Sentences with phrase «only for students of color»

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One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

A survey covering 2005 through 2013 found 71.6 percent of rising eighth graders were students of color, but only 52 percent of those students took an admissions test for specialized high schools.

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In communities of color, that number is closer to one in 10 students, with only 13 percent of black and Latino students graduate high school ready for the next level.

To overcome the isolation of being the only minority, I became active with a campus organization for minority graduate students — Graduate Students of Color in students — Graduate Students of Color in Students of Color in Science.

«If you're the only teacher of color in a school, you become the house mom for all the students of color.

This good news applies to students of color, primarily Latino kids, but only for progress in mathematics.

During the first iteration of the work, these students were relegated to few spaces on campuses, and typically administrators and faculty of color were the only personnel who cared for or tended to these students.

The neoliberal privatization movement has presented «choice» as a civil rights effort — and as the only option for changing the status quo for these historically underserved students of color.

Myers - Wilkins is the district's only such school, designated by the state for having more students of color than white students.

A report released by the Center for American Progress (2011) indicated minority students made up more than 40 percent of the national public school population, while only 17 percent of the nation's teachers are teachers of color.

The failure in foundational math classes for urban students of color is evident in the fact that only between 8 and 10 percent of African American and Latino students are proficient in algebra, based on the 2008 California Standards Test (CST) of algebra.

In addition, Walker's budget eliminates Chapter 220 — the only educational program in Milwaukee designed to reduce racial segregation in public schools and improve equal opportunity for students of color.

This matters because students of color need teachers who not only set rigorous standards for them but teachers who also can provide models of professional success.

The situation is bleaker for students of color: only 17 % of black students left high school ready for college in reading, compared to 46 % of white students.

Only half of all district students who graduated in 2013 earned a C or better in those courses, and the situation was worse for students of color.

In the 1990s, when the idea of serious consequences for school performance was only starting to develop in states, the achievement gaps between whites and students of color actually grew in some key areas.

WHEREAS, the NAACP recognizes that at best, quality charter schools serve only a small percentage of children of color and disadvantaged students for whom the NAACP advocates relative to said population left behind in failing schools; and

Fewer than 30 % of Colorado's graduates (and only a small percentage of them are low - income or students of color) are currently prepared for these jobs.

I actually used to have a page in my notebook for writing them down, but I quit making it when it started to get too weird to read: when besides the normal things like the toilet backed up again, or they called to say they were turning off the electricity, there were things like she lost the ticket stub from some hippie concert twenty years ago where she met the guy she should have married but never saw again, or the color of the dryer lint made her remember a sweater she once had when she was an exchange student in Belgium, back when she thought she would become an archaeologist when she grew up, but now she was only someone who worked in a deli and sometimes did catering and couldn't even say one sentence in Flemish anymore.

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These objects not only tell the story of Fairhill (students were discouraged to drink the water), but also of the violence committed against communities of color and their ongoing struggle for civil rights.