Sentences with phrase «third of black male students»

In 2015, Washington, D.C., where only about a third of black male students are proficient in reading and math, invested $ 20 million in new support programs specifically for black and Latino male students in the district.

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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.

As part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg» s initiative on black and Latino males, a school now gets extra points for making significant progress with students in that group whose prior performance has put them in the lowest third academically.

North Carolina researchers analyzing another large data set found similar results in 2007.27 More recently, in a study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers and university economists found that low - income black male students in North Carolina who have just one black teacher in third, fourth, or fifth grade are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider attending college.

(From a recent study: «Having at least one Black teacher in the third through fifth grade significantly reduces the likelihood that Black male students will drop out of high school and increases the likelihood that both Black male and female students will aspire to attend a four - year college.»)

Having at least one Black teacher in the third through fifth grade significantly reduces the likelihood that Black male students will drop out of high school and increases the likelihood that both Black male and female students will aspire to attend a four - year college.»)