Sentences with phrase «many black parents»

Every black parent has had to have «the talk» with their children, a conversation about the dangers that await them because some people might assume them to be a threat.

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

We Need Quality Black Parents!

This is the faith of our black parents living still.

A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

Suppose, as was the case, that some black parents preferred that their children remain in their neighborhood school, without regard to its racial make - up.

This is just another example of black parents not taking the best steps to insure their child has a safe and productive future.

Him not making millions or having black parents or whatever certainly doesn't solve the problem he is trying to address.

Founder of the top black parenting website, MyBrownBaby.

In this episode of The Family Couch, Parenting Strategist, Asadah Kirkland talks with us about the cultural epidemic of black parents beating their children.

As an adult I was pretty shocked to learn that many black parents (even middle - class suburban black parents) give their teenagers very explicit «how not to get shot by police during a traffic stop» instructions.

Mom - of - two King shared with Bratton: «All black parents have had the conversation with their sons about being stopped by the police and how they have to manage the police's potential biases of them.»

Compared to black parents, white parents were 2.61 times more likely to report a social concern and 4.12 times more likely to report a concern about restricted and repetitive behaviors.

The study found that compared to white parents, black parents reported significantly fewer concerns related to symptoms of ASD in their children with the disorder.

Studies of other neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD, have found that black parents tend to underreport their children's ADHD symptoms and interpret ADHD symptoms as disruptive behavior.

Lower reporting of autism concerns by black parents may affect healthcare providers» abilities to identify children who need further screening or evaluation.

The researchers found black parents reported fewer autism concerns than white parents.

Another possibility is that black parents may report concerns to healthcare providers in ways that de-emphasize ASD symptoms and focus on disruptive behaviors, which may hinder providers from adequately considering ASD.

Black parents were less likely than white parents to report concerns about two ASD symptoms — social deficits and restricted and repetitive behaviors.

The authors suggest that wealthy black parents are less able to transfer wealth to their kids than their white counterparts, perhaps, due in part to having fewer liquid assets such as stocks, bonds and savings, which can be passed down more easily to the next generation.

Wealthy black parents also have substantially less home equity and only one - half the financial assets of their white counterparts.

Differences in wealth between white and black parents could be observed across all types of wealth holdings, especially in financial assets, home equity, retirement accounts and college savings account holdings.

The series juggles police brutality, systemic racism, black youth culture, gang violence, and black parenting with aplomb, and all topics feel entirely new to The CW but also necessary for the network, where it can be paired with an equally pulpy series like Riverdale.

Several dozen black parents attempted to address the next meeting of the school board, on the 10th, but all were refused an opportunity to speak because the board considered «the noose issue» to have been addressed satisfactorily and fully resolved.

Practically the perfect way for black parents to broach the subject of genealogy with inquiring offspring.

The mayor came with a proclamation declaring Feb. 16 «Black Parents Day,» honoring Coogler's mother and father, Ira and Joselyn, onstage.

The final plan is based largely on a proposal aired in February by John A. Murphy, the superintendent of schools, but contains several revisions designed to ease the fears of some black parents and activists that the plan would...

For instance, black parents may feel more comfortable «disagreeing» with their regular school assignment than Hispanic parents do, particularly if the parents in question are recent immigrants.

As one NAACP member recently lamented, «Black parents, I am sorry that you will have to listen to non-black people quote the NAACP to you as they basically tell you that you do not have the right to choose what you feel is best for your children.

These and other misstatements of fact, tales, and quotes out of context are used to impugn the reputation of a public figure who dared to ask black parents and students to exercise a greater sense of responsibility.

St. Louis's desegregation case dates from 1972, when Minnie Liddell, a black parent, filed suit against the St. Louis school board contending that her children were receiving an inferior education in a predominantly black city school.

Club 2012: Black Parents Who Made Sure their Sons Succeeded in School The Washington Post, June 14, 2012» «You have to go out of your way to inoculate your kids against buying into those stereotypes,» said Ronald F. Ferguson, director of the achievement gap initiative at Harvard University, who is raising three black boys.»

Only a small minority of American blacks are Catholic, but black parents were sending their children to Catholic schools, despite tuition fees and instruction in a religion the parents did not themselves follow.

In fact, in a multivariate analysis Schneider et al. find that black parents, as well as less - educated parents, place a higher priority on the test scores in a school than do other groups of parents.

Though semiretired, Judge Gunn retained control of a lawsuit filed in 1972 by black parents who said their children were receiving an inferior education.

Mr. Dulin has designated Feb. 12 as a day for black parents to visit their children in school, and he hopes the...

After DOJ mounted its first attack on the voucher program in 2013, a group of black parents and the Louisiana Black Alliance for Educational Options requested to intervene in the case.

There is a delicate balance for black parents in figuring out how and when to closely monitor their youth and allow for autonomy.»

How do black parents communicate information to their children about their personal and group identities as it relates to race, intergroup relationships, and their place in the racial hierarchy?

In the fall of 2000, I visited the Urban League affiliate in central Long Island to talk with black parents and their youngsters who belonged to our National Achievers Society.

Her dissertation research entitled, Community Perspectives on Black Parent Engagement in West Las Vegas, Before and After Desegregation: A Case Study examines community perspectives concerning Black parent engagement in West Las Vegas before and after school desegregation efforts in Clark County, Nevada.

But autonomy granting, which, research shows, is used much less by black parents, is significantly related to kids» developing aspirations and planfulness.

When asked what the bigger priority for schools should be, 80 percent of black parents chose raising academic standards and achievement, according to the survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan public - opinion research firm in New York City.

After the shooting of Trayvon Martin, DiAquoi began to explore how «the talk» — specifically black parents speaking to their sons — has changed over the years, looking at four different periods in American history.

Her findings, detailed in the Harvard Educational Review article, Symbols in the Strange Fruit Seeds: What «the Talk» Black Parents Have with Their Sons Tells Us About Racism, were surprising: Despite what seems like progess in our society, «the talk» really hasn't changed.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has urged black parents to follow the example of the three Hartford, Conn., parents who have been charged with «stealing an education» because they enrolled their children in school across district lines in suburban Bloomfield.

The 74 Stewart: Black Parents Deserve an NAACP That Fights for Schools They Choose — Not Against Them

I have a black agenda for black parents.

But what's clear is thousands and thousands and thousands of black parents have already made it known what they think about charter schools by choosing to go to them.»

Black parents, wherever your child attends school, whether it be a traditional public school, a public charter school or a private school, we can and must be better for you.