Sentences with phrase «other black students»

She says the «scope of her experiences involving race» is rooted in her Southern upbringing, attending private schools with only a few other black students.

The typical Virginia black student went to a school where other black students made up twice the share (nearly 47 %) of their overall enrollment in the state (about 24 %).

Now, Culver City's African American students are almost twice as likely to meet standards in math and English language arts as the state average for other Black students.

White students in the district outperform white students across the state on all tests at all grade levels, and black students outperform other black students across the state on most state tests.

What's particularly interesting is that having more black peers appears to be most damaging to other black students.

Her storyline intertwines with three other black students at Winchester who are also struggling: Lionel (Tyler James Williams) wrestles with not being «black enough,» Coco (Teyonah Parris) steps away from black culture unless it can get her places and Troy (Brandon P. Bell) needs to impress his father instead of himself.

Too often I had only been able to turn to other black students for support and understanding.

Ms. Smith's story is not unique — every other black student in her graduating class also enrolled at a historically black college or university, or H.B.C.U., she said.

Not exact matches

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.

The Civil Rights Bill had recently been passed by Congress, and, along with other students from the North, I was in Mississippi helping blacks register to vote.

At the University of Virginia as at other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college students.

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.

Wearing Del Oro's ominous black and gold colors and # 56 lapel pins memorializing Ronny, students whispered to each other wondering how to make sense of it all.

Other victories against hate groups include a $ 6 million judgment that bankrupted the Aryan Nations, a $ 12.5 million jury verdict against the California - based White Aryan Resistance for the death of a black student and a $ 26 million verdict against the Carolina Klan for burning black churches.

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.

It had accused students of fraud, put a black mark against their name which would prevent them being accepted into other countries, conducted dawn raids against them, separated husbands from wives, put many in detention, and then deported them.

Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant and some of the other schools used to have 30 percent black and Hispanics in the school, and now they're down to just a residue of black and Hispanic students.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

Levels of gang activity in a school are also closely related to its safety, and some schools may be safe for some students and not for others (e.g. a gay student is at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many schools, and black students are at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many rural predominantly white schools).

White students in Troy were graduating at higher rates than all others until last year, when they were edged out by black and Hispanic students.

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.

Total 2001 Population: 107320 Male: 48.2 % Female: 51.8 % Under 18: 25.4 % Over 60: 16.8 % Born outside UK: 17.7 % White: 77.5 % Black: 10.2 % Asian: 7.1 % Mixed: 3.7 % Other: 1.5 % Christian: 65.8 % Hindu: 3.1 % Muslim: 3.9 % Full time students: 3.4 % Graduates 16 - 74: 21.9 % No Qualifications 16 - 74: 25.3 % Owner - Occupied: 64.3 % Social Housing: 21.5 % (Council: 13.5 %, Housing Ass.: 7.9 %) Privately Rented: 11.9 % Homes without central heating and / or private bathroom: 8.4 %

«A year at Brown costs $ 34,000, and in addition there are very few students of color in computer science,» says James Wyche, associate provost at Brown University and head of a national project that partners the Ivy League schools and other elite universities with so - called historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

The researchers randomly assigned names to the files, suggesting in some cases that the student was black (with a name such as DeShawn or Darnell) and in other cases that the student was white (with a name such as Greg or Jake).

On the other hand, «historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) such as Howard, Fisk and Clark Atlanta» enroll students who are «on average significantly weaker academically than the black students at Dartmouth and the other Ivies,» the book states.

Half the students wore white shirts, the other half black.

On the other hand, students at historically black liberal arts colleges often work at research universities during the summer, Hammonds says, so she isn't sure how large an effect small colleges have.

Out of about 100 graduate students, there was only one other black female in the program and she was in her 3rd or 4th year.

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

They gave the same test to black and to white students, but told some of these that the test was of intellectual ability, while telling the others that it was a problem - solving task that gave no indication of intelligence.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

«When we analyzed the Keck data, we found the emitting region of SDSS1133 is less than 40 light - years across, and that the center of Markarian 177 shows evidence of intense star formation and other features indicating a recent disturbance that matched what we expected for a recoiling black hole,» said Chao - Ling Hung, a UH Manoa graduate student performing the analysis of the Keck Observatory imaging in the study.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

Although the participation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in advanced high school mathematics classes increased between 1982 and 1994, their scores in standardized mathematics tests were still lower than those of other students, and the discrepancy did not diminish between 1990 and 1996 (NCES, 1996).

Students aged 18 and older, black students, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studStudents aged 18 and older, black students, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studstudents, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studstudents with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the study found.

The annual competition invites students to submit two - minute videos that help educate others about the health benefits of black, green, oolong, and white tea — all of which come from the Camellia sinensis tea plant — for the chance to win a $ 20,000 scholarship.

Nearly 33 percent of White and Black students, who dated together, faced a problem from other Black and White's.

Stars: Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams, China Anne McClain, Christine Adams Producers: Mara Brock Akil, Salim Akil, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter Premise: Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) made his choice: He hung up the suit and his secret identity years ago, but with one daughter hell - bent on justice and the other a star student being recruited by a local gang, he'll be pulled back into the fight as the wanted vigilante and DC legend Black Lightning.

The other members of the SCLC, as well as young students in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and protesters both black and white, are essential actors in the drama, and DuVernay does not ignore them.

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

In other cases it resulted when students had not followed the instruction on the front of each examination paper to use black ink or black ballpoint pen.»

What we found is that, compared with other students in the traditional public schools, charter school applicants are more likely to be black and poor but are otherwise fairly similar.

«Giving preference to students on the basis of other socioeconomic or demographic variables had only modest effects on the representation of black and Hispanic students; none that we examined brought minority students to proportional representation.»

The most disaggregated column in Table 1 shows how increasing n - size leaves more students unaccounted for: with n - size of 10, only 11 percent of Black students in third through fifth grade would be left out of accountability systems, whereas with n - size of 30 — and no other strategy to pool data — 39 percent would be left out.

A combined underserved subgroup similar to Oregon's: aggregating American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black or African American, Hispanic / Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students within each grade level.

States and school districts with more blacks and college - educated adults have a substantially larger share of their students in charter schools than other districts.

• A 2014 study by Goldrick - Rab, Kelchen, and Houle and a 2015 report by Demos show that black students borrow more than other students for the same degrees, and black borrowers are more likely than white borrowers to drop out without receiving a degree.

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.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.