Sentences with phrase «only white students»

My brother and I attended a failing school where we were the only white students.

At that time, my brother and I were attending a low - performing public school in Harlem, where we were virtually the only white students.

But only white students and advanced learners of all races were more than 50 percent reading - proficient in grades 3 - 5, at 70 percent and 93 percent, respectively.

Not exact matches

He was his class's valedictorian, homecoming king, and a White House Presidential Scholar, a program reserved for only two students per state.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

A young white podiatry student living in another Chicago project said: «The only difficulty in this project is some of the families that the management has admitted and then permitted to remain.

A sense of the changed attitude toward sport — not only among students but among a large, variegated public — can be found in a recent play, The Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler.

White students, who have little reason to believe they'll be judged via teachers» stereotyped views of their race, were only slightly more likely to revise their paper if they got the «high expectations» message.

Ninety six percent of students are white, and only nine percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Its student body is 90 percent white and only six percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.

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.

One only has to stake out the Damen «L» stop on any given weekday morning to see just how cross-pollinated the neighborhood has become; Gypsies, art - students, white - and blue - collar employees of all races stand shoulder to shoulder during the rush hours, submitting themselves to a sort of random casting call, linked only by their roles as commuters... and as neighbors.

In the Rochester district, 80 percent of teachers are white, while only 10 percent of students are, according to the New York State Education Department data website.

«How come schools with 82 percent white students have 44 teams,» asked Bestabe Cordero, a 16 year - old senior at International Community High School in the Bronx, «And my school, which is almost 100 percent students of color, Latino and black students, we only have two teams.

Even in the unlikely scenario that ending racial preferences forced all these students to surrender their seats to white and Asian - American students, acceptance rates for the remaining students would only increase from 10 to 12 %.

Nearly half of white students who expressed interest in biological sciences went on to earn a bachelor's degree in those fields, compared to only 25 percent of URM students.

White and Hagerman connected only because the university started requiring students to see their advisers before registering for classes, White says.

«A lot of people assume that self - defense training only helps individual women, one - by - one, prevent sexual assault,» said Professor Martha McCaughey, speaking in response to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

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This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

Perhaps Roth intends the film to be a cautionary tale against the white savior, as the students» cannibal ordeal only inspires the martyrdom of Justine (Lorenza Izzo), the privileged Ivy League daughter of a U.N. lawyer.

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.

Approximately 38 percent of white students and only 20 percent of black graduates met the academic - curriculum requirements adopted in 1985 by the state's Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning, the report says.

The Student Interaction Plan, which was designed to encourage visits once a month between students in majority black schools and majority white schools, was only implemented for a few years (with minimal participation), and was cut entirely from the budget in 1994.

Recall that some types of acting - white theory say that students are penalized only for trying hard, not for achievement per se.

While one finds some evidence that high - achieving students are more popular among students of other ethnicities, the increment is not enough to offset the decline in popularity within their own ethnic group — a predictable finding, given that black and white students have only, on average, one friend of another ethnicity, and Hispanics just one and a half.

«Integrating 21st - century skills into teaching and assessment... is not only an economic imperative, driven by changes in the workforce, but a vital aspect of improving student learning,» says «Measuring Skills for the 21st Century,» a white paper scheduled for release Nov. 10 by the Washington - based think tank Education...

As we mentioned above, only 40 percent of white students are proficient, but that proficiency rate would place the United States at 9th in the world.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the national average.

In most fields, prospective students can only make an educated guess about the payoff to a post-graduate degree, but, for public school teachers, it appears in black and white on the salary schedule for their district.

While 42 percent of white students and 50 percent of students from Asian and Pacific Islands backgrounds were identified as proficient in math, only 11 percent of African American students, 15 percent of Hispanic students, and 16 percent of Native Americans were so identified.

While 42 percent of white students were identified as proficient in math, only 11 percent of African American students, 15 percent of Hispanic students, and 16 percent of Native Americans were so identified.

In math, the size of the gap has fallen nationally by 0.2 standard deviations, but that still leaves the average black 12th - grade student at only the 19th percentile of the white distribution.

The data clearly paint the need to focus on students of color and low - income students: nationally, only 73 percent of black students, 76 percent of Latino students, and 75 percent of low - income students graduate, compared to 87 percent of white students and 89 percent of middle - and high - income students.

Tasks about «être» and «avoir» - Reminder about what subject pronouns mean in English; - Put the forms of avoir in the box (only the forms of avoir verb are going to go in the box; - A summing up of the avoir verb; - Mini white board activity: students to remember avoir; - Filling gap task about avoir; - Sorting out activity (être / avoir / other); - A summing up of the être verb; - Mini white board activity: Choose the correct form of être according to the subject pronoun; - A find the mistake task; - être or avoir: underline être and circle avoir in the text; - A task where students have to decide whether it is être or avoir; - OXO game; - Plennary, describe a monster picture using être and avoir.

Those black students who transferred to majority - white schools encountered a deeply hostile atmosphere where a range of practices kept them segregated, only now within the school's walls.

At the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic students.

Students who are most willing to contribute to the discussion from the start are not only more confident and extroverted; they also tend to come from more privileged backgrounds — white, male, straight, or wealthy.

It is true that the test - score gap between black and white students narrowed during the 1980s, only to stagnate in the»90s.

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.

Then, when we analyzed the test scores, we were surprised, not only at how well minority students were doing, but at how well white students were doing, too, Owens said.

In this investigation for KS3 students answer the following questions: Using only the red and white rods, how many different ways are there to make up the other colours of rod?

Figure 1 shows that teachers expect 58 percent of white high - school students to obtain a four - year college degree (or more), but anticipate the same for only 37 percent of black students.

Meanwhile, the southern parts of the United States all but closed the school doors to African Americans and only opened them a small crack for all but well - to - do white students throughout most of the 19th century, and even well into the 20th.

Paul Peterson, Ludger Woessmann, and I assessed not only how well our best states were doing but also how well our white students and our children of college educated parents were doing in advanced skills.

Students interested in ecology will not be disappointed by the large variety of subject matter: not only the Galápagos Islands and the monarch butterfly, but also the white stork, the largest of all migratory birds, plus the llama and the hairless dog.

Where Prior Lake enrolls a little over 1,000 students, more than 90 percent of them white and only 1 in 20 on free or reduced - price lunch, Berkeley houses 3,000 students, one - fourth of whom are low - income and two - thirds of whom are nonwhite.

The athlete, we discover, is relegated to dead - end remedial courses and is allowed to persist in his delusion that his athletic prowess will win him a full ride through college; his experience prompts Maran to explore in some detail how academic tracking and other more subtle differences in teachers» expectations contribute to a situation where 60 percent of white Berkeley High graduates attend a four - year college, while only 14 percent of black students earn enough credits to do so.

The only way to sort it out is if you have a given teacher who has taught lots of different types of students — high - income, low - income, African - American, white, Latino — where you can disentangle the effect of a specific teacher from the effect of students» backgrounds.