Sentences with phrase «white students at»

In 2009, California, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, and Texas have a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in NAEP than White students at both grades.

Arizona has a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in NAEP than White students at grade 4.

However, black students score consistently lower than whites, regardless of the mix of black or white students at a school.

The state's minority students continue to improve their scores, but they are not catching up to white students at the same rate seen across the nation.

Shown here in the fall of 1958 are black and white students at Norfolk Catholic High School, which had integrated voluntarily soon after the Brown decision of 1954.

She said that while many white students at Brown and Harvard understood the need for diversity in general, they often took a different stance if the diversity programs impacted their own advancement.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

The loss was equal to about 15 percent of the expected gap in test scores between black and white students at that age.

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

The superintendent's plan, they contend, represents an attempt to reduce the mandatory busing of suburban white students at the expense of blacks.

Not exact matches

Adam White, general manager at Coinbase, vividly recalls trying to write about bitcoin while he was a student at Harvard Business School during the early days of crypto.

Several students and parents affected by school shootings including last week's massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, attended a listening session with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

Authorities have identified the Parkland gunman as Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at the school with a history of abnormal behavior, and ties to an alt - right white supremacist group.

White's article highlights the new Wolfpack One card at North Carolina State University, which combines a student ID with a prepaid debit card from U.S. Bank.

Apstein's students — mostly hotel and restaurant employees and young professionals — sit at cafeteria tables that are draped in gracious white linens.

At Audubon Park Elementary in Orlando, Florida, fifth - grade students will observe a moment of silence for the Parkland victims; younger students will participate in age - appropriate observances, and their parents will write letters to Congress and the White House.

A student of the Great Depression and a former economics professor at Princeton, he likely knew better than anyone in the Bush White House what was at stake when so many major U.S. investment banks were poised to fail in the panic of 2008.

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

Vitalik Buterin has partnered with CCRG founding directors Aaron White, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York, and Kieren James - Lubin, a PhD student in mathematical physics at the University of Berkley in California.

In December 2017, another young white supremacist, William Atchison, engaged in a shooting spree at a high school in northwest New Mexico, killing two students before shooting himself.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

At the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester, white supremacist groups had just sparked a national debate on racism with a series of protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Moody students of color were reeling with other minorities across America.

Villard Alan White is a graduate student in the philosophy department at the University of Tennessee,

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

That is why the loudest yelps about white privilege come from pale - skinned students at the most expensive liberal arts colleges.

Ms. Hinlicky has clearly not exorcised all the demons of what I take to be her former liberalism if she still reflexively shudders at the notion of black and white students eating at different tables, i.e., segregation by choice.

I had to adjust to the food and to the way of life in an Indian student hostel — although almost at once I was taken out to buy a bed as it was assumed that unlike my fellow students a «white man» could not sleep on the floor!

No general rule can justify condemning the idea of white student unions while at the same time applauding the creation of black ones.

The blacks, advised by two white women students from Cape Town University, are to put on a play in their own tribal language, whose general drift, if not clear from the action, will be explained by locals at your side.

And the students» reception at the church reflects the complicated relationship between white evangelicals and Muslims shown in the surveys and the news.

But as it stands now, all we can say for certain is that in 1988 at Clemson University, among the mostly young white students questioned, men had a greater tendency than women to try and like fiery - foods.

One of them, Charles Boswell, blinded in the war, recalls that the campus at the University of Alabama was particularly attractive that fall, with its white - columned houses and the famous Gorgas Oak that was a favorite meeting place for students, a part of the campus spared when the Yankees burned Tuscaloosa 74 years before.

Connor Fraley, a student at nearby Belmont University, told the Tennessean he was in a Ford truck with three friends when they rolled up alongside the white Denali to inform the driver there was a strange smell coming from his exhaust.

Sit in the stands of Alfond Arena at Maine's Colby College long enough, and her presence simply reveals itself, as it did to the Colby student who walked in five minutes after the start of the White Mules» game against Northeastern on Feb. 18.

The students, very few of whom are white, seem skeptical at first.

Being a student of Cryuff, Dennis has ALWAYS been tactically astute and more than aware of the atmosphere in the club adn its dressing room but being a amnage is more than simply drawing complex sketches on the white - board and screaming at players.

My 8 month - old daughter sees me in my white coat & stethoscope at least a couple times a week (I'm a medical student), and she's happy to let me listen to her heart from time to time.

[25] While there are many ways to promote white milk selection without restricting available options, the following five suggestions are consistent with previous research conducted in school lunchrooms: 1) keeping all beverage coolers stocked with at least some white milk [23]; 2) white milk representing 1/3 or more of all visible milk in the lunchroom [25]; 3) placing white milk in front of other beverages, including chocolate milk, in all coolers [26]; 4) placing white milk crates so that they are the first beverage option seen in all milk coolers [22], [27]; and 5) bundling white milk with all grab and go meals available to students as the default beverage [24].

(1) keeping all beverage coolers stocked with at least some white milk; 2) white milk representing 1/3 or more of all visible milk in the lunchroom; 3) placing white milk in front of other beverages, including chocolate milk, in all coolers; 4) placing white milk crates so that they are the first beverage option seen in all milk coolers; and 5) bundling white milk with all grab and go meals available to students as the default beverage.

A 2013 white paper by Denise Pope and Madeline Levine, both co-founders of Challenge Success, a research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other programs for parents, schools and students, suggests that isn't always the case.

Michaela «Churro» White is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is currently a second - year student majoring in International Affairs at UGA.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

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.

Dairy: Students should receive one cup of 1 % (one percent) white milk or nonfat white or flavored milk at breakfast and lunch each day.

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

Also at 11 a.m. — Rep. Nita Lowey, local law enforcement and students a hold roundtable discussion on gun violence and prevention, White Plains Public Library, 100 Martine Ave, second floor meeting room, White Plains.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey is joined by local superintendents, substance abuse prevention workers, advocates and students for a roundtable discussion on e-cigarette use among teens, 222 Mamaroneck Ave. No. 312, White Plains.

It's time for the Senate and the White House to do its job,» House Speaker John Boehner said at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol surrounded by other House GOP leaders and college - age students.

Washington (CNN)- Students participating in a White House talent show got a surprise visit Tuesday when President Barack Obama showed up at the end of their performance — and wondered why he wasn't part of the act.

Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino announced that the Westchester County Health Department will give free flu shots to college students and residents at two locations next month in Valhalla and White Plains.