Sentences with phrase «nonwhite students in»

Although much of the development of student rights originally emerged from concern about nonwhite students in urban areas, educators in those settings had only a 41 percent probability of contact with a legal challenge.

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

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).

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.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

Still, the pressure for students — particularly underrepresented nonwhite and low - income applicants — to package themselves like this is acute at a time when «diversity» remains the only rationale for affirmative action that the Supreme Court has consistently upheld, most recently in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas.

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.

In the School Rights Project, we found that white students were nearly twice as likely as nonwhite students to report having pursued a formal legal remedy for a perceived rights violation.

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.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

While the introduction of choice affected all public high school students, most of the school closings and openings were concentrated in low - income, nonwhite areas of the Bronx and Brooklyn.

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...

Growth in the Hispanic population is expected to propel the trend of a rising share of nonwhite students through the next decade.

Moreover, all students — rich or poor, white and nonwhite alike — miss out on the substantial benefits of learning in richly diverse classrooms.9 As the research shows, students across the spectrum are better prepared for post-secondary success when they have been educated in diverse schools and have learned alongside peers who come from all walks of life.10

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 professioIn 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 professioin and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

Pamela Grundy lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the mother of a fourth grader at Shamrock Gardens Elementary, where in 2009 - 10 the student body was 89 percent poor and 94 percent nonwhite.

However, as their student populations diversified, some states saw stagnation or decreases in their percentages of nonwhite teachers.

Other states with large percentages of nonwhite students also fare poorly in the analysis.

The county is nearly evenly split between blacks and whites, but 90 percent of the students in Newark are nonwhite, while nearby Fairfield township enrolls zero black students.

To obtain that figure, we subtracted the percentage of nonwhite teachers — 20 percent — from the percentage of nonwhite students — 57 percent — in the state.

«Though OCR may claim to be under - funded, its resources are stretched thin largely because it has so often chosen to address violations it has made up out of thin air,» the pair wrote, citing as prime examples efforts to curb bullying, to reduce differences in how white and nonwhite students are disciplined and to get colleges to step up sexual assault investigations.

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

The United States spends $ 293 less per year on students in mostly nonwhite schools than on students in all other schools.

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 the 2013 - 14 school year, 86 percent of the city's black pre-K students attended «racially isolated» nonwhite schools — the highest rate in the natioIn the 2013 - 14 school year, 86 percent of the city's black pre-K students attended «racially isolated» nonwhite schools — the highest rate in the natioin the nation.

In spite of the dramatic suburbanization of nonwhite families, 80 % of Latino students and 74 % of black students attend majority nonwhite schools (50 - 100 % minority), and 43 % of Latinos and 38 % of blacks attend intensely segregated schools (those with only 0 - 10 % of whites students) across the nation.

Fifty - eight percent of the students involved in the study were nonwhite.

A radical change in city demographics was taking place — in the early 1970s, Minneapolis was just 14 percent nonwhite, but by 1995 the Minneapolis Public Schools student body was majority minority.