Sentences with phrase «white students»

The federal government put districts on notice that if they had a disproportionate number of white students in AP classes, they could be immediately subject to civil rights enforcement.

At the same time, scores for white students in 2008 were the highest ever in both reading and math for nine - and thirteen - year olds.

There is little evidence of any benefit for white students of being matched with white teachers.

Specifically, minorities in majority white schools may feel inferior, become frustrated, or have difficulty interacting with white students who come from different cultural backgrounds.

He frequently contrasts the dismal material circumstances of their lives with those of affluent white students who live elsewhere.

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.

Policies that would put black students on the same footing as white students in terms of how teacher expectations are formed could narrow attainment gaps.

Rather, the negative bias is a relative one in that the black students do not receive the same positive bias, or benefit of the doubt, enjoyed by white students.

However, when they get to college, most find themselves for the first time in an environment of predominantly white students from higher - income communities.

Meanwhile, 56 percent of white students scored proficient in reading on the tests and 63 percent in math.

On average, black students typically score one standard deviation below white students on standardized tests — roughly the difference in performance between the average 4th grader and the average 8th grader.

While only 15 percent of students in the nation's capital attend private schools, 57 percent of white students do.

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

For instance, you might have 300 white students at a school and 160 have been identified as gifted.

Among white students in mostly white schools, that rate is 33 percent.

Among black students with similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those who attended an integrated school with more white students scored higher.

Students of color and low - income students benefit, while white students don't see negative impacts on their performance.

Low - income black students made up 62 percent of district suspensions, while low - income white students made up only 18 percent.

You could also argue that 9 of these schools have predominantly white student bodies, so its ok because they match.

The statistics are alarming: more than 80 percent of white students graduate from high school, while barely 60 percent of African - American and Hispanic students graduate.

There are simply too few white students to go around.

Schools should get the resources they need, whether middle - class white students attend them or not.

Local charter schools that serve mostly white students have nearly non-existent discipline rates.

But only white students and advanced learners of all races were more than 50 percent reading - proficient in grades 3 - 5, at 70 percent and 93 percent, respectively.

Set it high and the gap will be large, because most white students will clear it and most black students won't.

Low - income black and Latino students are far more likely to attend schools of concentrated poverty than low - income white students.

Conversely, the percentage of white students receiving vouchers increased from 46 percent in the first year to 60 percent in 2016 — 17.

In 2002, 31 percent of black students were considered proficient in math, for example, while 65 percent of white students met that standard.

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

The difference in the rate at which black, Hispanic, and white students go to school with poor classmates is the best predictor of the racial - achievement gap.

When told beforehand that the test was a laboratory problem - solving task unrelated to ability, black and white students performed similarly.

Over four decades, the achievement gap decreased: black and Hispanic students made academic progress while the scores of white students also increased.

In contrast, nonprofit and public graduate programs enroll twice as many white students as students of color.

In addition, white students use taxpayer - funded vouchers more often than students of color.

Specifically, white students increased by 3.2 percent, and black students increased by 6.3 percent in their exam performance.

Across all grades taken together, white students remain the largest group — 31 percent — but that number has fallen sharply since 1970, when more than 90 percent of students were white.

While the number of white students taking AP exams grew in recent years, it grew more slowly than the numbers in other groups.

White students tend to have more literacy resources and higher educational aspirations.

The academic achievement gap between wealthy white students and low - income students of color must be eliminated.

And white teachers have lower expectations for black students than for similarly situated white students.

In contrast, the typical white student attends a school that is only 6 percent black and 5 percent Hispanic.

That's the main reason why white students need black and brown teachers as much as do students of color.

Black eighth graders gained twenty - three points from 1990 to 2015, Hispanic students gained twenty - four, and white students gained twenty - two.

The school's white students accounted for 14 discipline marks.

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.

We should demand Black male teachers teach all students, especially White students.