Sentences with phrase «poverty than white students»

Your African American students are three times likelier to live in poverty than your white students, are more than twice as likely to get into fights at school, and almost twice as likely to be chronically tardy to class.

In your district, African American students are three times more likely to live in poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at school.

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He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»

After two years of interviewing more than 100 black, Latino, and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty and socioeconomic segregation — segregation by class — shape the way students experience college.

Nationwide, on average, black students are four times more likely to live below the poverty line and 30 percent less likely to have a college - educated mother than white students.

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

For instance, black and Latino students are five times more likely to attend high - poverty schools than white students.44 Recent census data also show that black and Hispanic Americans live in poverty at more than twice the rate of non-Hispanic whites, and they are significantly much more likely to live in extreme poverty.45

Low - income black and Latino students are far more likely to attend schools of concentrated poverty than low - income white students.

For example, a study last fall of 500 Pennsylvania districts found that at any given poverty level, districts with the most white students get substantially more funding than districts with more minority students.

This implies that high - poverty schools are, on average, much less effective than lower - poverty schools, and suggests that strategies that reduce the differential exposure of black, Hispanic, and white students to poor classmates may lead to meaningful reductions in academic achievement gaps.

Emmanuel: With all of this, the original idea was that these measures would only be needed temporarily, but that was assuming policies would work in concert — that policies aimed at reducing housing segregation would have worked, and we wouldn't see that black and Hispanic students are still much more likely to attend high poverty schools than their white peers.

For example, black and Hispanic students — even if they are not poor — are much more likely than white or Asian students to be in high - poverty schools.

Coleman's arguments lamenting students of color score worse on the tests than their white peers — without acknowledging the ways in which systematic underfunding of schools, poverty, and institutional racism have disfigured our school system — end up pathologizing communities of color rather than supporting them.

Meanwhile, 8th grade reading scores were even worse — with 8th graders in 2015 also performing no better overall than in 2000, but with the gap between Black and White students remaining unchanged in that time and the gap between students in poverty and students not in poverty growing from 13 points to 23 points.