Sentences with phrase «than black students»

Across the 50 cities, white students were four times more likely than black students to enroll in a top - scoring elementary or middle school.

For example, he said, Hmong and Latino students are relatively recent immigrants to the U.S. and might have different learning needs than black students.

For example, White students are more than 4 times more likely to be meeting or exceeding standards in Math than Black students, and this has remained consistent since testing began a few years ago.

White students from poor families are doing better in schools across the state than black students from families with money.

«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic] gains were not equal across groups: white students gained more than black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income students may have resulted in inflated growth scores for the charter schools.

The fact is that there are more white students than black students in the (Highly Capable Cohort) Program.

Since white students score higher than black students on average, let's say that the average white score is 100, while the average score for black students is 80.

Black students taught by white teachers are less likely to be identified for gifted programs than black students taught by black teachers, for example.

If, as some have argued, white teachers have lower expectations for black children, one would predict that black students with white teachers would lose more ground than black students with black teachers.

There are more Latino than black students in the U.S. today — in fact, there have been more Latino than black students since 2002, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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.

On the other hand, «historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) such as Howard, Fisk and Clark Atlanta» enroll students who are «on average significantly weaker academically than the black students at Dartmouth and the other Ivies,» the book states.

Put differently, a black student with straight As is no more popular than a black student with a 2.9 GPA, but high - achieving whites are at the top of the popularity pyramid.

A White student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more than four times as likely to be brought to grade level in eighth grade reading than a Black student from a lower - income family.

Not exact matches

The age range is older, but Viacom heard and recognized the criticisms that the Parkland students had received far more positive attention than Black Lives Matter.

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 Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

They remembered the courage and determination of the young civil rights workers («The real heroes were the black «Snick» [SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] personnel, who faced the worst dangers and took more than their share of the violence.

I have suggested previously that the academic witch - hunters are responding to a catastrophic outcome among minority students: «Little more than a third of black male college students obtain a bachelor's degree (ideally a four - year program) after six years of university attendance.

Like our education system, where black and brown students find themselves more segregated than they were in 1968 — stuck in schools that are understaffed and under - resourced.

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

Of the black students at Oberlin, considerably more were female than male — a circumstance that many of the males were quick to take advantage of.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or better facilities than those available at schools in their own neighborhoods.

A typical black student gets up at 5 a.m. and rides a bus for more than an hour to get to the school.

He's richer than anyone you know, and has given money back to UNC in support of black students blessed with talents not like his own.

In a second, parallel study in which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-it.

AURORA — More than 20 years had passed before dance teacher Pamela Black heard from Aurora resident Thelma Lindsey, but she remembered her former student right away.

By Saturday afternoon, more than 5,700 people had signed an online petition calling for his removal from the school board in a diverse district where the majority of students are black.

The two members said they prefer Paladino have a chance to apologize to the parents and students in the predominantly black district, than be forced out.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

Wow, a black mother sends her son to a private school rather than to a school in Hackney (which at the time, I recall, had a reputation for failing black, male students).

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

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.

Stricter achievement tests showed the city's black and Hispanic students scored lower than whites and Asians.

Currently, only one in five Black or Hispanic students can read or write at grade level, and more than 200,000 Black and Hispanic students could not meet academic standards on this year's state exams.

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.

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.»

Harrer, a master's student in OSU's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, analyzed the samples to determine that female brown bears ate more berries than male brown bears, female black bears ate more than male black bears and brown bears ate more than black bears.

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.»»

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

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.