Sentences with phrase «white students performed»

One where white students perform along the lines of the best in the world — with achievement comparable to countries like Finland and Korea.

«Results for 2017 show that our African American, Hispanic, and white students perform in the top 10 of all states in mathematics, but reading results are lagging, as are overall averages,» Morath said.

Not exact matches

This Wednesday «rally follows the release of Families for Excellent Schools» white paper, «A Tale of Two School Systems, «in August, which found that black and Hispanic students are confined to a second - class system of the city's worst performing schools.

A 2011 study found that black students performed worse on cognitive tests after interacting with white students who expressed colorblind racial beliefs, but not after interactions with white students expressing multicultural values.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

When the cast performed at the White House in spring 2016, President Obama praised the educational component of the program for giving students a «deeper understanding of our nation's founding.»

University of Illinois Associate Professor Amanda Lewis and HGSE Assistant Professor John Diamond presented research on a suburban school in the Midwest, studying why African American students and Latinos lagged behind white students, even though there was no presence of peer pressure for the minority student to perform worse or be accused of «acting white.»

Rhode Island's Latino 8th graders, the state's largest and most rapidly growing minority population, were the lowest - performing in the nation, and the achievement gap between Latino and white students in the state was among the nation's largest.

Black, Hispanic, and white 3rd graders all tend to perform worse in reading and math when they are in classes that have a larger share of black students.

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.

All family types (e.g., race, income, location) predominantly preferenced high - performing schools, but non-poor and white students are significantly more likely to choose a specialized program (e.g., dual language, expeditionary learning, single gender).

However, white students had a higher participation rate than Hispanic and African American students, and higher - performing students participated at higher rates.

Some groups perform at higher levels than white students.

The idea was simple enough: draw white students to predominantly black schools by offering a special education with a focus on a particular aspect of the curriculum, such as performing arts, or Montessori, or advanced math, science, and technology.

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

Asian students born in 1970 performed poorly, while those born in 1997/98 were the best performers, and white students, on average, have fallen from over-performers to under - performers.

On standardized tests, white students tend to perform significantly higher than black and Latino students.

In California, 75 % of white third - grade students who attend public schools without the minimum threshold number of ELL students perform at or above the proficient level on the state's mathematics assessment test, whereas just 67 % of the white California third - graders who attend schools with the minimum threshold number of ELL students score at or above the proficient level.

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

«We want to challenge everyone — parents, teachers, school administrators — to raise standards, by having the best teachers and principals, by tying student achievement to assessments of teachers, by making sure there is a focus on low - performing schools,» Obama said in a statement released by the White House on Monday.

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

America's white and Asian students perform among the word's best; our black and Hispanic students are battling it out with OECD's worst.

A study by Brian Kisida, Anna Egalite, and Marcus Winters that was published in the Economics of Education Review last year found that black, white, and Asian students benefit from being assigned to a teacher of the same ethnicity as them, and that elementary - aged black students and lower - performing students seem to particularly benefit from having a demographically - similar teacher.

It's true that, on average, minority students leave high school performing far behind their white counterparts.

Too many students can't perform at grade level, and there is a significant achievement gap between white and minority students.

Take reading, for example: According to the U.S. Department of Education; in 4th grade 44 % of white students, 16 % of black students, 28 % of Hispanic students and 57 % of Asian students are performing at or above proficiency.

But officials didn't like to mention that proficiency rates of D.C. students would still be considered failing in a high - performing district or that a wide achievement gap persists between white students and black and Hispanic students.

But in other areas, the «achievement gap» — the ethnic disparity between higher - and lower - performing students — widened, as white students jumped further ahead of black and Hispanic students.

And more high - performing Latino students end up in community colleges compared with their peers: In 2010, 46 percent of Latinos who graduated from high schools with the highest test scores enrolled in two - year schools, compared with 27 percent of white students, 23 percent of African American students and 19 percent of Asian students.

As Ushomirsky, Williams, and Hall point, out, the average gap in on - track performance rate for black and white students in Recognized schools is 18 percentage points, a mere two points better than for peers in low - performing schools.

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

As a result, black students, especially older ones, frequently struggle to perform at the same level as their white counterparts.

• Our students have performed for Michelle Obama in the White House Talent Show and for Yo - Yo Ma at the Kennedy Center • Our students are active participants in the DC Youth Orchestra program • We are a school that represents our community and that is proud to have expanded its Early Childhood Program through the Early Action Pre-K program

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.

As a local example, one study focused on Charlotte - Mecklenburg shows both black and white students who attended desegregated elementary schools performed better on standardized tests than peers who attended segregated schools.

The researchers also found that participation in integrated math reduced or eliminated the achievement gap between white and minority students, meaning that integrated math is beneficial for both higher performing and lower performing subgroups of students.

Thurman White Academy of Performing Arts provides students with opportunities to explore the stage and develop their talents.

Not much further away, in an affluent Pittsburgh neighborhood, is a high - performing school where nearly half of the students are white.

When we improve instruction and curricula for our students who have been the most ill - served by American public education — including for young black, white and Latino men — we are improving education for our high - performing students as well.

For example, if a white teacher expects a black student to perform below average on a math test when compared to white students, over time the teacher may act in ways that encourage black students to underperform.

Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.

, which is often used to try to explain why African - American and Latino students do not perform at the level of their middle - class white peers, ignores the issues plaguing all of our nation's schools.

«White students,» the brief found, «were significantly more likely to transfer to high - performing schools than black or Hispanic students.»

YES Prep's African - American students also performed higher than their white peers statewide in nearly all subjects and school levels.

Similarly, YES Prep's Hispanic students performed higher than their white peers statewide in the same areas.

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.

To be fair, one reason for the size of the gaps is that DC's white and affluent students perform at an unusually high level.

high - performing middle schools there where enrollment is largely white, middle, or upper - class, to reserve 25 percent of their seats for students who score a 1 or a 2 on the state standardized tests, a step in the right direction that was greeted,

Meanwhile, 8th grade reading scores were even worse — with 8th graders in 2015 also performing no better overall than in 2000, but with the gap between Black and White students remaining unchanged in that time and the gap between students in poverty and students not in poverty growing from 13 points to 23 points.

This white paper addresses the challenges facing Georgia's low - income students, the opportunity for high - performing Georgia charter schools to address these challenges, and the need for legislation to empower these schools to fulfill their missions.