out of state tests, the students opting out were mostly white and affluent, and that a large percentage of students opting out were 11th graders who were also taking college prep and AP exams in the spring.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

Whitwell, a rural town in eastern Tennessee, has 450 students, mostly white and Christian.

«I was blown away at the beginning of these sessions to discover that these night students — low - income people, mostly African American, some Latino, a couple white students — had never read the Declaration of Independence,» she says.

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.

Journalist Patrick McCloskey spent the 1999 — 00 school year embedded at Rice High School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves today.

This entire year I have learned so much about the increase of punitive punishment for mostly students of color, the statistics that show 80 percent of students are taught by white educators while their classes are filled with students who have entirely different identities, fact - based knowledge about the brain, trauma, and so many other components of the educational system that need to be unpacked.

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.

So if a district has two high schools — one serving mostly affluent white students and another serving mostly poor and minority students — those schools had better offer a similar number of AP courses, lest the OCR come knocking on their doors.

, Bamberger spent the 2002 — 03 school year tracking students and teachers at his alma mater, Pennsbury High School, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jersey.

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.

A new study shows just how thin the course offerings can be at some schools serving mostly students of color in comparison to the curricula at nearby, white - majority schools.

Whereas previously all students had attended racially mixed schools, after 2001 some schools ended up mostly black, others mostly white.

«But,» he writes, «schools serving more students of color are less likely to offer advanced courses and gifted and talented programs than schools serving mostly white populations, and students of color are less likely than their white peers to be enrolled in those courses and programs within schools that have those offerings.»

In addition, the plan to accept transfer students from low - income, predominantly black communities at mostly white suburban schools was, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, «met with acrimony.»

But if students in the class are mostly white, Rollins suggests that teachers can probe that, too.

Since most of the students using vouchers are black, it is, as State Education Superintendent John White pointed out to the New Orleans Times - Picayune, «a little ridiculous» to argue that the departure of mostly black students to voucher schools would make their home school systems less wWhite pointed out to the New Orleans Times - Picayune, «a little ridiculous» to argue that the departure of mostly black students to voucher schools would make their home school systems less whitewhite.

(Only high - income mostly white suburban high schools send more kids to college with 73 percent of the students enrolled in college in the fall).

New York was one of the first states to use Common Core - aligned tests, and as students» scores plummeted under the new tests, a small army of mostly white, middle - class parents in the city's suburbs began to loudly oppose the exams.

The organization has been heavily criticized in the past for dispatching fleets of young, white, mostly affluent college graduates to poor schools made up predominantly by students of color.

The student body is 42 % Latino, 18 % African American, 11 % Asian (mostly Vietnamese), and 29 % «other,» including White.

We need to improve identification and eligibility criteria and procedures, including multiple gateways and types of data to make sure we aren't only identifying the same «type» of student (usually upper - middle class white students, who tend to behave in ways pleasing to mostly - white teachers) and neglecting minorities and English Language Learners.

Similarly, Saam, Boone and Chase (2000) found an interesting result while comparing the self - efficacy of «local» (mostly White) science teachers with the demographic variables of their students.

At P.S. 199, «test scores are high, the students are mostly white and well off,» and the school «can raise $ 800,000 a year» to pay for luxuries such as a resident chef.

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.

Do we intend to continue to ignore a system that promotes and protects mostly white teachers who don't do right by their largely minority students?

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

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Enrollment has held steady at around 350 students; they are mostly working class and white.

But even so, white students in the South are more likely to be exposed to students of color than in the past, mostly attributed to the rising number of Hispanic students attending schools with them.

When states required all high school students, specifically those in schools mostly attended by African - American students, to take at least three math courses, black students were able to qualify for better paying jobs alongside their white counterparts.

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.

Are there schools with predominantly white teaching staffs that have a student body that is mostly students of color?

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.