Sentences with phrase «progress for its white students»

On the other hand, the District of Columbia, often seen as the capital of gentrification, didn't post any statistically significant progress for its white students.

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According to a 2014 Center for American Progress report, high school teachers believe that high - poverty, black, and Hispanic students are 53, 47, and 42 percent less likely to graduate from college compared to their white peers.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

He knows that technology is no silver bullet, but White believes it will help bring school systems «to where student progress is not being determined by whether he or she sits in a seat for 54 hours or 108 hours, but is instead seeing what each child is capable of achieving in the common core.»

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

Recent results on our Nation's Report Card (the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP), for example, tell us that during the NCLB era, student achievement in reading and math improved for African American, Hispanic, and white students alike, and achievement gaps among these groups narrowed.

In Louisiana, 30 percent of white, non-Hispanic students whose family incomes are low enough to qualify them for the National Lunch Program read at or above grade level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) grade 4 reading test.

Despite these gains, the rate of improvement in achievement among these student groups relative to white peers has not allowed for much progress in closing performance gaps.

While each subgroup of students — including economically disadvantaged children — made progress this year, achievement gaps remained stubbornly large: 92 percent of white students were proficient in reading, for example, compared with 52 percent of Hispanic students, 44 percent of black students and 42 percent of poor children.