Sentences with phrase «white and black students»

In 2014, the gap between white and black students narrowed in 28 states, and the gap between white and Hispanic students narrowed in 32 states.

To investigate this question, we compared the progress of white and black students who attended the same school.

In effect, this technique holds teacher quality constant by comparing the relative performance of white and black students under the same teacher.

Although overall scores on national standardized tests have been among the fastest - rising in the nation, there are still stark achievement gaps separating white and black students and the wealthy and poor.

For example, public schooling for white and black students in the South resulted from legislation by African American elected leaders during the Reconstruction era.

That gap is wide: Data from the state Department of Education shows the achievement gap between white and black students in Mississippi is 28 percent, larger than the gaps for other traditionally disadvantaged subgroups in the state, including those between English speakers and English - language learners and between students in special education and general education, according to Mississippi Department of Education data.

One important place where productive encounters could occur is within schools, but for the last 40 years, white and black students learning alongside one another has been the exception rather than the rule.

Average proficiency rates in math are lower at ELL reporting schools not only for ELL students, but also for white and black students who attend those schools.

The short story is that Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein crowed for years about dramatic declines in the gap among white and black students reaching the «proficient» mark — declines that mostly disappeared when New York State recently recalibrated its definition of «proficiency.»

What about a consortium of churches who intentionally mobilize white and black students to spend their summer serving within a struggling urban minority community?

«When students come into the university, the numbers of white and black students with an interest in the sciences are about the same.

Brown sought to tie the fates of white and black students together by declaring that «separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,» but the promise of Brown has never fully been realized.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

White and black students at Coolidge were slightly more cordial toward each other, but the contact seldom extended beyond school.

Given the long - standing and wide gap between white and black student mathematics scores, the NAEP gain may represent nothing more than regression to the mean.

One can not infer that any administrators treat white and black students differently, because all administrators are dealing with students of only one race.

During the 1970s the school district had experienced a massive exodus of middle - class white and black students.

First, the math achievement scores of white and black students decline if they attend schools that report ELL test scores, shrinking the gap.

During the 1970s and»80s, at the height of school desegregation efforts, the gap in scores between our nation's white and black students dramatically narrowed.

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.

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.

In study after study, scholars have investigated the effects of differences among white and black students in their socioeconomic status, family structure, and neighborhood characteristics and in the quality of their schools.

The Republican lawmaker also pointed to the massive gaps in academic achievement between white and black students in Madison School District and low reading proficiency rates in Milwaukee schools.

While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.

But given the cultural climate of America in the 1940s, her group of white and black students was rebuffed again and again.

The attacks continued when Assemblywoman Inez Barron (D - Brooklyn) blasted Deputy Chancellor John White over the difference in performance between white and black students.

The program's benefits were equivalent to closing nearly two - thirds of the average gap in math test scores between white and black students, or the equivalent of what the average American high school student learns in math over three years.

Nearly 33 percent of White and Black students, who dated together, faced a problem from other Black and White's.

The case against the Lowndes County public schools began in 1973 when the U.S. Justice Department filed suit in an effort to better integrate the school system's white and black students.

The gains in math were the equivalent of closing almost half the yawning gap between white and black students in the U.S.

In Chicago, it was white and black students (but not Hispanics).

The first two saw improvements for their Hispanic students; the latter made gains for its white and black students.

The number of blacks graduating from high school and college increased during the 1980's, the Census Bureau reports, but a wide gap remains in the college - going rates of white and black students.

Brown sought to tie the fates of white and black students...

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.

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.

Likewise, for both white and black students, I identified schools as segregated if the share of black or white students was above the average for each race.

Thomas Dee's finding («The Race Connection,» Research, Spring 2004) that both white and black students learned more when taught by teachers of the same race has implications that go far beyond his discussion.

In 2007, when Russom Mesfun became principal of Montera Middle School in Oakland, California, he discovered a troubling achievement gap between white and black students.

But Wednesday's report shows no great leaps for the nation and stubborn disparities in performance between white and black students, among others.

From 2012 to 2015, its white and black students saw improvement on reading tests, and the black students in many cases outscored their black peers in the rest of the district.

I find very clear evidence that one aspect of segregation in particular — the disparity in average school poverty rates between white and black students» schools — is consistently the single most powerful correlate of achievement gaps, a pattern that holds in both bivariate and multivariate analyses.

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.

Humphries said in an interview that Evers was too focused on objecting to the expansion of private voucher and independent charter schools and not focused enough on raising student achievement and closing the gap in academic achievement between white and black students.

Cerf noted New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge tests showed a 20 percentile point proficiency gap between white and Hispanic students in math, and a 31 percentile point spread between white and black students.