Sentences with phrase «affluent white parents»

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

The other hot contender for Best Picture was the horror thriller GET OUT which earned Daniel Kaluuya the BEST ACTOR AWARD as the African - American boyfriend of a rich white girlfriend who goes home to meet her parents one weekend at their affluent estate, and discovers that his «having the creeps» is not unfounded.

Rose's parents, Dean and Missy — played by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, respectively — are the kind of affluent liberal white people who can't be racist because they consider their black servants to be «like family».

A subset of white, affluent, well - educated parents have long favored progressive education.

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.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

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.»

Research shows that white or affluent parents often avoid schools that have high concentrations of minority and low - income students.

Atlas parents who serve on the Community Curriculum Council, join PTOs, or serve on site councils tend to be relatively affluent and white.

In these various consultations, there is a group of parents and community members — white and relatively affluent — deemed very influential by district staff members.

We learned through our in - depth interviews that many white, affluent parents want to enroll their children in racially diverse public schools, but they struggle to find schools in New York City that are racially diverse.

Other white and affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.

If the power of solidarity is going to reclaim our schools, more affluent, predominantly white activists will need to develop an anti-racist understanding of the movement against standardized testing and the barriers that communities of color face to joining — including the very real fear from parents of color that their children's schools will be shut down if they don't encourage them to score well on the tests.

Conversely, more affluent, usually white parents tend to champion an «abstract» approach to education, focusing on abstract ideals like intellectual exploration (Lewis - McCoy, 2014, p. 57).