Sentences with phrase «poor and minority students»

But one thing on which they agree is that there is little that schools can do to improve educational achievement, particularly for poor and minority students.

It has increased the focus on the education of poor and minority students, but it has not provided schools with needed tools to create higher quality schooling for these students.

This finding suggests that in addition to expanding the overall level of support for all students, the state must expand its investment in programs that serve poor and minority students.

Much of of the focus of charter schools is on poor and minority students stuck on the lower end of the academic achievement gap.

Families for Excellent Schools is urging officials to double down on funding of charter schools in order to close the achievement gap among poor and minority students.

Moreover, the trial showed that the system is stacked against poor and minority students who are more likely to get the bad draw of teachers.

The campaign to lift that rate is closely linked to the push to get more young people into college, especially more poor and minority students.

The current method of financing public education, plaintiffs argue, has left poor and minority students with inadequate schools.

But checks are also needed to protect poor and minority students from the neglect of the powerful.

Its pressure to raise test scores has caused many schools to give poor and minority students an impoverished education that focuses primarily on basic skills.

And will the new systems they build be better than the current ones, or will they leave poor and minority students behind?

It is clear that we have failed to successfully educate poor and minority students on a large - scale basis.

As mentioned, there are myriad ways in which poor and minority students get the short end of the stick in public education.

He also said there is evidence that the laws in question disproportionately affect poor and minority students.

Not surprisingly, poor and minority students attend the worst high schools.

But these results at least indicate that accountability systems can help to focus attention on poor and minority students whose needs have been ignored or neglected.

She was a consistent advocate of increasing opportunities for poor and minority students so they would be prepared to enter college.

But she rejected them as a solution, she said, because most poor and minority students will attend traditional public schools in any case.

But critics say the switch could ease pressure on school districts to prepare poor and minority students for college.

At the same time, the nation needed to know whether poor and minority students were achieving in their classes.

What is the distribution of educational resources across schools and what effect do disparities in resources have on the achievement of poor and minority students?

What was good for poor and minority students was good for all students.

Under the waiver initiative, many states have dropped those thresholds down to 20 or 30 students, meaning more poor and minority students «count» toward a school's rating.

They argue that annual testing is critical for tracking how effectively schools are educating poor and minority students and that evaluations based only on subjective criteria like observations typically fail to identify weak teachers.

Another obsession of Duncan's OCR has been getting more poor and minority students into advanced courses, such as the College Board's AP classes.

The data, part of the benchmark test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, show that New York City fourth graders have made progress in closing the gap between their scores and the state and national results in reading, despite the higher percentages of poor and minority students in the city.

It spelled defeat for Students Matter, a small nonprofit organization that sponsored the lawsuit and argued that the laws harmed poor and minority students who were disproportionately saddled with 1 to 3 percent of the state's worst - performing teachers.

Scott, Murray and the White House all wanted to preserve testing students each year, break out data on test results to show achievement gaps and use that information to determine when a school needs to change — as a clear way to ensure poor and minority students don't fall through the cracks in the system.

So if a district has two high schools — one serving mostly affluent white students and another serving mostly poor and minority students — those schools had better offer a similar number of AP courses, lest the OCR come knocking on their doors.

In one of the nation's largest school districts, Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, far too many students — especially particularly poor and minority students — lack access to a high - quality school.

Some argue that the U.S.'s lagging behind has nothing to do with our schools: The U.S. has a much higher proportion of disadvantaged poor and minority students than higher - performing countries.

Moskowitz, who has pledged to build out the Success network to 100 schools, is likely to continue on the warpath against de Blasio, accusing him of depriving poor and minority students of educational opportunities, as she will do at a march over the Brooklyn Bridge in a few weeks.

In fact, in 2015, poor and minority student groups in charter schools outperformed their peers attending traditional public schools in reading, writing, and math.

Regardless of the quality and tenure of the principal, low - achieving schools and schools with high proportions of poor and minority students face increased barriers to attracting, hiring, and retaining quality leaders.

From where EdTrust sits, the uproar over the Florida plan (and similar plans like it) also ignores its contention that Cut the Gap in Half actually forces states, districts, and schools to work harder because they must improve achievement for poor and minority students at annual clips greater than the average rate.

Teaching Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality, The Education Trust

A tweak in the enforcement of the No Child Left Behind Act leaves some education advocates claiming the Obama administration is pulling back on a civil rights promise to make sure poor and minority students get qualified teachers.

Since the late 1980s, the plaintiffs in these cases have won nearly 70 percent of the time — a reflection of the continuing inequality of education for poor and minority students half a century after Brown v. Board of Education.

When high - achieving or high - potential poor and minority students have less access to gifted education than their peers, the existence of such programs may actually worsen inequalities, thus widening what Jonathan Plucker at Johns Hopkins University and the term «excellence gaps» — the differences between subgroups of students performing at the highest levels of achievement.

In 2015, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) submitted an equitable access plan to address differences in access to excellent educators experienced by poor and minority students.

Restorative justice has replaced zero - tolerance discipline policies in schools around the country following evidence that tough discipline in schools sends primarily poor and minority students into the hands of the justice system.

The report was part of a U.S. Department of Education study that examined the reasons poor and minority students fail to get equal access to the best and most qualified teachers ---- the lack of which remains a persistent problem in the state.

Last year, several states proposed teacher cadet programs in federal «educator equity plans» that were submitted to the U.S. Department of Education and attempt to give poor and minority students better teachers.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

Schenectady City Schools Superintendent Laurence Spring has filed a federal complaint that argues the state's aid formula discriminates against poor and minority students.

In some school communities, like New York City, many poor and minority students are attending under - resourced schools that are not only separate and isolated, but that are also just as unequal as they were in the mid-20th century.

Gary Natriello and Aaron Pallas, of Columbia's Teachers College, show that under high - stakes testing policies in New York, Texas, and Minnesota poor and minority students will be less likely to receive a high school diploma.