Sentences with phrase «than one's white peers»

Students of color even graduate from college at lower rates than their white peers.

Overall black students are 4 times more likely than their white peers to be suspended.

Black students are four times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

But by the fall of 7th grade, African - American students reported significantly less trust in their schools than their white peers.

Therefore, it should not surprise anyone that black male achievement scores are lower than their white peers.

In contrast, over 70 % of students of all races said they believed that low - income students receive a worse education than their white peers.

This is at odds with GCSE results, where Asian pupils get similar if not higher grades than their white peers.

Black students are three times more likely and Hispanic students are more than twice as likely to be taught by an ineffective teacher than their white peers.

The researchers found that boys were more likely to consume energy drinks than girls and that black and Hispanic boys were more likely to drink the beverages than their white peers.

The survey also found that black teens are more active on social media and messaging apps than their white peers.

We also know that individuals who have teaching degrees and who are black are less likely to be teaching than their white peers.

And once at college, blacks are less likely to graduate in six years than their white peers.

Black children are often perceived as older and more dangerous than their white peers.

However, it is clear that defendants of color are in a markedly worse position than their white peers.

This means Black students are more than three times as likely to be suspended than their white peers.

Recent evidence from Arkansas confirms that black students attending public schools there are punished more harshly than their white peers, but also suggests that most of the difference is attributable to the schools that students attend.

As a group, these mostly Hispanic students have long scored significantly lower than their white peers on standardized tests like the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation's report card.

What do you think of Sander's argument that that affirmative action is causing black law students to get lower grades and pass the bar less often than their white peers?

Starting in prekindergarten, black boys and girls were disciplined at school far more than their white peers in 2013 - 2014, according to a government analysis of data that said implicit racial bias was the likely cause of these continuing disparities.

The analysis shows that students of color suffer harsher discipline for lesser offenses than their white peers and that racial bias is a driver of discipline disparities.»

Similarly, YES Prep's Hispanic students performed higher than their white peers statewide in the same areas.

In 2016, Black and Hispanic students at Success Academy, on average, performed better than their white peers across the entire state of New York and low - income students performed better, on average, than their non-low-income peers across the state at both the Proficient and Advanced levels in all three tested subjects — English, math and science.

Even more sobering: two children drown every day, and African - American children are three times more likely to drown than their white peers.

Some have questioned whether the directive will actually do anything to change the fact that blacks and Hispanics are more often targeted for marijuana enforcement than their white peers — noting that minorities could be disproportionately impacted by summonses, just as they are by arrests.

As The Huffington Post reports, it's been found that children of color who consume mainly white media report lower self - esteem than their white peers.

When most of us think about minority students facing discrimination, we picture an event like the one in Lodi — two kids in a fight, one white, one black, and the black student is allegedly given a tougher punishment than his white peer.

According to statistics compiled by the USED (Figure 1), black students are significantly more likely to be chronically absent than their white peers, while Asian students are the least likely to be chronically absent.

A recent U.S. Census Bureau study found that though often poorer than their white peers, Hispanic college students are less likely to receive financial aid.

In a separate study, Russell Skiba and Natasha Williams further revealed that black students in the same schools or districts were not engaged in levels of disruptive behavior that would warrant higher rates of exclusionary discipline than white peers.

But the numbers show that even when blacks are successful in attending and completing college, they're still less likely to be gainfully employed than their white peers, hinting that less education isn't the entire problem, and that attempts to boost educational attainment figures among blacks won't be the entire solution.

Commissioned by the Charleston, W.Va. - based Education Alliance, the report found that African - American students rated their schools significantly lower than their white peers did in seven out of eight categories: academic expectations, instruction, course - taking, counseling about education options, respect, mentoring and caring relationships, and fairness.

A possible explanation for the difference in results between African American students and students overall is that, on average, African American students in KPS have lower GPAs and spend more days in suspension than their white peers.

In the context of National Student Walkout — and as exemplified in protests led by minority youth in St. Louis and other locales — you can imagine principals and deans of discipline punishing Black students more - harshly than their White peers for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Black teachers told researchers that superiors, coworkers, and customers — in this case, parents — often viewed them as less competent than their white peers.

Research has shown that minority students attending inner - city campuses are more likely to be held back a grade than their white peers at more affluent neighborhood schools.

Coleman's arguments lamenting students of color score worse on the tests than their white peers — without acknowledging the ways in which systematic underfunding of schools, poverty, and institutional racism have disfigured our school system — end up pathologizing communities of color rather than supporting them.

Students of color are disciplined in far greater numbers than their white peers, according to research released by The Equity Project at Indiana University.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

Culling through federal Office for Civil Rights data for 3,022 districts in 13 southern states, researchers Edward J. Smith and Shaun R. Harper determined that black kids were far more - likely to be suspended at more - disproportionate levels than white peers.

In each of the five states with the largest differences in lost instruction — Nevada, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee — researchers found that Black children lost more than 107 days per 100 enrolled than their white peers with disabilities.

As a result of these collection costs and practices, borrowers of color could disproportionately be paying more for their student loans than their white peers, both in the short term and over the life of the loan.

Boys were more likely to consume energy drinks than girls, and black and Hispanic students were more likely to consume the drinks than their white peers.

Close to 3 out of 4 African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant, and African - American children have an 80 percent higher rate of asthma and are nearly three times more likely to die from asthma than their white peers.

We found that black children who have at least one black teacher start out performing somewhat worse than their white peers in math and slightly better in reading, relative to black students who have no black teachers.

But, according to findings released today in Science, black investigators — a group composed of African - Americans and scientists from other nations who identify as black — are about 10 percentage points less likely than their white peers to win these grants.

The improvements were especially pronounced among blacks and Hispanics, who have long been far less likely to complete high school than their white peers.

Furthermore, say the researchers, youth who have been diagnosed with depression are six times more likely to commit suicide than their peers, and Black youth have a much higher suicide rate than their White peers.