Sentences with phrase «racial composition of the school»

Consider the data above on racial composition of schools.

In conclusion, though school representatives and parents rarely talk about demographics, there are clearly many factors that affect racial composition of schools.

While informative, they do not conclusively show the effects of policies that alter the overall racial composition of a school through changes in attendance patterns, the policies that are of greatest concern to both the courts and to state and district policymakers.

Desegregation since the Coleman Report Racial composition of schools and student learning by Steven Rivkin

Although the racial composition of schools is critically important to student outcomes, we also examined the extent to which charter schools are serving low - income and English Language Learner students.

Another measure of progress toward integration is the dissimilarity index, which measures how much the racial composition of the schools would have to change for each school to have the same percentage of whites and blacks as these groups constitute in the school - age population as a whole.

• «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report,» by Steve Rivkin, which examines the evidence on the racial composition of schools and student learning.

Q: And what's happening to the racial composition of schools today?

Most notably, economic and social opportunities were broadening for African Americans, the civil rights movement may have given the black community higher expectations for its youth, and white respect for black peers may have increased in the larger society, regardless of the racial composition of the school.

The paper reveals substantial evidence of resegregation and a significant increase in the probability of being arrested for black students, but no increase in the probability of dropping out of high school as a result of the change in the racial composition of the school.

They also note that parents devoted as much time online to learning about the racial composition of schools as about student achievement.

I also considered factors such as the racial composition of a school, school size, whether the school arranges volunteer service, whether students» opinions matter, whether courses with political content are offered (so - called civics classes), and whether the school has a student government.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

Likewise, the DOJ cited a public school that «lost» five white students to the LSP, which also changed the racial composition of the school by less than one percent.

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

No matter how rich or how poor the district in question, funding gaps existed solely based on the racial composition of the school.

When they attended a school that was between 0 and 60 percent black, their math scores were unaffected by the racial composition of the school they attended.

The researchers also looked at the data by gender and found that black boys were most affected by the racial composition of the school.