Sentences with phrase «while white peers»

In fact, Black children account for 78.8 percent of all children suspended by the district in 2013 - 2014 — or four out of ever five kids suspended one or more times that year — while White peers accounted for a mere 33.7 percent of students suspended.

Not exact matches

And while these illnesses are consistent across demographic lines, people of color are more sensitive to the stigma of a diagnosis and are less likely to get the same level of care as their white peers.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

The microscope has been used to peer inside blood vessels being invaded by cancer cells and capture white blood cells while they chomp down on sugars inside a fish eyeball.

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.

While the state eventual aims to ensure that two - thirds of all black high school students are proficient in Algebra, that level of proficiency is still nearly 15 points lower than that for their white peers.

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.

African - American 12th - graders scored on average 30 points lower than their white peers on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, while Hispanic students scored 22 points lower.

Numerous studies have indicated that while most student aspire to attend college, less than half are academically qualified for postsecondary success and the rates for minority populations are significantly higher than their white peers.

While the number of students who are expelled or sent home for misbehaving in D.C. public schools and public charter schools has decreased overall, recent findings show that black students are nearly seven times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

According to new data, white and middle - class DC students are flying high, while black, Hispanic and poor children continue to lag behind their peers.

While white, black and Hispanic children all made modest test score gains in DC since 2003, the Rhee agenda has not significantly narrowed achievement gaps between the various demographic groups, nor has it brought disadvantaged DC youth up to the national average scores for peers of their same race and class in other cities.

While no student population is showing levels of achievement we should feel satisfied with, just 34 percent of Latino students met standards compared with 66 percent of their white peers.

While Latinx high school and college graduation rates are increasing, Latinx students still fall behind their white and Asian peers in high school graduation rates — by 10 percent and 12 percent, respectively15 — and in college completion rates — by 26 percent and 48 percent, 16 respectively.

While Lewis did find success during his lifetime — in 1955, he was the first African - American artist to be awarded the Carnegie International Award in Painting, and New York's respected Marian Willard Gallery represented and exhibited his work — he did not get the same recognition many of his white peers enjoyed.

Think of a medical quack without an MD who puts on a white coat and starts talking about cancer using scientific jargon, while criticizing peer - reviewed medical research in medical journals.