Sentences with phrase «mostly white teacher»

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?

These are mostly white teachers from elite colleges and universities across the country who help enforce the new style of discipline in New Orleans schools.

PARENT POLL Poll: Schools with mostly white teachers are not trying to educate students of color: usnews.com/news/education… Parents of color see their kids as attending white supremacist school systems huffingtonpost.com/entry/parents-… -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

When Mr. King first walked onto the stage in the Eastport - South Manor High School auditorium, he was greeted with a large portion of the 1,000 - person crowd, mostly teachers, quietly holding up green and white signs that read, «We are all more than a score.»

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

«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.

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.

, 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.

Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on teachers for their politics; conflicts between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.

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

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

Meanwhile, the local teachers» union and black community leaders organized a drive to reclaim «our schools» from the mostly white Legislature in Lansing.

This meant that our teachers and staff needed both technical assistance — to help them make sense of the data — and time and support for the delicate work of forging bonds with local parents and other caretakers (which, for our mostly white workforce, often meant learning how to communicate effectively across cultural and racial boundaries).

This included firing four percent of district teachers, mostly black, and replacing them largely with TFA - style teachers, mostly white, whom one astute black Washingtonian labeled «cultural tourists.»

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.

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

In the years immediately following Katrina, one - third to as many as half of New Orleans» teachers were from Teach for America, a program of mostly white graduates of elite colleges.

Over the last decade, Hartford started (and ended) programs and neoliberal policies such as school closures, staff reconstitution, principal «autonomy», privatization, hyper - accountability, reduced economic security for teachers, preferential hiring for inexperienced and mostly white Teach for America participants, intradistrict and interdistrict school choice.

While the Boston papers are writing glowing tributes to the next President of the Boston Teachers Union and the heart - wrenching search for the next headmaster of the exam school that educates mostly the white elite in the city of Boston, the real news...

One, a system of elite private and religious schools for well - to - do, mostly White parents with the means to afford expensive tuition payments, staffed by qualified, certified teachers, with a rich curriculum based on face - to - face instruction in clean, safe, well - maintained schools...

He has little success at some of the schools, mostly because of cultural differences with his white teachers and classmates.