Sentences with phrase «of black students because»

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.

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Since we generally accept that African Americans are not intellectually inferior to whites, then we are led to conclude that black students do better in integrated school settings because the school district and faculty are better invested because of the presence of the white students.

But Benjamin cautioned that members of the black and Latino caucus are very much opposed to the idea of untethering SUNY from the Legislature's control, in part due to a concern that tuitions would rise out of the reach of low and middle - income students, but also simply because lawmakers don't like the idea of giving up control of anything.

Our findings suggest that rising student loan debt may serve to make the black middle class more fragile, because the latest generation of black young adults are more burdened with debt while also getting fewer payoffs to college.

Troy is the son of the Dean of Students (Dennis Haysbert), and is dating the white daughter of the school President, whose son Kurt (Kyle Gallner) is one of those sorts of people who think the black population is no longer oppressed because Affirmative Action exists.

Testa: Students who have read the Black Panther comic books may dismiss the movie because of ways it differs from the original text, but students» exploration of the film does not need to be limited to whether or not it is faithful to the original litStudents who have read the Black Panther comic books may dismiss the movie because of ways it differs from the original text, but students» exploration of the film does not need to be limited to whether or not it is faithful to the original litstudents» exploration of the film does not need to be limited to whether or not it is faithful to the original literature.

Sometimes the personality and personal choices can be as minor as washing your hair every day until it turns brittle because you're tired of explaining why most Black students don't wash their hair every day.

Third, just the other day, a USA Today column called for shuttering a Kansas City charter school whose students recently won the National Society of Black Engineers Robotics Competition because its test scores are only average.

[3] The old conventional wisdom may be intuitively appealing because aggregate disability rates — with no adjustments for family income or other student characteristics — are higher for students who are black (1.4 times) or Native American (1.7), and lower for whites (0.9) and Asians (0.5), with Hispanic students about as likely to be identified as the rest of the population.

DeVos says that because of racism, black students did not have choices in those days, and that she meant to praise HBCUs for «pioneering on behalf of students that didn't have another choice.

Here, however, are the eighth - grade math results for black students in all participating cities (Albuquerque is excluded because its sample of black students is too small to permit a reliable estimate).

While pass rates in the first college - level course («gateway» course) in each subject decreased modestly (from 75 to 73 percent in English composition, and from 65 to 58 percent in math), because more students attempted these gateway courses the overall percentage of students successfully completing them rose markedly (by 7 percentage points in English and 4 percentage points in math), with larger increases for black students.

Because of the state's segregated school system, W. S. Creecy's students were all black.

Because black students in the Golden State are about three times as likely to live in single - parent homes, this out - of - school factor explains a big part of California's racial suspensions gap.

Case in point: in the past few years, when new games of any import (according to the students) were released, many of them missed school because they attended the midnight release of the game (e.g. Skyrim, Assassin's Creed III, Black Ops and so on).1

First, ethnographic studies have suggested that black students are less inclined to try hard in school because their peers may view academic effort as characteristic of «acting white.»

One can not infer that any administrators treat white and black students differently, because all administrators are dealing with students of only one race.

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

Because your policy of suspending students who get into fights on school grounds will be said to have had an «adverse impact» on black students, you will face, at minimum, the negative publicity that comes from a civil rights investigation.

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

The issue of teacher diversity is important because research has suggested that students who are racially paired with teachers — black teachers working with black students and Hispanic teachers working with Hispanic students — do better academically.

Changing this is the great challenge for schools, because the share of black and Hispanic students is growing.

Inference 3 is closely related to Inference 2, because students who develop only a «black box» view of technology may also come to trust the technology to produce answers for them even when it is not an appropriate tool to use for approaching a given problem.

I realize now that part of the reason that I never felt pressed to attend, was because I had been privileged to work in school communities (mostly) that believed in me as a Black male educator, that were full of Black men choosing to show up excellent for the students that we served, and that supported my growth.

But I am intentionally — and unapologetically — focusing on black male teachers because black male students continue to be one of the most underserved populations in schools.

A growing body of research shows that in many instances gifted black and Hispanic students are disproportionally denied access to gifted education because of the methods and instruments used.

Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino students» «urban culture.»

And it is obvious that this is a «black on black» crime because the mojority of the students appear to be African Americans and the head of the union is black himself.

I have had teachers consult me about bringing criminal charges against black boys because of incidents that were very damaging, but could have been resolved by asking me to model the appropriate adult behavior to mend the student - teacher relationship.

Charter schools attract a higher percentage of black students than traditional public schools, in part because they tend to be located in urban areas.

It's not a huge disparity, but Ervin says hiring more black teachers is a priority because they have the lowest retention rate in the district and often feel overwhelmed helping students of color work through issues the students are facing in their community.

The majority of articles and studies on gifted minority students have focused on issues of identification, primarily because some minority groups of gifted learners, particularly Black, Hispanic American, and Native American, have been underrepresented in gifted programs.

According to Leah Latimer, author of Higher Ground: A Guide for Black Parents to Chart a Successful Course for Their Children from Kindergarten to College, high achieving students stand out among their peers because they knew what they needed to do well before the time came to do it.

This message of «I'm going to push you to excel because I believe in you» is particularly important for building the efficacy of black students, and it's especially powerful when all staff members in a school communicate it.

This self - analysis is particularly important because most black students are taught by teachers of a different race.

In fact, SF NAACP President Amos Brown told the local school board that it should declare a state of emergency, because just 19 percent of black students are proficient in English, compared to 31 percent of black students statewide.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

Mystic Valley Regional Charter School disciplined black and biracial students because of hairstyles that violate the school's dress code policy.

«Because it's all black boys, the guys here don't have to imagine a black boy as valedictorian, or as head of student council,» Woodward says.

See, the judicial branch of the U.S. government concluded that segregation was inherently inequitable, but they claimed this was because it was deeply harmful to Black students to be educated separately.

Instead of addressing the uncomfortable truth that some educators are not the best fit at urban schools, or helping educators improve their practice to help them become more successful working with students who are different from them, schools go for the quick fix which, to them, means as a black educator you can expect to have difficult students in your class because you can handle them.

The only BASIS school in this report that enrolled significantly more students of color than the surrounding district was BASIS Chandler, and in this case it was because the majority of students were Asian; there were very few Black and Hispanic students in that population.

However, the specialized high school system is often labeled by Black and Latino parents and students as being only for White and Asian students because of the schools are assumed to be strictly STEM focus.

But community members rallied to keep it open, in part because of its auspicious beginnings — it was the first public school for black students in Brooklyn, opening the same year that slavery ended in New York, 1827 — and in part because parents weren't convinced that a new school would solve old problems.

Nevertheless, an important thing to note is that the student test scores in PS 307 «are closer to the average for black and Hispanic students» (Taylor, Sept. 2015), which is an important fact to acknowledge because it demonstrates a different type of achievement and success that is not usually recognized.

The exhibition has been particularly interesting to the students because most were not only unfamiliar with the black artists from the time period, but many were also unaware of Los Angeles history as a whole.

While other students were presenting portraits of family and friends, when he showed his drawings of his family, they were seen as social realism because they were images of black people.

The 26 - year - old MIT student, with duel masters in aerospace and mechanical engineering, did just that, because, hey, you spend a lot of time working on that black and white beauty.