Sentences with phrase «schools than its black ones»

By 1962, Greenville, despite its progressive reputation, was spending four times more on its white schools than its black ones.

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When the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't afford to buy a home in suburban Shaker Heights, which boasted one of the country's best school systems, Robert Black decided it would be better to rent than to own until his younger son graduated from high school.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

The estimated gain from being offered a voucher is only half as large as the gain from switching to private school (in response to being offered a voucher), so the estimated impact of offering vouchers is no more than one - eighth as large as the black - white test score gap.

The researchers» estimates of black students's gains in reading ability after one year's attendance at an integrated school ranged from «somewhat less than a month» to about two months.

More than half the youngsters in charters overall — but one - third of those in traditional schools — are black or Hispanic.

After one year, black students who switched to private schools scored 0.17 standard deviations higher than the students in the control group.

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.

And one reason may be that black students are more likely than students in any other racial or ethnic group to attend schools with police, according to the analysis of 2013 - 14 civil rights data, the most recent collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

Today, more than one in six black children attend a school that is 99 - 100 % minority.

For example, one study documented that «black and white students in desegregated schools are less racially prejudiced than those in segregated schools,» and that «interracial contact in desegregated schools leads to an increase in interracial sociability and friendship.»

The 2017 NAEP eight - grade reading assessment shows that while 33 percent of White students in the Milwaukee public schools can read at grade level (proficient or above), the school system teaches less than one - fifth of that percentage, six percent, of the Black students in its care to read proficiently at the crucial grade 8 level.

Schools in Mississippi give Black students more than one - out - of - school suspension three times as often as they do to White students; Michigan does this four times as often to Black as White students, resulting in nearly a fifth of Michigan's Black students being kept out of the classroom at some point in their school careers.

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

By 2011, nearly two years after the Great Recession, more than one - quarter of young black males were neither employed nor enrolled in school or vocational training.

About one in six black students received an out - of - school suspension during the 2009 — 10 U.S. school year — more than three times the rate of white students — according to a new analysis of data collected by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Thirty - three percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch (which essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves).

More than 80 percent of America's public school teachers are White, yet these students said that when they see a Black teacher — or many Black teachers — in one building, it changes their world.

As a local example, one study focused on Charlotte - Mecklenburg shows both black and white students who attended desegregated elementary schools performed better on standardized tests than peers who attended segregated schools.

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percentSchools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percentschools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

One analysis of federal data revealed that more than 70 percent of students involved in school - based arrests or referred to law enforcement in 2010 were black or Hispanic.

More than one in three black students in the Richmond area went to an intensely segregated minority school in 2010, roughly two times as many as Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News (and five times as many as Northern Virginia).

The same schools suspend more than one in five black students.

But like the Green Dot and KIPP charter - school systems, it shows that the doomsayers are wrong: The intergenerational cycle of disadvantage can be broken for black boys and young men, and there is more than one way to break it.

Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out - of - school suspension, according to the study released by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights in March.

Held every year in February, our one - day annual fair gives current and prospective Black male educators opportunities to get guidance and resume feedback from career advisors, participate in mock interviews, and meet with employers of more than 25 District, charter and parochial schools.

Black children comprised 18 percent of pre-K enrollment and represented 48 percent of children in that category receiving more than one out - of - school suspension.

In Minneapolis, a low - income black student is six times more likely than a white student to be suspended for at least one day in a school year.

One test result that should be of special interest to African Americans is that more black Brooke students topped the math test than the total number achieving that result in grades 3 through 8 in all Boston Public Schools.

And for the seniors at Boys» Latin, it's a glimpse of a future that is out of reach for the majority of Philadelphia public school students, especially when those students are black and male — a future lived in comfort and upward mobility, rather than one that stagnates with far fewer prospects.

Thirty - four percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch, according to the U.S. Department of Education; this essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves.

In 2001, Deep Creek, where more than three - quarters of students come from low - income families and 80 percent are black or Hispanic, was one of the worst elementary schools in Baltimore County, Maryland.

In 2012, the district signed a voluntary agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights following an investigation by the federal agency to address claims that the school system disciplined black students more harshly than white ones.

Former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, for example, sees good news in the fact that the policies he championed for nearly a decade have resulted in fewer than one in five Black and Latino students being classified as proficient in English Language Arts and mathematics.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.