Sentences with phrase «on black student achievement»

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

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Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.

Not surprisingly, the more teachers believed they could make a difference, the better both black and white students scored on achievement tests.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

The achievement gap between Black and Hispanic students and white students remained, but the minority students outperformed their counterparts on a national level.

Recalling that black students have the lowest scores on both the reading and math tests, one can see that these results can be interpreted as the effects of peer achievement.

The impact that the changing demographic composition of schools could have on the achievement of black students is not clear, especially given the difficulty of isolating the effects of desegregation.

• Close achievement gap for blacks, Hispanics, ELL, and students with disabilities by 20 percent on the NAEP exams

, American Economic Review, 2005; Anna Egalite, Brian Kisida, and Marcus Winters, «Representation in the Classroom: The Effect of Own - Race Teachers on Student Achievement», Economics of Education Review, 2015; Stephen Holt and Seth Gershenson, «The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions», IZA discussion paper 9554, 2015; and Constance Lindsay and Cassandra Hart, «Exposure to Same - Race Teachers and Student Disciplinary Outcomes for Black Students in North Carolina», Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017.

For example, from 1990 to 2007, black students» scale scores increased 34 points on the NAEP 4th - grade mathematics tests (compared with a 28 - point increase for whites), and the black - white achievement gap declined from 32 to 26 points during this period.

Reality: There's some evidence indicating that integrated schools have a positive impact on the achievement of minority students, especially blacks.

We know for a fact that balanced literacy has had little effect on closing stubborn achievement gaps separating black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian peers.

Even though the achievement gap has not narrowed — black youngsters now score on NAEP where white fourth graders did several decades ago — are not the black student achievement gains evidence that, when teachers know what to do, they do it?

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

These patterns suggest that increasing exposure to black teachers is beneficial at best and neutral at worst for all students in terms of discipline, and that increasing teacher diversity while keeping teacher quality constant would have a modest positive effect on the reading achievement of black students while having an opposite effect on the math achievement of white students.

To get specific: In Chicago Public Schools ~ white and Asian students made minor gains on NAEP in reading between 2003 and 2009 ~ but Hispanic students gained little and blacks gained nothing ~ so the achievement gap widened between whites and minorities at the fourth and eighth grade levels.

At a gardenless charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test scores have been rising steadily.»

We also linked the lottery data to publicly available CPS data on students» middle schools, including the percentage of 8th graders who scored proficient or better on the math section of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), the percentage scoring proficient or better on the reading section, and the percentage of black or Hispanic students.

They use the same research - based formative learning processes that raise student achievement by focusing on three powerful sources of evidence, knowing where learning is headed, having a clear understanding of where it is now and using up - to - the - minute evidence to decide what to do next to improve understanding (Black & Wiliam, 1998; Moss & Brookhart, 2009, 2012).

For instance, the high school graduation rate is at a record high, and the test scores of Black and Hispanic students have outpaced those of white students on long - term measures of reading and math achievement.

This is equivalent to closing the achievement growth gap on NWEA for low - income students by approximately 45 percent, nearly closing the gap for Black students, and more than closing the gap for Hispanic students.

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

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.

The Education Trust West recently released a report, Black Minds Matter, that lays out the troubling impact, on students and their future, if «the California Department of Education [continues to] lack an office, initiative or committee focused on African American achievement or the achievement gap, more generally.»

It's a sign that the Clinton district, located in a small but bustling suburb of Jackson, is on the right track to closing the black - white achievement gap and raising achievement levels for black students.

Humphries said in an interview that Evers was too focused on objecting to the expansion of private voucher and independent charter schools and not focused enough on raising student achievement and closing the gap in academic achievement between white and black students.

Average test scores on accountability assessments throughout the 1990s show an increased gap in achievement between black and white students (Harris & Herrington, 2006).

Although we've focused more and more attention on dealing with the seemingly intractable gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and white students in the last quarter century, we've made little progress in closing the gaps.

Black students» achievement on state tests in math increased from 17 percent scoring proficient or advanced during the 2009 - 10 school year to 18.3 percent.

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

But Holtz said focusing on the job offer deal is simply diverting attention from the state's gap in academic achievement between black and white students, which he said he blamed Evers for letting become the worst in the nation.

The other thing that's really bad news: I think for the first time on at least some of those measures, our black students performed worse than some states that traditionally have the lowest achievement rates.

Most of the questions contained in this study guide are ones you can think about on your own, but you might consider pairing with a colleague or forming a study group with others who have read (or are reading) Raising Black Students» Achievement through Culturally Responsive Teaching.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

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Nonetheless, the persistent academic achievement gap between white and Asian American students on one hand and black and Hispanic students on the other hand indicates that many potentially gifted children of particular backgrounds are left behind.

