Sentences with phrase «white peers»

In majority white schools, minority student may work harder to keep up with their more advantaged white peers.

Certainly this is nearly double the 5.9 percent of white peers in Ferguson deemed special ed cases in the top five categories.

For example, DPI changed how it measures the closing of achievement gaps so that it now compares minority groups with white peers statewide, rather than at the same school.

But she, along with Ushomirsky and Williams illustrate that in the case of Florida, where the proficiency levels for black students in A-ranked schools are, on average, four percentage points lower than for white peers in C - ranked schools.

In addition, YES Prep's students are outperforming their higher income and white peers statewide in most cases — something very few, if any, other large urban school systems nationwide to date have achieved.

Around the time of the law's passage in 2001, test scores of Hispanic students in reading and math did begin to rise but remain well below those of their non-Hispanic white peers (see Figure 2).

In fact, Black children account for 78.8 percent of all children suspended by the district in 2013 - 2014 — or four out of ever five kids suspended one or more times that year — while White peers accounted for a mere 33.7 percent of students suspended.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

Four - point - two percent of St. Louis» black high school students and 6.6 percent of white peers took A.P. Science; just 10 black high school students in Ferguson and two of their white school mates took the science course.

However, a study released earlier this summer found that minority students are less likely than similar white peers to be in one of five common disability categories — emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, «other health impairment,» specific learning disability, and speech and language impairment.

, which is often used to try to explain why African - American and Latino students do not perform at the level of their middle - class white peers, ignores the issues plaguing all of our nation's schools.

Dylan White peers into his crystal football in an attempt to figure out what the future may hold for the Red Devils in seasons to come with their new men at...

But Barry begs to differ; its drama springs from the character's identity crisis — his difficulty in assimilating into either Ivy League academia, where white peers insist he «get over» slavery and campus cops harass him, or New York's black community.

The «Gaps in Grammar» research brief found that disadvantaged Indian pupils were four times more likely to attend a grammar school than their disadvantaged white White peers, while disadvantaged Chinese pupils are fifteen times as likely.

That confusion, coupled with parents» high expectations for success in school and careers, the frustration of having white peers constantly question their «American - ness,» as well as body image and other concerns that are common to all teens are among the factors that put Korean American students at risk for a growing list of emotional and psychological issues.

These charter schools are eliminating the achievement gap between low - income children of color and their higher - income White peers.

«Yet, at the same time, Connecticut has taken steps that prevent these poor and minority children from having viable public - school alternatives — knowingly depriving low - income and minority schoolchildren of the vital educational opportunities available to their more affluent and predominantly white peers.»

Considering that nearly all suspensions are meted out for minor issues such as disruptive behavior (and not because of acts of violence, drug abuse, or weapons possession), this almost always means that black children are being dealt harshly by adults in situations in which white peers are let off the hook.

Meanwhile 27 percent of black high schoolers, and 37 percent of white peers in St. Louis took chemistry, a better rate than the 24 percent of Ferguson's black high - schoolers and 27 percent rate for white high school peers.

As a group, Hispanics perform well below average on national achievement tests, and their high school dropout rate is nearly four times that of their non-Hispanic white peers.

In Tennessee, for example, the state's traditional districts need only to ensure that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White peers.

However, the authors of a new study say that minority students are less likely than similar white peers to be in one of five common disability categories — emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, «other health impairment,» specific learning disability, and speech and language impairment.

The deficit theory, which is often used to try to explain why African - American and Latino students do not perform at the level of their middle - class white peers, ignores the issues plaguing all of our nation's schools.

And while these illnesses are consistent across demographic lines, people of color are more sensitive to the stigma of a diagnosis and are less likely to get the same level of care as their white peers.

They found similar disparities between 15 black executives and their white peers at the firm.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

There's the African American single mom who writes about her 3 - year old who has been suspended from preschool five times while his white peers who display the same behavior have stayed put at school.

They do join gospel choirs and (like their white peers) take part in fundamentalist movements, but these involvements call for action, not for reflection.

Doby wasn't just the second black major leaguer; he was the first in the American League, meaning that, like Robinson, he took the field among all white peers.

Even more sobering: two children drown every day, and African - American children are three times more likely to drown than their white peers.

Our report highlighted that black people were at least six times more likely to be targeted that their white peers.

In Syracuse, black and multiracial students slightly outperformed their white peers when it came to graduation rates.

Black students are three times more likely and Hispanic students are more than twice as likely to be taught by an ineffective teacher than their white peers.

The $ 127 million «Young Men's Initiative» is intended to help close the achievement gap between black and Latino young men and their white peers.

But critics soon began to clamor for its abolition after minority test - takers passed at far lower rates than their white peers.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

Some have questioned whether the directive will actually do anything to change the fact that blacks and Hispanics are more often targeted for marijuana enforcement than their white peers — noting that minorities could be disproportionately impacted by summonses, just as they are by arrests.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

The researchers found that boys were more likely to consume energy drinks than girls and that black and Hispanic boys were more likely to drink the beverages than their white peers.

But, according to findings released today in Science, black investigators — a group composed of African - Americans and scientists from other nations who identify as black — are about 10 percentage points less likely than their white peers to win these grants.

Furthermore, say the researchers, youth who have been diagnosed with depression are six times more likely to commit suicide than their peers, and Black youth have a much higher suicide rate than their White peers.

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

The survey also found that black teens are more active on social media and messaging apps than their white peers.