Sentences with phrase «nonwhite students with»

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The typical school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating was large and had a majority nonwhite population, with many students who had previously failed an 8th - grade exam.

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).

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.

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.

Cooperative learning is especially effective with nonwhite, low - income students; students with limited English proficiency; and students with disabilities.

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.

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

Research shows that the reliance on punitive school discipline like suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests — «school pushout» — deprives students of learning time and takes the greatest toll on nonwhite students, students with disabilities, LGBT youth and other vulnerable student groups.

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.

Some 70 percent of black students who attend charter schools attend «intensely segregated» schools — that is, schools with a nonwhite population greater than 90 percent.