Sentences with phrase «of black students»

By comparison, researchers found, only 36 percent of black students in traditional public school attended schools where at least 90 percent of students were of color.

Nearly 40 percent of black students in 2000 attended schools that were 90 to 100 percent black — up steadily from a low of 32 percent in 1988.

According to a published settlement agreement, the investigation found that schools with higher percentages of black students established stricter punishment for discipline incidents.

There were a number of black students in attendance, and up to 15 postdocs, many who were meeting each other for the first time.

The government points only to studies that show the proportion of black students who receive certain penalties to be greater than their proportion of the students in the government's data set.

At the 8th - grade level, 54 percent of black students scored at or above basic, compared with 83 percent of white students.

Overall, the proportion of black students in a county who are enrolled in public schools is an average of 17 percent higher than white students.

The share of black students attending schools that are more than 90 percent minority grew from 34 percent in 1989 to 39 percent in 2007.

The study found that there is a decrease in the dropout rates of Black students and an increase in their likelihood to pursue higher education.

Just 51 percent of black students graduate from high school; the graduation rate among white students is 72 percent (see Figure 1).

Just 8 percent of the Black students from poor families and 15 percent of those from more prosperous families score at the proficient or above levels.

He was also one of the small minority of black students on the campus of about 1,500 of the nation's most ambitious future lawyers, judges, and corporate executives.

Generally speaking, a larger concentration of black students is related to increased separation of white students.

Much of the increase in suburban diversity can be attributed to rising shares of black students attending suburban schools — up to a little over a third of the enrollment by 2010.

The high - suspension - rate schools are where the most dramatic decline in the number of suspensions has occurred, but they are also where most suspensions of black students continue to occur.

Given that the vast majority of black students continue to fall short of proficiency, more targeted initiatives or new programs may be needed.

For instance, black teachers seem to view the behavior of black students as less disruptive than other teachers.

While the district's population of black students averages about 15 percent in its elementary schools, black student enrollment at the five schools ranges from about 31 to 56 percent.

Although the city is one of the highest - scoring urban districts in the state overall, 74 percent of black students did not meet state standards.

Only 4 % of black students performed at that level, despite their 15 % share of the total participant pool.

But nearly 60 percent of black students said that their parents are resistant to their interracial relationships.

When representatives of a «civil rights organization» don't have a clue about the current state of affairs of millions of Black students, we have a colossal problem.

Instead, eliminating affirmative action has decreased the ability of black students to attend public colleges across the board, with a pronounced effect in less selective institutions.

And 4.1 percent of black students reported going to class late «often,» versus 2.2 percent of white students (See Figure 1).

In most of the jurisdictions with disproportionate arrests of black students, the disparities are significant.

Most of my blogs focus on the experiences of Black students and teachers.

Interested in how socially constructed identities are understood in relation to education experiences and outcomes of Black students.

Promoting increased representation of black students in law schools and law firms is our primary mission.

Something like that is obviously true of black students in charter schools.

A veteran educator shares his strategies for getting more black male teachers in front of black students.

Therefore, any negative peer effects associated with being in classes with large shares of black students largely reflect the impact of being exposed to low - income students.

The integration of black students, the new study shows, had improved steadily from the 1960s through the late 1980s.

One way to improve the skills of black students is to encourage them to stay in school for a longer period of time.

The effects of the reform on the teacher workforce have been particularly meaningful in schools with higher percentages of black students because they were more likely to have teachers extended rather than granted tenure.

Schools enrolling a greater percentage of black students exhibit higher suspension rates for black students than schools with fewer black students.

They won't be considered when we talk about the academic progress of black students, and they won't be celebrated when they do make progress.

I think often of my black students who, in many cases, will never have a teacher who looks like them.

For white students of similar backgrounds, the «penalty» for attending a school with greater numbers of black students disappeared.

But when the class consisted of black students who were doing poorly, that reaction was not acceptable.

Those changes have come as the number of black students in the district has increased and the number of whites has declined.

Among boys, only 39 percent of black students graduated by age 19, compared with 51 percent of Latino students and 58 percent of white students.

In contrast, charter schools have a higher proportion of black students (about 70 %) and a lower proportion of Hispanic students (about 20 %).

The research also revealed a racial dimension with 56 % of Asian and 42 % of black students saying they had experienced tutoring, compared with 25 % of white children.

Recent improvements in mathematics standards may have contributed significantly to the ability of black students to score higher.

And 4.1 percent of black students reported going late to class «often,» versus 2.2 percent of white students.

More than 10 percent of black students in the city's schools were suspended at least once, compared with fewer than 1 percent of white students.

In 2002, 46 percent of black students were enrolled in a dropout factory.