Sentences with phrase «white students need»

Thus, I strongly believe that white students need black faculty.

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These words, printed in white letters on a black T - shirt, are the foundation of Laurel resident Luke Roberts» new mobile app, which raises funds for food to serve students in need and their families through a Maryland...

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

According to White, the District needs space because of growing demands from the student population.

6,687 students 623 classroom teachers 10 schools (one high school, two junior highs, seven elementary) $ 188.8 million 2010 - 11 budget 1 % of students need free or reduced price lunches 97 % students are white or Asian (3 % black or Latino) 83 % of third - graders scored proficient or higher on this year's state's English test; 90 % on math exam.

In a press briefing yesterday, Cecilia Muñoz, head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, emphasized the role that STEM teachers play «in equipping our students with the knowledge they will need to get jobs in the high - growth fields that fund innovation.»

Amy White is young, blond, and greets her students with «sweetheart» and a kind voice that never alters, even when she needs to use a firm hand.

This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

Mixed - race student Sam (a terrific Tessa Thompson) dishes «dear white people» advice on her college radio show («you now need two black friends to not appear racist, and your weed dealer doesn't count») and enters student politics with a pledge to bring more black culture to the school.

Students can read a standard textbook in the font size of their choosing, and they can adjust the color contrast (white on black, black on white, color, and so on) to suit their needs.

Every student experiences commonality and difference — what's shared (a student needing knowledge) and what's distinct (urban, rural, white, black, male, female).

You do not need access to a computer, just print out out a white keyboard for students to colour in the letter they are practising or print out a color keyboard and laminate so that students can practise with the color coded keyboard fingering.

School resource officers need the tools to strike a balance between their job of keeping schools safe and the privacy rights of students, a white paper by the American Civil Liberties Union says.

Included: ♦ Template ♦ Example — black / white and colour ♦ Instructions Level of Difficulty: Your students need to be able to use a ruler to draw straight lines between 2 points (even the curves are made with straight lines... it's like magic!).

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

This is a totally white PowerPoint so it's easy to print the slides you need or your students choose.

The data clearly paint the need to focus on students of color and low - income students: nationally, only 73 percent of black students, 76 percent of Latino students, and 75 percent of low - income students graduate, compared to 87 percent of white students and 89 percent of middle - and high - income students.

White school personnel used policies such as curriculum tracking and special - education referrals as a means of sorting students by race under the guise of «ability grouping» or meeting students» «special needs.»

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.

Lewys White is part of the team behind the newest educational platform on the block — Teach9 - who hope that their new bespoke mobile and desktop app Power By The Minute will herald the beginning of a virtual online community that removes the restrictions of geography, time - zones and commute for any student who needs to find the right tutor suited to their needs.

The argument that all students need to be ready for college has its supporters, fueled in no small part by a certain guy who moved into that big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue earlier this year.

The administrative progressives, it is true, watered down classic curricular requirements as they tried to adapt schooling to the varied lives, with varied needs, for which students were headed, from factory and white - collar work to college admission and the professions.

Education reported in July 2014 that the National Charter Schools Resource Center (NCSRC) is preparing a white paper on charter school collaboration to meet students with disabilities needs and case studies of charter schools that serve students with disabilities.

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.

This 2014 white paper jointly produced by AASA: the School Superintendents Association and BBA as a companion to the documentary Rich Hill illustrates the unique challenges many rural schools face in meeting their students» needs.

Reasons why solving Building Bridges Puzzles are good for your students It sharpens your critical thinking skills It improves our problem solving skills It helps us in multi-tasking thinking skills It helps stay mentally fit All you need to do is decide if you want color or black and white as both are included.

According to state data, most of the students are white, and no kids need English language learning classes.

Students need to condense these and / or find out more about these and make notes in the white space.

Middle - and upper - class white students may need help recognizing their own racial status and the privilege it affords them.

Minority students — particularly black and Latino / a students who live and learn in homogeneous neighborhoods — may need assistance understanding white communities and how to navigate them.

In Tennessee, for example, the state's traditional districts need only to ensure that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

And while I am the first to say we need better data and analysis in Oakland, according to the latest Oakland Achieves study, 95 percent of African - American charter high schoolers completed the A-G requirements, which is a higher rate than White students districtwide.

In a recent article, Zachary Wright, a high school teacher, wrote, «As a White male teacher, whose goals are to not only teach, but also learn from my students, I need to be aware of, and need to name, the privilege that...

Since programs for students of color often receive less funding than their white counterparts, legislation is needed...

Moreover, many teachers — white and native — need additional, and likely ongoing, training to consistently teach grade - level lessons that will make their students college - ready.

«Another issue is that black students need to have their culture celebrated, which schools run by white females do not do,» he said.

We need to improve identification and eligibility criteria and procedures, including multiple gateways and types of data to make sure we aren't only identifying the same «type» of student (usually upper - middle class white students, who tend to behave in ways pleasing to mostly - white teachers) and neglecting minorities and English Language Learners.

Mini white boards: Whether students are working alone or with a partner, they can hold up their answers on a white board — allowing me to assess which content needs further instruction.

The schools, which deliver instruction entirely or primarily via the internet, tend to attract lower - income, lower - performing white students, then fail to provide those children with the supports they need, the study concluded.

Then, for instance, when it came to me having to confront students about not completing work or give reminders about classroom rules, it could hopefully be perceived less as «Here's another white guy claiming power over me as a person of color,» but more as «Here's someone who knows me and is trying to help me do what I need to do,» which obviously makes for a more productive interaction.

Her forms of assessment — whether a formal unit test, games, hands - on activities, or simply asking the whole class a question and having them respond on their white boards — are among the greatest ways she teaches every student based on their individual needs.

We urgently need to increase diversity in a teaching profession that is 82 % white but serves a student population in which students of color comprise the majority.

From there Tracey supported the needs of students in the homebound community for Owendale - Gagetown Public Schools and developed a skill - set in delivering alternative education, and also served as a substitute teacher for White Pine Middle School.

The law requires voucher schools to be accountable and accountability is needed also for state schools to address the pervasive achievement gap between white kids and students of color and to prepare all state students to compete in a global employment market, Pertl said.

Anya Kamenetz's article for NPR about Florida's voucher program and students with special needs is similarly packed with white sources.

White added that it's the job of principals and other managers to communicate with teachers about the skills and lessons students will need to succeed on the post-tests.

Emmanuel: With all of this, the original idea was that these measures would only be needed temporarily, but that was assuming policies would work in concert — that policies aimed at reducing housing segregation would have worked, and we wouldn't see that black and Hispanic students are still much more likely to attend high poverty schools than their white peers.

Advances in brain science have not quite dislodged the mindset that black and brown students need to be punished or that white middle - class character traits need to be installed to spur academic achievement.

Democrats, including the one in the White House, need to make clear that they won't accept any bill that leaves out protections for vulnerable students.

However, the true achieve - ment gap (as defined by RIDE and others) exists between minority and white, poor and wealthier, ELL and non - ELL, and special needs and non-special needs students.