Sentences with phrase «of white classmates»

Nationwide, black students are suspended at three times the rates of their white classmates, and students with disabilities are two times more likely to be suspended and expelled than general education students.

A handful of white classmates befriended black students, but they were rarities.

Going to school outside of Harlem exposed me to the successful actors, authors, scientists, diplomats, and artists who were the parents of my white classmates; I was often invited to spend weekends at their homes.

Not exact matches

«We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump's support of Nazism and white supremacy.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

Before going into that White House listening session with classmates and parents of the latest mass school massacre victims in Florida, President Donald Trump had a brief cheat - sheet from an aide advising him to tell them: «I hear you.»

That pitch came from the left arm of Ross Baumgarten, a junior high school classmate in a suburb north of Chicago, who went on to pitch for the hometown White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers in the «Jena Six» case is accused of beating a white classmate, was sentenced to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property.

A petition to the White House is asking for a JROTC member credited with saving several of his classmates» lives during the Parkland shooting to be given a full - honors military burial.

«Most people don't realize that in the»80s and»90s Gentile had an impressive record as a prosecutor in the Queens D.A.'s office,» he said, pointing in particular to the now - councilman's prominent case against three white St. John's University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a black classmate in 1990.

According to the New Haven Register, Sotomayor told fellow classmates at her Yale Law School Reunion over the weekend she had planned to buy a new outfit for the event, but the White House instead asked she bring five suits to Washington, one of which they would pick for her to wear.

Samantha runs afoul of the college dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has his own race - related conflicts to deal with, having played second fiddle to the college's white president (Peter Syvertsen) since the two were classmates decades ago.

Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.

SYNOPSIS: Carrie White is a shy teenager who endures a daily ritual of bullying from her classmates who torment her mercilessly at school, while also being subjective to repeated abuse from her religious fanatic -LSB-...]

James White is the debut feature of writer - director Josh Mond, who's part of a filmmaking collective with his former NYU classmates Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin.

Now they share the prospect of being stereotyped by white classmates cavorting around in blackface dressed as pimps and gangstas, and as icons like President Obama and Aunt Jemima.

Most significantly, Coleman asserted that disadvantaged black students would do better academically if they attended schools in which the majority of their classmates were white.

Given this housing pattern and the declining share of elementary and secondary school students who are white, African American students are likely to have fewer white and more Hispanic and Asian classmates in the years to come.

My inaugural day at P.S. 183 included indignities like having my hair rubbed by one of my new classmates, a white girl who asked how I managed to comb it.

I never took the opportunity to learn what integration meant to my white classmates and teachers, but it certainly did not mean asking any of them to take my place at P.S. 121 in East Harlem.

This implies that high - poverty schools are, on average, much less effective than lower - poverty schools, and suggests that strategies that reduce the differential exposure of black, Hispanic, and white students to poor classmates may lead to meaningful reductions in academic achievement gaps.

Even more sobering, the analysis shows that the largest gaps between white children and their minority classmates emerge in some of the wealthiest communities, such as Berkeley, Calif.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Evanston, Ill..

Graduations Up, Dropouts Down in LAUSD, Statewide High school graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified and districts across California increased last year, with Latino students showing larger gains than their white and Asian classmates, the state Department of Education said Tuesday.

The state's performance on the National Assessment of Educational Performance (NAEP) has plateaued while Black and low - income students have fallen further behind their white and higher - income classmates.

I fiddled with my cellphone until a classmate, a white guy who was on the track team with most of the other black guys in my grade, came down the main stairs and offered me a lift.

The difference in the rate at which black, Hispanic, and white students go to school with poor classmates is the best predictor of the racial - achievement gap.

This finding «confirms decades of research that white students» achievement is not harmed» by the color of their classmates» skin, says Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, an education professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who researches race, stratification and inequality in American schools.

However, if we examine the subset of Arizona elementary schools that educate both white and ELL students, ELL test - takers trailed their white classmates by only 27 percentage points.

The typical Latino student in the region attends a school where less than a quarter of their classmates are white; nearly two - thirds are other Latinos; and two - thirds are poor.

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As the number of Hispanic students in Connecticut's schools continues to rise, the achievement gap between these students and their white classmates remains.

Yes, those politicians talk a lot about the «achievement gap» that separates those students from their more privileged white and Asian - American classmates, and throw a lot of money at it.

That's particularly true regarding how well schools are using billions of dollars in extra state aid to close the «achievement gap» separating poor, Latino and black students from their more affluent white and Asian classmates.

No matter who you're shopping for, the right book is waiting.WHITE HOUSE HISTORYAs an elementary school student, I had the good fortune to be part of a private White House Christmas tour led by my classmate's aunt, who was First Lady Pat Nixon's press secretary.

He has little success at some of the schools, mostly because of cultural differences with his white teachers and classmates.

Monroe was used as a base for some of the Freedom Riders, who aimed to desegregate interstate bus travel, and was also the site of the infamous Kissing Case, where two young African - American boys were convicted of molestation for kissing a white classmate on the cheek.

Abney's breakthrough came with her MFA thesis painting Class of 2007 in which she painted her classmates as black prisoners whom she guarded, depicting herself as white.

It was her now - famous large - scale painting from her M.F.A. thesis show at Parsons titled Class of 2007, which depicted her fellow classmates, who were all white, as black inmates, while Nina, the only black student in her class, painted herself as a gun - toting white prison guard with flowing blonde locks.

While his early pieces were black and white, as in the series «Linienbildern» (Line Paintings)(1966 - 69), he began to explore vibrant, saturated color in 1974 with his friend and classmate Blinky Palermo, to whom he would dedicate «24 Farben für Blinky» («24 Colors for Blinky»)(1977), a series of brightly colored irregular shapes.

For his video «Minority Report,» the artist enlarged a well - known 1957 photograph of a black girl walking to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., harassed by white classmates.