Sentences with phrase «white schools close»
The «equity assessments» compare course offerings in predominantly Black and / or Latino schools with majority white schools close by.
http://www.reclaimourschools.org/ Not exact matches
«Whenever you have regulatory constraints and it closes down a market, it provides opportunities for those who fall outside the regulatory constraints,» said Alan White, professor of investment strategy at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
Hushed to a sort of humming pax, My peers on kneelers proved they weren't too proud To flood the pews with something close to love — And sparge the solemn nave with grade - school titters When schadenfreude saw its perfect chance: Lace sleeves grew from his chasuble; the host Rose pale amidst the tabernacle's glitters, White ghost on gold.
Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.
I lived close enough to elementary school so that I sometimes went home for lunch, but I usually brought my own: almost invariably white milk, a cheese sandwich, some sort of chips (which I shared with friends who ate school lunch), and a packaged brownie (which I kept all to myself).
White sees a military school as an opportunity to open doors that are often closed to children in an urban setting.
A study of one Texas school district reveals one of the best evidence - based ways ever found to close the educational achievement gap between black and white students.
I wore this all white look out to dinner at Home Bistro in the Boystown neighborhood with one of my close friends from high school.
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Affectionately named after the local early 1970s syndicated package of sci - fi / horror movies shown on KTTV in Los Angeles, the one - man enterprise run by Taylor White (then still in high school) began in 1977 as an answer to the merchandising demands of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.
Taking issue with the AFT's involvement in opt - out, Stewart wrote, «Why waste an opportunity to exploit the energy of white moms and the teachers that serve them who now see the obsession with closing racial disparities in schools as stealing joy from children of relative privilege?»
Schools like Amistad, Paige said later, are helping to close the achievement gap between white and minority students, which he called, «the greatest civil rights issues of our time.»
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.
The schools most likely to have low attainment, low gain, and low closing - the - gap scores were schools with high percentages of white working class males.
Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, «profound resegregation of American schools» has not happened; «telling differences between how much money suburban and urban schools spend on each student» do not exist; African American dropout rates are not 17 percent (but closer to the 50 percent figure that Cosby is accused of getting wrong); and the existence of the phenomenon of «acting white,» far from being «a theory that is in large part untrue,» has been affirmed by a major new study.
Checked: Charles Murray, «Intelligence in the Classroom,» Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2007; Richard Rothstein, Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap (Economic Policy Institute, 2004)
Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.
No wonder urban schools have done so little to close the black - white test - score gap, a topic that Jens Ludwig deconstructs in this issue's check the facts.
It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.
Meanwhile, the southern parts of the United States all but closed the school doors to African Americans and only opened them a small crack for all but well - to - do white students throughout most of the 19th century, and even well into the 20th.
Klein immediately offered White a job on his portfolio planning team, which meant leading the process of closing bad schools and creating new ones, one of the bull's - eye issues in the massive system's turnaround efforts.
It was in this unsettled environment in 2002 that Williams — together with a small group of other black Washington Democrats previously opposed to school vouchers — began back - channel talks with supporters close to White House and congressional leaders.
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind?
In other words, Coleman's strategy was to study how much the achievement of African American and white students varied depending on the school they attended, and then use that as an indicator of the potential role of schools in closing the gap.
White hipsters sipping drinks on the roof of a closed (and beloved) Philly high school — what could look more wrong?
Two years ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, testified before Congress about the city's impressive progress in closing the gulf in performance between minority and white children.
But when Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews took a close look at the study to see which school district had the smallest black - white achievement gap, he was surprised to find that it was Detroit, which he calls «our nation's worst school district, or close to it.
He argues that the achievement gap between minority and white students can not be closed using existing models, which he sees as designed for standardization in teacher training, student grouping, curriculum design and school building layout.
In Saving Schools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to CleSchools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleschools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleveland.
The Jacobsen report, while hedging its bets, leaves the reader with the impression that the black - white test - score gap closes as students move through school.
They promised to end bureaucracy, to ensure that poor children were not neglected, to empower poor parents, to enable poor children to escape failing schools, and to close the achievement gap between rich and poor, black and white.
The scheme they hatched was to close public schools and provide white students with private school vouchers.
In 1964, the Supreme Court ruled in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County that the County had to reopen its public schools on the grounds that it was still in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.23 By closing its public schools and subsequently subsidizing private academies that only admitted white students, the County, along with the state board of education and state superintendent, continued to deny black students the rights their white peers were provided.
Communities of color value the information provided by the assessments and know that comparable standards provide their community schools with important information to help close gaps in achievement that separate students of color and their white peers.
• The 2004 Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press published Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap.
Mr. Cerf, a Democrat who clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court and worked in the Clinton White House, pushed many of Mr. Klein's most controversial education changes, expanding charter schools, closing failing schools and using test scores to evaluate and compensate teachers.
And while schools across the country continue to teach his achievements, the current national sentiment dictates and demands closer attention to his pertinent thoughts about the future,» said CUBE Chairman Van Henri White.
New York City's public school system, the largest in the country, yesterday won the Broad Prize, given each year to an urban school district that has made great improvements in student achievement, particularly in closing gaps between white and minority students.
High school graduation rates are up in Wisconsin, and the gap in the rates between students of color and white students is closing, according to figures released Thursday.
That was four decades ago, when district school students were 91 percent White and the teacher workforce was a close match with 80 percent White.
As researcher Thomas Kane writes, «Oversubscribed charter schools in the Boston area are closing roughly one - third of the black - white achievement gap in math and about one - fifth of the achievement gap in English — in a single school year!»
3) Finally, sign this White House petition to President Obama to stop policies that promote mass closings of public schools while expanding charters.
But it also suggests that integration alone, or steering more funds to black schools, won't be enough to close the black - white achievement gap.
Humphries said in an interview that Evers was too focused on objecting to the expansion of private voucher and independent charter schools and not focused enough on raising student achievement and closing the gap in academic achievement between white and black students.
Her claim that the gap has been closed at her school is meaningless when there are no white students attending.
Attempting to show that even a well - managed school district can't close achievement gaps in student learning, McRae showed Fraisse data from the state Department of Education showing significant differences in test scores between African - American and Latino students and white students in some of the administrator's former school districts.
Royal also claimed that the choice of a neighborhood school was foreclosed for many families, but that in two majority - white ZIP codes, families are still able to choose a school close to their home.
Congressional Panel Calls for Larger Federal Role in Directing Schools A white paper released Tuesday on improving educational competitiveness and closing the achievement gap called for a significantly larger federal role in the management of the nation's public school system.
But statistics showing African - American students in the district were eight times more likely to get an out - of - school suspension than white students last year raises questions about whether the discipline code works against efforts to close the achievement gap.