Sentences with phrase «white students in»

The nationwide average score of white students in 4th - grade reading in 2017 was 232.

When I would teach my classes in the fall semester, I had 97 % white students in my classes at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

I had a number of white students in the university classes I taught in Minnesota who did not know that there was such a thing as Japanese internment.

And, the number of white students in Baltimore (7.9 %) is disproportionately low to the number of white people in Baltimore (962 %).

This shows that the number of white students in Chicago (9.9 %) is disproportionately low to the number of white people in Chicago (39 %).

A 2010 study of Georgia's tuition tax credit program revealed that while only 10 % of white students in public schools attended «virtually segregated» schools, within the program at private schools, this rose dramatically to 53 %.

Consider the following facts: by the end of high school, Black and Latino students» reading and mathematics skills are roughly the same as those of White students in the eighth grade.

In grade 8, black and white students in the commonwealth achieved the fourth - highest state averages for their subgroups, Hispanic students in Virginia ranked fifth when compared with Hispanic students in other states, and Asian students ranked seventh.

The 2015 science tests, however, produced no significant changes in the gaps separating the achievement of these students with that of white students in the commonwealth.

According to members of the Education Complex, more money will somehow change the fact that, according to the 2013 ACT report on Georgia, 94 percent of black students, 81 percent of Hispanic students, and 65 percent of white students in Georgia who graduate from high school are not college - ready in all four major subjects.

Boston, Massachusetts, which had a particularly contentious relationship with court ordered integration, saw the percentage of white students in public school plummet by more than 40 points between 1970 and 1990, a change that can not be explained by simple increases in the minority population:

White students in Texas continue to outperform black and Hispanic students in all subjects.

Those gaps remain substantial with black students scoring about 10 to 11 percent lower than white students in each grade and subject.

Taken together, our findings imply that the charter schools in North Carolina are increasingly serving the interests of relatively able white students in racially imbalanced schools.

According to a flier handed out by anti-mascot activists at a Thursday, November 2 meeting of the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees, the predominantly white students in the class of 1967 who chose to be represented by Johnny Rebel — a term for a Confederate soldier, and the stage name of a prominent white supremacist musician — did so to send «a clear message that people of color were not welcome at Savanna High School or in Anaheim.»

African American passing rates on state standardized tests were 10 points behind those of white students in reading and 16 points behind in math.

Low - income Hispanic and white students in Chicago showed significant growth through the entire period, moving up 26 and 23 points respectively.

It is projected that by 2022, there will be a sixteen percent decrease in the enrollment of white students in public schools nationwide.

While the performance of the district's middle schools tended to break along familiar lines — with the top schools filled with high levels of white students in less impoverished areas — the CORE data for high schools reveal a different story in several key categories.

The negative results for white students in charter schools are consistent with CREDO's nationwide data.

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

State statistics show 68 percent of white students in 2015 - 16 passed the test on the first try, but only 39 percent of African Americans passed.

23 percent of white students in Charlotte attend majority - poverty schools while 77 percent of black students and 80 percent of Latino students go to these schools.

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.

Out - of - school suspensions, about 3 percent for white students in 1972, have increased significantly for all groups over the past decade, but especially for African Americans.

He praised DPI's new plan because it sets goals to cut the gap in average achievement between black and white students in half in six years — which would require black students to improve in proficiency in English and math by around 4 percent annually.

Although the percentage of white students in the country has declined dramatically over the past 50 years, while the percentage of black students has changed very little, the achievement levels of black students compared to white students (and other racial / ethnic groups) has barely narrowed, according to a study by University of Illinois economist Steven Rivkin.

In a reversal of national norms, its black students outperform local white students in tests of maths and reading, and consistently beat state averages, often dramatically so.

In 2014, the percentage of students of color exceeded the percentage of white students in U.S. public schools for the first time.13 Meanwhile, 84 percent of all public school teachers identify as white.14 While this disparity occurs in classrooms across the country, the diversity gap is especially pronounced in many urban school districts.15 In Boston, for example, there is one Hispanic teacher for every 52 Hispanic students, and one black teacher for every 22 black students.

Students identified as Asian / Pacific Islanders outscored white students in both music and visual arts for the first time.

The share of white students in the Richmond - Petersburg metro declined by almost ten percentage points to 51 % between 1989 and 2010, even as the share of the black enrollment remained steady at 37 %.

Bair, having been superintendent in wealthy cities such as Lexington, Massachusetts and Carmel, California, had no experience within cities such as Hartford, where the exodus of white families to the surrounding suburbs contributed to the decrease of white students in Hartford schools and the increase of minority students, in this case black and Puerto Rican students.

Asian students outperformed white students in the 2014 — 15 school year by 11 points, reversing a trend in which whites were the higher scorers.

The fact that white students in some schools get nearly zero exposure to black teachers demands further interrogation, she says.

In stark contrast, Hispanic and Asian students who are English language learners (ELL) are falling further behind white students in mathematics and reading achievement.

It says the achievement gap between black and white students in fourth and eighth grade was the largest in the nation, in both math and reading.

But even so, white students in the South are more likely to be exposed to students of color than in the past, mostly attributed to the rising number of Hispanic students attending schools with them.

In the 2013 - 14 school year, about 9 percent of Memorial's black students tested proficient in math and 13 percent in reading, compared to 46 percent of white students in math and 51 percent in reading.

The state graduation rate for white students in the 2013 - 14 school year was 92.9 percent, compared to 66 percent for black students.

Most migrant students are Hispanic, but there are also nearly a hundred white students in the state who also are enrolled in the program.

At the same time, white students in the district are outperforming other white students across the state.

- Black students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 33 fewer days of learning in reading and 30 fewer days in math than their counterparts in non-charter schools - Latino students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 30 fewer days in reading but 21 more days in math - Asian students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 75 fewer days in reading and 53 fewer days in math - White students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 107 fewer days in reading but 9 more days in math

Discipline disparities between students of color and white students in Minnesota are severe, with black students being eight times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

The study concluded that its «findings imply that the charter schools in North Carolina are increasingly serving the interests of relatively able white students in racially imbalanced schools.»

Attempting to show that even a well - managed school district can't close achievement gaps in student learning, McRae showed Fraisse data from the state Department of Education showing significant differences in test scores between African - American and Latino students and white students in some of the administrator's former school districts.

African - American and white students in fourth grade scored the highest gains in reading compared with any other urban district.

Although we've focused more and more attention on dealing with the seemingly intractable gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and white students in the last quarter century, we've made little progress in closing the gaps.

Just nine schools enroll 85 percent of white students in New Orleans public schools.

In the 1954 case, the arguments were explicitly African American students being segregated from White students in the public school system.

While 85 percent of White students in Seattle earn a high school diploma each year, only 65 percent of African - American students in the district earn...