The achievement gap between students of different races has been well - documented, and the San Francisco Unified School District is trying something it hopes will address the disparities early on: Hiring more black teachers.

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Looking across ELA and math scores on state exams for New York City students in grades three through eight in 2003, the achievement gap separating black and Latino students from white and Asian students was.74 of a standard deviation.

He also shared his concern that black, Latino, and low - income students still fall below their white and more affluent peers on measures of achievement, in large part due to inequitable access to resources, effective educators, and rigorous coursework.

Put simply, when it comes to improving student achievement, especially for black children, suburban Ferguson - Florissant often does little better than big - city St. Louis on many measures.

There «s a lot of talk in Connecticut about closing the achievement gap between affluent students who are predominately white and poor students who are predominately black or brown, but there have been no effective actions taken and none are on the horizon.

«For the most representative sample of black elementary school students, offering a voucher had no statistically discernible impact on achievement scores in the New York City experiment.»

Looking at the issue of gender with a racial lens, this new area of Schott's work — including the ongoing biennial report series on Black Boys educational achievement nationwide — has led school districts across the country to re-examine how they educate and measure the outcomes of the students who are most vulnerable to failure in the education system.

States applying for the grants will also asked to show that they are paying teachers based on performance, intervening faster to turn around their lowest - performing schools, authorizing more charter schools and closing achievement gaps such as those between white students and their black and Latino peers.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

And it is reflected in education, in my opinion, on the way we allow schools and classrooms serving black students to fail year after year but then blame their lower achievement on poverty (but..

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.

RICHMOND, Va. — Student achievement on Standards of Learning (SOL) tests during 2016 - 2017 was relatively unchanged compared with performance during the previous school year, although black students made gains on five of the six elementary and middle school reading tests, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) reported today.

Justice Quince has received the following honors and awards: 2017, National Bar Association Hall of Fame; 2017, Women Lawyers Division Jurist of the Year; 2017 Sharon Press Excellence in ADR; 2008, Lifetime Achievement Award by The Florida Bar's Government Lawyer Section; Florida Commission on the Status of Women, 2007 Florida Women's Hall of Fame award; American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession; 2007 Justice Quince was inducted into Florida Blue Key as an honorary member; 2006 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award; 2006 Rickards High School Outstanding School Volunteer Award; 2005 Key to the City of Winter Haven; 2005 Richard W. Ervin Equal Justice Award; 2004 Key to the City of Panama City, Florida; 2004 Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Black Law Student Association Alumni Achievement Award; 2004 Lee County Association for Women Lawyers and the Lee County Bar Association Award for dedication to the promotion of equality in law and outstanding service as a distinguished member of the Florida judiciary; 2002 Florida Bar Equal Opportunities in the Profession Award; 2002 Florida Girls State Award; 2003 Helping Hand Award; 2003 Southern Women in Public Service Pacesetter Award; 2003 Florida Girls State Award; 2003 Pioneering the Future in our Community Award; 2003 Outstanding Jurist and Howard University Alumna Award; 2001 William H. Hastie Award from the National Bar Association Judicial Council; National Bar Association Presidential Achievement Award; Girl Scouts, Woman of Distinction Award, 2001; National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division Jurist Award for Outstanding Leadership Achievements and Dedicated Service to the Community At Large; Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association for Service on the Bench; Virgil Hawkins Bar Association Award for Community Service and Advancement of Equal Justice Under Law; the Virgil Hawkins Bar Association Certificate for Achievement in Jurisprudence; the Fort Lauderdale High School Award for participating in the School Law Magnet Program; the Broward County School Board Appreciation Award for Inspiration and Devotion to Our Youth; Award of Distinguished Service and Continuing Commitment to the People of Florida from the Fort Lauderdale B'nai B'rith; Proclamation from the Broward Board of County Commissioners stating that February 28, 1999, as «The Honorable Peggy A. Quince Appreciation Day»; Hillsborough County Sheriff's Black Advisory Council Appreciation Award; Lakeland NAACP Award for Contribution to Civil Rights; the African - American Production Company Personal Achievement Award; Paul C. Perkins Bar Association Appreciation Award; Florida State University College of Law Appreciation Certificate for Contributions made to Summer Law Program For Undergraduate Students; Certificate from the Office of the Attorney General, Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute for Exemplary Contributions to Crime Prevention in the State of Florida; and 2016, inducted into Stetson University College of Law Hall of fame.