Sentences with phrase «where black and white students»

Here, we're showing only districts where black and white students or Hispanic and white students came from similar backgrounds.

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Meanwhile, there are larger issues for him to untangle, involving the university's housing policy and the conflicts between the residence containing the largest number of white assholes (one of whom is the president's bratty son, played by Kyle Gallner) and the house where most of the black students land (and where the dean's upstanding, tweed - and - pocket - square - wearing son, played by Brandon P. Bell, strives to be a leader).

Irony and satire roam unchecked in film that follows four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular «African American'themed party thrown by white students.

Houston, for example, is starting a school where students will learn in Arabic for half the day, a program that has drawn white, Latino, and black students from English - speaking families.

Commissioner of Education John Ellis made the recommendation to the state board of education this month as part of a strategy to defuse tensions between Englewood Cliffs, whose student population is 95 percent white or Asian, and Englewood, where 86 percent of the students are black or Latino.

And then, you have a college where black and Latino students are pretty severely underrepresented, and that's telling students that, well, most of the best of the best are white and Asian, not black and LatiAnd then, you have a college where black and Latino students are pretty severely underrepresented, and that's telling students that, well, most of the best of the best are white and Asian, not black and Latiand Latino students are pretty severely underrepresented, and that's telling students that, well, most of the best of the best are white and Asian, not black and Latiand that's telling students that, well, most of the best of the best are white and Asian, not black and Latiand Asian, not black and Latiand Latino.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

The athlete, we discover, is relegated to dead - end remedial courses and is allowed to persist in his delusion that his athletic prowess will win him a full ride through college; his experience prompts Maran to explore in some detail how academic tracking and other more subtle differences in teachers» expectations contribute to a situation where 60 percent of white Berkeley High graduates attend a four - year college, while only 14 percent of black students earn enough credits to do so.

The move was seen as a way to achieve full integration of black and white students while avoiding the inflammatory issue of who got bussed where.

Due to Simpson's Paradox, where the size of the group can mask aggregated data, the scores of white students, black students, and Hispanic students all gained more than the national average.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

But she, along with Ushomirsky and Williams illustrate that in the case of Florida, where the proficiency levels for black students in A-ranked schools are, on average, four percentage points lower than for white peers in C - ranked schools.

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

There's little racial diversity at this Minneapolis K - 4 charter school, where the student body is nearly three - quarters black, 14 percent Hispanic and only 3 percent white.

In Topeka, where 77 percent of the district's racially and ethnically diverse student population (39 percent white, 30 percent Hispanic, 19 percent black) is eligible for free or reduced - price meals, the school board began looking at trauma - informed care several years ago, says board member Peg McCarthy.

But AL.com, after analyzing achievement gaps between black and white students, found a whole group of schools where proficiency for students is high and the gap is minimal.

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.

The city wants to redraw the zones in a way that would send kids from this predominantly white school to a nearby school where enrollment is over 90 percent black and Hispanic and which draws many of its students from a public housing project.

School resegregation for black students is increasing most dramatically in the South, where, after a period of intense resistance, strong action was taken to integrate black and white students.

Although most U.S. teachers are certified, for example, black students are more than four times as likely (PDF) as white students to attend schools where uncertified and unlicensed teachers are concentrated.

And in Ohio, where state - calculated graduation rates have been climbing for several years, the state's interim superintendent Michael Sawyers told the Newark Advocate that he's «surprised and somewhat disheartened» to see that the graduation rate for black, Hispanic and low - income students is far lower than the 85 percent rate for white studenAnd in Ohio, where state - calculated graduation rates have been climbing for several years, the state's interim superintendent Michael Sawyers told the Newark Advocate that he's «surprised and somewhat disheartened» to see that the graduation rate for black, Hispanic and low - income students is far lower than the 85 percent rate for white studenand somewhat disheartened» to see that the graduation rate for black, Hispanic and low - income students is far lower than the 85 percent rate for white studenand low - income students is far lower than the 85 percent rate for white students.

Rarely was there a situation where a student is capable of attracting so much attention with her piece as was the case with Kara and her mouthful of a mural — it wasn't just the theme of the piece that caught the notice of critics, but its notorious form of placing black paper silhouette figures against a white wall.

During the first two years of the 50's, spending his academic years at the Art Students League in New York and summers at the Black Mountain College his ambition has increased so much that provide him a prestigious solo show at the betty Parsons Gallery in New York where he showed his series of White Paintings (1953).

There remains a considerable amount of snobbery about degrees and A-levels and the like (class, your postal code and your grades) and where they are obtained... I also think that some students (black and white) need to do a bit more research about their proposed university.