Sentences with phrase «white student achievement»

It found something remarkable: «White student achievement in schools with the highest Black student density did not differ from White student achievement in schools with the lowest density.»

It's an effort to help close the city's black white student achievement gap — one of the highest in the country.

My EWA colleague Mikhail Zinshteyn does a terrific job explaining the complexity of parsing NAEP scores — specifically when comparing white student achievement to the scores for black and Hispanic kids — in this piece for FiveThirtyEight.

Not exact matches

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

After besting seven middle school teams at designing a structure made entirely of marshmallows and spaghetti, they topped that achievement by winning First Place against Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering students and alumni.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was elected four years ago, Connecticut had the worst achievement gap between poor minority students and suburban white students in the country.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg bragged in March 2012 to a panel in Washington, D.C. that his policies had cut the achievement gap between white students and students of color in half.

Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.

While its overall graduation rate increased 6 percentage points to 80 percent last year, it managed to close an achievement gap between white students and everyone else.

The achievement gap between minority and white students in Erie County is wider than it is statewide.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — With the new school year underway, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today re-issued his challenge to all Westchester County students in grades 6 through 12: Win a free season pass to Playland by earning high achievement in the classroom.

President Barack Obama kicked off a national science and engineering festival with a White House event today that honored dozens of students for their achievements in science competitions around the country.

Appearing today before the Senate commerce committee as the nominee for associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained workforce.

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.

Not surprisingly, the more teachers believed they could make a difference, the better both black and white students scored on achievement tests.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

The achievement gap between white and minority students is widening again after decades of progress, warns a comprehensive analysis of the 50 states that is scheduled to be released this week.

A 2010 study by Mark Berends and Roberto Penaloza of longitudinal data over 30 years demonstrates a relationship between increasing segregation of black and Latino students and growth in math achievement gaps between these groups and white students.

They hope the changes will mark a turning point for the 28,000 - student district, which faces declining enrollment, a persistent achievement gap between black and white students, and a failure to meet federal academic standards...

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

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.

April 2005 - U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who had helped shepherd the NCLB law through Congress as a top domestic policy advisor in the White House, announces plans to offer states limited flexibility from parts of the law if they could prove they were moving the needle on student achievement.

Recall that some types of acting - white theory say that students are penalized only for trying hard, not for achievement per se.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

Applying this model of behavior to minority and white students yields two important predictions: A positive relationship between academic achievement and peer - group acceptance (popularity) will erode and turn negative, whenever the group as a whole has lower levels of achievement.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

The achievement gap between Black and Hispanic students and white students remained, but the minority students outperformed their counterparts on a national level.

Most studies of academic achievement find little or no benefit of attending a private school for white students, but quite large benefits for African Americans.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

Given these findings, it is certainly possible that the «diversity gap» between students and teachers is a contributing factor to the persistent achievement gap between minority and white students.

While the achievement gap between white students and their low - income, minority counterparts on tests has received a great deal of attention, the gap in high - school graduation rates is even more critical.

In fact, some critics suggest that the curriculum may contribute to the achievement gap between white and minority students.

Closing the academic achievement gap between white students and disadvantaged minorities has been repeatedly called the «civil rights issue of our time.»

The researchers found that citizens who are less educated, of lower income, or minority are no less able than better - educated, higher - income, or white citizens to evaluate the schools on the basis of student achievement.

Rhode Island's Latino 8th graders, the state's largest and most rapidly growing minority population, were the lowest - performing in the nation, and the achievement gap between Latino and white students in the state was among the nation's largest.

If the Hispanic students in the 1994 - 95 cohort of 5th graders in School II have unusually high achievement, does one find that the white, black, and Asian students in the 1994 - 95 cohort of 5th graders in School II have unusually high achievement too?

And recent reports show that the fastest - growing gap between black and white students is at advanced levels of achievement.

Among the education topics he discusses are the black - white achievement gap, education reform strategies, improving outcomes for African American students, and affirmative action in higher education.

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.

For example, from 1990 to 2007, black students» scale scores increased 34 points on the NAEP 4th - grade mathematics tests (compared with a 28 - point increase for whites), and the black - white achievement gap declined from 32 to 26 points during this period.

Miller has calculated the learning loss attributable to teacher absences to be equal to about 5 percent of the achievement gap between black and white students.

In reading, the achievement gap has improved slightly more than in math (0.3 standard deviations), but after a half century, the average black student scores at just the 22nd percentile of the white distribution.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

When he controlled for student gender, SES, prior achievement, and misbehavior (e.g, suspensions and fights), and for teachers gender, race, years of experience, teaching credential, and education., Cooc found teachers were more likely to believe that white students, rather than minorities, have disabilities.

People often blame poverty, students, and parents» lack of interest for the achievement gap that exists between white and non-white students.