Sentences with phrase «than white students at»

In 2009, California, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, and Texas have a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in NAEP than White students at both grades.

Arizona has a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in NAEP than White students at grade 4.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

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.

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.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — More than 250 tech - savvy students from 36 high schools and colleges across the New York - metropolitan region today joined together to kick off the second annual #WestchesterSmart Mobile App Development Bowl at the Westchester County Center in White PlWHITE PLAINS, NY — More than 250 tech - savvy students from 36 high schools and colleges across the New York - metropolitan region today joined together to kick off the second annual #WestchesterSmart Mobile App Development Bowl at the Westchester County Center in White PlWhite Plains.

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.

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

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.

«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.

The most striking changes occurred at the bottom of the distribution, as the share of African American students attending schools with fewer than 5 percent white students fell by more than 50 percent after 1968.

Conversely, «if a white student uses a LSP voucher to attend a school that is more white than its surrounding community, the transfer would be reducing integration at the new school.»

• Debt and default among black or African - American college students is at crisis levels, and even a bachelor's degree is no guarantee of security: black BA graduates default at five times the rate of white BA graduates (21 versus 4 percent), and are more likely to default than white dropouts.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Rather than getting mad at a student with poor working memory who constantly forgets to write down homework assignments, a teacher could easily help that kid by verbalizing assignments and writing them down on the white board.

The department received a complaint that a black student at the Lodi Unified School District in California, about an hour south of Sacramento, received harsher punishment than a white student after the two were in a fight.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

But controlling for other factors that might put students at risk for problems at school, Paul Morgan and George Farkas find that minority students are actually less likely to receive special ed services than similarly situated white students.

At graduation, black students owe $ 7,375 more than their white peers ($ 23,420 versus $ 16,046).

This is visible in the top of Chart 2 and, as in the case of early Algebra 1, the minorities are the prime beneficiaries here too, growing at a much faster rate than white students.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

For exactly this reason, writes Gloria Ladson - Billings, a black professor at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, in a recent essay in Ed Week, «There is something that may be even more important than black students having black teachers, and that is white students having black teachers.

However, white students had a higher participation rate than Hispanic and African American students, and higher - performing students participated at higher rates.

In reading, the achievement gap has improved slightly more than in math (0.3 standard deviations), but after a half century, the average black student scores at just the 22nd percentile of the white distribution.

At the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic studentAt the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic studentat graduating Hispanic students.

After two years of interviewing more than 100 black, Latino, and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty and socioeconomic segregation — segregation by class — shape the way students experience college.

Some groups perform at higher levels than white students.

Yet disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than do higher - income and white students.

So according to the kids themselves, compared with white students, African American pupils are more than twice as likely to get into fights at school and almost twice as likely to get to class late.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

The school has diversity of its own to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch, and fewer than half the students are white.

In your district, African American students are three times more likely to live in poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at school.

And the school - to - prison pipeline is a serious and legitimate concern with a study this year indicating that southern states suspend and expel African - American students at a significantly higher rate than white students.

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.

Historical data shows that Montgomery's white enrollment as a percentage of the entire student body — at more than 90 percent in 1971 — has dipped every year since, while the percentage of Hispanic students has been climbing since 1984.

If black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).

A Black student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more likely to read at or above grade level at eighth grade than a White student eligible for the National Lunch Program.

Students from some racial - and ethnic - minority groups and those from low - income families enroll in college and succeed there at lower rates than their white, wealthier peers.

Notice in my example that the average score of black students lies at the same point in the white distribution in both the 5th and the 8th grades: around 75 percent of white students score higher than the average black student in both grades.

Twenty - four countries have a larger percentage of highly accomplished students than the 8 percent achieving at that level among the U.S. white student population in the Class of 2009.

Your African American students are three times likelier to live in poverty than your white students, are more than twice as likely to get into fights at school, and almost twice as likely to be chronically tardy to class.

Disproportionately poor, and sometimes not speaking English at home, Hispanics tend to score considerably lower than white students.

Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress's nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration's efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

For instance, black and Latino students are five times more likely to attend high - poverty schools than white students.44 Recent census data also show that black and Hispanic Americans live in poverty at more than twice the rate of non-Hispanic whites, and they are significantly much more likely to live in extreme poverty.45

These studies suggest that black teachers are powerful role models, particularly for black boys; that they are more likely than white teachers to recognize competence in their black students; and that subjective judgments by teachers play a vital role in determining success at school.