Sentences with phrase «white classmates»

A handful of white classmates befriended black students, but they were rarities.

Now they share the prospect of being stereotyped by white classmates cavorting around in blackface dressed as pimps and gangstas, and as icons like President Obama and Aunt Jemima.

Why should having a a white neighbor or white classmate improve educational outcomes for black students?

In New York City, many minority students attend school without a single white classmate.

The most sophisticated research on the subject does not find that having white classmates notably improves the academic achievement of blacks and Hispanics.

Twelve - year - old Serra Williams says her mostly white classmates once taunted a police officer by yelling out «Black Lives Matter» from a bus.

For his video «Minority Report,» the artist enlarged a well - known 1957 photograph of a black girl walking to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., harassed by white classmates.

But no matter how hard I tried, I was never just another student in the eyes of my white classmates and my professors.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers in the «Jena Six» case is accused of beating a white classmate, was sentenced to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property.

You can ask why a having a white neighbor or a white classmate should improve educational outcomes for black students, that's a fair question.

Desegregation of schools in the US caused a drop in self - esteem in black children because they compared themselves with their white classmates rather than with one another.

Ten years later, the possibilities Black Panther opens up, to the possibility that Marvel's vast roster of minority superheroes can lead their own pop culture revolutions — Pakistani - Muslim Ms. Marvel, Chinese kung fu hero Shang - Chi, queer Latin - American «Miss» America Chavez, oh so many more — can inspire ethnic minority children who have yet to connect to a superhero the way their white classmates have to Steve Rogers, to Tony Stark, to Peter Parker.

This worsened white flight by guaranteeing that white parents who preferred that their children have white classmates could avoid court - ordered integration by moving to the suburbs.

The third annual analysis of the largest urban districts by the Council of the Great City Schools also shows that some school systems are making headway in closing the achievement gap that exists between African - American and Hispanic students on the one hand and their white classmates on the other.

One thing she never had, as far as she can remember, is a white classmate.

Going to school outside of Harlem exposed me to the successful actors, authors, scientists, diplomats, and artists who were the parents of my white classmates; I was often invited to spend weekends at their homes.

I never took the opportunity to learn what integration meant to my white classmates and teachers, but it certainly did not mean asking any of them to take my place at P.S. 121 in East Harlem.

At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

Coleman's interpretation was that this phenomenon occurred through peer effects: black students» achievement improved when they had white classmates.

While it is possible that the black children in integrated schools had higher achievement because their white classmates causally affected them, it is just as possible that the sort of black families who were motivated and able to live in integrated neighborhoods were advantaged in numerous hard - to - observe ways.

Across the United States, black and Latino students are far more likely than their white classmates to be removed from school as punishment.

Black students are more likely to be suspended than their white classmates, according to the report cards.

Nationwide, black students are suspended at three times the rates of their white classmates, and students with disabilities are two times more likely to be suspended and expelled than general education students.

It was that analysis of data that revealed that black and Latino students in Durham not only underperform compared to their white classmates in end of 10th grade assessments and end of 10th grade course tests, but they also underperform compared to black and Latino students across the state on those measures.

And African American and Latino students, in part because of the legacy of discrimination, too often lagged behind our white classmates — something called the achievement gap that, by one estimate, costs us hundreds of billions of dollars a year.»

However, if we examine the subset of Arizona elementary schools that educate both white and ELL students, ELL test - takers trailed their white classmates by only 27 percentage points.

As the number of Hispanic students in Connecticut's schools continues to rise, the achievement gap between these students and their white classmates remains.

(Updated at 12:40 p.m.) Following a national trend, data shows that Arlington Public Schools are disproportionately suspending black and Hispanic students compared to their white classmates.

Monroe was used as a base for some of the Freedom Riders, who aimed to desegregate interstate bus travel, and was also the site of the infamous Kissing Case, where two young African - American boys were convicted of molestation for kissing a white classmate on the cheek.