Sentences with phrase «white eighth»

Forty - eight percent of white eighth graders earned proficient or advanced math scores, which was statistically similar to achievement in 2015.

Forty - five percent of white eighth graders in Virginia earned proficient or advanced reading scores, as did 17 percent of black students, 26 percent of Hispanic students and 49 percent of Asian students.

Barely half of our African - American and Latino students finish high school on time, and the average African - American and Latino twelfth grader reads and does math at the level of white eighth graders.

Only 21 percent of Latino eighth - graders read at a «proficient» or «advanced» level, compared with 44 percent of white eighth - graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Meanwhile, 59 percent of white third - graders are considered proficient in reading, as are 68 percent of white fifth - graders and 59 percent of white eighth - graders.

The gap of 32 points separating average black and white eighth graders represents about three years» worth of math learning.

«Nationwide the average black 12th grader reads at the level of a white eighth grader.

Twenty - one percent of Latino eighth - graders read at the highest levels on NAEP in 2015 (unchanged from 2013, but five points higher than in 2002); 44 percent of white eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced (two points lower than in 2013, but three points higher than levels 13 years ago); 22 percent of Native eighth - grade students read at the highest levels (three points higher than in 2013, and four points higher than in 2002); and 52 percent of Asian eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced levels (unchanged from 2013, but 16 points higher than levels 13 years ago).

Thirty - four percent of Latino eighth - graders read Below Basic (a two point increase over 2013, but a nine point decrease over 2002); 15 percent of white eighth - graders read Below Basic (a one point increase over levels two years ago, but one point lower than in 2002); 37 percent of Native eighth - graders read Below Basic in 2015 (one point lower than two years ago, and two points lower than in 2002); and 14 percent of Asian eighth - graders read Below Basic (unchanged from 2013, but 10 points lower than levels 13 years ago).

Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth - grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.

For example, 71 percent of Atlanta's white eighth graders are proficient readers.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

Not exact matches

The eldest daughter of President Donald Trump and unpaid adviser in the White House, Ivanka Trump just celebrated her eighth wedding anniversary with husband Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to the president and owner of a real - estate empire.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

The black - and - white morality of Dorothy versus the Wicked Witch in Victor Fleming's classic 1939 The Wizard of Oz (actually the eighth screen version) is an epic tale of classic heroism and villainy, though within that the most interesting parts of the story include a cowardly character finding courage, the brainless using brains, and the apparently heartless discovering love.

I looked at the ingredients on my jar of best foods mayonnaise in the refrigerator and added several dashes of salt, a pinch of sugar, several drops of fresh lemon juice, and about an eighth teaspoon of white vinegar.

4 onions, not peeled, cut into eighths 3 large ribs celery, cut into fourths 2 leeks, white part only 1 head garlic 4 carrots, cut into 2 - inch pieces 1 1/2 cups dry white wine 2 tablespoons high quality olive oil 3 green onions, cut into 1 - inch pieces 1/4 cup chopped New Mexican green chiles, or more to taste 1/3 cup chopped parsley, including the stems 1/4 cup fresh chopped basil or 2 tablespoons of dried basil 1 teaspoon dried marjoram 1/2 cup chopped button mushrooms 1/2 cup chopped celery leaves 1 zucchini, peeled and sliced 3 cups coarsely chopped tomatoes 3 quarts cold water 5 whole black peppercorns

Pitching to Rivers in the eighth, Gullett twisted an ankle and left the game after White's subsequent single.

At 1 p.m., NYPA Chair John Koelmel and President and CEO Gil Quinones unveil their new central command and diagnostic center that will monitor power plant and grid operations, New York Power Authority, 123 Main St., eighth floor, White Plains.

I was perhaps ineligible to play the part of the eighth, Mrs Ebury - and also to star as the central figure in the play, Maddie, the Secretary to a Select Committee, who first appears on stage wearing «a low cut, sleeveless blouse, buttoned insecurely down the front; a wrap - around skirt, quite short; underneath, suspenders, not tights, and a waist - slip which is also pretty, silk and lace, with a slit... the knickers ought to be remembered for their colour - perhaps white silk with red lace trimmings.»

