Sentences with phrase «students of color from»

Eligibility is limited to 100 first and second year law students of color from Boston area law schools.

Cafritz was a senior at George Washington University when she first envisioned the foundation for what would become a public high school primarily serving students of color from economically challenged neighborhoods with a curriculum that balanced core academics with training in the visual and performing arts.

This year, 120 students of color from RePublic Schools took the AP exam.

Education Trust Nov. 3 — 5, 2005 Washington, DC At this national three - day conference, The Education Trust will discuss the urgent need to close the achivement gap that seperates low - income students and students of color from other young Americans.

As Arun explains, «In a majority - minority state like California, our prosperity is dependent on closing the opportunity and achievement gaps that separate low - income students and students of color from their more advantaged peers.

Despite the recent gains in U.S. graduation rates, far too many young people, mainly students of color from educationally and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, are leaving school without a high school diploma or are severely underprepared for college - level work.

One of those strategies was the elimination of the Chapter 220 program, which allowed for students of color from high - poverty neighborhoods to attend schools in predominantly white suburban school districts.

Students of color from our UCEA member institutions who are interested in pursuing an academic career in the field of Educational Leadership.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

Research has demonstrated the positive effects on students of color from having teachers of the same racial background.

But by the late 1990s, Williams had been pushed aside, just as she feared that students of color from low - income families would be pushed aside by the diverging agenda of her White conservative partners.

And there weren't a lot of students of color from NYC to begin with.»

For example, in Hartford, Connecticut, a legal decision created a system of regional magnet schools that attract students of color from the impoverished city and students from the working - class towns and affluent suburbs that surround it.

Not exact matches

Eleven entrepreneurs, all from founding teams including women or people of color, made their cases for innovations that would help bring more real - world experience into classrooms, help teachers track the progress of special - needs students, or help underserved people find jobs, among others.

Asian Americans and the issue of affirmative action have long been used to drive a wedge between communities of color and obfuscate the real purpose of the program, which brings opportunity to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

The high schools battle each other to attract students and athletes from the Catholic elementary and middle schools for years before any of those kids will have the opportunity to don their colors in the Holy Bowl.

The Waldorf School of Princeton welcomes students of all races, colors, religions, national and ethnic origins, and from diverse family and economic backgrounds.

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If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?

Although this decision to exclude Sarah from circle time appears to wrongly shame her, one of her teachers demonstrated both compassion and insight to see that this form of physical structure — sitting on the chair at the table — with an activity to calm her mind and busy her hands — coloring — in fact enabled Sarah to participate fully in their discussions and add to it with more intelligent, creative contributions than most of the other students.

At 8:45 a.m., More than 500 students, parents, educational leaders and citizens from across New York State will gather for a day - long symposium on My Brother's Keeper, the initiative to help boys and young men of color — and all students — realize their full potential, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Convention Hall, Albany.

«I've come here with organizers and public school parents and students from across the state to demand public schools in every district get the resources they need regardless of the students» zip code, regardless of the students» skin color.»

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

Teachers from the Buffalo Public and Cheektowaga Central School Districts heard from a best - selling author about how to relate students of color in the classroom.

What this approach ignores, to be frank, is that most victims of crime in New York City belong to Mark - Viverito's «communities of color» — just as black and Hispanic students suffer most from disruptions in the city's 70 % - plus black and Hispanic public - school system.

Many students of color, for example, come from cultural traditions that frown on questioning authority.

This helps to explain why many women and students of color shy away from pursuing science and engineering careers.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, led by PhD student Leslie van der Leer, assigned participants a computer task in which they observed the color of a black or white fish caught from one of two lakes and were then asked to choose to see further fish or decide on one of the lakes as the source of that sequence of fish.

Apheloria polychroma was named for its rainbow of colors and was described by Marek; Jackson Means, a graduate student from Keswick, Virginia; and Derek Hennen, a graduate student from Little Hocking, Ohio.

I am 20 years old student and with prospective to found company with international view and i want to meet appropriate woman to share my life with her it does not matter where is she from:) and what religion or what color of the skin!

Charlize Theron, meanwhile, presented Allen Daviau — an Oscar nominee for films like E.T., The Color Purple, The Empire of the Sun and Bugsy — with the Lifetime Achievement Award, while the ASC John Alonzo Heritage Award — named in honor of the cinematographer of such classics as Harold and Maude, Norma Rae and Scarface — was presented to a pair of student filmmakers, Brian Melton from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Lyle Vincent from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

On a recent Saturday in May, 36 students from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and their families came to the Ed School to be recognized for their participation in BPS» 10 Boys Initiative, a program aimed at «providing boys of color with the encouragement and support they need to achieve personal and academic success.»

The schools in the study use either the model from Linked Learning Alliance or Envision Schools — both of which show clear evidence of engaging and developing high levels of proficiency for students of color, English learners, and low - income students — at levels that far exceed traditional schools serving similar students.

These included siting schools so that they might draw from demographically distinct neighborhoods and recruitment in neighborhoods of color or in white neighborhoods to create a diverse mix of students, among other possibilities.

Students of color and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at a disadvantage when it comes to teachers» expecStudents of color and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at a disadvantage when it comes to teachers» expecstudents from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at a disadvantage when it comes to teachers» expectations.

If teachers of color hold higher expectations for minority students — stemming from their perceptions about student ability, effort, and behavior — they might be more likely to push students to work hard and to insist on their best effort in all assignments.

With so many students, so little time, and so much competition from the noisy world beyond the classroom, it's clearly not plausible for teachers to be ever more expansive generalists, weaving a complex tapestry of alluring colors and textures into the fabric of what must be covered in any given course.

That letter — and other efforts to reduce exclusionary discipline, such as suspensions, in favor of reforms like restorative justice — sparked a backlash from critics who accused the department of government overreach and of prompting chaos and disorder that could most harm students of color.

Students can explore much more here, from reading excerpts of plays to coloring Shakespearian illustrations.

[vi] «For nearly a decade,» the letter states, «the Department of Education has known that student debt impacts borrowers of color differently from white borrowers.

EL - MEKKI: First of all, I think for our students of color, we need to recognize who they are, and I don't mean from the media or just from hip - hop culture.

The work is broad ranging from a school beginning this work through a campaign aimed at sharing stories of self to another school designing curriculum that fosters language around race to elementary - aged students to another school struggling with how to engage parents of color.

Alumni of Color Conference Alumni, students, practitioners, artists, and scholars from both HGSE and across the nation come together annually to share best practices and research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Increasing the percentage of students of color who graduate with a four - year degree from 35 % to 100 % won't happen through pedagogy alone.

Some white students do not comprehend the significance of racial discrimination or understand that their own experiences of race are different from those of students of color, leading them to discount feelings of exclusion by their non-white peers.

At least three distinct theories have been proposed about how moving away from a majority - white teacher workforce would be beneficial for students of color.

These youth are disproportionately students of color (particularly African American males), students from low - income backgrounds, and students with disabilities.

«What does it mean to prepare students who are primarily of color coming from inner - city Oakland to be really ready for the world?»

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Daniella Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.