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.
And,
the number of white students in Baltimore (7.9 %) is disproportionately low to the number of white people in Baltimore (962 %).
This shows that
the number of white students in Chicago (9.9 %) is disproportionately low to the number of white people in Chicago (39 %).
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.
As these new, smaller districts formed,
the number of white students in the larger Jefferson County district decreased.
Not exact matches
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.
As a record
number of students fight for university places ahead
of the increase
in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis
of the recent higher education
white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.
«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO
STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE
NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their
white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools
in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.
To cite an extreme example, a new NSF report on graduate enrollments shows that the total pool
of U.S. citizens and permanent residents pursuing S&E degrees has dropped by 10 % since peaking
in 1993, and the
number of white U.S. graduate
students in S&E has dropped by 20 %.
«When
students come into the university, the
numbers of white and black
students with an interest
in the sciences are about the same.
The concern now is that the
number of foreign
students willing to work for low wages has created a huge disincentive for U.S. - born
students, black or
white, to major
in science.
Demographic variables were year
of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which
students reported from a list
of options on the GQ (categorized as
white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities
in medicine relative to their
numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).
The
number of high - achieving minority
students in the average school is fewer than the
number of high - achieving
white students.
To see how the degree
of internal integration within a school affects acting -
white patterns, I calculated the difference from what I would expect
in the total
number of cross-ethnic friends
in a school based on the ethnic make - up
of the
student body.
She found that,
in states with the largest
number of students opting out
of state tests, the
students opting out were mostly
white and affluent, and that a large percentage
of students opting out were 11th graders who were also taking college prep and AP exams
in the spring.
For example, the largely
white student body at Curry can get a clear idea
of the issues involved
in teaching at an inner - city school with large
numbers of non-
white or non-English speaking
students through a case study
of New York City's Newcomers High School.
Students write a brief paragraph explaining the math processes they used to figure the total
number of listings
in the
White Pages
of the local phone book.
Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept
students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the
number of districts sending
students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority
students and
white suburban
students together
in the same school.
Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity
of education,
in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on
white working - class young people and the growing
number of black
students who entered high schools
in the 1930s and 1940s.
Featuring a
number of practical experiments, the masterclasses will help
students understand why certain colours are used most frequently
in space projects, and they will be able to answer questions such as: Why are rockets painted
white?»
In California, 75 %
of white third - grade
students who attend public schools without the minimum threshold
number of ELL
students perform at or above the proficient level on the state's mathematics assessment test, whereas just 67 %
of the
white California third - graders who attend schools with the minimum threshold
number of ELL
students score at or above the proficient level.
Latinos are enrolling
in California colleges
in rising
numbers, but their outcomes lag behind those
of white students.
Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient
number of white eighth - grade
students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level
in math.
With
White House support, a growing
number of schools nationally are turning to restorative methods because
of research suggesting that it is a more productive way — compared to suspensions — to support
students who are caught up
in cycles
of disruptive behavior.
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.
The
number of private secular schools
in Mississippi, with a virtually all -
white student population, has greatly increased
in recent years.
In Florida, Alabama, Delaware, New Jersey, and Colorado, the
number of African - American
students identified as mentally retarded was more than three times that
of white students.
The decrease
in the
number of days spent
in suspension might have shifted past some «tipping point» beyond which more presence
in the classroom leads to higher grades, while leaving the
white students less affected.
In both reading and math, the U.S. produces about the same
number of low - achieving
white students as low - achieving black
students.
It is a regression
in which
student achievement is explained by a combination
of school inputs (resources such as funding per
student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics
of peers (percentage
of schoolmates who are
white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education,
number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share
of households who rent versus own, etc.).
The bureau also found that while the
number of white private - school
students declined by 37 percent, or 2.2 million
students, between 1964 and 1979, the
number of black
students in private schools increased by one - third, or 87,000
students.
According to DPI data, suspensions among black
students nearly quadrupled the
number among
white students in 2014 - 2015, despite the fact that black
students make up less than 30 percent
of total enrollment.
The County and state's support
of policies that facilitated
white flight to private academies allowed for a disproportionate
number of black and
white students to be enrolled
in the County's schools compared to the County's population.30 In the 1971 - 72 school year, only 5 percent of students in the County's K - 12 public schools were white.
in the County's schools compared to the County's population.30
In the 1971 - 72 school year, only 5 percent of students in the County's K - 12 public schools were white.
In the 1971 - 72 school year, only 5 percent
of students in the County's K - 12 public schools were white.
in the County's K - 12 public schools were
white.31
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 professio
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 professio
in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people
of color into the teaching profession.
37 Thanks
in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth
in school district integration as an increasing
number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and
white students across neighborhood boundaries.
In the spring,
White said he will request that the Legislature analyze the
number of additional
students enrolled by participating schools and commit appropriate and full funding.
White and red coloring helps
students visualize
numbers in groups
of 5 and aligns with Rekenrek color coding.
It is clear that academic outcomes
in the vast majority
of schools with overwhelming black and Latino enrollments fall far behind those with high
numbers of white and Asian
students.
Now retired, Holtz says his experiences teaching and working
in a
number of school districts
of various sizes and demographics make him a superior choice to Evers at a time when Wisconsin has been labeled as having the largest gap
in academic achievement between black and
white students in the nation.
Majority -
white schools
in Minnesota have half as many nontenured teachers as schools with large
numbers of black, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian
students, according to the Department
of Education.
This results
in an increasing
number of students who do not graduate, according to speakers at a
White House summit on higher education.
• While 83.4 percent
of white students scored proficient or advanced
in math, that
number was 78.1 percent for Asian
students, 63.6 percent for American Indian
students, 61.9 percent for Hispanic
students, and 46.4 percent for black
students.
Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase
in the
number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase
in minority
students who generally perform worse than their
white counterparts.
Until the 1960s,
white educators and politicians could look at a class
of white children
in which a
number of students were doing poorly and shrug.
But even so,
white students in the South are more likely to be exposed to
students of color than
in the past, mostly attributed to the rising
number of Hispanic
students attending schools with them.
Students of color are disciplined
in far greater
numbers than their
white peers, according to research released by The Equity Project at Indiana University.
The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the
number of poor
students who attend, but the
White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent
of school districts with high concentrations
of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million
in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.
This is reflected
in the
number of students enrolled
in AIG programs
in North Carolina at the beginning
of this century; when
in 2000, over 80 %
of AIG
students were
white, compared to just 10 % for Blacks and 1 % for Hispanics.
Federal officials say overly strict disciplinary polices have created a school - to - prison pipeline and a growing disparity
in the
number of African - American
students who are expelled or kicked out
of school compared with their
white peers.
According to the National Education Association, «The declining
numbers of Black and Hispanic
students majoring
in education is steeper than the overall decline
in education majors» and «Minority teachers leave teaching at higher rates than
white teachers do.»