Sentences with phrase «wealthy white students»

How do wealthy white students and working class black students consciously perceive wealthy black peers?

The academic achievement gap between wealthy white students and low - income students of color must be eliminated.

It's set at Oxford University, where the elite Riot Club (including Douglas Booth, Sam Reid, Freddie Fox, Matthew Beard, Ben Schnetzer and Olly Alexander) are on the lookout for wealthy white students to complete their 10 - man membership.

Not exact matches

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

The study employs 200 in - depth interviews with white, Chinese American, and Indian American students and parents in two wealthy suburban communities — one with a large, growing Asian American population — and ethnographic observations and staff interviews at the local high school in both.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

Given that time, our scholars consistently out - perform wealthy Westchester County on their Regents exams in nearly every subject and our first class of graduates outperformed white students on their SAT's.

Students who are most willing to contribute to the discussion from the start are not only more confident and extroverted; they also tend to come from more privileged backgrounds — white, male, straight, or wealthy.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

Despite decades of widespread implementation of such reforms, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

Despite decades of one - off interventions and reforms, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

Students from some racial - and ethnic - minority groups and those from low - income families enroll in college and succeed there at lower rates than their white, wealthier peers.

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

Whether we are strictly teaching the «canon» that is almost exclusively White or using examples in math or science problems that are more accessible to White and / or wealthy students than others, White teachers inject Whiteness into our classrooms all the time.

Early concern was that the creation of charter schools would lead to «cream skimming» of whiter, wealthier and higher achieving students from the traditional public school system.

Among the rare schools where such opportunities exist, a study from the journal Educational Policy shows participation to favor students who are wealthy and white.

But achievement gaps between students of color and white / Asian students and between low - income students and their wealthier peers (like our Long Islanders) are stark.

In practice, gifted programs, even in ethnically and economically diverse communities, are filled with primarily wealthy white and Asian students.

However, while proud of their accomplishments, he acknowledges that the state is far from reaching its ideal: closing the achievement gap between white and non-white and wealthy and low - income students.

Once again, I was one of few students who wasn't white or Asian and, as I was now noticing, wealthy.

The findings underscore the national struggle to boost the college graduation rate for low - income students and students of color, who lag behind their wealthier, white peers.

The term «achievement gap» refers to the gap between the test scores of low - income students (or students of color) and their wealthier (or white) peers.

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

If you are a low - income and / or minority student, you are not going to get the same quality of school as a wealthier / white student.

While minorities and subgroups showed improvements, so did white students and those not from wealthier backgrounds, so the gaps remained at close to the same levels.

Now if you're a middle - income or wealthy, White parent with a neurotypical, non-disabled student in the public education system, there's probably no reason for you to care about school accountability.

The almost entirely white population of girls at the school with the widest gap between wealthy and poor students was the group most at risk of relational aggression.

CC: I look with astonishment at groups like Save Our Schools, highly represented by white wealthy suburbanites that have made it their mission to undermine the opportunity of poor African - American students to have access to quality education.

Mahmoud believes a curriculum steeped in African history and culture is crucial to closing academic achievement gaps between poor black students and their wealthier, white peers.

However, the true achieve - ment gap (as defined by RIDE and others) exists between minority and white, poor and wealthier, ELL and non - ELL, and special needs and non-special needs students.

Bair, having been superintendent in wealthy cities such as Lexington, Massachusetts and Carmel, California, had no experience within cities such as Hartford, where the exodus of white families to the surrounding suburbs contributed to the decrease of white students in Hartford schools and the increase of minority students, in this case black and Puerto Rican students.

On the other hand, frustrated parents argue that the focus on integration forces schools to put their resources into attracting students from whiter, wealthier towns.

We hear a lot about the academic struggles of low - income students and students of color — particularly comparing them to their White and wealthier peers.

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

Most multimedia features minority students, and the website is available in 100 languages, suggesting that Rocketship makes few attempts to subtly select for wealthier, whiter students (Rocketship Schools 2017a).

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.