And nationwide scores for students classified as Hispanic rose in both grade levels; the score gap between white and Hispanic eighth - graders shrunk by three points between 2009 and 2011.

LONDON, United Kingdom — Telfar Clemens, the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund finalist, has always thrown his after - parties at hamburger fast - food chain White Castle on 42nd St and Eighth Avenue in New York, until the branch closed earlier this year.

White plays Lip Gallagher on Showtime's Shameless, which is coming back for an eighth season; his film credits include Rob The Mob and Twelve.

There, Davis Knight (Brian Lee Franklin) is in court defending his right to marry a white woman, all because he happens to be one - eighth African American, which deems it illegal under the segregation laws of the time.

He teaches enslaved Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) to read and fight, the two of them creating a child and leading the film to lurch forward eighty - five years, when the state of Mississippi imprisons a descendant whom it declared to be one - eighth «Negro,» demanding that he annul his marriage to a white woman.

Black eighth graders gained twenty - three points from 1990 to 2015, Hispanic students gained twenty - four, and white students gained twenty - two.

The estimated gain from being offered a voucher is only half as large as the gain from switching to private school (in response to being offered a voucher), so the estimated impact of offering vouchers is no more than one - eighth as large as the black - white test score gap.

According to the authors, minority students, with the exception of Asian students, fare worse on the eighth - grade MCAS than their white counterparts.

«In the eighth - grade world, things are good and evil, black and white,» Jeff Schwartz explains.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

Its white students made significant gains in both fourth and eighth grades; perhaps gentrification is a possible explanation.

In 2007, the NEAP reported that for eighth - graders, the achievement gap between minority and white students had not narrowed.

In Ohio, the findings were positive: The introduction of voucher competition modestly improved the outcomes of students who remained in their public schools — in the range of one - eighth of the magnitude of the black - white test - score gap.

Among the students in the city's third through eighth grades, 40 percent of black students and 46 percent of Hispanic students met state standards in math, compared with 75 percent of white students and 82 percent of Asian students.

For example, among eighth - grade ELL students in Florida, about 30 % score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white students.

A White student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more than four times as likely to be brought to grade level in eighth grade reading than a Black student from a lower - income family.

A Black student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more likely to read at or above grade level at eighth grade than a White student eligible for the National Lunch Program.

Twenty percent of lower income White students in city schools read proficiently in eighth grade, as do more than half of urban middle class White students.

To get specific: In Chicago Public Schools ~ white and Asian students made minor gains on NAEP in reading between 2003 and 2009 ~ but Hispanic students gained little and blacks gained nothing ~ so the achievement gap widened between whites and minorities at the fourth and eighth grade levels.

ALBRIGHT: Kids in Ms. White's eighth grade history class sharpen their pencils.

Asian Americans had already topped white scores at the fourth - grade level in 2007 and the eighth - grade level in 2009.

In one middle school, he noted, 17 percent of Latino students and just 6 percent of ESOL students passed algebra by eighth grade with a C or higher, compared with 90 percent of white students.

n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.

At the same time, 35.1 percent of eighth - graders who are white and poor are proficient or better in math.

While up from the stagnant eight percentage points from the previous two academic years, 12 percent of black sixth to eighth grade students were considered proficient in math in 2015 - 16 compared to 68 percent of white students and 24 percent of Hispanic students.

Utah's eighth grade science scores improved between 2011 and 2015 for white, Hispanic, and American Indian students, as well as for students both eligible and not eligible for free or reduced - price lunch and for boys as well as girls, NAEP reported.

While Latino students have been making slow, steady gains on most subjects on NAEP (16 points on eighth - grade reading since 2003) the Latino - white gaps continue to range between 24 to 30 points.

Census data for District 17 put the kindergarten - through - eighth - grade population at 75 percent black, 13 percent Hispanic, 12 percent white and 1 percent Asian.

So the district has filed suit to block Hola's expansion into seventh and eighth grade, on the shaky assumption that its white students will then enroll in district schools.

Yazmin White Mitchell is a seventh - and eighth - grade Diverse Learning Teacher at O'Keeffe School of Excellence located on the South Side of Chicago in the...