I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity
than white students who do well academically.
Not exact matches
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.
Black
students watch more TV
than Hispanic
students,
who, in turn, watch more
than white 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.»
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.
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.
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.
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).
Indeed, the study shows that the percent proficient among U.S.
students whose parents are college - educated or
who are
white is significantly less
than the percent proficient among all
students in countries such as Korea, Singapore, and Finland.
The researchers found that citizens
who are less educated, of lower income, or minority are no less able
than better - educated, higher - income, or
white citizens to evaluate the schools on the basis of
student achievement.
More
than one - third are middle - class
white students who would otherwise be attending their suburban neighborhood public school.
More troublingly, we also find that
white teachers,
who comprise the vast majority of American educators, have far lower expectations for black
students than they do for similarly situated
white students.
It also shows that
white and black
students who attend the public schools in which ELL
students are concentrated are doing worse
than their peers
who attend public schools with few English language learner
students.
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.
Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority
students,
who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods
than white students and less likely to know other adults
who are college graduates.
The other good long term news is that Black and Hispanic
students,
who usually have much lower test scores
than white students, are making greater long - term progress
than whites — shrinking the achievement gap between whites and the other two groups.
Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting
students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers
who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more
than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a
white school system.»
Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates
than their
white and Asian, middle class peers.
The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and
students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where
white students are doing far better
than the state average while black and Latino
students are doing worse.
In Los Angeles County, the percentage of Latino
students who were proficient in math was less
than half the percentage of
white students who were proficient.
As a local example, one study focused on Charlotte - Mecklenburg shows both black and
white students who attended desegregated elementary schools performed better on standardized tests
than peers
who attended segregated schools.
Eighty - three percent of educators in the United States are
White and so the likelihood of a teacher teaching
students who come from a different background
than themselves is highly likely.
Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of
students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority
students who generally perform worse
than their
white counterparts.
For both grade levels, there was generally a larger percentage of
White than Hispanic
students who participated in the 2009 assessments at the national level.
As a result, the test score gaps between high - need
students and
white students are larger on the SBAC
than they were on CST for both math and ELA (Figure 1).3 In particular, the gap in math between EL
students and
white students was 80 percent on the SBAC, compared to 38 percent on the CST — in other words, the share of EL
students who met the standard for the SBAC was 80 percent lower
than the share of
white students who met those standards.
Findings show that, generally, girls self - report as being more engaged
than boys,
White students and Asian American
students are more engaged
than other races across all three dimensions,
students in advanced classes are more engaged, non-low-income
students report more engagement, and
students who begin and stay at their high school starting in the ninth grade are higher across the dimensions of engagement.
College attainment rates for young adults increased from slightly more
than 40 percent to nearly 48 percent between 2007 and 2017, but significant gaps between
white and minority
students put the United States at only 10th in the world in the share of young adults
who have finished college.
While the number of
students who are expelled or sent home for misbehaving in D.C. public schools and public charter schools has decreased overall, recent findings show that black
students are nearly seven times more likely to be suspended
than their
white peers.
The mentorship program is particularly valuable for
students who may be attending predominantly
white schools that look and feel different
than KIPP schools, which tend to be more diverse, because «there's something special about knowing there's someone
who's gone through a similar journey as you on campus,» Stith explains.
In addition to socioeconomic realities that may deprive
students of valuable resources, high - achieving black
students may be exposed to less rigorous curriculums, attend schools with fewer resources, and have teachers
who expect less of them academically
than they expect of similarly high - achieving
white students.
Even though there is a difference (15.9 %) in the percentage of
white students who attend the Sacramento public schools (18.6 %) and the
white percentage of the population (34.5), it is much smaller
than in other major cities.
Have we never encountered
White teachers
who are afraid of their
students for no other reason
than their misconceived notions of their
students» skin color?
And, the percentage of
white students who attend the public schools in Chicago is much less
than the
white makeup of the city as a whole.
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.
Deutch and several other Democrats said they wanted to make sure that any anonymous trouble - reporting systems aren't turned into vehicles that are used as weapons against minority
students,
who are often subject to tougher school discipline
than white students.