Sentences with phrase «white students increased»

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

Not exact matches

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

This increase suggests that many students were willing to substitute 1 % or skim white milk for chocolate milk.

The results published in the journal Clinical Therapeutics [i] showed white milk sales increased by 141 % from 7.4 % of the students to 17.9 %.

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — For the fifth consecutive year, tuition for nearly 13,000 students at Westchester Community College (WCC) will not increase under a proposed budget that was submitted by County Executive Robert P.

Rates also increased for white students, by 3 percentage points from 76 to 79 percent.

Rates increased for nearly every type of student, too — white, black, Hispanic, Asian, poor and disabled.

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.

«And we find that having a black teacher dramatically increases the likelihood that a black student will be placed in a gifted program, relative to having a white teacher.»

Even in the unlikely scenario that ending racial preferences forced all these students to surrender their seats to white and Asian - American students, acceptance rates for the remaining students would only increase from 10 to 12 %.

«It is not surprising that increasing school diversity is important to reduce both African American and White students» delinquent behaviors,» said corresponding author Dr. Brittany Darlene Chambers, of the University of California, San Francisco.

«I found that white and Latino student integration in the district was increasing, while black student integration fell.

In particular, student debt was associated with an increased risk of boomeranging among black, but not white, youth.

What's more, in a follow - up experiment, the researchers found that simply having to specify their race before taking the test was enough to drastically worsen a black student's performance, while when white students did this, their performance actually increased.

An increase in slave concentration is related to greater underrepresentation of white students in public schools.

A 2010 study by Mark Berends and Roberto Penaloza of longitudinal data over 30 years demonstrates a relationship between increasing segregation of black and Latino students and growth in math achievement gaps between these groups and white students.

Although African Americans with GPAs as high as 3.5 continue to have more friends than those with lower grades, the rate of increase is no longer as great as among white students.

Nor do we find that schools with a larger share of white students have a meaningful increase in their WSI.

The West has seen the most dramatic decline in white students and the largest increase in Hispanic students.

That claim overlooks the powerful effect demographic change has had on the possibility of increasing black student exposure to white students.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

A pronounced increase in Hispanic and Asian public - school enrollment and consequent decline in the white enrollment share, not a pattern of resegregation, has driven the fall in the exposure of black students to white schoolmates.

The steps taken to desegregate schools and increase black student exposure to white students were not strong enough after 1980 to offset the demographic shifts that were increasing the amount of contact between both whites and blacks and the children of immigrants from Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere.

Segregation still in decline despite decreasing black exposure to white students Percentages of other ethnic groups increasing rapidly

For example, from 1990 to 2007, black students» scale scores increased 34 points on the NAEP 4th - grade mathematics tests (compared with a 28 - point increase for whites), and the black - white achievement gap declined from 32 to 26 points during this period.

This entire year I have learned so much about the increase of punitive punishment for mostly students of color, the statistics that show 80 percent of students are taught by white educators while their classes are filled with students who have entirely different identities, fact - based knowledge about the brain, trauma, and so many other components of the educational system that need to be unpacked.

Another study found that class - size reduction in Tennessee's K — 3 classrooms increased college enrollment rates by about 6 percentage points among African American students, although no impacts were observed for white students.

The risk increases from 11 percent to 28 percent if a white student comes from a single - parent instead of a two - parent family.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

While there is about a 12 percent relative increase in white students scoring above 1100 on the SAT and above 24 on the ACT, there is a 50 percent relative increase for Hispanics, and an 80 percent relative increase for black students.

This does not mean that the total number of AP and IB exams taken by white students did not increase at APIP schools.

By the third year of the program, APIP increases the number of white and Hispanic graduates scoring above 900 on the SAT and above 19 on the ACT by 26 percent and 38 percent, respectively, although there is no change for black students.

Comparing the number of students scoring at these levels before and after the adoption of APIP, I found that, by the third year of APIP, the number of white and Hispanic students scoring above 1100 on the SAT and above 24 on the ACT increased by 26 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

When 83 % of all teachers are white (non-Hispanic) with an ever - increasing student body of color, we can no longer stand by and expect the race discussion to solve itself.

For example, one study documented that «black and white students in desegregated schools are less racially prejudiced than those in segregated schools,» and that «interracial contact in desegregated schools leads to an increase in interracial sociability and friendship.»

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

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The 25th percentile mathematics score for 13 - year - old white students also increased, but by just 0.29 standard deviations over the same period.

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The number of private secular schools in Mississippi, with a virtually all - white student population, has greatly increased in recent years.

Both sought to achieve these objectives while preserving their commitment to other educational goals, e.g., districtwide commitment to high quality public schools, increased pupil assignment to neighborhood schools, diminished use of busing, greater student choice, reduced risk of white flight, and so forth.

The theory behind the «school - to - prison pipeline» concept is that black and Latino students experience harsher discipline in school than their white peers, and that these school - based experiences increase the likelihood of their eventual engagement with the criminal justice system.

The bureau also found that while the number of white private - school students declined by 37 percent, or 2.2 million students, between 1964 and 1979, the number of black students in private schools increased by one - third, or 87,000 students.

These patterns suggest that increasing exposure to black teachers is beneficial at best and neutral at worst for all students in terms of discipline, and that increasing teacher diversity while keeping teacher quality constant would have a modest positive effect on the reading achievement of black students while having an opposite effect on the math achievement of white students.

Hispanic students are also scoring higher but again not at the level of white students, while their percentage of all students has dramatically increased.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59