Sentences with phrase «on black student»

She co-edited (with Erin McNamara Horvat) the book, Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement.

Tenth Anniversary National Conference, National Higher Education Conference on Black Student Retention

Using the national standard deviation to scale all scores, the effect of attending a private school on black students is only one - fifth to one - quarter as large as the black - white gap.

Black males in such schools fare the worst, penalized seven times as harshly as my estimate of the average effect of acting white on all black students!

First, the negative peer effect of black students on black students» own scores is largest in cohorts that are between 33 and 66 percent black.

For example, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton used data on black students in South Africa during apartheid to measure the effects of class size.

The impact of having a same - race teacher on black students» discipline rates is consistently negative across all of the outcomes we examine, including detention, in - school suspension, out - of - school suspension, and the overall number of disciplinary incidents.

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.

The signatories of the letter are equally concerned with the impact of the waiver on Black students, who are disproportionately represented among students labeled as disabled.

UCLA's Civil Rights Project calculated that 77 % of the decline in state suspensions from 2012 - 2014 were in the disruption / defiance category.13 Reducing suspensions — and the disparate impact of suspensions on black students — has been the subject of national attention and discussion for several years.

It is true that black students are suspended at disproportionately high rates, but the negative effects of disruptive students on rule - abiding peers almost certainly fall disproportionately on black students as well.

How do PTP educators respond to the impact of race on school climate and on black students» performance?

And, now there is a growing body of research that continues to confirm what we have always known: Having more black teachers can have a tremendous impact on black students.

Several teachers in our sample also mentioned the possibility that some black teachers can have a negative influence, particularly on black students.

Later in 2016, Yale research revealed that preschool teachers focus more on black students, especially black males, when looking for poor behavior, even when no such behavior is taking place.

Indeed, while these phenomena hold true regardless of race, Pinellas» disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline measures on black students undoubtedly contributes to the double - digit achievement gap.

During the press conference, Cheatham also recognized how great the charge is to show academic improvement for the district's most vulnerable populations, with a particular focus on black students.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration and the GOP - controlled Congress should focus on saving millions of American students and their families — not to mention the larger US economy — from this long - term financial black hole.

Black students at the University of Pennsylvania were added to a racist GroupMe message on Friday that included violent threats toward them.

Professor Matthew Colless, Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ANU, when he was a graduate student at Cambridge, had Hawking as a lecturer on gravitational physics and black holes.

Black also hosted a series of informal «town hall» gatherings on college campuses, inviting college students and local high school kids to talk about how they see their futures.

Student Union, on the first day of Black History Month.

Actor Michael Ian Black took to Twitter on Sunday, a day after thousands of students marched in favor of gun control, and claimed that a solution to gun - related violence is «to repeal and replace and the Second Amendment.»

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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.

«The platform us Parkland Students have established is to be shared with every person, black or white, gay or straight, religious or not, who has experienced gun violence, and hand in hand, side by side, We Will Make This Change Together,» she also wrote on Twitter.

For black Parkland students like 17 - year - old Kai Koerber, calls to increase police presence on campus and other security measures proposed after the February mass shooting have only made them more anxious.

These words, printed in white letters on a black T - shirt, are the foundation of Laurel resident Luke Roberts» new mobile app, which raises funds for food to serve students in need and their families through a Maryland...

On May 2 and May 6, six student survivors of the Stoneman Douglas massacre will appear at Boca Black Box Center for the Arts in a production of «Spring Awakening,» the hit Broadway musical that has eerie parallels to the Feb. 14 shooting.

Only about one black student in seven scores above the 50th percentile on standardized college admissions tests.

It's a shame that the coaches just put a black mark on the university and now the students rioting are.

A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

Earlier that semester, two black student organizations had met for an event on the quad, many of us clad in Harvard crimson.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

The blacks, advised by two white women students from Cape Town University, are to put on a play in their own tribal language, whose general drift, if not clear from the action, will be explained by locals at your side.

The black student on the Columbia campus is not Martin Heidegger, though Cornel West and the others who clapped their hands for the Washington march may be.

Recently pressures have been brought to bear on Congress and the president by blacks, the elderly, women, consumers, public employees, welfare mothers, the poor, atheists, militant students, homosexuals, Indians, and minorities of all sorts.

Black students are on the mark when they say that religion is what black folk do when they are not able to do anything Black students are on the mark when they say that religion is what black folk do when they are not able to do anything black folk do when they are not able to do anything else.

He was the only black student delegate to be chosen from Missouri to attend the conference that met on a college campus in Iowa.

When most students are busy sun bathing, breaking out the bikinis, and reveling in the lovely spring weather, we were busy putting on our heaviest winter gear, wiping out on black ice, and freezing our butts off braving the long walk to lecture halls.

Students at Boston Public Schools are finding more prominent placement of meat - free dishes in their cafeterias on Mondays and are filling their trays with black bean burrito bowls, garden fresh salads topped with chickpeas, protein - packed chili, and more.

Originally a prank by students who'd speed unsanctioned on horseback across the football field before games, the mysterious rider on a black horse became the official mascot at the 1954 Gator Bowl, when Joe Kirk Fulton's official entrance as the Masked Rider inspired The Atlanta Journal's Ed Danforth to write, «No team in any bowl game ever made a more sensational entrance.»

The two seniors also are active members on campus and in the Black Student Union.

In addition to training students and having awarded an average of three black belts every year over the past 30 years, the Krupas are perhaps the most fulfilled by the impact they've had on their students: «To watch a young person who grew up here go off to college and now make their way in the world is so rewarding,» said Joyce.

Here is where we would pick up the boat, stopping at Coimbra on the way, a university town where the students all wear black clothes and black capes so that no - one knows if you are poor or rich, a town of more narrow streets, alleyways and pavement cafes.

In a second, parallel study in which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-it.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Based on 2010 statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of black students, 77 percent of Latino students, and 68 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native students were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, compared to only 28 percent of white students.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz testified before Congress at a panel on economic opportunity for African - Americans, arguing that elements of her charter school network could be applied nationwide to help address educational disparities for black students.