Sentences with phrase «white and minority students did»

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.

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«And the social consequences of that is that the students in the schools with the most resources — often the white students — can develop computing skills, while minorities at underachieving schools don't have the opportunity.»

• In what is known as the «peer effect,» poor students [and minority students] do better in schools where the student body is more middle class [white].

We propose a new hypothesis: Additional resources yield few benefits for nondisadvantaged white students but do raise the achievement of minority and disadvantaged students.

Yet disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than do higher - income and white students.

The resulting separation between white suburbs with new schools and middle - class students and an increasingly minority central city are all vividly recounted by Grant, who with his wife was deeply involved in efforts to counter the decline, and who in one neighborhood had some success in doing so.

For example, how do we know that the performance gap between minority and white students has been slowly narrowing while that between poor and well - off students has been widening?

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.

Do we intend to continue to ignore a system that promotes and protects mostly white teachers who don't do right by their largely minority studentDo we intend to continue to ignore a system that promotes and protects mostly white teachers who don't do right by their largely minority studentdo right by their largely minority students?

While minorities and subgroups showed improvements, so did white students and those not from wealthier backgrounds, so the gaps remained at close to the same levels.

Arne Duncan, the federal education secretary, has said that while there are places where students are tested too much, regular assessments are crucial to measuring the gap in achievement between white and minority students, and that if states did not do enough to ensure high participation rates, his agency may intervene.

According to the National Education Association, «The declining numbers of Black and Hispanic students majoring in education is steeper than the overall decline in education majors» and «Minority teachers leave teaching at higher rates than white teachers do.»

White students did far better than average on the PARCC tests, while minority and low - income students did worse.

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

Segregated schools tend to lead to better schools for white students and often impoverished schools that don't have the same resources for minorities (Walsemann, 2010).

«The Black Lives Matter movement has been addressing (gun violence) since the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, yet we have never seen this kind of support for our cause and we surely do not feel the lives or voices of minorities are valued as much as those of our white counterpart,» student Tyah - Amoy Roberts told reporters this week, according to CNN affiliate WPEC - TV.