Sentences with phrase «white student bodies»

A recent report on civil rights data found that Pennsylvania provides lower per - student funding to school districts with greater racial diversity compared to economically similar districts with predominantly white student bodies.

Twin Cities German Immersion and Nova Classical Academy — two St. Paul - based charters with virtually all white student bodies — had so few incidents to report in 2016 - 2017 that there is no state data available for the schools.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

His previous teaching experience was limited to being a teaching assistant at Cornell, instructing a predominantly white student body.

Biracial, militant radical film student Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts a controversial radio show called Dear White People where she routinely calls out the racist practices of her school and its White student body.

For example, the largely white student body at Curry can get a clear idea of the issues involved in teaching at an inner - city school with large numbers of non-white or non-English speaking students through a case study of New York City's Newcomers High School.

Journalist Patrick McCloskey spent the 1999 — 00 school year embedded at Rice High School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves today.

«Some parents, in fact, say they feel more comfortable in academically rigorous, heavily minority schools than in schools with whiter student bodies.»

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

She attended Highland Park High with a predominantly white student body and a 95 % graduation rate (Schneider).

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.

Not exact matches

In a student body of 7,600, he's the new white guy.

The Amundsen student body is 47 percent Hispanic, 27 percent white and 15 percent black.

Its student body is 90 percent white and only six percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.

For example, the Los Angeles Unified School District student body in 2010 was majority - minority, with 74 percent Latino and 9 percent white.

I saw Bodied, an Eminem - produced rap comedy about a white grad student at Berkeley falling into battle rapping while researching his thesis.

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The school can afford no more than a dozen or so scholarships a year, which means that the student body is overwhelmingly white.

Despite Salt Lake City's image — white and Mormon — city schools serve an ethnically diverse student body.

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.

To see how the degree of internal integration within a school affects acting - white patterns, I calculated the difference from what I would expect in the total number of cross-ethnic friends in a school based on the ethnic make - up of the student body.

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.

There's a growing demographic divide between America's predominantly white teaching force and an increasingly diverse student body, and the proportion of women teachers continues to rise.

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.

• In what is known as the «peer effect,» poor students [and minority students] do better in schools where the student body is more middle class [white].

The student body is 38 percent black, 31 percent white, 12 percent multiracial, and 6 percent Hispanic.

When 83 % of all teachers are white (non-Hispanic) with an ever - increasing student body of color, we can no longer stand by and expect the race discussion to solve itself.

During my 19 year tenure, the school's student body has changed proportionally from 75 % White to 52 % White.

The school district in 2016 - 2017 is 30 percent Hispanic, 29 percent white, 22 percent black and 14 percent Asian, according to school district data, a student body that would have been difficult to imagine five decades ago, when Montgomery's enrollment was 94 percent white.

Historical data shows that Montgomery's white enrollment as a percentage of the entire student body — at more than 90 percent in 1971 — has dipped every year since, while the percentage of Hispanic students has been climbing since 1984.

It then created a «mixed» student body by assigning to those schools students who would otherwise attend predominantly white, or predominantly black, schools elsewhere.

Philanthropic foundations that support education causes are interested in serving as many poor and minority children as possible; when 30 % to 40 % of a student body is made up of white or affluent students, the school is deemed suspect, as reform - minded foundations see such programs as «wasting» a third of their seats.

These disparities are even more pronounced in many urban schools, where student bodies that are nearly 100 percent minority are often taught by majority - white teaching staffs.

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.

Of course, some private schools have converted to charter status while maintaining their old (mainly white) student bodies.

Nevertheless, it is promising to note that «Tee - Jay» has a substantial white minority student body (16 percent), while Freeman has a sizable black minority (13 percent).

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

The student body, selected by a blind lottery, is evenly divided between boys and girls and is 64 percent African American, 34 percent Latino and 2 percent white.

The school's student body mirrors that of the Providence public schools: 39 percent Hispanic, 37 percent white, 22 percent African - American, and 2 percent Asian.

In light of this shift, recent dialogues in the mainstream media have drawn attention to the rift between an increasingly racially diverse student body and the persistent homogeneity of those who educate them — white female teachers.

Racial demographics across the four school districts are similarly varied: Lincoln and Cumberland have student populations that are 80 — 90 percent white, whereas Central Falls is roughly 75 percent Latino, and Pawtucket's student body is roughly one - third white, one - third Latino, and one - third black.»

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

Black and white students each make up around 15 percent of the student body.

The student body is 49 percent black, 30 percent multiracial, 9 percent white, 9 percent Asian and 3 percent Latino, he said.

The student body is 42 % Latino, 18 % African American, 11 % Asian (mostly Vietnamese), and 29 % «other,» including White.

The racial breakdown of the student body for 2013 - 14 was 45.2 percent Hispanic, 39.7 percent African - American, 9.2 percent white and 5.9 percent other.

There's little racial diversity at this Minneapolis K - 4 charter school, where the student body is nearly three - quarters black, 14 percent Hispanic and only 3 percent white.

Indeed, a growing body of research suggests middle - class and White students benefit because diverse learning environments make us all smarter.

She spent two years doing fieldwork in a school that was going through demographic changes, where the student body was becoming increasingly white and middle class.

These students are different from the ones who have historically made up the bulk of the student body: white, middle class, born of educated parents and generally free of the kinds of out - of - school challenges that can impede learning.