Sentences with phrase «persistent racial gap»

Black students learn more from black teachers and white students from white teachers, suggesting that the racial dynamics within classrooms may contribute to the persistent racial gap in student performance, at least in Tennessee.

«Conversely, a majority of excess infant mortality in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana could be explained by compositional differences due to a larger proportion of non-Hispanic black births, which reflects a persistent racial gap that exists across the country.»

The issue of marijuana arrests was highlighted by a New York Times report on the persistent racial gap in marijuana arrests.

Half a century has passed since the publication of the Coleman Report, and the persistent racial gaps in achievement, academic attainment, earnings, crime, poverty, and extensive school segregation that remain provide prima facie evidence that equality of opportunity remains elusive.

Not exact matches

Achievement gaps between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top - performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K - 12 students as a whole, according to a new report.

As in previous years, scores from last year's Badger Exam and the ACT continued to reflect significant achievement gaps across racial, ethnic and income groups, a persistent trend state Superintendent called «most troubling.»

The Oakland - based nonprofit GreatSchools analyzed these data and produced Searching for Opportunity, a fresh look at a stubbornly persistent problem: racial and ethnic gaps in student achievement in California schools.

So while «efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers and place them in schools serving disadvantaged and minority students have been very successful,» the report states, «there continues to be a persistent racial - ethnic parity gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system.»

PCC's efforts are focused on policy and practice solutions to the ongoing crisis of low college completion rates, persistent achievement gaps that exist along racial and socioeconomic lines, and college affordability.

Research proffered by Barton (2005) found that student achievement gaps among racial and ethnic groups are large and persistent (p. 12).

These results show we all have more work to do to increase the level of rigor in our classrooms and address the needs of the whole child, academically, socially and emotionally, so we can finally narrow the persistent gaps that play out along racial and class lines,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.