Sentences with phrase «than a white student after»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

Four years after earning a bachelor's degree, black graduates in the 2008 cohort held $ 24,720 more student loan debt than white graduates ($ 52,726 versus $ 28,006), on average.

Using the B&B: 08/12 data, we examine total debt - to - income ratios for individuals who are employed full - time in 2012 and not currently enrolled, and find that black students with graduate degrees have debt - to - income ratios that are 27 percentage points higher than white graduate degree holders (even after controlling for other characteristics such as parental education and income).

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.

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.

Other studies have found that both black and white students who attend integrated schools are more likely to work in desegregated companies after graduation than students who attended racially isolated schools.

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).

An Education Sector report from 2007 found that, ten years after graduation, the default rate for African American students was more than five times higher than the default rate for white students, and the default rate for Hispanic students was more than twice the rate for white students.

Black young adults were found to be more likely to have student loans after college and their debt - to - income ratios were greater than white young adults.

According to a report released by the White House, those who dropped out of college after taking out small student loans have a harder time repaying their debt than those who took out thousands of dollars in loans.