Sentences with phrase «white school experiencing»

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Last year, in a white paper called «The Owner's Journey,» Columbia Business School's Barbara Roberts and Murray Low found that many entrepreneurs experience a postpartum - like sadness upon selling their companies.

In an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Menescal said the blood on her white pants jolted her out of denial — she couldn't believe she was experiencing a school shooting.

«This will be the greatest learning experience of your life,» my mother told me on my second day at a predominantly white public school.

My only experience with this color was when Mom bought me a yellow angora scarf and matching gloves to go with the Homemade Coat she made me, black and white plaid, in high school.

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

This documentary chronicles two African American boys» educational experiences over 13 years, beginning in kindergarten at the prestigious, largely white Dalton School in New York City.

One of those sketches involves parents (Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts) who homeschool their son (Jeremy Allen White) while trying to give him an accurate experience of what school is actually like, from the teacher who can't be bothered to remember the students» names to bullying.

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

A trip to the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in the world, provides a poignant experience for school groups to observe the 12,000 white tombstones.

Moreover, the reason for a school's failure to win an award was often not that African - American and Latino students were lagging behind, but that white non-Hispanic students experienced slower growth in achievement: the average school with multiple racial subgroups witnessed larger gains for African - American and Latino students than for white students.

If children who are experiencing success in schools or for whom schools generally «work» (that is, white, middle - class, nondisabled children) don't participate in the assessment, their parents lose valuable information.

When Johnson left TFA and joined Larchmont as its executive director, however, the school was facing a challenge experienced by many diverse charter schools: the annual admissions lottery was being flooded by white, relatively well - off parents, creating the danger that the school would lose the socioeconomic and racial diversity it was created to promote.

Madeleine White, head of marketing, Whizz Education and developer of Maths Whizz, comments: «Schools have had many years experience to recognise what has the most positive impact on learning.

The report shows that all racial groups except white people experienced considerable diversity in their schools; however, white students remain overwhelmingly in white schools, even in regions with very large non-white enrollments.

If black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).

The findings suggest a need to understand parents» experiences and engagement within and across both school and community contexts, particularly for parents of color in predominantly White settings in which schools may mirror or compound the microaggressions they may experience in nonschool settings.

On average, a black student with a black teacher in a school where more than two - thirds of the student - body is black is still more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, compared to a black student assigned to a white teacher in a school where black students accounted for less than a third of the student population.

The theory behind the «school - to - prison pipeline» concept is that black and Latino students experience harsher discipline in school than their white peers, and that these school - based experiences increase the likelihood of their eventual engagement with the criminal justice system.

During the 1970s the school district had experienced a massive exodus of middle - class white and black students.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

My personal experience of this problem in 2001 was at a white poverty school.

«Today, the White House Summit validates the hard work of school board members, students, parents and educators in Rochester City and Hillsborough County, and other districts that have played a leading role in using technology to strengthen the high school academic experience,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association (school board members, students, parents and educators in Rochester City and Hillsborough County, and other districts that have played a leading role in using technology to strengthen the high school academic experience,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association (school academic experience,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association (School Boards Association (NSBA).

Contrary to the arguments of some conservative reformers, focusing on achievement gaps even helps White middle class children by improving the quality of teaching, curricula and school environments all students experience.

The problem is, Black students are overwhelmingly given only windows during their Pre-K to 12th - grade experience, while white students are surrounded by mirrors throughout their school career.

Summary: This white paper is the result of 20 years of experience working with secondary school leaders and classroom teachers.

Now retired, Holtz says his experiences teaching and working in a number of school districts of various sizes and demographics make him a superior choice to Evers at a time when Wisconsin has been labeled as having the largest gap in academic achievement between black and white students in the nation.

We don't know if a teacher left a school voluntarily or because they were forced out, but what we do know is that when exiting teachers were replaced they were replaced with teachers who were paid less, had less experience, and were more likely to be white and from out of state.»

«It was seen as white or nerdy to do well in school,» Plascencia said of her own high school experience.

According to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, about 5 percent of white students have been suspended during their schooling experience, compared with 16 percent of Black students.

The key elements of high school redesign, the White House says, include «more personalized and active learning, [and] access to real - world and hands - on learning such as «making» experiences.»

«Michael's extensive experience in federal policy and government management will further strengthen NSBA's relations with Congress and the White House on behalf of state school boards associations and the more than 90,000 school board members across the country.»

In October, the central administration reassigned Ms. I's experienced assistant principal, who was African American, to another school in place of a white principal, filling the vacated slot at Ms. I's school with an inexperienced assistant principal, who was African American.

Combined with his extensive experience, Blake was invited to serve on White Pine's School Improvement Team, partnered with the committee charged with developing the Technology Curriculum, and spearheaded a dedicated partnership between Saginaw Valley State University's College of Education prospective teaching students and White Pine's teaching team.

With this lesson plan, students will compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of Ruby Bridges» experiences as the first African American to attend what was once an all - white school.

English teaching methods courses are often separated from field experiences in local secondary schools (Smagorinsky & Whiting, 1995).

However, teacher candidates in English teaching methods courses may have relatively few opportunities to see and respond to the effects of the writing assessments they design, given that such courses are often taught without reference to or coordination with field experiences in local schools (Smagorinsky & Whiting, 1995).

ExcelinEd Competency - Based Education & School Finance: Lessons from Online and Community - Based Courses This white paper examines how leading states are funding nontraditional learning experiences — like online and community - based courses — and how states can use these lessons learned to align their funding systems with competency - based education.

He finds that African American students are much more likely to be identified for special education, to be diagnosed with Emotional Disorders (ED), to be removed from mainstream classrooms into more restrictive environments, and to experience out - of - school suspensions than are White or Asian students.

Bair, having been superintendent in wealthy cities such as Lexington, Massachusetts and Carmel, California, had no experience within cities such as Hartford, where the exodus of white families to the surrounding suburbs contributed to the decrease of white students in Hartford schools and the increase of minority students, in this case black and Puerto Rican students.

Research on the impacts of integrated schools and my own experience attending racially integrated schools in the 60's and 70's, has shown that there can be huge benefits to all students — whether disadvantaged or privileged, white, black or brown — when attending a diverse school.

Further, many of the teachers said they empathize with students» out - of - school experiences differently than do their white colleagues and that this has an effect on the quality of their instruction.

Oakland Tech High School teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his sSchool teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his sschool - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his schoolschool.

For example, a white female student could be from a single parent household, with a father that is incarcerated and a disabled mother, a female African - American student will have a very different experience of school than a male Native - American student.

These profiles, many with accompanying videos, set the stage for an upcoming white paper analyzing the patterns of the schools» and teachers» experiences.

But there is so much right with that bill because it FINALLY brought to light that black and Hispanic kids are clearly still not getting the same educational experience as white students, even within the same schools, and it works to hold schools accountable for it.

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In their new home at Beehive Hill Farm, a cooperative coffee plantation, Teo and Em have a stable community, go to school, and write extensively, from essays recounting their experiences to comics - inspired, high - flying adventure stories starring their fictional personas, Black Dove (Teo), who can render himself invisible, and White Raven (Em), who is a master of disguise and derring - do.

If you book a diving experience, not only can you expect to see turtles, blue - lined octopi, schools of white spotted eagle rays, an array of tropical fish including emperor angelfish and clown triggerfish, but grey nurse sharks and leopard sharks often pay the rocks a visit.