Sentences with phrase «worse than white students»

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

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According to the authors, minority students, with the exception of Asian students, fare worse on the eighth - grade MCAS than their white counterparts.

Studies show a familiar pattern: middle - income black and Latino students faring worse than their white counterparts with respect to grades, enrollment in advanced courses, and performance on standardized tests.

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.

Superintendent White's plan would allow schools to enroll students on the waiting list if the schools agree in writing to accept a potential «worst - case scenario» of a nominal payment from the state of less than $ 100 per child for the year.

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

By every possible indicator, the kids that both of us care so much about — low - income students of color — are doing worse than their higher - income white counterparts.

The state's public school system remains largely segregated and black students continue to fare worse economically and academically than white students.

These stereotypes manifest in widespread social problems like tracking Black and Latino students into remedial classes and out of college prep classes, and in the handing out of more frequent and more severe punishments and suspensions than are given to white students for the same (or even worse) behavior.

Breaking the scores down shows that African - American students fare much worse than their white peers.

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.

Coleman's arguments lamenting students of color score worse on the tests than their white peers — without acknowledging the ways in which systematic underfunding of schools, poverty, and institutional racism have disfigured our school system — end up pathologizing communities of color rather than supporting them.

Seven schools did so badly, state Superintendent John White barred them from accepting new voucher students — though the state agreed to keep paying tuition for the more than 200 voucher students already enrolled, if they chose to stay.

White students did far better than average on the PARCC tests, while minority and low - income students did worse.

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.

Across all subjects, more white, black, Hispanic, and low - income students are doing worse than they were two years ago.