Sentences with phrase «racial minority students»

By ALAN J. BORSUK Posted: June 20, 2005 The nation's largest teachers union and a partner organization on Monday announced a $ 500,000 grant to support efforts in Milwaukee to close achievement gaps between racial minority students and white students and between low - income students and others.

In the report, the researchers point out that most of the schools that are failing in terms of achievement are public schools that serve poor and racial minority students in urban areas.

By Nick Jones, CEI Intern This fall marks the first school year that ethnic and racial minority students are the majority in public schools.

Many make racial justice claims about this aspect of school choice since it is primarily racial minority students who are clustered in struggling and underfunded schools.

7 Magnet schools in the Hartford area have special themes designed to draw in students from both the city and suburbs, and they are required to have a student body that is 25 % -75 % racial minority students (newly defined as African American or Hispanic / Latino) in order to be funded by the state.

Racial minority students and students living in poverty constitute the majority of those who are retained.

Many seminaries seek to attract more women and racial minority students and to expose students to world cultures.

Not exact matches

Students from every racial group are more likely to attend college if they go to a Catholic school, but the positive impact is greatest for urban minorities.

If SB 1146 were to pass, it would deny students» ability to participate in state grant programs — programs that exist to help low - income students, and which are overwhelmingly used by racial minorities — at schools that are found in violation of the bill.

I student taught in a rural area of central Illinois - a school with two people who were black (and that was it for the racial diversity) so they created their own minorities thorugh religion.

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

Also on Sunday, Cuomo reiterated his proposals to award 30 percent of state contracts to firms owned by women or racial minorities and to have the state cover student loan payments for up to two years for SUNY and CUNY graduates who remain in - state.

For a host of reasons, the challenges of scientific career advancement can be especially daunting for women, foreign trainees, racial and ethnic minorities, and first - generation college students; mentorship can help bridge this gap.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.

The challenges of scientific career advancement can be especially daunting for women, foreign trainees, racial and ethnic minorities, and first - generation college students; mentorship can help bridge this gap

Colleges make the claim — clearly refuted by the book's ample evidence — that giving racial admissions preferences enhances minority students» opportunities for academic and career success.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.

Werner - Washburne mentored undergraduate students in her laboratory through programs that encouraged underrepresented racial and / or ethnic minority students to pursue doctorates and through the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos / Hispanics and Native Americans in Science SACNAS.

Racial and ethnic minority students make up the majority of students in public schools, especially in urban areas.

Achieving ethnic, racial, and gender parity in the science pipeline will require measures that help white and minority graduate students, and their mentors, better understand the world they each live in, the panelists said.

Schools, teacher quality and family income all play a large role in student success, but these factors do not fully explain the academic differences seen in the U.S. between whites and disadvantaged racial / ethnic minorities, including blacks and Hispanics.

Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track» students from early youth and in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children with learning disabilities.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

The first is the role - modeling hypothesis just described — minority students might benefit from seeing adults with a similar racial / ethnic background in a position of authority.

Wanting to show that he could serve a multicultural student body well, Superintendent Wilson distanced himself from advocating racial minority concerns early in his administration.

And they must report the results, for both the student population as a whole and for particular «subgroups» of students, including English - learners and students in special education, racial minorities, and children from low - income families.

But even under the best circumstances, the differences that divide us and the stupid cultural assumptions sometimes gift - wrapping those differences can have a disarming effect on a minority student who believes that college equals a racial utopia in the land of happily ever after.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

A frequent criticism of the accountability movement and NCLB was that the focus on racial and ethnic minorities and on the lowest - performing students led to a neglect of the nation's highest - performing youngsters.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

Separate and apart from overall averages, there has been continuing concern for the level of skills among racial / ethnic minorities as well as concern for the effects of accountability on low - versus high - performing students (specifically, whether or not NCLB placed so much attention on low - performing students that high - performing students were neglected and suffered as a result).

[6] And same - race teachers may be more able to link cultural contexts to learning in ways that could benefit racial and ethnic minority students.

The Coleman Report focused on differences in schooling resources available to white and minority students and on the degree of racial segregation in America's public schools.

One stated objective was to address the «disparate impact» of policies that might lead to racial minorities taking fewer challenging classes than their peers, totally ignoring the obvious fact that African American and Hispanic students are, on average, much less prepared for AP courses by the time they reach 11th and 12th grade.

He also notes that Trump has heightened the anxiety of U.S racial, religious, and ethnic minority students not only by rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, but also through bigoted rhetoric.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.

• Students in schools with large majorities of disadvantaged students [who are disproportionately likely to be racial minorities] do poorly on measures of educational achievement, and their schools are likely to have higher rates of disciplinary pStudents in schools with large majorities of disadvantaged students [who are disproportionately likely to be racial minorities] do poorly on measures of educational achievement, and their schools are likely to have higher rates of disciplinary pstudents [who are disproportionately likely to be racial minorities] do poorly on measures of educational achievement, and their schools are likely to have higher rates of disciplinary problems.

Choice schools have created an external challenge through market competition to the relative monopoly of MPS that has regularly failed far too many students; especially the poor, recent immigrants, and racial minorities.

There is nothing wrong with this per se, as segregation does lead to inequalities, and those inequalities (in access to good teachers, safe facilities, educational resources, etc.) tend to disadvantage poorer students and racial minorities...

The students in our study are urban, dominated by racial and ethnic minorities, and largely disadvantaged.

In particular, the results are most useful for understanding the effects of charter schools run by education - management organizations on student populations that comprise largely low - income and racial / ethnic minorities.

The costs are almost always costs borne by poor students or racial minorities.

Whereas the NEA leadership supported bilingual education and racial preferences, Shanker raised objections to both, in part because he thought they held minority students to lower standards.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

This adverse effect is especially pronounced in five areas: oversight of federal education law; enforcement of federal guarantees of educational equity; budget and tax policy; the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy; and Trump's embrace of bigoted rhetoric and action that challenges the identities of students who are racial, ethnic, or religious minorities.

Progress is to be measured both for all students and for students disaggregated into various subgroups, including disadvantaged students, those with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities, and those from racial or ethnic minority populations.

In Hartford, 97 percent of students are members of racial or ethnic minority groups — in a state with a total minority student population of about 27 percent, said Thomas W. Murphy, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Education.

Some evidence does suggest that students with disabilities and racial minorities tend to be punished more severely than their peers for the same offenses.

Seventy percent of all non-graduates were members of minority racial and ethnic groups, indicating that minority students are disproportionately affected by this graduation crisis.