Sentences with phrase «than white students when»

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

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.

Not exact matches

A student of the Great Depression and a former economics professor at Princeton, he likely knew better than anyone in the Bush White House what was at stake when so many major U.S. investment banks were poised to fail in the panic of 2008.

When a student in a Syracuse or Rochester public school walks into a classroom, they are more likely than not to have a white teacher.

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.

Eberhardt and Stanford psychology graduate student Jason Okonofua examined the psychological processes involved when teachers discipline black students more harshly than white students.

But, when these predictors are part of the analyses, it demonstrates that African - American men and women attain higher educational levels than white students with the same high school GPA and background characteristics.

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.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

When he controlled for student gender, SES, prior achievement, and misbehavior (e.g, suspensions and fights), and for teachers gender, race, years of experience, teaching credential, and education., Cooc found teachers were more likely to believe that white students, rather than minorities, have disabilities.

White teachers were 9 percentage points less likely to expect a black student to earn a college degree than their black colleagues when both teachers were evaluating the same student — on average, 33 percent of black teachers expected the student to finish college, compared to 24 percent of white teacWhite teachers were 9 percentage points less likely to expect a black student to earn a college degree than their black colleagues when both teachers were evaluating the same student — on average, 33 percent of black teachers expected the student to finish college, compared to 24 percent of white teacwhite teachers.

[11] They find black students in North Carolina were less likely to be subject to exclusionary discipline when they had black teachers rather than white teachers, even within the same school.

One experimental study in 2014 by Anne Gregory and colleagues found that teachers in the MTP program suspended students less often than teachers in the control group, and when suspensions did occur, MTP teachers had equal suspension rates for African American and white students.

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

When you break the test scores down by ethnicity and weight them by their percentage of the student population, it's interesting to see how both white and Hispanic test gains contributed more to the average score than black gains.

Beginning in middle school, African - American students are more likely than Asian and white students to say they are treated unfairly when it comes to school discipline.11 Black students are also more likely to come from family backgrounds associated with school behavior problems; for example, children ages 12 - 17 that come from single - parent families are at least twice as likely to be suspended as children from two - parent families.

More than 80 percent of America's public school teachers are White, yet these students said that when they see a Black teacher — or many Black teachers — in one building, it changes their world.

By 2015, when the majority of those same students likely had reached sixth grade, the percentage of proficient black sixth - graders had inched up 2 points while that of white sixth - graders had increased more than 4 points.

Across all grades taken together, white students remain the largest group — 31 percent — but that number has fallen sharply since 1970, when more than 90 percent of students were white.

When examining responses by students» self - reported race / ethnicity, we see that black or African - American students are slightly more likely than white students to feel that they must be ready to fight to defend themselves.

The bottom line: Across our country we are spending less on students of color than on white students, at least when it comes to state and local dollars.

When the study compared white students of similar backgrounds, they were not scoring any better in the «whitest» schools than they were in the «blackest».

«Most results show that when black teachers teach black students, black students achieve more than when taught by white teachers,» writes Andy Porter in Rethinking the Achievement Gap.

In addition, when asked during the hearing if he would intervene as Assistant Secretary if Black students in a school district were receiving lower quality teachers, fewer books, fewer AP classes and fewer educational resources than White students, Mr. Marcus would not commit to addressing this clear violation of civil rights laws that prohibit districts from providing students of color with inferior resources.

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When asked what approach would provide the most accurate picture of a public school student's academic progress, respondents of every demographic — Republican, Democrat, independent, black, Hispanic, white — selected «examples of student work» more frequently than written observations or grades provided by the teacher.