Sentences with phrase «white students on»

Eighty - three per cent of Chinese pupils on free school meals achieve five Cs or above in their GCSEs, yet just 35 per cent of white students on FSMs in England do — comfortably the lowest of any ethnic group.

The current performance gap between 4th - grade and 8th - grade black and white students on the more reliable National Assessment on Education Progress (NAEP) isn't substantively different from the gap in the 1992.

For instance, the high school graduation rate is at a record high, and the test scores of Black and Hispanic students have outpaced those of white students on long - term measures of reading and math achievement.

Comparing 2017 KPREP results released late last week to comparable, 2016 results, Hispanic students» proficiency levels improved at a pace that narrowed gaps compared to white students on four of 14 assessments, and improved without narrowing gaps on six others...

While Asian Americans do score lower than white students on some measures of psychosocial wellbeing, Americans as a whole score so abnormally high that, globally speaking, Asian American scores are «actually quite normal,» says Pittinsky.

On average, black students typically score one standard deviation below white students on standardized tests — roughly the difference in performance between the average 4th grader and the average 8th grader.

Asian students have generally performed better than white students on state math tests in the city, and about the same on English tests.

In the United States, when most white students on college campuses are asked whether admissions officers should consider race or ethnicity in admissions, they say yes.

If black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).

In the traditional lectures, black students and students whose parents did not attend college performed worse than white students on exams.

If minorities are benefiting, why do black students score 20 points lower than white students on those tests?

Given that time, our scholars consistently out - perform wealthy Westchester County on their Regents exams in nearly every subject and our first class of graduates outperformed white students on their SAT's.

Consider the substantial improvement of black students relative to white students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) during the 1970s and 1980s.

Not exact matches

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.

Put on your white coat and imagine you're a young med student.

In a recent article in Time, Martha White covered the rise of prepaid offerings on college campuses and the benefits some of these schools may receive from marketing them to students.

Political pressure on the White House is quickly intensifying as the activism of Florida students begins to morph into a nationwide «never again» movement.

Andrew Pollack, father of slain Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Meadow Jade Pollack, joined by his sons, speaks during a listening session with President Donald Trump, high school students, teachers and others in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 21, 2018.

On average, white male students graduate with about 33 % more debt than their white female peers.

The mass shooting has prompted a wave of youth activism that has reverberated from South Florida to Washington, where hundreds of students gathered outside the White House gates on Wednesday before the listening session, chanting, «Enough is enough!»

«The platform us Parkland Students have established is to be shared with every person, black or white, gay or straight, religious or not, who has experienced gun violence, and hand in hand, side by side, We Will Make This Change Together,» she also wrote on Twitter.

On Monday, a number of high school students protested outside the White House, lying down on the ground to symbolize the Parkland students killed by bullets last weeOn Monday, a number of high school students protested outside the White House, lying down on the ground to symbolize the Parkland students killed by bullets last weeon the ground to symbolize the Parkland students killed by bullets last week.

On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle AssociationOn Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Associationon a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

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...

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.

At the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester, white supremacist groups had just sparked a national debate on racism with a series of protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Moody students of color were reeling with other minorities across America.

As I drew on the white board what looked like different flight patterns of Jesus, several students began to laugh.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

The mission leader was shocked to discover that some of the white church members were unhappy that the children of the language students were being allowed to play with the Sunday school toys during the lessons, on the basis that their own children might «catch something».

I had to adjust to the food and to the way of life in an Indian student hostel — although almost at once I was taken out to buy a bed as it was assumed that unlike my fellow students a «white man» could not sleep on the floor!

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 blacks, advised by two white women students from Cape Town University, are to put on a play in their own tribal language, whose general drift, if not clear from the action, will be explained by locals at your side.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

A group of students wanted a vegan dining hall, and White took on the challenge.

Sit in the stands of Alfond Arena at Maine's Colby College long enough, and her presence simply reveals itself, as it did to the Colby student who walked in five minutes after the start of the White Mules» game against Northeastern on Feb. 18.

Being a student of Cryuff, Dennis has ALWAYS been tactically astute and more than aware of the atmosphere in the club adn its dressing room but being a amnage is more than simply drawing complex sketches on the white - board and screaming at players.

Even though sales data suggest many students willingly substituted chocolate for white milk, sales alone provide no indication whether or not students drank the lower calorie 1 % or skim milk on their trays.

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?

Last spring, a class of fifth - grade students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District descended on the South Lawn of the White House to help us dig, mulch, water and plant our very first kitchen garden.

«Cheat or Be Cheated,» a recently released Challenge Success white paper, discusses the evidence that dispels these misunderstandings based on its review of fifteen landmark studies on cheating in addition to their own research with schools and students.

Based on 2010 statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of black students, 77 percent of Latino students, and 68 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native students were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, compared to only 28 percent of white students.

One only has to stake out the Damen «L» stop on any given weekday morning to see just how cross-pollinated the neighborhood has become; Gypsies, art - students, white - and blue - collar employees of all races stand shoulder to shoulder during the rush hours, submitting themselves to a sort of random casting call, linked only by their roles as commuters... and as neighbors.

The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health leads to the expansion of child nutrition programs and the enactment of the free and reduced - price school lunch program for low - income students.

White's report cast a cloud of unethical judgement on Jaeger's sexual relationships with students and staff, but found nothing illegal.

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

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.

Also at 11 a.m. — Rep. Nita Lowey, local law enforcement and students a hold roundtable discussion on gun violence and prevention, White Plains Public Library, 100 Martine Ave, second floor meeting room, White Plains.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey is joined by local superintendents, substance abuse prevention workers, advocates and students for a roundtable discussion on e-cigarette use among teens, 222 Mamaroneck Ave. No. 312, White Plains.

It's time for the Senate and the White House to do its job,» House Speaker John Boehner said at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol surrounded by other House GOP leaders and college - age students.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation (WCDPW&T) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00 — 9:00 p.m., prior to setting the Student MetroCard farefor the 2015 - 2016 school year