C'alra Bradley reads verses from the Bible that have given her strength. It was an unfamiliar feeling for the thenyear-old whose life had been disrupted and derailed by one roadblock after another. Once an A and B student who loved to read, she was living out of her white Toyota Avalon, on her own for three years, scrounging to get by. She beamed as a career coach outlined the course ahead: the stipend for good attendance, the training on construction builds, the high school diploma at the end. The dress and flip-flops she wore were the only clothes she had. She had no money.
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Lucy Flower Technical High School for Girls
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How one teacher's Black Lives Matter lesson divided a small Wisconsin town
African American students are less likely than white students to have access to college-ready courses. In fact, in , only 57 percent of black students have access to a full range of math and science courses necessary for college readiness, compared to with 81 percent of Asian American students and 71 percent of white students. Even when black students do have access to honors or advanced placement courses, they are vastly underrepresented in these courses. Black and Latino students represent 38 percent of students in schools that offer AP courses, but only 29 percent of students enrolled in at least one AP course. Black and Latino students also have less access to gifted and talented education programs than white students. African American students are often located in schools with less qualified teachers, teachers with lower salaries and novice teachers. Research has shown evidence of systematic bias in teacher expectations for African American students and non-black teachers were found to have lower expectations of black students than black teachers.
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In recent years, the common wisdom has been that girls are dominating when it comes to academic achievement. In reading in particular, girls have consistently outperformed boys. Some studies have also found that in a typical U. Take away the burden of challenging stereotypes and discriminatory beliefs and practices , the thinking goes, and girls will do just as well as boys in the STEM fields. Yes, the study confirms: Overall, in the average U.
Some Black and minority ethnic girls in England are more than twice as likely to be excluded from school as their white counterparts, according to a report. Equality campaigners have raised the alarm at the findings, which show that the number of girls excluded from education is growing at a significantly higher rate than boys. Data uncovered by Agenda, an alliance of more than 50 charities campaigning for the most excluded women and girls, through a freedom of information request to the Department for Education, shows that black Caribbean girls were permanently excluded from school at a rate double that of white British girls during the academic year , with this tripling for mixed white and Caribbean girls. During the same time period, girls from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities faced rates of permanent exclusion that were four times higher than those of white British girls.
