Sentences with phrase «reported by minority students»

Though preliminary, there is evidence that active engagement from teachers stands to improve the trust deficit reported by minority students.

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In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

The plan, detailed in an 18 - page report prepared by the minority Democrats» Policy Group, includes proposed tax benefits for employers who offer student loan assistance, expansion of state tuition assistance programs and implementation of different student readiness metrics used to determine whether students must take remedial courses.

The machinery from Iron Man with the interface from Minority Report in the facility from Spiderman 2, populated by the grad students from Real Genius.

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.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

«The fact that progress in minority achievement has stopped at a time when minorities comprise a growing portion of the student population should sound a wake - up call to the whole country,» the report by the Education Trust says.

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...

The UCAS report shows that for Black and Minority Ethnic applicants there has been a fall in applications by 9 %, on top of a decrease from prospective mature students by 16 %.

A new report released by the Government Accountability Office finds that poor, minority students are increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in school.

Minority students from low - income families who take part in early - intervention programs in high school have a better chance than comparable nonparticipants of enrolling in a postsecondary institution, concludes a report by the Washington - based Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

How Districts Shortchange Low - Income and Minority Students This article by Marguerite Roza appeared in Funding Gaps 2006, a report published by Education Trust.

Citing multiple studies by reputable scholars, it reports that schools with large numbers of minority students tend to employ less - experienced and less - effective teachers, which adversely affects student achievement.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

The No Child law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, requires testing in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and reporting of scores for groups of students including racial and ethnic minorities.

A report released by the Center for American Progress (2011) indicated minority students made up more than 40 percent of the national public school population, while only 17 percent of the nation's teachers are teachers of color.

Members also are provided with special reports and notified of other meetings and events that address the challenges faced by students from ethic and racial minorities.

In 2010, nearly three out of four black students and four out of five Latino students in the United States attended schools made up mostly of minority students, according to a report published last year by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

While Rhode Island's «Minority + Poverty» grouping will ultimately account for most of the 60 percent of performance ratings for elementary schools in the state, Louisiana's A-F grading system doesn't fully break down how minority students are faring, and Ohio was dinged by the star - studded group of education players reviewing the applications for its «inconsistencies» on how it will disaggregate performance for poor and minority groups for reporting and accountMinority + Poverty» grouping will ultimately account for most of the 60 percent of performance ratings for elementary schools in the state, Louisiana's A-F grading system doesn't fully break down how minority students are faring, and Ohio was dinged by the star - studded group of education players reviewing the applications for its «inconsistencies» on how it will disaggregate performance for poor and minority groups for reporting and accountminority students are faring, and Ohio was dinged by the star - studded group of education players reviewing the applications for its «inconsistencies» on how it will disaggregate performance for poor and minority groups for reporting and accountminority groups for reporting and accountability.

A June 2014 report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.»

According to this article, the students who comprise the Building a Better Legal Profession, are handing out «diversity report cards» to the big law firms, ranking them by how many female, minority and gay lawyers they have.

The report goes on to say that «minority populations are significantly more likely to be burdened by their student debt payments (as a percentage of their income), and thus to go delinquent on their loans.»