Sentences with phrase «white students attended»

White students attended the premier Farmville High School, while black students attended Robert Russa Moton High School, which lacked a cafeteria, gymnasium and proper heating system.

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

* And in some metro areas, like New York's, almost 30 percent of white students attend these exclusive schools.

They find over half the gap in racial discipline rates is generated within schools; that is, it is not simply a story in which black and white students attend schools with different discipline policies.

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

Nationwide, the typical white student attends a school in which 72 percent of students are white and only 8 percent are black, according to a 2014 report by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

In the all - charter district of New Orleans — that Chait described at the 2015 anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as «spectacular» in another defense of charters — virtually no (less than one percent) white students attend schools in that have earned a «D» or «F» performance rating.

Her claim that the gap has been closed at her school is meaningless when there are no white students attending.

This is one of the lowest percentages of white students attending public schools in the nation — and remember that the majority of Mississippi's population is white.

In a recent visit to Clarendon County, South Carolina, the location of one of the Brown v. Board of Education cases, I found virtually no white students attending the local public schools.

When ELL students and white students attend the same schools, the measured difference in proficiency rates shrinks considerably (Figure 5).

Though whites make up just over half of the nation's enrollment, the typical white student attends a school where three - quarters of their peers are white.

The study found that most white students attend schools that are 73 percent white, that the percentage of Black students in mostly minority schools has risen over the last two decades, that Black and Latino students are mostly sharing the same schools, and that the rise in segregation has been most dramatic for Latino students.

Eighty - seven percent of white students attend majority - white schools, even though such youngsters make up just over half of the public school population.

A possible limitation of the findings could be that for the trend showing that the percentage of White students attending has gone down, there were very few schools in the sample.

Only 14 percent of white students attend «multicultural» schools (in which three racial groups each make up at least 10 percent of the pupil population).

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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.

Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday's White House Correspondents» Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress.

On the «Day of Silence» in April 2012, about 90 students wearing white T - shirts printed with «break the silence» attended a campus - hosted discussion about homosexuality, such as whether Wheaton can be considered a «safe place» for gay students.

Last year I attended a wonderful Wendell Berry book group which met in the jewel of Lynchburg, the White Hart Café, the best Inklings - themed beer - serving coffee shop on the planet, a special PLACE created by our friends Ed and Debi Hopkins, where the more literary and egg - headish Liberty University students come to be Christian intellectuals, hipsters, and sometimes, Berry - ites.

The Michael Frey Foundation provides educational scholarships for students in Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Bronxville, including a special scholarship for students who follow in Michael's footsteps by attending Immaculate Conception School and then Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains.

The White House schedule announced a «listening session» Wednesday but did not specify which students or staff from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will be permitted to attend.

Some 478,000 children — overwhelmingly Black and Hispanic students — attend failing schools, while top - rated schools are reserved almost exclusively for white and Asian students.

Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at some point.

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.»

The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.

Those who attended were presented with personalized white lab coats by Kathleen Gould, Ph.D., associate dean for Biomedical Sciences and director of Graduate Student Support, as Roger Chalkley, D.Phil., senior associate dean in the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training (BRET) read their names.

In Season 2, the Netflix dramedy about black students attending a predominantly white university is better than ever.

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Using the national standard deviation to scale all scores, the effect of attending a private school on black students is only one - fifth to one - quarter as large as the black - white gap.

Most significantly, Coleman asserted that disadvantaged black students would do better academically if they attended schools in which the majority of their classmates were white.

«In some cases, like Idaho, charter school students across all races attend schools of white isolation: majorities of students of all races are in 90 — 100 % white charter schools.»

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.

Into the 1970s, urban education reform focused predominantly on making sure that African American students had the opportunity to attend school with their white peers.

The most striking changes occurred at the bottom of the distribution, as the share of African American students attending schools with fewer than 5 percent white students fell by more than 50 percent after 1968.

Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white students in 1963, despite public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»

Mostly affluent and white, the 350 students who attend his schools have histories of drug abuse, drinking, violence, prostitution, and attempted suicide, among other problems.

Conversely, «if a white student uses a LSP voucher to attend a school that is more white than its surrounding community, the transfer would be reducing integration at the new school.»

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.

According to Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, resegregation is contributing to a growing gap in quality between the schools being attended by white students and those serving a large proportion of minority students.

Davis grew up in Port Arthur, Texas, where her father served as a school board member during the massive effort to desegregate that city's schools, and she was among the first white students to attend a formerly segregated elementary school.

Sandy White, an aide to a state lawmaker from Vancouver, Wash., maintains that area high school students should not have been allowed to attend a talk last week by the exiled Tibetan religious and political leader.

In 2000, about one - sixth of blacks attended schools where I percent or less of their fellow students were white.

The average black student, meanwhile, attended a school where just 31 percent of students were white.

More than one - third are middle - class white students who would otherwise be attending their suburban neighborhood public school.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

This pattern likewise falls disproportionately along racial lines: for example, Latino students are 1.4 times more likely than white students to attend a school with a law enforcement officer but not a school counselor (while Asian students are 1.3 times as likely and black students are 1.2 times as likely).

Research, including 2008 and 2009 studies by Eric Hanushek, John Kain, and me, and a 2000 study by Caroline Hoxby that account for both observed and unobserved factors that could affect outcomes and contaminate the results, suggests that African Americans, particularly higher achievers, do benefit from attending schools with a higher proportion of white students.

«It's hard to disentangle, but it may be related to differences in the types of schools that white and minority students attend and access to appropriate resources and diagnoses in these schools,» he says.