Sentences with phrase «white students go»

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.

But the white students go elsewhere — many to yeshivas or other private schools.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

In 2010, the typical white student went to a school that was roughly two - thirds white, even though whites accounted for just over half of Virginia's enrollment.

Meanwhile, white students went to a school where low - income students, on average, made up about 24 % of the enrollment — almost a 30 percentage point white - black disparity in exposure to poverty.

Not exact matches

[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.

Halls understood her issues from the get - go, says Schein; when it came to grabbing the students» attention, the white cinder block walls and stainless steel of the cafeteria could not compete.

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?

Nearly half of white students who expressed interest in biological sciences went on to earn a bachelor's degree in those fields, compared to only 25 percent of URM students.

Whiting, now a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota, describes the alligator as a survivor, withstanding sea - level fluctuations and extreme changes in climate that would have caused some less - adaptive animals to rapidly change or go extinct.

«We wanted to understand why thylacines went extinct on the mainland, but survived in Tasmania,» says lead author and PhD student Lauren White.

I'm a current medical student and love incorporating fashionable outfits to go along with my white coat!

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Then there's exchange student Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig) who's character is fun and whip smart and a go - getter but she sadly falls right into the «white savior» trope that is just beyond tired and is just a bad look when it's a white guy using another culture to tell that story in the first place.

At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

Logline: At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

I discovered a litany of bogus character traits for the title character that paint a picture of an entitled, conniving, cheating, vapid, disloyal, snotty, conformist white girl going through a phony personality crisis so she can put - on her next «Basic» (à la «Ingrid Goes West») identity as one more white female college student in New York City with rocks in her head.

Moreover, teacher feedback on suspension forms for white students included notes that compassionately described extenuating circumstances that might have caused the behavior, i.e. «John's parents are going through a difficult divorce, and this may have affected his decision - making.»

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

Sometimes teachers can go so overboard with praise with everything just being awesome that students begin to hear nothing but white noise.

Tasks about «être» and «avoir» - Reminder about what subject pronouns mean in English; - Put the forms of avoir in the box (only the forms of avoir verb are going to go in the box; - A summing up of the avoir verb; - Mini white board activity: students to remember avoir; - Filling gap task about avoir; - Sorting out activity (être / avoir / other); - A summing up of the être verb; - Mini white board activity: Choose the correct form of être according to the subject pronoun; - A find the mistake task; - être or avoir: underline être and circle avoir in the text; - A task where students have to decide whether it is être or avoir; - OXO game; - Plennary, describe a monster picture using être and avoir.

One thing I've seen students bring up is the idea of affirmative action: «Well, I'm white, so I'm going to have a harder time getting into a good college.»

It's a place where a student can go from being functionally illiterate to attending college and introducing Michelle Obama at the White House.

«They Just Come and Go» — A Debate About the White House Put students» natural debating skills to good use as they study issues involving the White House.

And 4.1 percent of black students reported going to class late «often,» versus 2.2 percent of white students (See Figure 1).

White British students are far less likely to go to university than ethnic minority students: Indian (72 per cent), Pakistani / Bangladeshi (57 per cent), Black (72 per cent) and White British (36 per cent).

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Thomas Dee's finding («The Race Connection,» Research, Spring 2004) that both white and black students learned more when taught by teachers of the same race has implications that go far beyond his discussion.

According to a 2009 nationally representative survey of ninth grader, 17 percent of African American students reported going to class late «sometimes,» versus 10 percent of white students.

And 4.1 percent of black students reported going late to class «often,» versus 2.2 percent of white students.

So, the scores of black students and Hispanic students went up as did their proportion of the students tested; but, the increased scores were not enough to make up for fewer white students who scored higher.

Listen to Thomas, a white Harvard student who admits to feeling «personally disadvantaged at times,» and goes on to explain, «If you're Latino or if you're black you could have a lower GPA and lower test scores and get in and then I could have the same test scores and maybe not get in.»

Half an hour later, a student went into the room of a white female teacher (there were less than 10 students in the room) and punched another student in the face.

He went on to serve as a Senior Vice President at Voyager Expanded Learning Systems; did a tour in Baghdad Iraq at the request of the White House and Department of Defense, serving as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Education to assist with the rebuilding of the Iraqi school system in 2003; was Superintendent of the Richardson Independent School District; and, perhaps most significantly, served seven years as Chief Executive Officer of AVID, a global nonprofit that helps prepare students for postsecondary education and is one of the leading providers of professional development for educators in the US.

When black students went to schools with white ones, they were able to access good teachers, principals and guidance counselors, updated textbooks and more advanced classes.

Students analyze Atticus» character in Go Set a Watchman in historical context by reading primary sources that illuminate the ways many white southerners reacted to the prospect of social change.

The new protocol, which will go into effect in fall 2018, «facilitates equitable opportunity for first - year students to succeed through existing and redesigned education models,» White wrote in a memorandum to the system's 23 campus presidents, who will be responsible for working with faculty to implement the changes.

«I want this not just because it's good for the students themselves, the communities involved and it's good for our economy but because it really goes to the essence of what we are about as Americans,» Obama said at a White House signing ceremony.

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.

If you are a low - income and / or minority student, you are not going to get the same quality of school as a wealthier / white student.

Black students considered proficient and advanced in reading moved from 12.2 percent five years ago to 14.3 percent, while white students considered at the same level went from 41.4 percent to 42.9 percent.

What was surprising about the results at Jane Doe was that (1) students were predominantly white and middle class and (2) the school's test scores did not reflect the quality and quantity of the learning going on there.

«You don't have enough white students to go around to make the social engineers feel good about the demographics.»

Yet colleges labeled «most selective» only enroll one - third of all four - year college - goers and disproportionately serve white and high - income students.

Barnes, having come from a suburban white school, recognizes that there are certain «traditions» schools follow, traditions that monitor the the way the students go to the bathroom to how the teachers teach their students.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

Chinese education authorities have gone high - tech to catch cheaters as millions of high - school students take their «gaokao», the annual university entrance exam seen as key to landing a lucrative white - collar job.

Northern had gone from being predominantly white and high performing to having mostly black students and poor academic results — three quarters of the sophomore and senior classes scored below the national average on math, science, and reading tests.