Sentences with phrase «primarily students of color»

You do a lot of work on the school - to - prison pipeline, where students, primarily students of color, are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile justice system and criminal justice system.

There was a massive gap between the percent of effective teachers (92 %) in schools that serve primarily white students versus 82 % effective teachers in schools serving primarily students of color.

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With 46 schools across Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, Success Academy enrolls 15,500 students, primarily low - income children of color in disadvantaged neighborhoods: 75 % of students receive free or reduced - price lunch, 87 % are children of color, 16 % are children with disabilities, and 8 % are English language learners.

This good news applies to students of color, primarily Latino kids, but only for progress in mathematics.

«What does it mean to prepare students who are primarily of color coming from inner - city Oakland to be really ready for the world?»

Her book is rich with suggestions for working in our schools today, where we find a primarily white teaching force and an expanding population of students of color.

The lack of teacher diversity in Philadelphia is negatively affecting our students, primarily young males of color.

Schools that primarily serve low - income students of color often have poor curricular offerings, few extracurricular and enrichment activities, and too many inexperienced teachers.

I have been teaching high school science (chemistry, physics, and biology) for the past 20 years in Los Angeles County in classrooms filled primarily with students of color.

On average, teachers of color work primarily in schools that serve high percentages of students of color and students from low - income families.

The three schools, which primarily serve low - income students and students of color, saw their teaching corps disproportionately decimated by a round of budget - driven layoffs last year, causing their education efforts to fall below the state constitutional guarantee that all students will receive a basic education consistent with prevailing statewide standards.

By 2014, the Obama Administration had awarded us the National Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence — an acknowledgement that our schools, serving primarily low income students children of color, were among the top 300 schools in the nation out of over 130,000.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

There was a subtle but monumental change to the advice given during the second session, which was primarily attended by students of color (blackboys).

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.

Cafritz was a senior at George Washington University when she first envisioned the foundation for what would become a public high school primarily serving students of color from economically challenged neighborhoods with a curriculum that balanced core academics with training in the visual and performing arts.

I also worked as a mental health therapist and clinical supervisor at University of the West, a small Buddhist - affiliated university in Rosemead, CA where the clients are primarily international and second generation students of color.