Sentences with phrase «poor students of color»

We send most poor students of color to school in collapsing buildings.

Even programs that seem designed to help poor students of color, both authors suggest, do the opposite.

On one side, disciplinary data may negatively impact poor students of color and on the other side, colleges and universities have a responsibility to provide a safe and secure environment on campus.

This highlights deeply entrenched inequalities in New York City schools, where poor students of color lag far behind their more - privileged peers on a wide range of measures.

Most credentialing programs have not kept pace with those changes, and most school districts have not yet created the professional learning systems needed to shore up the training of new teachers, particularly for those serving poor students of color.

Advocates will make the claim that charters and voucher programs offer poor students of color the same opportunities for access and success that students in wealthier communities enjoy.

The 74 just reported that here the achievement gaps between poor students of color and non-poor White / Asian students widens significantly over time.

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to establish conditions that enable students — primarily poor students of color — to achieve at levels far higher than their social background predicts.

Both The Shame of the Nation and Tearing Down the Gates demonstrate that the obsession with testing is really a way to punish poor students of color for being poor students of color.

In 2009, my general education students outperformed the state average and went on to champion the notion that it is possible for poor students of any color — even though they may be far below grade level — to close the achievement gap in terms of race and income.