Sentences with phrase «racial gap»

The findings show the need for renewed focus on closing racial gaps in education and school quality, which have been stuck in place for several decades, according to the authors.

And that dynamic makes it more difficult for us to close our wide racial gaps in college attainment and student debt.

Second, and more importantly, the growing racial gap at the secondary level is entirely caused by higher rates of growth among white students.

Among fathers in two - parent households, there is a significant racial gap in terms of how focused they say they are on their job compared with their spouse or partner.

It is therefore important to understand not just whether discrimination exists, but how it relates to aggregate racial gaps in discipline rates in this legal context.

Thus adjusting the data for the effects of socioeconomic status reduces the estimated racial gaps in test scores by more than 40 percent in math and more than 66 percent in reading.

The statewide four - year graduation rate and the graduation rate among black students have both increased in recent years, although racial gaps are still striking.

It's actually not too early to assess them, and doing so might help close important socioeconomic and racial gaps around services and treatment.

I have spoken with more than one superintendent about complaints from white parents alleging their children are being neglected because of the focus on closing racial gaps.

Public expenditures on early childhood programs are nearly always justified as investments that will eliminate socioeconomic and racial gaps in school readiness and elevate subsequent student achievement and life success.

Half a century has passed since the publication of the Coleman Report, and the persistent racial gaps in achievement, academic attainment, earnings, crime, poverty, and extensive school segregation that remain provide prima facie evidence that equality of opportunity remains elusive.

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

A longstanding racial gap over how New York City voters view de Blasio appears to extend to his wife, Chirlane McCray, a new poll suggests.

Reducing racial gaps in educational performance has been a national preoccupation for decades.

Still, the National Consumer Law Center and 29 civil and legal rights groups are petitioning the government to start collecting and reporting on the range of racial gaps that take place within the student loan system.

Despite the high - profile tension between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police department, Mr. de Blasio's approval rating remains steady at 49 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today — but a wide racial gap persists.

A longstanding racial gap over how New York City voters view Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to extend to his wife, Chirlane McCray, a new poll suggests.

Councilman Rory Lancman said he's appealing to the DAs because of a massive racial gap in people busted by the NYPD for pot use.

Citizen Stewart penned a great piece on the vitriol of some anti-ed reform personalities on social media that we shared on the blog: If only they attacked racial gaps in student achievement like they attack Campbell Brown.

But NCLB's failure to spur overall test score gains or close racial gaps led «reformers» to push for national, or «common,» standards.

Under scrutiny for a huge racial gap in marijuana busts, NYPD brass said they're making arrests in neighborhoods where residents are calling to complain about public weed smoking.

The pronounced racial gap in scores narrowed by a small but significant amount, says Buckley, from 36 points to 35 points for white students compared with black students, and from 30 to 27 for white students compared with Hispanic students.

As for reading, a 2006 study by Shelly Brown - Jeffy found that diverse high schools (25 to 54 percent students of color) have smaller racial gaps in reading than schools with either extremely high or extremely low proportions of students of color.

[xxxii] A recent study by Jackson and Reynolds, for example, finds that loans promote higher rates of persistence and completion among black undergraduates, and concludes that despite racial gaps in default rates, loans are nonetheless «an imperfect, but overall positive tool for reducing educational inequality» by race.

The only reform that ever matters in education is doing whatever it takes to lift student academic achievement and reduce the scandalous racial gap in learning.

(The size of the well - known racial gap in test - score performance is between one - half and one standard deviation.)

In the half century since James Coleman and his colleagues first documented racial gaps in student achievement, education researchers have done little to help close those gaps.

In an age when everyone is concerned about racial gaps in learning, it's also important to note that charters are getting these results while serving a more heavily black student population than DCPS, and with a greater share of low - income students who are eligible for free lunches.

But persistent racial gaps suggest that we actually need «hard - and - fast rules or directives.»

Even integrated schools face racial gaps.

The San Francisco NAACP is urging the city school board to declare a state of emergency to spotlight the city's stark racial gap in student achievement.

The Classroom Racial Gap Hits An All - Time High.

According to the report, «Black and Latino graduates, whose household finances are already affected by racial gaps in wealth, income, and employment — even with a college degree — encounter a disproportionate burden as debt payments after graduation constitute a larger portion of household budgets.»

This report details the context for the cuts — a decade of underinvestment — and makes the economic case for supporting public higher education: it helps families through the current crisis, stimulates growth in the local economy, narrows racial gaps in income and education, and helps build a solid middle class for New York's future.

For instance, across the country, racial gaps persist in access to rigorous coursework.15 Schools also disproportionately assign students of color to remedial courses and disproportionately advance white students to gifted and talented programs, which sends harmful messages to students of color about their ability.16

The issue of marijuana arrests was highlighted by a New York Times report on the persistent racial gap in marijuana arrests.

Broward County officials wanted to disrupt the «school to prison pipeline,» and to close racial gaps in suspensions, expulsions, and referrals for arrest among their students.

The Youth Justice Project of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice says the project reveals significant racial gaps in how students from different groups are treated.

City Councilman Rory Lancman said he's appealing to the DAs because of a massive racial gap in people busted by the NYPD for pot use.

New York City is a leader in offering free summer lessons that may be helping to close the longstanding racial gap in swimming ability, a study shows.

«Triumph Fades on Racial Gap in New York City Schools» makes it pretty clear that the recent goal line adjustment made by New York State's new education Commissioner David Steiner did not affect all groups equally.

Furthermore, the K - 12 system itself is partially to blame; there are large racial gaps in high school graduation rates, which means that fewer people of color attend college relative to their white peers.

A new report called «The Color of Entrepreneurship: Why the Racial Gap among Firms Costs the U.S. Billions,» just released by the non-profit Center for Global Policy Solutions aims to put a number to all those missed opportunities.

A new study shows that the racial gap in jails has narrowed considerably in recent years — but not in the way we expect or hope.