Sentences with phrase «white student enrollment»

In the 2010 - 2011 school year, 64 % of black students and 58 % of Latino students were enrolled in schools with 10 % or less white student enrollment.

Moreover, White student enrollment has fallen just below 50 percent, and at least 30 percent of public schools have a 75 percent or higher minority student population (U.S. Department of Education, 2000; 2012).

Not exact matches

Enrollment at City Honors School has been lopsidedly white for years, prompting the federal government to step in recently and order changes in the admissions procedures to ensure that black students are not the victims of discrimination.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students.

Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»

To cite an extreme example, a new NSF report on graduate enrollments shows that the total pool of U.S. citizens and permanent residents pursuing S&E degrees has dropped by 10 % since peaking in 1993, and the number of white U.S. graduate students in S&E has dropped by 20 %.

The 100,000 - student school district was previously comprised of mostly black and white students, but in the last decade, Jefferson County doubled in Latino student enrollments.

In 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that ethnic minorities now make up more than half of U.S. babies, and minority student enrollment in public schools was greater than that of 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...

The White House «fact sheet» on America's College Promise lists what states and colleges would have to do: participating colleges would have to «adopt promising and evidence - based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes,» while states would have to coordinate high schools, community colleges, and four - year schools to reduce remediation rates and, to create incentives to improve, «allocate a significant portion of funding based on performance, not enrollment alone.»

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.

Differences in repayment rates may be partly attributable to growing black - white wage gaps, as well as to differences in graduate enrollment (which allows students to defer loan payments).

Though minority students now make up a majority of public school enrollment, nearly 82 % of public school teachers are white.

Between 1968 and 2012, the percentage white of overall student enrollment in public schools dropped from 80 percent to 51 percent.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

While black students» share of student enrollment has remained virtually constant since 1968 (between 15 and 17 percent), white students» enrollment share has declined from 80 percent in 1968 to 51 percent 2012.

A pronounced increase in Hispanic and Asian public - school enrollment and consequent decline in the white enrollment share, not a pattern of resegregation, has driven the fall in the exposure of black students to white schoolmates.

Plans that are limited to central - city school districts, regardless of whether they require or merely encourage student busing, have had difficulty maintaining previous integration gains in the face of declining white enrollments, the study said.

Studies show a familiar pattern: middle - income black and Latino students faring worse than their white counterparts with respect to grades, enrollment in advanced courses, and performance on standardized tests.

Another study found that class - size reduction in Tennessee's K — 3 classrooms increased college enrollment rates by about 6 percentage points among African American students, although no impacts were observed for white students.

Hispanic students have now passed white students as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school enrollment, the Dallas Morning News reports.

And could differences in teachers» expectations of white students and black students help to explain gaps in key outcomes such as college enrollment and completion?

Whether at Framingham or Norfolk, proud of their enrollment in the program, the students have painted the classroom walls the cheerful red and white BU school colors.

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.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

Additionally, the immediate college enrollment rate for White students was higher than that for Hispanic students from 2000 through 2010.

But currently, Latino students lag behind white students in some key measures of educational attainment, such as high school graduation, enrollment in two - or four - year colleges, and college completion rates.

The immediate college enrollment rate for White students was higher in 2016 (71 percent) than in 2000 (65 percent), as was the rate for Hispanic students (71 percent in 2016 and 49 percent in 2000).

In addition, the enrollment rate for Asian students was higher than the rate for White students every year since 2004.

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.

Achievement gaps between students of color and white students are higher than the national average, as are the gaps between the college enrollment rates of students of color and white students.

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As illustrated in the following figure, adapted from that previous report, the average white student's public school had a black enrollment of about 10 percent in 2010, about the same degree of white exposure to blacks as in 1980.

The board strongly recommended, but did not require, the use of themed magnet programs to draw white and Asian - American students to the 750 - student school, whose enrollment is now...

A group of primarily white Illinois school districts violated federal and state civil rights laws when they chose to leave an athletic conference that included schools with predominantly minority student enrollments, a lawsuit filed in federal court argues.

There the school board tries to keep black enrollment in most schools in the range of 15 to 50 percent by encouraging or compelling white students to attend schools in black neighborhoods and vice versa.

Last year's Duke report found that more than two - thirds of charter students in North Carolina attend schools considered «highly segregated,» meaning their enrollment is more than 80 percent white or less than 20 percent white.

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

According to DPI data, suspensions among black students nearly quadrupled the number among white students in 2014 - 2015, despite the fact that black students make up less than 30 percent of total enrollment.

The school's students are predominantly white (consistent with the North Shore communities it serves), with females accounting for about 60 percent of the total enrollment.

While black students were only 11 percent of the district's enrollment, they received 51.3 percent of the short - term suspensions, compared to 23.6 percent for white students who made up 51.5 percent of the enrollment.

Unfortunately, the other Hillsdale affiliated Classical charters in Florida also show a disproportionate enrollment of white, non-disabled, middle - class students.

Keep it small: White and Suggs have purposely kept their enrollment numbers low as they look to reach every student.

It is clear that academic outcomes in the vast majority of schools with overwhelming black and Latino enrollments fall far behind those with high numbers of white and Asian students.

By contrast, only 5 percent of white students attended schools where enrollment was 75 percent or more students of color.

The very next year the district began busing, sending white students to private schools causing Metro Schools» enrollment to plummet by 30,000 students throughout the next decade.

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Enrollment has held steady at around 350 students; they are mostly working class and white.

In the 2010 — 2011 school year, for example, charter enrollment compared to noncharter enrollment in the District of Columbia was 82 percent versus 76 percent for black students, roughly even at 14 percent for Hispanic students, and 3 percent versus 1 percent for white students (2012).