Sentences with phrase «numbers of minority students in»

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.

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

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

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)

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

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.

Not exact matches

As political scientist Terry Moe has shown, as the number of rules in teacher contracts goes up, student performance goes down, especially that of poor and minority students.

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.

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Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Statistics provided by the American Association of Community Colleges (www.aacc.nche.edu) indicate that a significant number of minority students enroll in community colleges.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

Beginning in the late 1960s, the school implemented several initiatives designed to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority students attending HMS.

Those three professors, Gerry Dozier, Juan Gilbert, and Cheryl Seals, talked about their educational backgrounds, how they came to Auburn, and how they have increased the number of minority and women graduate students in their department.

* Those in the health sciences are far more concerned (0.38) than are those in any other discipline with the number of students belonging to underrepresented minorities.

Once accepted into a graduate program, students are likely to feel isolated, due to low numbers of minority graduate students in the department.

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.

The AAAS Mentor Award honors AAAS members who have mentored significant numbers of underrepresented students, including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities, pursuing Ph.D.'s in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and who have demonstrated scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of underrepresented groups in STEM fields.

In other words, roughly 10 % of the total number of doctoral degrees awarded to U.S. minority students nationally in mathematics in 2002 - 2003 has come from this prograIn other words, roughly 10 % of the total number of doctoral degrees awarded to U.S. minority students nationally in mathematics in 2002 - 2003 has come from this prograin mathematics in 2002 - 2003 has come from this prograin 2002 - 2003 has come from this program.

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).

10 years ago to boost the number of underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs.

To increase the number of students interested in STEM careers, especially in scientific and medical fields, the Gladstone Institutes supports summer internships for community college students through the Promoting Underrepresented Minorities Advancing in the Sciences (PUMAS) program.

The number of high - achieving minority students in the average school is fewer than the number of high - achieving white students.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

A dramatic increase in the number of Asian - American students enrolling in the nation's independent schools in the past four years has bolstered their overall minority enrollment, despite the fact that the proportions of black, Hispanic, and Native American students enrolled have increased only slightly, according to a new report.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

The Court of Appeal acknowledged that the challenged statutes increase the number of ineffective teachers in California schools and that low - income and minority students in California are disproportionately taught by less effective teachers.

The story of its early success is in the numbers: Code.org says that 750,000 teachers use its curricular materials, and that 25 percent of U.S. students have accounts on the website — 45 percent are female, and 48 percent are from underrepresented minority groups.

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 natioIn 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 natioin Massachusetts that serve large numbers of minority students are among the highest - performing charter schools in the natioin the nation.

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.

Perhaps our problem is the number of students, compared with those in Europe, who come from immigrant and non-English-speaking homes and the number who come from minority groups still suffering the consequences of various kinds of deprivation.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

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.

The grants are part of the foundation's Campus Diversity Initiative, a program that helps independent colleges and universities increase the number of minority faculty members, raise the retention rate for underrepresented students, and encourage students of color to enroll in a wider distribution of majors.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

By 2025, the MDE has set a goal of increasing the number of minority teachers in critical shortage school districts by 25 %, better reflecting the student population in these districts.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly stricIn addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly stricin dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly stricin increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

Zero percent to 10 percent of the student population in these schools were racial / ethnic minorities, and 6 to 13 percent were disadvantaged students as determined by the number receiving free or reduced - price lunches.

• AB 1078 (Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen, R - Riverbank) would have increased the number of ratings teachers could be assigned and would require educators to be evaluated in part based on student test scores.

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.

In June 2015, she received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama, for her work increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning doctoral degrees in STEM fieldIn June 2015, she received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama, for her work increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning doctoral degrees in STEM fieldin Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama, for her work increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning doctoral degrees in STEM fieldin STEM fields.

Michael Hansen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, is among a number of experts who say minority students may be underperforming because they don't have role models in positions of authority — people who are helping them, and who also look like them.

«The numbers were worse for racial minorities with disabilities: 36 percent of black students with disabilities in secondary school were suspended at least once.»

Those numbers mean it's nearly impossible for school districts to raise their minority teacher ranks to a level comparable to their students of color, who account for 52 percent of students nationwide — and 80 percent or more of students in the nation's largest districts.

Minority students in New Zealand, including indigenous Maori, are concentrated in the nation's poorest schools, while fewer than 1 percent of students of European descent are enrolled in schools with the highest number of low - income students.

To some experts, this research suggests that a teacher with a large number of low - achieving minority children in a classroom, for example, might have a more difficult job than another teacher with few such 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.

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.

The school is producing more National Merit honorees than ever before and, in the past five years, has doubled the number of students taking and passing advanced placement exams, even as the percentages of low - income students, minority students, and English language learners have increased.