Sentences with phrase «students of color who»

Rep. Cynthia Stafford, a Democrat, called it a dangerous policy that could disproportionately impact students of color who might be mistaken for shooters.

January 21, 2015 — For the 10th consecutive year, Goodwin Proctor LLP is offering «its 2015 Public Interest Fellowships for Law Students of Color program, which provides awards of $ 7,500 to law students of color who demonstrate outstanding academic performance, leadership skills and a commitment to community service.

Thousands of students of color who would have been tracked to lower - level courses are in advanced classes.

Antonio and so many other students all over North Carolina represent the most vulnerable students in our state: students of color who have experienced trauma and attend low - performing schools.

How many more resources would be available to the non-Jewish students of color who get by on a paltry $ 13K a year — not much more than Lakewood is paying for one student at Orchos Chaim per month — and attend a high school where 7 percent of students reach grade - level proficiency in math?

In the 20 years since starting its first school, KIPP Schools has demonstrated its ability to scale and to bring an increasingly high - quality education to thousands of low - income students and students of color who otherwise might not have had the opportunity.

At the same time, this may help explain why so many educators across the country take a dim view of charter schools, most of which enroll low - income students of color who have been underserved by the traditional public school system.

But as the Shanker researchers attest, it's not just students of color who benefit from diverse teachers; all students do.

California low - income students and students of color who we've historically underserved continue to receive less — we deny them equal access to college preparatory courses, to college counselors as well as to diverse and effective educators, like Ms. Lockhart, who play such a vital role in supporting student success.

We believe that by establishing a support network for students of color who plan to enter educational leadership programs in higher education, we will:

Efforts to increase the number of students of color who attend and graduate from college may be a powerful lever for increasing the diversity of the teaching profession.

Bender argued that targeted charter schools can help students of color who have been failed by the public school system, while Slekar said that school choice undermines the effectiveness of public schools, including their ability to address racial disparities.

The team sought to share and understand their own experiences with racial inequity in education, reflect on the perspectives of students of color who experience a lack of diversity within their teacher community, and research a range of factors that contribute to the gap, from teacher recruitment through school climate.

And let's not forget East Ramapo, where the elected school board has been accused of diverting resources to the 24,000 students in private Yeshivas at the expense of the 9,000 predominantly low - income students of color who remain in the district schools.

When I started my career in Hartford, where I serve students of color who predominantly come from low - income homes, this paradigm flipped.

When practiced correctly and consistently, it can get underperforming students of color who are caught on the wrong side of the achievement gap ready for rigorous learning by building their brainpower.

«Creating programs in our high schools that engage students of color who are interested in teaching is essential to creating pathways to careers in education.»

If we're committed to the success of every child, we must acknowledge the uneven playing field that exists for many: ELLs, students with special needs, children experiencing trauma or relentless poverty, and students of color who confront unconscious biases about their capacity.

He and Byrne emphasize the additional challenges faced by LGBT students of color who often deal with issues of racism and who may not feel safe enough or ready to come out until there is a «critical mass of kids of color» in their schools.

Federal financial aid policy alone can not solve these problems — but neither can it ignore the challenges facing students of color who disproportionately bear the burden of student debt.

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

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

Not exact matches

The city has launched programs to target three groups in particular: small - business owners, filmmakers who are women and people of color, and students dreaming of getting into the business.

The two say the change «lowers standards and will allow inexperienced and unqualified individuals to teach those children that are most in need - students of color, those who are economically disadvantaged, and students with disabilities.»

On Thursday, the board voted 6 - 2 to demand Paladino's resignation, with members calling him «unambiguously racist,» «morally repugnant,» and a person with «a pattern of racist and negative behaviors» whose words would have an «incalculable» impact on the children of color who constitute the majority of Buffalo's public - school students.

Advocates have long argued that the discipline code disproportionally affects students of color and those who speak English as a Second Language.

The NYC Department of Education has been trying to recruit and retain teachers of color, bilingual teachers and male teachers in an effort to have the adults in the classroom look more like the students, who are overwhelmingly students of color with many speaking a language other than English at home.

Charter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district schools.

«He's known for out - there ideas,» says current graduate student Moiya McTier, who first worked with Kipping as an undergrad student in the Banneker Institute at Harvard, a program to prepare students of color for careers in astronomy.

The protests peaked on 14 November when L'Onda (The Wave), the Italian student group that instigated the protests and now gives its name to the movement against the new laws, «invaded the city of Rome with colors and singing,» as Ravaglia, who took part in the march, puts it.

Although all graduate students are on the look - out for a mentor, he finds it's especially difficult for his friends who are people of color.

However, Ray said, women of color are more likely than other students to report having secondary advisers who respect their ideas and teach them how to navigate academia.

Thomas said one of his former Ph.D. students at MIT, Cheolmin Park, who is now a professor at Yonsei University, wanted to collaborate on developing printable and rewritable copolymer structural colors.

Simien — who also wrote and produced the film — has set the story on an Ivy League campus, where the white kids and the students of color supposedly ebony - and - ivory together in perfect harmony.

Those students, who are disproportionately low - income students and students of color are, in turn, at higher risk of not completing college at all.

Some students who have used these array sheets, circle the groups with colored markers, and then write the matching number sentences near the bottom of the page, in the same colors.

About half of the 15 candidates in Harvard's new Teacher Fellows program are students of color, according to Katherine K. Merseth, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor who designed the program.

As the country's K - 12 student population grows more ethnically diverse, students of color face the troubling possibility of never having a teacher who looks like them.

Making the video also provided students with a chance to work with a pro, Gegen, who worked on the production of numerous films, including JoJo Dancer, The Color Purple, and Punchline, and television shows such as Moonlighting and The A-Team.

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.

This can be beneficial for students who need a choice of color or lighter or darker background or text for effective reading.

A key way of doing this in the third and fourth grades is during the brainstorming phase [before students write] is to let the kids who want to and who think visually and graphically draw with colored pencils.

«In general, we are not able to move to a new place or to make progress with race and education,» says Keith Catone, tri-chair of AOCC, a group that celebrates the work of HGSE alumni of color and all alumni, students, and community members who share a common commitment to understanding and addressing the...

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.

Research has shown that closing the teacher diversity gap results in better outcomes for students of color, and teachers who share students» backgrounds can serve as powerful role models.

The AOCC celebrates the work of HGSE alumni of color, but is also for students, faculty, staff, and anyone in the community who shares a commitment to understanding and addressing issues of race and class in education.

«We were always both focused on the students who were too often left behind in urban schools — low - income kids, kids of color.»

«The students immediately knew people who had something to say about the topic,» explains Nuval, whose class consists entirely of students of color.

But when he met a teacher who asked him to mentor some low - income students of color, his future aspirations changed.

In one of the most recent outreaches into the community, Jenkins, his Wesleyan students, and three women who had been incarcerated at York, including Gardner, attended the Ed School Alumni of Color Conference in March to perform a mash - up of Dante's Inferno and the prisoner's life stories called To See the Stars.