Sentences with phrase «poor black boys»

Poor black boys» performance on the exam is driving down the disadvantaged students» average score.

The study found that the few neighborhood where poor black boys did about as well as poor white boys were

Michael Jackson was a poor Black boy who grew up to be a rich White woman — so I guess Jeezis could pull that trick also too.

There may be something to that old story of the poor black boy who becomes mega-successful in life and then decides he's only attracted to white women.

This idea that if you're a poor black boy, you might not have a lot of contact with college educated folks who look like you, and spending a year with a teacher who is also black and who is college educated, might allow them to imagine themselves in that kind of a role, and shift their own expectations and aspirations,» Papageorge told the Huffington Post, although he does not know if the role model effect influenced his study.

Not exact matches

When the black boy appears on the screen, the narrator says, «Because he lives in a poor neighborhood, this 6 - year - old will be forced into a failing school.»

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

Black Sheep is bleatingly awful as it reteams Chris Farley and David Spade, the poor idiot's Abbott and Costello, in a comedy so desperately inept it makes their previous effort, Tommy Boy, look like a minefield of high wit.

For on the fringes of this sleepy hamlet, the morning train soon steams into view, carrying two black - clad Orthodox Jews — a white - bearded elder in a knee - length overcoat and round, broad - brimmed hat, and his stubbled son in a too - tight suit and poor - boy's cap.

The wife, the drifter, a deputy, some horses, even the poor black stable boy gets gutted.

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

Here's my best guess: This poor child is the only black boy in that classroom, and we're paying good money for his Catholic school education, and here we are sending him to school with shoes like this.

Three storylines weave together the experiences of a black family: In the 1940s, Evelyn, the wealthy, Creole daughter of a doctor, falls of a poor boy; in the»80s, Evelyn's daughter Jackie grapples with her marriage to a recovering crack addict; and in post-Katrina 2010, Jackie's son T.C. struggles against the prison system.

One is her home in a poor black urban neighborhood; the other is the tony suburban prep school she attends with the white boy she dates there.