Sentences with phrase «affluent white»

Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley, in Nyandarua County, where a small community of affluent white expatriates settled between the two world wars.

But I raise this point because when it comes to climate survivalism, the little brown folks are nowhere to be seen, and apparently it's every relatively affluent white guy (and his nuclear family, of course) for himself.

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

Thankfully, curator Sandra S. Phillips avoided binaries like black over-crowded train / affluent white train in favor of photos of more diverse subjects to move the story along; anyway, when looking at the black train by Cole, I reflexively imagined its white counterpart with what I saw in Goldblatt's photos of a wealthy white home.

That's particularly true regarding how well schools are using billions of dollars in extra state aid to close the «achievement gap» separating poor, Latino and black students from their more affluent white and Asian classmates.

These systems flagrantly favored school districts in affluent white suburbs and discriminated against poor districts in urban and rural areas with high minority populations.

The report also made mention of the more rigorous Common Core State Standards, which both Education Post and Education Reform Now support, and the opt - out movement that has largely been dominated by affluent white students.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids?

In addition, a school serving low - income students of color is overseen by a nonelected board whose president lives not in Milwaukee but in an affluent white suburb, and who does not have an educational background but is head of the chamber of commerce.

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White peers.

Unlike No Child Left Behind, which had the goal of all students being proficient by 2014 (less than 14 months away), D.C. officials are implementing new, lower standards of academic performance for African American, Latino, and poor children compared to their more affluent White and Asian counterparts.

He says what matters is getting «a first - rate education,» and low - income parents of color don't believe «that their children can't learn well if they're not sitting alongside affluent white kids.»

So if a district has two high schools — one serving mostly affluent white students and another serving mostly poor and minority students — those schools had better offer a similar number of AP courses, lest the OCR come knocking on their doors.

He sees hope that a revolution will occur, as Jonathan Kozol predicted in a visit to Central, after the affluent white oppressors in privileged schools are enlightened by their encounters with the rapping Kansas City debate team.

He frequently contrasts the dismal material circumstances of their lives with those of affluent white students who live elsewhere.

Those parents don't seem to share the authors» belief that their children can't learn well if they're not sitting alongside affluent white kids.

This situation is not only a sad outgrowth of America's socioeconomic divide but also a huge problem for universities and employers, considering that birthrates are flat or down among the affluent white suburban families that have traditionally sent their kids to college.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

Here, Che gets to be the smart one at the expense of affluent white women who, as Gretchen puts it, need to check their privilege.

«Get Out» hits with the impact of a bombshell in the supposed «post-racial» landscape of America, lampooning not the overtly racist (they're scary enough) but the affluent white liberal set who think they have transcended concerns of prejudice while remaining oblivious to their racial micro-aggressions.

Ensuring that it doesn't get left behind in the» stories about affluent white folks struggling with daddy issues» arms race, Netflix has announced that it's picking up Noah Baumbach's latest film for its online streaming library.

These well - dressed, affluent white men, all friends to some degree, gather together in Kramer's house to talk about the women they've loved.

The world doesn't need any more movies about angry, aimless, and affluent white men in their late 20s... however, it's hard to dismiss a movie with as many good elements as this one has.

Tiny particles of air pollution contain more hazardous ingredients in non-white and low - income communities than in affluent white ones, a new study shows.

Most research has been conducted on affluent white couples seeking advanced medical interventions.

I was a tall, well - educated, affluent white male.

My details — gender, orientation, race to a degree — are so different from those of the affluent white women who seem to be at the heart of these ongoing battles (or «mommy wars»).

In affluent white - collar suburbs around Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, sprawling charismatic churches pack in crowds on Sunday mornings numbering in the thousands.

The Trump administration, for all of its obnoxiousness, seems most to have irritated affluent white liberals, rather than the nonwhite and relatively poor who are supposedly Trump's great targets.

Part of this is ideology, of course, since affluent white liberals are the most extreme segment of the Democratic coalition.

This is the dilemma facing affluent white liberals: They want to lead a coalition in favor of equality, but their identity places them under suspicion.

Instead, as Murray charts in compelling detail, when it comes to behavior, affluent white America and poor white America have gone in two very different directions.

Wasting no time after announcing his indefinite departure, your affluent White Plains, New York, native father returned to campus to recruit students with «raw intelligence» to work for his fast - rising social network.

Jones, 38, grew up in an affluent white suburb of Austin, but her parents grew up in rural Mississippi.

We started pitching VCs in the winter of 2014, but the first two dozen of them — primarily affluent white men who lived in New York or California and shopped at Whole Foods — didn't understand what we were trying to do.

Not exact matches

He's more than the founder and former publisher of The Robb Report; he's the publisher of Millionaire magazine, both being publications for the rich and affluent, which White is.

Jacobs: I was talking to Fordham professor John Pfaff recently, and he said that difference in this race is that the traditional base that votes for a DA is white, middle - class, affluent, and not that knowledgeable on the issues.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

It's also incredibly white collar and staggeringly affluent.

Even more disturbing, an updated report by the Center for Responsible Lending on payday lending in Colorado found that even in affluent communities of color, the likelihood of a nearby payday store is greater than in low - income, predominantly White areas.

What we are stuck with is a Super PAC apparatus that produces worthless election year ads featuring old, white, affluent people complaining that Obama is taxing and regulating them too much.

Poorer, less well - educated white people refuse surveys more often than affluent, better - educated whites.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

Pentacostalism in Black Africa, emphasizing personal faith, biblical literalism, visions, prophecy, and apocalyptic visions of extrahistorical justice, may be inspired to send missionaries to the white, affluent, «pagans» of the North.

They're not white and affluent.

White, affluent liberals should prioritize the interests of poorer, less secular Democrats, instead of maintaining their privileged position.

Can white, middle - class and affluent churches be a factor in facilitating the birth of a new vision, a new consciousness?

The white, affluent American, presumably, has it made already, and it is his heavy foot, he is told, which rests on the neck of the black, the poor, and the discontented.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.