Sentences with phrase «white students taking»

A mere 17 black students and two white students took calculus, abysmal levels similar to those of Ferguson - Florissant kids.

Thirty percent of black high schoolers in St. Louis took Algebra II, double the 15 percent rate for their peers in Ferguson; 33 percent of St. Louis» white students took Algebra II, also double the 18 percent rate for peers in Ferguson - Florissant.

Not exact matches

Ms. Hinlicky has clearly not exorcised all the demons of what I take to be her former liberalism if she still reflexively shudders at the notion of black and white students eating at different tables, i.e., segregation by choice.

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!

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

Removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias may reduce calorie and sugar consumption, but it may also lead students to take less milk overall, drink less (waste more) of the white milk they do take, and no longer purchase school lunch.

Encouraging students to take white milk can naturally decrease the amount of chocolate milk taken.

Our results indicate that when chocolate milk was removed, fewer students took milk, and students wasted more of the white milk they selected.

Of 157 students who took the breaded chicken patty, milk, juice and slice of white bread, 107 also took a dish of beans.

when you take chocolate milk off the menu you for two days and message to students that beverages lower in sugar help them learn, 33 % of the previous choco milk drinkers will pick white milk.

Police say Justin Tavarez, who's a student at Skidmore College in upstate New York, took offense when he saw a white man dining with a black man and smashed a plate over the white man's head.

According to reports, gunmen invaded the school, formerly known as Turkish International School, Friday night in a white Hilux and took the students and the teachers away.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

Even though more students were taking white milk, they wasted 29 % more than before.

Compared to White students, Latino students were 45 percent less likely to take the test, Black students were 35 percent less likely, and Asian students were 32 percent more likely.

Although white students comprised 55 % of the representative sample of 122,000 middle school students who took portions of the test, they make up 76 % of those scoring above 176.

Black middle - class students take the lead, followed by black middle - income, black low - income and white middle - class students.

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.

«We want to attract the most ambitious and adventurous students who are willing to take on the challenges of learning in a multidisciplinary environment,» White said.

The white squares represent the students before taking the fish oil.

I just saw a student at the senior brunch who took off all the labels on a white pair, and it looked so cool.

The photo was taken by White House photographer Shealah Craighead on April 2, during the Easter Egg Roll, where the Georgetown Law student joined her father, President Trump, and other family members.

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.

A satirical film, «Dear White People» takes audiences on a journey through the lives of four different - yet - similar college students as they try to discover who they are.

Nearly every student in America has learned something since a jury virtually exonerated four white police officers accused of severely beating the black motorist Rodney G. King and rioters took to the streets in Los Angeles, educators said last week.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

Let me start out by assuring readers that I'm not suggesting it takes a magical coat of arms to survive life on a predominantly white campus if you're a student of color.

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.

She found that, in states with the largest number of students opting out of state tests, the students opting out were mostly white and affluent, and that a large percentage of students opting out were 11th graders who were also taking college prep and AP exams in the spring.

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.

Study 1 involved black and white college students who took a difficult test using items from the verbal GRE under one of two conditions.

The data, presented in several tables, show that 55 percent of students in the class of 2003 who haven't passed the English and mathematics exams that they take for the first time in 10th grade are white.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.

A dynamic assessment (in a real example from Bransford's lab) asks students to use available resources to learn what it would take to prevent the white - eyed vireo from becoming endangered.

While traveling the country and offering sewing classes to young people, she took note that her students were predominantly white.

For example, Delpit sees a problem when a typical white, middle - class teacher uses a passive communication style with her low - income black students, such as asking them to take their seats instead of telling them to take their seats.

Students take staff roles in the White House to consider two pieces of legislation sent up from Congress (repeal of Obamacare and recognition of a...

It is entirely possible that white students who took one AP exam now take more AP courses and exams.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

They acknowledged that many students had been suspended for up to five days for taking part in protests supporting displays of the red, white, and blue Confederate battle flag.

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

Students who didn't take the assessments in New York were more likely to be white, well off, and from upscale cities and towns (see Figure 2a).

Will white students in schools covered by the court order be able to take full advantage of the vouchers?

Hint: When students are answering your questions, take notes on an interactive white board, a chalkboard or other highly visible classroom surface.

The degree - attainment gap between white and minority students shrinks by half when all have taken similarly rigorous courses in high school.

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.

Commissioned by the Charleston, W.Va. - based Education Alliance, the report found that African - American students rated their schools significantly lower than their white peers did in seven out of eight categories: academic expectations, instruction, course - taking, counseling about education options, respect, mentoring and caring relationships, and fairness.

• With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - priced lunch and students of color in the cities were less likely than white students to enroll in high - scoring elementary and middle schools, take advanced math courses, and take a college entrance exam.