Sentences with phrase «african american parents»

Genetic moderation of contextual effects on negative arousal and parenting in African American parents

Dodge et al. (2005) found that European and African American parents differed in their expressed emotions when they disciplined their children.

In a study examining predictors of engagement in both African Americans and Hispanics (Perrino et al., 2001), ethnicity was related to engagement, with African American parents being less likely to engage than Hispanics.

Theories of ethnic minority development have largely suggested that African American parents engage in a combination of practices that include culturally distinctive socialization as well as behaviors that are characteristic of more universal forms of academic socialization.

Two articles found that African American parents held significantly higher expectations than European American parents after controlling for socioeconomic status (SES)(Glick and White 2004; Hao and Bonstead - Burns 1998), while one study reported no significant difference between the two groups after SES was controlled (Suizzo and Stapleton 2007).

Some parenting differences have been identified in specific racial / ethnic groups; for example, in a study of a large diverse population, Hispanic parents were significantly higher on adolescent reports of parental monitoring than White parents, and African American parents were lower than White parents on adolescent reports of warmth (Chao & Kanatsu, 2008).

Perceived discrimination and substance use in African American parents and their children: A panel study

For example, African American parents tend to use more physical punishment than European American parents (Deater - Deckard, Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 1996), and African American children who live in low - income neighborhoods tend to be more aggressive than European American children (Kupersmidt, Griesler, DeRosier, Patterson, & Davis, 1995).

Parenting a Child With a Disability: The Role of Social Support for African American Parents (PDF - 407 KB) Ha, Greenberg, & Seltzer (2011) Families in Society, 92 (4) Presents an article that examines the impact of having a child with a disability on parents» mental and physical health among urban - dwelling African - Americans.

Perceived discrimination and substance use in African American parents and their children: a panel study.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), we believe, offers African American parents more opportunities to get involved in determining the quality of education for their students at the local level.

When African American parents pressed for an end to legalized school segregation in the years leading up to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, it was not the companionship of white children they were seeking for their children: It was access to educational resources.

Garcetti, who has deemed himself a «Latino» candidate, can visit the Latino and African American parents today at Benny H. Potter West Adams Avenue Memorial Park between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.. They'll undoubtedly have a few things to tell him.

Today, Latino and African American parents at 24th Street Elementary will vote to ratify who will operate their kids» school next year.

Designed for distribution at black churches around the state, «A Stone's Throw» relies exclusively on testimony of African American parents, students, educators and education - reform advocates, each with praise to sing about the wonders of charters schools or a lament about the lack of charters in Mississippi — even though the phrase «charter school» doesn't appear until a quarter through the film.

As far as it's known, Garcetti, an Ivy Leaguer and Rhodes Scholar, has not asked the poor and working - class Latino and African American parents at 24th Street Elementary what they think is needed for education reform.

«Abstract: This study explores the motivations of African American parents for choosing homeschooling for their children and the academic achievement of their Black homeschool students.

Or check out the brilliant podcast, «These Tests Will Go,» The Opt - Out Movement in Urban Philadelphia, which documents the uprising of African American parents determined to make their kids more than a test score and fighting for the programs their kids deserve.

As a school choice advocate and someone who feels tremendous gratitude for my children's school, I can't help but assume that many African American parents in Ferguson, Missouri, do not feel the same gratitude that I do.

When we asked low - income African American parents whose judgment they most respected on matters relating to their children's education, they did not cite authorities or experts.

No individual or group has the standing or right to self - designate itself as the education decider for African American parents.

This action by the NAACP is a slap in the face to 700,000 African American children currently benefiting from public charter schools and the millions of African American parents struggling to give their children a quality education.

That gap, West believes, results from Republicans by and large being at ease with their own suburban schools, while African American parents in failing urban schools are frantic for alternatives.

«There is a paradox for African American parents,» Hill says.

Among charter - school parents, 70 percent of Asian parents and 67 percent of white parents say they are «very satisfied,» compared to 63 percent for Hispanic parents and 54 percent for African American parents.

