Sentences with phrase «than white students»

Students of color are more likely than White students to be suspended one or more times.

Overall, the proportion of black students in a county who are enrolled in public schools is an average of 17 percent higher than white students.

The results help explain why black students tend to be suspended at much higher rates than white students, the authors say.

If minorities are benefiting, why do black students score 20 points lower than white students on those tests?

Yet black and Hispanic students continued to receive 80 percent of all suspensions, and were 6.5 and 3.7 times more likely to be suspended than white students, respectively.

Asian students have generally performed better than white students on state math tests in the city, and about the same on English tests.

However, some districts recorded lower suspension rates of Latino students than white students.

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.

At both grades, black and Hispanic students posted lower average scores than white students and Asian students.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.

White students in these cities do quite well — even better than white students elsewhere.

Some groups perform at higher levels than white students.

In the traditional lectures, black students and students whose parents did not attend college performed worse than white students on exams.

On average, both Hispanic and Black students across grade levels are one and one half times more likely to be retained than White students (see graph).

Black students were 42 % less likely to report synthetic marijuana use and 36 % less likely to report more frequent use than white students.

In addition, a school safety worker revealed a difference in the school's reaction to a minority student issue than a white student, citing the school's uncertainty about minority parental involvement.

It is important to emphasize that none of these reasons suggest that minority students are any less able to learn than white students.

Several scholars have argued that black students lose more ground over the summer than white students because of their relatively worse home and neighborhood environments.

Despite gains in achievement, African American and Latino students still score significantly lower in the aggregate than white students.

Teachers, meanwhile, perceive Black children to have substantially less self - control than White students.

Black students and Hispanic students are about two times more likely to leave school without graduating with a diploma than White students.

Hispanic and black students were less likely than white students to have parents who attended general meetings or school events, or who volunteered their time.

Other researchers have found that minorities have lower completion rates than white students.

In 2015, almost four times as many African American students were suspended than white students.

This fact is important because black and Hispanic students are now more likely to attend schools with high levels of poverty than white students.

Hispanic students, meanwhile, had an average growth rate that was slightly higher than white students.

They are also much more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students with disabilities.

A 2014 fact sheet from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights noted that, during the 2011 - 2012 school year, black students were suspended and expelled from school at a rate more than three times greater than white students.

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.

But statistics showing African - American students in the district were eight times more likely to get an out - of - school suspension than white students last year raises questions about whether the discipline code works against efforts to close the achievement gap.

In fact, the stereotype of black students as «troublemakers» led teachers to want to discipline black students more harshly than white students after two infractions, Eberhardt and Okonofua said.

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.

That is, a poor black student is 10 percentage points likelier than a poor white student in the same school, grade - level, and year to be suspended; he is 16 percentage points likelier than a white student who is not free lunch eligible.

Myers - Wilkins is the district's only such school, designated by the state for having more students of color than white students.

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

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.

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.

They are also likely to be punished more severely than white students for minor misbehavior, contributing to the achievement gap and high dropout rates for these students.

For instance, a recent Brookings study shows that black students are suspended longer than white students when they are involved in the same fight.

Nationwide, on average, black students are four times more likely to live below the poverty line and 30 percent less likely to have a college - educated mother than white students.

For the first time, more Asian - American than white students have been admitted to the University of California system.

As the United States population has become more diverse, a representative sample picks up more and more minority students, who tend to score lower overall than white students.

The study also concluded that, in most cases, African - American students showed even more improvement than white students, and...

The study found that African - American students in Connecticut, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Nebraska are more than four times as likely to be identified as mentally retarded than white students living in those states.