Sentences with phrase «number of minority students»

The agreement also calls for districts that have disproportionate numbers of minority students in separate placements to take corrective action.

So the association is offering school districts some tips on how they might close the gap between increasing numbers of minority students and declining numbers of minority teachers.

Several years after this review, larger numbers of minority students are participating in higher - level math courses at the high school and earning higher grades in these classes.

The studies found that grossly disproportionate numbers of minority students are identified as eligible for services, and too often placed in isolated and restrictive educational settings.

As a recent issue brief on the achievement gap from the Educational Testing Service points out, schools having high numbers of minority students tend to have larger classes of 25 students or more, and the class size gap between high - minority schools and low - minority schools actually worsened between 2000 - 2004.

Due to the growing numbers of minority students in our country's educational system, we must find ways to help their matriculation through school; therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine mentoring models and their influence on diversity in the U.S. higher educational system.

Despite loud demands for greater education equality, access to first - rate college preparatory programs for large numbers of minority students remains an unrealized goal.

50 percent: That is the extraordinary number of minority students in the United States who do not finish high school on schedule.

This brief summarizes the results of a study of the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority k - 12 teachers, examining the extent and sources of the minority teacher shortage and offering evidence - based solutions to addressing the low proportion of minority teachers in comparison to the increasing numbers of minority students in the school system.

Goldsmith (2004) found that Latino and black students held more optimistic, more pro-school beliefs in schools with high numbers of minority students, especially when the school employed many minority teachers.

Some critics fear the change would have a disparate impact on law schools with significant numbers of minority students, whom studies have shown traditionally don't do as well on standardized tests, which is also a concern of the council.

In some states, there are concerns that charter schools are increasing segregation, but as Scharfenberg notes, some of the charter schools in Massachusetts that serve large numbers of minority students are among the highest - performing charter schools in the nation.

The goal of the project is to keep more kids in school and reduce the minority achievement gap that results from the disproportionate number of minority students being expelled.

The U.S. Department of Education reports that in 1992,37 percent of private school students but only 18 percent of public school students attended schools in which the number of minority students was close to the national average.

Education advocates and researchers say the discrepancy between the number of minority students and minority teachers in Connecticut leads to disadvantages for students of color.

The articles present ideas and methods that university faculty members and their institutions can use to increase the number of minority students pursuing degrees in mathematics, science, and engineering (MSE).

And although in recent years the number of minority students enrolling at universities and completing a first degree has increased, few enter postgraduate education.

Bolstering the number of minority students in physics will improve our chances of tackling some of the field's big unanswered questions, says Joshua Sokol

Yet, despite these efforts, the number of minority students and professionals entering these disciplines is still very low.

Blaney's argument is relevant, considering that Pennsylvania's private universities accounted for 60 % of the state's minority bachelor's degrees in math, science, and engineering, despite the significantly higher tuitions.9 There is evidence to show that decreasing and eliminating debt for lower - income students would likely increase the number of minority students majoring in science and engineering at elite schools and overall.

Shrinking enrollments and increasing numbers of minority students had set off tremors in the community over falling test scores and the perceived decline in academic quality of the schools.

The regression analysis and line in Figure 1 are both weighted by the number of minority students in each county (using the average of 2002 - 03 and 2010 - 11)

Many consider the goal a vital one at a time when the gap between the number of minority students and minority teachers widens.

Instead, Dennis Van Roekel says his priority when he takes office Sept. 1 will be to transform a flawed public school system that is leaving behind large numbers of minority students.

Due to the number of minority students in our education system growing, it is essential that we work to ensure that our student can relate to and be included by our entire teaching force.

Over the past four years, ACC has increased the numbers of minority students who have attended.

To advance equity, the state is committed to examining each student group's progress toward targeted goals, increasing the number of minority students identified for gifted and talented programs and creating more access to advanced coursework in rural communities.

Rosen told school board members that nationally, as in the Madison Metropolitan School District, the number of minority teachers entering the workforce is growing more slowly than the number of minority students.

Willful defiance became identified with the problem of high rates of expulsions and suspensions after the CDE reported a high number of minority students were suspended for this cause.

And while the number of minority students taking the exam increased, the percent of African American and Hispanic students that reached the desired benchmark (scoring at least 1550 out of 2400) dipped slightly.

The number of minority elementary and secondary teachers has more than doubled since the late 1980s — outpacing growth in both the number of nonminority teachers and the number of minority students.

These actions resulted in a reduction of the number of minority students entering and completing teacher education programs.

are going to dramatically increase the number of minority students on our elite college campuses and in higher education as a whole,» said Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a pro-charter think tank in Washington.

In prior school years, the district was commended by the state for the number of minority students in Advanced Placement and honors classes, according to Superintendent Baggett, so the administration is not worried about meeting the DOJ's enrollment standards.

And the number of minority students has risen gradually over the last 20 years, with the growing Hispanic population responsible for most of the increase.