Sentences with phrase «of white students»

Meanwhile, 56 percent of white students scored proficient in reading on the tests and 63 percent in math.

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.

Conversely, the percentage of white students receiving vouchers increased from 46 percent in the first year to 60 percent in 2016 — 17.

Over four decades, the achievement gap decreased: black and Hispanic students made academic progress while the scores of white students also increased.

In both language arts and math, there was a difference of as much as 30 percent in the passing rates of white students and African - American or Hispanic students.

Many of the white students who benefit from having a black male teacher will grow up to influence policy, police neighborhoods, and raise a new generation.

By contrast, only 5 percent of white students attended schools where enrollment was 75 percent or more students of color.

The statistics are alarming: more than 80 percent of white students graduate from high school, while barely 60 percent of African - American and Hispanic students graduate.

The proportion of white students in that age group with a high school diploma has stayed the same — about 87 percent.

In 2002, 31 percent of black students were considered proficient in math, for example, while 65 percent of white students met that standard.

-- The vast majority of white students, including poor students, are in classrooms with other students who aren't poor.

Hispanic students are also scoring higher but again not at the level of white students, while their percentage of all students has dramatically increased.

While only 15 percent of students in the nation's capital attend private schools, 57 percent of white students do.

It is projected that by 2022, there will be a sixteen percent decrease in the enrollment of white students in public schools nationwide.

In all three, the population of white students is greater than 90 percent.

This does not capture any movement of white students to private schools.

Are the schools with higher proportions of white students considered the «better» schools, and does official data about school achievement back this up?

While the number of white students taking AP exams grew in recent years, it grew more slowly than the numbers in other groups.

Furthermore, 12 percent of the city's schools had populations composed 25 percent or more of white students.

In other words, teachers may perceive high ability as a natural characteristic of white students, while they may fail to recognize high ability among students of color.

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

How does this compare with the experience of white students?

In middle school, the percentage of white students drops to less than 6 percent.

Why is a school labeled as «good» once there is a critical mass of white students within its walls?

But none of the charters listed serve a significant percentage of white students.

The new report shows proficiency rates in reading and math improving for black students, but still far below rates of white students.

Only 14 percent of white students attend «multicultural» schools (in which three racial groups each make up at least 10 percent of the pupil population).

88 % of white students graduated in contrast to 78 % of Hispanic students, and there has been a 6.1 % increase since 2010.

For the first time, the overall number of Latino, African - American, and Asian students in public K - 12 schools is expected to surpass the number of white students.

In math, 56 % of students of color met or exceeded expectations, while 70 % of white students met or exceeded expectations.

That number is projected to decline to 15 percent by 2025, by which time the proportion of white students will have fallen to 46 percent.

Black students are performing better than in years past but not at the level of white students, while their percentage of all students has grown.

Eighty - three per cent of Chinese pupils on free school meals achieve five Cs or above in their GCSEs, yet just 35 per cent of white students on FSMs in England do — comfortably the lowest of any ethnic group.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

In both reading and math, while the absolute performance of white students in Houston is higher than that of Hispanics and African - Americans, it is clear that the upward trend in performance for minority students in Houston is steeper than that of whites.

Largely as a result of this increase, the percentage of white students decreased from 68 to 55 percent over those two decades.

Eighty - three per cent of Chinese pupils on free school meals achieve five Cs or above in their GCSEs, yet just 35 per cent of white students do.

Three weeks earlier, three black students transferred from the school after a group of white students claimed that they had organized students to vote for white student groups at a school «lip sync» music contest.

An increase in slave concentration is related to greater underrepresentation of white students in public schools.

Although stated in race - neutral terms, none of its carefully selected examples indicate that ED or DOJ will ever intervene on behalf of white students claiming to be victims of discrimination, even though Title VI, which starts with the words «no person» was consciously drafted in race - neutral terms.

The achievement gaps between white students and their black and Hispanic peers in grade - 4 mathematics widened as a result of an eight - point increase in the percentage of white students achieving at or above the proficient level.

In 2013, 43 percent of white students received the Advanced Designation diploma, compared with only 9 percent of black students and 12 percent of Hispanic students.

Over the last 20 years, the percent of White students of the total state student population has declined by 21 %, while the percent of Latino students has doubled and the percent of Asian students has grown by over 60 %.

The percentage of students in public schools who belong to a racial or ethnic minority group increased from 22 percent in 1972 to 43 percent in 2006, with a corresponding decrease from 78 percent to 57 percent in the percentage of white students enrolled (Planty et al., 2008).