Sentences with phrase «students than white students»

However, some districts recorded lower suspension rates of Latino students than white students.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

Not exact matches

«You see a higher share of people with student loan debt in predominately non-white areas than white areas.»

A student of the Great Depression and a former economics professor at Princeton, he likely knew better than anyone in the Bush White House what was at stake when so many major U.S. investment banks were poised to fail in the panic of 2008.

After more than a day of criticism from the students, the White House said the president would hold a «listening session» with unspecified students Wednesday and meet Thursday with state and local security officials.

On average, white male students graduate with about 33 % more debt than their white female peers.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

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.»

Black students watch more TV than Hispanic students, who, in turn, watch more than white students.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

But as it stands now, all we can say for certain is that in 1988 at Clemson University, among the mostly young white students questioned, men had a greater tendency than women to try and like fiery - foods.

Being a student of Cryuff, Dennis has ALWAYS been tactically astute and more than aware of the atmosphere in the club adn its dressing room but being a amnage is more than simply drawing complex sketches on the white - board and screaming at players.

Moreover, the percentage of students selecting a milk type other than 1 % white — including fat free chocolate in the 2010 — 2011 school year and fat free white in the 2011 — 2012 school year — decreased by 76.2 %.

Many more African - American and Latino students are failing than their white counterparts, however.

When a student in a Syracuse or Rochester public school walks into a classroom, they are more likely than not to have a white teacher.

In all three, the population of white students is greater than 90 percent.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

White students in Troy were graduating at higher rates than all others until last year, when they were edged out by black and Hispanic students.

The achievement gap between minority and white students in Erie County is wider than it is statewide.

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Specifically, the study shows that black teachers» perceptions of black students are more positive than are white teachers» perceptions, and these perceptions drive assignment differences.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

A crew of white - coat - clad kitchen employees is preparing locally landed Acadian redfish fillets topped with oyster cracker crumbs and seasoned with Old Bay for more than 2,000 elementary school students.

Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at some point.

Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»

Even though more students were taking white milk, they wasted 29 % more than before.

After watching the videos, students were quicker to associate white faces than black ones with positive terms such as peace and love.

But at the same time, black teachers hold black students to a higher standard of behavior than do their white counterparts, the researchers found.

He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»

They were consistently more accurate on all tasks than the controls and the students,» says Dr White.

Teachers felt more troubled by a second infraction they believed was committed by a black student rather than by a white student.

Eberhardt and Stanford psychology graduate student Jason Okonofua examined the psychological processes involved when teachers discipline black students more harshly than white students.

Here, a referral suggests that the teacher perceives the student as having social, emotional, or behavioral skills that are problematic enough to warrant outside help, reaffirming earlier research showing that teachers perceive misbehavior by black boys as more aggressive and problematic than misbehavior by white boys.

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

For more than a century, resources had been distributed unequally among the races, so the college's facilities, its academic standards, and the academic preparation of its students could not match those of selective white colleges.

But, when these predictors are part of the analyses, it demonstrates that African - American men and women attain higher educational levels than white students with the same high school GPA and background characteristics.

The students, who had no knowledge of the driver's race, rated speech toward black drivers as less respectful than speech toward white drivers overall.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

Middle and high school students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«However, in our study, we were surprised to find that minority teachers are not just viewed more highly than White teachers by minority students, but in many cases by White students as well.»

According to a March 31 white paper from the Institute for International Education in New York City, more than 15,000 university students — mostly in graduate programs — and 2,100 scholars currently in the US are from the six countries named in Trump's executive order.

To find what gives Asian - Americans a leg up, a team of sociologists scoured two long - term surveys covering more than 5000 U.S. Asian and white students.

The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.

Also, more American black students — irrespective of their class or background — will set off on this education path than their white counterparts.

In 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that ethnic minorities now make up more than half of U.S. babies, and minority student enrollment in public schools was greater than that of white students.

«Our final image should show us a companion 100 times fainter than any other white dwarf orbiting a neutron star and about 10 times fainter than any known white dwarf, but we don't see a thing,» team member Bart Dunlap, a graduate student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in a statement.

Results revealed that attitudes toward black / white relationships were less positive at hbus, and that overall, black students disapproved of interracial dating more commonly than white.

He plays Jim White, a disgraced football coach whos no sooner moved to McFarland, CA than he spies the running potential of some of his dirt poor Mexican students, and starts a crosscountry team.

Scarlett Johansson's role as a show dog / love interest called Nutmeg, who bears a strange resemblance in grooming and deportment to Lee Remick, is off to the side — more so than Greta Gerwig's feisty, thatch - haired student protester, busy speaking truth to power on mainland Japan while being, a little inexplicably, white.