Sentences with phrase «white and minority students»

But as student demographics change and achievement gaps between white and minority students remain wide, principals face growing challenges to serve an increasingly diverse population.

For generations, eyes have been focused on disparities in the achievement levels and graduation rates of white and minority students.

Achievement gaps between white and minority students remain large.

And achievement gaps between white and minority students persist.

The latest scores were especially disappointing because score gaps between white and minority students did not diminish at all since the last time the math test was administered, in 2007.

Similarly, the achievement gap between white and minority students started to close.

Reducing by 20 percent a year the gap in discipline rates between white and minority students..

High school graduation rates ticked up in a majority of states in 2014, and graduation gaps between white and minority students narrowed in most states that year, according to new federal data.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers highlighted the continued closing of the gap between white and minority student scores on the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination and Wisconsin Alternative Assessments for Students with Disabilities.

It's creating the best opportunity in a generation to create racially and socioeconomically integrated public schools, which research shows can benefit rich and poor, white and minority students alike.

«It's hard to disentangle, but it may be related to differences in the types of schools that white and minority students attend and access to appropriate resources and diagnoses in these schools,» he says.

The nation has watched Texas not only for the improving performance of its students across the state, but also for the shrinking achievement gap between white and minority students as measured by the TAAS.

The achievement gap between white and minority students also is narrower in DoDEA schools than in U.S. public schools.

The degree - attainment gap between white and minority students shrinks by half when all have taken similarly rigorous courses in high school.

In the pages following the ones the dissent cites, the author of that article remarks that «the main reason white and minority students perform better academically in majority white schools is likely that these schools provide greater opportunities to learn.

He said the academic disparities are larger «in places where white and minority students» families differ more in socioeconomic conditions,. . .

Although the gap between rich and poor schools may be closing in terms of computer - to - student ratios, a new digital divide separates white and minority students (Benton Foundation, 1998, 2003; Moersch, 1995; Piller, 1992; Technology Counts, 2001), particularly in opportunities to use computers to engage higher order thinking skills (Wenglinski, 1998).

College attainment rates for young adults increased from slightly more than 40 percent to nearly 48 percent between 2007 and 2017, but significant gaps between white and minority students put the United States at only 10th in the world in the share of young adults who have finished college.

Six decades later, the sacrifice of those black students stands as a symbol of the turbulence of the era, but also as a testament to an intractable problem: Though legal segregation has long ended, few white and minority students share a classroom today.

Preliminary data released on Monday by the Department of Education show that high school graduation rates rose in a majority of states and gaps in graduation rates between white and minority students narrowed in most states.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

Within a decade, the search for justice gave birth to another big idea: Not only would racial walls come down on campuses, no longer would it be right to have major gaps between the academic achievement of white and minority students.

One issue they touched on — how to bridge the achievement gap between white and minority students in places like Madison and Milwaukee.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

The achievement gap between white and minority students is widening again after decades of progress, warns a comprehensive analysis of the 50 states that is scheduled to be released this week.

Schools like Amistad, Paige said later, are helping to close the achievement gap between white and minority students, which he called, «the greatest civil rights issues of our time.»

The de facto segregation Kozol describes has created tangible — and tragic — inequalities between white and minority students, and between poor students and affluent ones.

«My concern is that we've gone from a period from the 1960s to the 1980s when issues of poverty, race, and educational opportunity were tied together effectively and we were seeing a decline in the achievement gap between white and minority students to a time when we're creating policy as if race doesn't exist.

And Houston was lauded for narrowing the achievement gaps between white and minority students and between students from low - income families and their higher - income peers.

In fact, some critics suggest that the curriculum may contribute to the achievement gap between white and minority students.

That differences in resources do not explain a large share of the differences in test scores between white and minority students (the report focused on African American students) does not necessarily mean those resources do not affect student achievement.

The Coleman Report focused on differences in schooling resources available to white and minority students and on the degree of racial segregation in America's public schools.

In long - term trends, the achievement gap between white and minority students has hardly budged over the past decade.

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

The district at least has begun to solve one of society's most intractable problems: the achievement gap between white and minority students, at least as measured by the TAAS.

We had a line graph showing the gap in performance between white and minority students.»

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

A study of test scores in each of the city's public elementary schools finds that diversity does not erase achievement gaps between white and minority students.

A new study finds that school readiness gaps between rich and poor students and between white and minority students are narrowing (as measured at kindergarten entry) but that the gaps are not continuing to close after the children enter school.

Too many students can't perform at grade level, and there is a significant achievement gap between white and minority students.

But officials have struggled to turn around the worst - performing schools and eliminate achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Making sure observations included attention to equity, woven throughout evaluation criteria, and incorporating that core value into professional development contributed to efforts to help close the achievement gap between white and minority students.

New York City's public school system, the largest in the country, yesterday won the Broad Prize, given each year to an urban school district that has made great improvements in student achievement, particularly in closing gaps between white and minority students.

The report says that students have made significant gains in math and reading since the passage of NCLB; and achievement gaps between white and minority students have closed somewhat since 2002.

He and other educators believe that this effort is critical to closing the achievement gap between white and minority students.

The legislation defines the public interest in terms of higher reading and mathematical performance with common goals set for all schools and reducing the achievement gap between White and minority students.

Local school districts still require the federal prod to eliminate or narrow the achievement gap between white and minority students and between regular and special - education students.

The researchers also found that participation in integrated math reduced or eliminated the achievement gap between white and minority students, meaning that integrated math is beneficial for both higher performing and lower performing subgroups of students.