Sentences with phrase «as minority children»

As minority children have become a majority in public schools, districts struggle to build a diverse educator workforce.

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As more and more children get removed from the old ways of indoctrinating them all with religious belief from an early age, then atheism will become the norm, and religion the refuge of the minorities of the mentally ill and the lame seekers of cargo cults.

At the very least, therefore, schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as good physical facilities as other schools.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

Modern education seems to have had little effect in breaking down sectarian barriers between Shi'as and Sunnis since, as with all minority religions, the Shi'as take special interest in the religious training of their children.

It will eventually destroy innocent human lives (such as unborn children and religious minorities) and bring strifes among people one way or another because of the shedding of innocent blood.

Announcing the U-turn, the Department for Education said: «We want to ensure any future system of regulation that we may introduce appropriately targets the small minority of settings which may be exposing children to harmful practices, without causing undue burdens on the sector as a whole.

Kozol chronicles the «new emboldenment among the relatively privileged to isolate their children as completely as they can from more than token numbers of the children of minorities.»

People who think homosexuals should not have special legal entitlements as a minority group, parents who do not want their eight - year - olds instructed in the use of condoms, those who insist that abortion is very bad for unborn children and their mothers — bigots one and all.

«It would be equally tragic if minorities come to regard themselves... as second - class citizens or the «children of a lesser god,» forever to remain subservient to the majority's goodwill and unrepresented by their own chosen representatives.»

We seek through the vitality of influence and power to arrest the injustice of others but impose in turn new forms of injustice because we are never as just as we claim to be: parent with child, children with parents, protesters with establishment, majorities with minorities, minorities with majorities, rich nations with poor, and poor nations with rich.

Equality of all persons is a central and inescapable component of justice, and it deserves special focus because of the world's history of exploitation and violence against women, children, minority groups, and anyone considered as «other.»

Atheists are also the most distrusted religious minority in America as well as the people you'd least like your children to marry.

In this essay, I have referred only to the book of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions of legal and social status (the child - as - subject becoming child - as - object), and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.

What is at stake is the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, as well as legal and social statuses (the child - as - subject becoming child - as - object) and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.

In an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animals.

Child - free marriage is viewed as a minority decision, but one that can be responsibly made by those concerned with overpopulation or those whose personal careers and psychological capacities do not dispose them to parenting.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

Our waiting children are often older, minorities, sibling groups who wish to be placed together, or children with emotional, mental and / or physical disabilities - children who are typically categorized as «special needs» or «hardest to place.»

It will look at important issues such as men and child protection services, engaging black and minority ethnic men, and engaging young and non-resident fathers.

We live in a culture in which only a minority of children experience the benefits of breastfeeding as nature intended.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

Once typical of only poor and minority women, this trend doesn't seem to be slowing down, as the stigma of being a single mother has been replaced by the choice by women to have children on their own.

Morgan has been involved in the field of women's rights (having heavily promoted the introduction of all - women shortlists for political parties), as well as the welfare of children, black and minority ethnic and disabled people.

And should it be used to persecute a minority that is simply seeking equal rights?If you are going to selectively use your Bible to justify hating homosexuals and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 23).

The National Democratic Congress Minority in Parliament will challenge the School Feeding Programme's 30 percent allocation of the schools in each district as protocol for the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, «I want to serve notice that the Minority will challenge it because we think that it should not be allowed to go and this is not a charge...

The National Democratic Congress Minority in Parliament will challenge the School Feeding Programme's 30 percent allocation of the schools in each district as protocol for the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection,

Gary Greenberg, a Greene County resident and minority owner of the casino, hotel and racetrack Vernon Downs, was molested as a child in the 1960s.

In a statement, Latimer, who is the ranking minority member on the Senate Education Committee, accused Astorino of sinking to a «new low» by «using his children as political props to make points that are pure fiction.»

«As a result children from ethnic minority backgrounds languish in care for longer than other kids and are denied the opportunities they deserve.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Park Slope home was the destination for immigration activists Tuesday night; they marched through Brooklyn to protest the senator voting in favor a short - term federal funding bill Monday that did not include protection for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

The United Nations has launched an investigation into whether welfare cuts have disproportionally hit marginalised groups in Britain such as single parents, ethnic minorities and children.

It relies on a majority of Tory voters, or of putative Tory voters, believing that somehow they or their children could all become as affluent as the minority of Conservatives who run their party.

Gary Greenberg, who lives in New Baltimore, Greene County, and is a minority owner of the casino, hotel and racetrack Vernon Downs, told the Daily News he can't understand why the Legislature won't act to give adults who were victimized as children more time to bring criminal and civil cases against their abusers.

Two Members of Parliament from the minority side, have filed a writ at the Supreme Court to revoke the appointment of Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba as the Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection.

Marshmallow tests conducted over the past 50 years have found that, as in the new study, a minority of children in Western countries manage to wait for a second treat without munching the first one (SN: 11/15/14, p. 28).

Most children aged eight in all 16 countries were happy with their lives as a whole but a minority (around 6 per cent of children) had low well - being.

Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.

This is particularly true of certain groups, such as ethnic minorities, those whose parents are not well - off, and women with children.

We need to consider preparing disadvantaged children as early as the preschool level and continuing throughout the high school years in order to complement the college and graduate school programs that focus on increasing minorities in the sciences.

As a child of Jamaican origin growing up in the British city of Nottingham, Mark Richards experienced firsthand the disadvantages that can accrue to ethnic - minority students.

They controlled for an asthma diagnosis in the children, as anxiety and mood disorders are more prevalent among youth with asthma and especially more common in low socioeconomic minority children.

Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track» students from early youth and in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children with learning disabilities.

Because of the scarcity of clinical sleep laboratories and certified pediatric sleep specialists — as well as the high costs, inconvenience for parents and children and the need for overnight staff — only a minority of children with sleep apnea, even in the United States and Europe, are thoroughly evaluated.

Hackam says his goal, as national committee chair, is to increase the pipeline of surgeon - scientists performing research to benefit children, with a focus on attracting under - represented minorities and women to the field.

I know I am in the minority in my decision, as 97 % of U.S. moms who use Facebook report that they post pictures of their children online.

I, Robot is a child of machines as soulless as its computer - generated minority class.

Bush had made «accountability» a cornerstone of his education platform, using his stated goal of ensuring equity for poor and minority children as a way of bolstering his credentials as a moderate.

He does not think school choice will do much, as many believe, for poor minority children.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.