Sentences with phrase «black studies courses»

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She was a seamstress, he was a scholar; she made dresses for white women, he preached the gospel to black folk; she had taken no theology courses to enable her to comprehend God's claim on her, while he had studied so much theology that he was not expected to take God's claims seriously.

Scientists are even beginning to study loading tiny oral implants with black raspberry powder that perform a consistent release of phytonutrients over the course of a month.

According to Dr. Dotson, the increased usage of corticosteroids and biologic medications among black children in the study could suggest a more severe disease course that may be attributable to worse intrinsic disease in black children.

Claustrophobically sexual, the tale involves a young, upper - middle - class woman named Helen (Virginia Madsen, in a career - best turn) who, in the course of studying the customs of the tenement - dwellers of Chicago's Cabrini - Green housing development, finds herself the inamorata of the Candyman (Tony Todd): the manifestation of an Urban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white woman.

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.

There will, of course, be much to study about Klein and his legacy over the next several weeks (years)-- just as there will be much speculation about what Klein's successor, Cathleen Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines and another non-educator, will do with the reins of Gotham's $ 23 billion school system.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

She currently changes lives through her students... one published message at a time, encourages authors through free articles and videos at TheBookNinja.com, teaches a ton of courses and still studies martial arts, working toward her black belt in MMA karate... while maintaining a healthy daily dose of chocolate.

My crash course in childhood development ended two years later, when Dad tried to replicate Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark's study of color consciousness in black children using white and black dolls.

I could make other references to scientifically studied differences between men and women but this may not be the place... Of course this is all on a sliding scale so - to - speak... nothing about humans is black and white, including gender differences.

The former dancer Leanore Ickstadt, who had once studied in a New York course of Black Mountain teacher Merce Cunningham, reports that also for him the experiment was more important than techniques.

While Black Mountain College was a year - round liberal arts college offering a general course of study, Black Mountain School's month - long session focuses mostly on studio art practice.

The optical effects explored by Graves in the paintings and prints with the black ground came from her study of color under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1960s and his important course on the Interaction of Color.

While at Black Mountain (1933 — 49), Anni Albers developed a weaving curriculum that focused on industrial design, a course of study she later described in her book On Weaving (1965).

During the study, Ryan Spackman, an NOAA scientist, revealed that what we didn't anticipate were the very high levels of black carbon we observed in plumes of air sweeping over the central Pacific toward the U.S. West Coast, which of course is alarming for the climate of the Earth.