Then there are the African American parents we supported at School 93 in a low - income neighborhood of Indianapolis, who, after learning their school was one of the worst - performing in the state of Indiana, advocated to bring a proven local school - improvement model called Project Restore to their school.

Also, Hispanic parents in the control group continued to rate their children's schools more favorably than did African American parents.

Less obviously, it also stands as a critique, even more specifically, of African American parents, leaders, and organizations.

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

Some African American parents highlighted the major disparities in resources among races and noted that schools commonly responded based on those resources.

This infant was born to African American parents.

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Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.

One lower - income African American parent said, «It depends on how they will do it... as long as my kid is not on the bus for two hours.»

Nicole is also part of the African American Parent Advisory Council and is an advocate for her community.

He has received numerous honors for his work, including the National African American Parent Involvement Day Spirit Award, the MASA Regional Superintendent of the Year Award, the Leadership Award from Brown Chapel AME Brotherhood Banquet, The Ann Arbor News» Executive of the Year Award, and the White House YMCA Champion for Change Award.

TEACHING / PRESENTATION HISTORY Graduate Assistant — Texas Woman's University 2010 to Present Theories of the Family, Family Public Policy, Family Sexuality, Family Change and Diversity Guest Lecturer — Mountainview College Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer, Black Family Course Instructor — Axia College (Online) Fall / Winter 2007 Psychology Instructor — North Central Texas College Fall 2007 Graduate / Research Assistant — Texas Southern University Spring 2005 Presentations: 2010 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference, Columbus, OH April 2010 Pretend Play & African American Families: Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) Educational First Steps Annual Conference, Dallas, TX Feb. 2010 Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) National Black Child Development Institute, Atlanta, GA April 2009 Strengthening Black Families Through Play (workshop) Collin College Educators Symposium, Plano, TX April 2009 Share My World: Play and African American Children (workshop) Texas Woman's University Student Research Symposium, Denton, TX April 2009 The Impact of Adolescence on African American Parent - Daughter Relations (poster presentation) Collegium for African American Research, Bremen, Germany (paper presentation) March 2009 The 20th Century Social Scientist and the African in America: Implications for 21st Century Research Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX (workshop) April 2009 Beyond, Me, Myself, and I: Impact of Early Adolescence on Females» Interpersonal Relationships Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX Jan. 2008 Maintaining Healthy Relationships and Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships (workshop) The Health Group, Houston, TX Feb. 2005 Recognizing Depression in Yourself and Others (workshop)

In the context of three - generation, adolescent African American parent families, maternal maturity, maternal self - esteem, and mother - grandmother relationships characterized by autonomy, mutuality, and positive affect served as important resiliency factors protecting adolescents from poor and inadequate parenting outcomes during the infancy period.

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Hersman, whose online moniker is the White African, is an American who grew up in East Africa with missionary parents.

MadameNoire is a sophisticated lifestyle publication that gives African - American women the latest in fashion trends, black entertainment news, parenting tips and beauty secrets that are specifically for black women.

Only 12 % of whites believe that their generation would be better off than their parents, versus 31 % of African - Americans and 36 % of Latinos.

But West and Hewlett are less interested in rehearsing the specific concerns of African - Americans and women than in uniting beleaguered parents across race, class, gender and political affiliation.

So she conducted her research at two sites, one of them a more or less typical second - generation congregation (which she calls «Grace») that meets in the same building as its parent Korean immigrant congregation, and the other («Manna») a predominantly Asian American but remarkably multiethnic congregation that meets in a building owned by an African - American congregation.

Understanding my American history being African American has evolved from being a child of parents and grandparents who were oppressed and suffered at the hands of blatant discrimination, racism and prejudice.

If the parents can't do Messiah, they should change the name to the African (Kenya) ethnic group name which is also Native American warrior: «Massai».

But for a program like Pitt, I think having a successful African American coach walk into a recruits home will be a big deal to the parents.

To be an African - American kid and grow up in the inner - city with a single parent mother and not being financially stable and to be where I am today, I think I've defeated the odds.

On July 19, 2011, a federal jury awarded $ 10 million to the parents and estate of Darryl Turner, an African - American teenager who died after being shocked with a Taser wielded by a Charlotte police officer.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.