Sentences with phrase «number of white students»

The federal government put districts on notice that if they had a disproportionate number of white students in AP classes, they could be immediately subject to civil rights enforcement.

ELL students perform better on the state's standardized math assessment test if they attend a public school with at least a minimum threshold number of white students.

ELL student math proficiency rates tend to be highest at ELL reporting schools with sufficient numbers of white students to report the white results (Table 2).

The other reason is that the DCPS schools with large numbers of white students are generally high - performing, so the base of comparison is much higher.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

Duncan plans on relying on «disparate impact» analysis to show for instance that school districts with a disproportionate number of white students in advanced placement classes are guilty of discrimination.

However, when ELL students attended public schools with at least a minimum threshold number of white students, the gap between the math proficiency scores of white students and ELL students was considerably narrower, the Pew Hispanic Center analysis has found.

Figure 9 shows that ELL proficiency rates were higher at ELL reporting schools that had sufficient numbers of white students to report the white achievement results.

But the school achievement data certainly suggest that ELL math achievement is positively associated with schools that have larger numbers of white students.

As these new, smaller districts formed, the number of white students in the larger Jefferson County district decreased.

For the first time, the overall number of Latino, African - American, and Asian students in public K - 12 schools is expected to surpass the number of white students.

Between 2000 and 2016, the number of black high school graduates immediately enrolling in a two - or four - year college remained steady at 56 percent, while the number of white students increased from 65 percent to 71.

For example, among eighth - grade ELL students in Florida, about 30 % score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white students.

While the number of white students taking AP exams grew in recent years, it grew more slowly than the numbers in other groups.

Second, measured ELL math achievement tends to improve when ELL students are educated at schools that have sufficient numbers of white students (reducing the difference).

This shows that the number of white students in Chicago (9.9 %) is disproportionately low to the number of white people in Chicago (39 %).

And, the number of white students in Baltimore (7.9 %) is disproportionately low to the number of white people in Baltimore (962 %).

I had a number of white students in the university classes I taught in Minnesota who did not know that there was such a thing as Japanese internment.