Sentences with phrase «school than their white counterparts»

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

Before the Whole - School Social Justice cohorts program, African American students were more likely to be suspended out of school than their white counterparts.

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For instance, white and Latino fathers with bachelor's degrees earned more than twice as much as their counterparts with only a high school degree.

Dr Roach said the growing inequality and institutionalised discrimination in some schools saw some women teachers earning just 85 per cent of their male counterparts and BME teachers earning less than white teachers.

«The fact that African American and Latino corps members tend to stay in teaching longer than their White counterparts is very important, given the nation's shortage of teachers of color and increasing numbers of children of color in our schools,» Donaldson said.

According to one 2014 study, black and Latino adults who have been traditionally less engaged with schools send or receive texts more frequently than their white counterparts, and rely more on their phones — as opposed to computers — for information and communication.

Despite rising college attendance, black students are still less likely than their white counterparts to attend prestigious schools that may give them connections or a leg up in the career world.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

He did not mention that black and Hispanic students still graduate from high school at far lower rates than their white and Asian counterparts — 64.6 percent and 63.5 percent, compared with 80 percent and 83.3 percent.

Cami Anderson, former superintendent of Newark public schools, talked about the way that current discipline policies negatively impact students of color, referencing research that shows that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts as early as kindergarten.

The Honoré Center is rooted in the concept that black male teachers may be more effective at teaching young black men, who are more likely to struggle in the classroom and are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to graduate from high school and college.

- Black students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 33 fewer days of learning in reading and 30 fewer days in math than their counterparts in non-charter schools - Latino students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 30 fewer days in reading but 21 more days in math - Asian students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 75 fewer days in reading and 53 fewer days in math - White students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 107 fewer days in reading but 9 more days in math

Discipline Disparities Students of color in North Carolina schools have significantly higher rates of both short - and long - term suspensions than their white counterparts.14 Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Consolidated Data Report 2014 - 15 (Rep.).

According to KIPP, last school year, more than 70 percent of Morfin's class scored proficient or advanced in English on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress state tests, while only 37 percent of California's Latino fifth - graders and 65 percent of their white counterparts achieved the same results.

As both the American Psychological Association and Russell Skiba of Indiana University have determined, young black men are also viewed by teachers and school leaders as being older, less - innocent, and greater troublemakers than white counterparts.

Rather than creating policies with the new white middle and upper - class families in mind, policy and school administrators also need to consider their positions and sentiments, even if they do not have the same social capital or resources as their white counterparts.