Sentences with phrase «which black and white students»

They find over half the gap in racial discipline rates is generated within schools; that is, it is not simply a story in which black and white students attend schools with different discipline policies.

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These words, printed in white letters on a black T - shirt, are the foundation of Laurel resident Luke Roberts» new mobile app, which raises funds for food to serve students in need and their families through a Maryland...

«How come schools with 82 percent white students have 44 teams,» asked Bestabe Cordero, a 16 year - old senior at International Community High School in the Bronx, «And my school, which is almost 100 percent students of color, Latino and black students, we only have two teaAnd my school, which is almost 100 percent students of color, Latino and black students, we only have two teaand black students, we only have two teams.

This Wednesday «rally follows the release of Families for Excellent Schools» white paper, «A Tale of Two School Systems, «in August, which found that black and Hispanic students are confined to a second - class system of the city's worst performing schools.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, led by PhD student Leslie van der Leer, assigned participants a computer task in which they observed the color of a black or white fish caught from one of two lakes and were then asked to choose to see further fish or decide on one of the lakes as the source of that sequence of fish.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

The annual competition invites students to submit two - minute videos that help educate others about the health benefits of black, green, oolong, and white tea — all of which come from the Camellia sinensis tea plant — for the chance to win a $ 20,000 scholarship.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

Several critics have compared the character to Woody Allen, and in its content and black - and - white photography, C.K.'s movie also consciously echoes Allen's 1979 film Manhattan, in which Allen's character dates a high - school student, played by Mariel Hemingway.

The Student Interaction Plan, which was designed to encourage visits once a month between students in majority black schools and majority white schools, was only implemented for a few years (with minimal participation), and was cut entirely from the budget in 1994.

They hope the changes will mark a turning point for the 28,000 - student district, which faces declining enrollment, a persistent achievement gap between black and white students, and a failure to meet federal academic standards...

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In the second episode of Walking the Talk, we explore obstacles on the road to college, and other issues affecting student equity, in a conversation with John Silvanus Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College and former executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a position to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama.

This framing tends to fuel what Warikoo calls «the diversity bargain,» in which white students support affirmative action as long as black and Latino students on campus do not form their own organizations and friend groups, and whites do not feel overlooked through «reverse discrimination» when they apply for fellowships, jobs, and graduate school.

The survey, which gauges racial attitudes in schools a half - century after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate schooling for black and white students, found differences between teachers and students on questions of race and education.

Day, nearly 50 years since the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision in which the Supreme Court found that «separate - but - equal schools» for white and black students were unfair and unconstitutional, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) announces a new study on national resegregation trends in American public schools.

Nationwide, the typical white student attends a school in which 72 percent of students are white and only 8 percent are black, according to a 2014 report by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The relatively poor proficiency levels at public schools with high concentrations of ELL students is underscored by comparing the standardized test scores of white and black students who attend the schools in which ELL students are concentrated with the scores of white and black student who attend other public schools.

It also shows that white and black students who attend the public schools in which ELL students are concentrated are doing worse than their peers who attend public schools with few English language learner students.

Each student record submitted for the 2002 - 03 and 2003 - 04 school years must indicate to which of the following racial / ethnic groups the student belongs: American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black (not Hispanic origin), Asian or Pacific Islander, Hispanic, or White (not Hispanic origin).

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

Beginning with the 2004 - 05 school year, each student record must contain information in the format required by the commissioner and indicating whether the student is Hispanic and indicating to which of the following racial groups the student belongs: White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.

In the St. Louis area, school districts tend to be divided along racial lines, and a New York Times reporter covering the story of the transfers heard from white parents in receiving districts who expressed concern that troublemakers will be among the transfers, and that teachers may have to slow down to allow the students from struggling districts, which are predominantly black, to catch up.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress's nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration's efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

Shown here in the fall of 1958 are black and white students at Norfolk Catholic High School, which had integrated voluntarily soon after the Brown decision of 1954.

May 19, 2016 by Brett Kittredge As the United States marks the 62nd anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision which declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, a new study looks at the effect school choice has had in reducing racial segregation in schools.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

The new report, which looked at middle and high schools across the country, finds significant discipline gaps between white, black, and Hispanic students.

In Public Schools, White Students Are No Longer the Majority U.S. classrooms will enter a new era this fall — one in which black, Hispanic, and Asian students form the mStudents Are No Longer the Majority U.S. classrooms will enter a new era this fall — one in which black, Hispanic, and Asian students form the mstudents form the majority.

In this instance, the white and black student scores were basically flat with Hispanic scores up 6 points, which raised the overall score by 2 points.

In this instance, the white and black student scores were basically flat with Hispanic scores up 6 points, which raising the overall score by 2 points.

Newark's traditional district, which serves 35,329 students, is pretty evenly divided between Black and Hispanic students; about 8 percent are White and there are very few Asian students.

The difference in the rate at which black, Hispanic, and white students go to school with poor classmates is the best predictor of the racial - achievement gap.

But Holtz said focusing on the job offer deal is simply diverting attention from the state's gap in academic achievement between black and white students, which he said he blamed Evers for letting become the worst in the nation.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whiteAnd attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whiteand Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whiteand Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

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.

White students attended the premier Farmville High School, while black students attended Robert Russa Moton High School, which lacked a cafeteria, gymnasium and proper heating system.

He praised DPI's new plan because it sets goals to cut the gap in average achievement between black and white students in half in six years — which would require black students to improve in proficiency in English and math by around 4 percent annually.

At New Directions Secondary School in the Bronx, which took on at least one ATR teacher, 100 percent of students are economically - disadvantaged; 29 percent are Black, 67 percent are Hispanic, 0 percent are white; two percent tested proficient in English Language Arts and one percent tested proficient in math.

He says his time as a superintendent of Beloit schools, which have a high percentage of low - income students and students of color, will help address the state's longstanding, persistent achievement gap between black and white students — which is the worst in the country by some measures.

They targetted the segregationist policies of CPS superintendent Ben Willis, under which students in black schools were crammed into classrooms and mobile units and taught in split shits, while nearby white schools had empty classrooms.

The case overturned the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson in which the U.S. Supreme Court, in all its racist glory, claimed that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were acceptable.

This means that for students who used vouchers to transfer into a private school, both black and white students most often entered a private school in which their race or ethnicity was already over-represented relative to the community.

In the 1930s there emerged an initiative to teach black history and culture to white students, which pre-dates more widespread efforts of the post-Second World War era.

Black students in white suburbs also have experiences associated with white suburban education, such as going on field trips and having project based learning experiences, which are considered optimal learning experiences in American society (Lewis, 2003).

• District schools, including affiliated charters, have 521,890 students, of which 73.8 percent are Latino, 8.1 percent black, and 10.2 percent white.

Who really believes that students are going to carry into their classes a notebook computer (or smaller) that allows them to surf the web, Twitter, provide online messaging, save their personal files and photos and a hundred other features — a device which they already own — and then purchase an additional black & white only device, albeit with a web browser, and be thankful they can leave books at home and read them instead on a device clearly inferior to their notebook or netbook (which can easily display the same material)?

But we are also keenly aware that, like most Higher Education institutions in Britain, we need to raise the average level of degree attainment among our black and minority ethnic students, which is significantly lower than that of white UK students.»