Sentences with phrase «with white peers»

Federal officials say overly strict disciplinary polices have created a school - to - prison pipeline and a growing disparity in the number of African - American students who are expelled or kicked out of school compared with their white peers.

For example, DPI changed how it measures the closing of achievement gaps so that it now compares minority groups with white peers statewide, rather than at the same school.

Minority students have been closing gaps with their white peers in recent years, but those gaps remain substantial: In 2013, 86.6 percent of white students graduated on time, compared with 75.2 percent of Hispanic students and 70.7 percent of black students, according to the annual GradNation report.

Into the 1970s, urban education reform focused predominantly on making sure that African American students had the opportunity to attend school with their white peers.

However, the team says Asian - American students reported lower self - esteem, more conflict with their parents, and less time spent with friends compared with their white peers.

When we make our children aware of our experiences with racists, we scare them and deprive them of their innocence and opportunity to forge a resentment - free relationship with their white peers.

Not exact matches

In an exchange with reporters between sessions at the U.S. trade representative's office across from the White House, Freeland said she and her peers are now down to the finest details on auto rules of origin.

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

President Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

The Washington Post's Tony Romm: «Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Western countries, especially America, may be targeted for critiques of overconsumption, but white students lead the charge and through it find camaraderie with their black, Hispanic, and Asian peers.

Late at night, splashing my face and neck, through sounds of water running I hear cruel cuts like pencil points fine sharpened snapping against a smooth white page.Quick rinsing, covered now and tense, all stiff, peering alarmed from broken privacy, I for a moment harden, with nor one clue, against....

Hushed to a sort of humming pax, My peers on kneelers proved they weren't too proud To flood the pews with something close to love — And sparge the solemn nave with grade - school titters When schadenfreude saw its perfect chance: Lace sleeves grew from his chasuble; the host Rose pale amidst the tabernacle's glitters, White ghost on gold.

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She also has white felt wings and little legs with striped tights, and she loves to dance (finger puppets with legs have so much more «life» than those without them), but she also is so cute peering out from the Christmas tree amidst sparkling white lights... An adorable decoration to ti

Currently crossbench peer Lord Hylton, who sports a long white Santa style beard, is competing at the top of the poll with Labour backbencher Ian Murray who only stopped shaving in the summer.

Blair's second Queen's speech was dominated by the question of Lords reform, mention of which by the monarch resulted in «an unprecedented ripple of disapproval from peers, calls of «Shame» mingling with «Hear, hears» from assembled MPs», as Michael White reported.

Furthermore, say the researchers, youth who have been diagnosed with depression are six times more likely to commit suicide than their peers, and Black youth have a much higher suicide rate than their White peers.

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I mean, for all the lip service the picture plays to a more liberal worldview, what with its woman doctors, massaging of the nobility of the «Third World,» and punishing jerks with fifteen - hundred dollar raincoats, there's a disturbing moment where, preparing to run from a tidal wave, the main white hero Sam grabs his white love interest (Emmy Rossum), the white hero's romantic subplot's white rival grabs a black peer, and the black homeless comic relief grabs his dog.

Under a bright autumn sky, children afflicted with diseases like cerebral palsy, autism, and Down syndrome mingle with their able - bodied peers, all grasping red and blue balloons spangled with white stars.

Heavily white school districts near the Twin Cities would be required to attract minority students and insure that they soon achieve on a par with their new peers, under a proposal before the Minnesota state board of education this week.

This comports with the interpretation that average peer achievement influences everyone's test scores, since Asians score higher than whites in math overall (the Asian - white score gap is positive and relatively large in math, 0.62 of a standard deviation in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades).

That confusion, coupled with parents» high expectations for success in school and careers, the frustration of having white peers constantly question their «American - ness,» as well as body image and other concerns that are common to all teens are among the factors that put Korean American students at risk for a growing list of emotional and psychological issues.

«Plaintiffs still could have demonstrated a facial equal protection violation, however, by showing that the challenged statutes, regardless of how they are implemented, inevitably cause poor and minority students to be provided with an education that is not «basically equivalent to» their more affluent and / or white peers.»

These teenagers, who are black, white, Korean, Puerto Rican, Indian, have come to Plainfield High School in the wake of a snowstorm to talk about prejudice with their peers, to analyze the true meaning of slang, to «rap about race.»

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At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

It also shows that white and black students who attend the public schools in which ELL students are concentrated are doing worse than their peers who attend public schools with few English language learner students.

By exploring districts» racial makeups, we see that across the board, Illinois has historically funded student groups in majority - White school districts better than their peers in districts with more students of color.

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.

In addition, T - 014 gave me the tools to engage in conversations about racism and white supremacy with peers and family outside of the course, which has been a transformative experience.

Achievement gaps between Native Hawaiians and their White peers were estimated at grades 8 and 10 respectively, with academic readiness statistically controlled for.

In 1964, the Supreme Court ruled in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County that the County had to reopen its public schools on the grounds that it was still in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.23 By closing its public schools and subsequently subsidizing private academies that only admitted white students, the County, along with the state board of education and state superintendent, continued to deny black students the rights their white peers were provided.

Communities of color value the information provided by the assessments and know that comparable standards provide their community schools with important information to help close gaps in achievement that separate students of color and their white peers.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White peers.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

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.

But she, along with Ushomirsky and Williams illustrate that in the case of Florida, where the proficiency levels for black students in A-ranked schools are, on average, four percentage points lower than for white peers in C - ranked schools.

For example, black children are twice as likely as their white peers to have no parent with secure employment.

They reminded everyone how easy and routine it had been for schools to ignore disparities between at - risk students — those of color, from low - income families and with disabilities — and their white peers until No Child Left Behind required annual tests.

This is at odds with GCSE results, where Asian pupils get similar if not higher grades than their white peers.

Discipline disparities between students of color and white students in Minnesota are severe, with black students being eight times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

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.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

This has resulted in states such as Tennessee letting traditional districts get away with low bar goals, such as ensuring 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.