Sentences with phrase «white rural school»

I wanted to highlight the brilliance of a predominantly black school, a white rural school, a suburban school, a couple of urban schools, and a bilingual school.

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Levels of gang activity in a school are also closely related to its safety, and some schools may be safe for some students and not for others (e.g. a gay student is at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many schools, and black students are at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many rural predominantly white schools).

But in the Mississippi Delta, many rural schools are almost exclusively African American due to white flight to private schools in the wake of desegregation in the 1960s.

Although the gap in academic performance between rural Hispanic and white students begins in elementary school, it grows as students move into middle and high school.

This 2014 white paper jointly produced by AASA: the School Superintendents Association and BBA as a companion to the documentary Rich Hill illustrates the unique challenges many rural schools face in meeting their students» needs.

The reality is that many neighborhoods and schools in suburban and rural America are not diverse and are largely white.

By contrast, in the 7 urban schools outside of large cities and in the 38 rural schools, 93 percent of the students and 97 percent of the teachers were white.

Newton School looks like a big white New England farm house perched on a hill in Strafford, a rural community of about 1000 people.

The study shows that governors are overwhelmingly likely to be white - 96 % - with little difference between wealthy and poor areas or between urban and rural schools.

Hundreds of our communities across the «Black Belt» of the South still have never addressed the type of segregation that occurs when white families flock to private schools in majority - black small towns and rural communities.

Andrew Last, Hereford's principal, believes the 92 percent white student body is a function of the socioeconomics of the school's boundaries, which covers large stretches of rural area and reaches to Pennsylvania.

These systems flagrantly favored school districts in affluent white suburbs and discriminated against poor districts in urban and rural areas with high minority populations.

Moreover, most of the benefits we observed are significantly larger for minority students, low - income students and students from rural schools — typically two to three times larger than for white, middle - class, suburban students — owing perhaps to the fact that the tour was the first time they had visited an art museum.

Travis Somerville was born in 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia to white civil rights activists — an Episcopal priest and a school teacher, and grew up in various cities and rural towns throughout the Southern United States.

The evidence base suggests that while Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP) showed promising results with urban African American school children (see Study 1), the program showed inconsistent results with small effect sizes when administered to schools in a rural setting with majority white schoolchildren (see Study 2).