Sentences with phrase «as african»

As an African American woman, she experienced tough times along the way, but neither the fans nor the music would give up on Melba, and her career and accolades continued into the 1990s.

He draws on personal experiences and insights as an African - American, a Jew, and one of our great writers to present an alternative manifesto of sorts: «We need to throw off the unbearable weight of bureaucratic capitalist and socialist demands; demands that exist to perpetuate these systems, not to praise and raise humanity to its full promise.

It is still available in Australia, South Africa, some Middle Eastern countries, as well as some African nations as well.

Campos and her group are working with some 4,000 frustrated parents like Samuel Radford III, who refuses to accept that as African Americans, his three sons in Buffalo public schools have only a 25 % chance of graduating.

As an African - American single mother who has struggled to find the right schools for my two kids, charter schools have been a blessing.

Fields goes on to suggest, «When we look at what's occurring in our community, and if we believe that education is the way out, Then the Dems need to question why so many of their so called faithful are waiting for them to actually catch up and support our rights as African Americans to obtain a great education.»

NCLB requires schools to focus on providing quality education to students who are often underserved, including children with disabilities, from low - income families, non-English speakers, as well as African - Americans and Latinos.

Advocates contend that the disparity in test scores, often referred to as the «achievement gap,» provides political leverage and forces politicians and other stakeholders to respond to the needs of historically underserved subgroups such as African - American, Hispanic, and low - income students.

Fulgham wrote: «As an African - American woman and a Christian, I have undergone my own process to unpack the unique and often deeply held beliefs of communities that have been historically marginalized and disenfranchised within public discourse.

At the start of November, officials at the State Department of Education proposed eliminating a program that provides about 300 New Haven elementary students from low - income families with after - school homework help and access to extracurricular activities, such as African drumming, cooking and archaeology.

Our approach is paying off, as African - American and Latino student achievement is better than in traditional public schools on any comparison, be it by state, by district, and particularly by neighborhood.

The impetus for my capstone was the College Board's 2010 report The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color, which revealed that a disturbingly large number of young men of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an early age.

Slightly less than half of enrolled students were white; 30 percent identified as Hispanic or Latino; 7 percent as Asian; 6 percent as African American; and 7 percent as a mix of two or more races.

7 Magnet schools in the Hartford area have special themes designed to draw in students from both the city and suburbs, and they are required to have a student body that is 25 % -75 % racial minority students (newly defined as African American or Hispanic / Latino) in order to be funded by the state.

And as an African - American, he could have uplifted African - American teachers who are so badly needed to help poor children of color and to also bridge the divide in our public schools and country.

«I think a lot of times, as African - American teachers, we get stuck in a certain group, because you do it well.»

A quote from Aristotle inspires her teaching practice: «Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all,» as well as this African proverb: «If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.»

Forty - nine percent of BTR graduates are teachers of color, with 35 percent identifying as African American or Latino.162 What's more, graduates with four or five years of experience have been found to outperform other veteran BPS teachers, and 97 percent of principals would recommend hiring a BTR graduate to a colleague.163

As a mother of twins growing up in New Orleans, Christine Watler understood the challenges her sons faced as African American males.

White students in Kentucky are nearly twice as likely as African - American students to achieve reading proficiency by 4th grade.

As far as African - American enrollment, for example, that has decreased by 60 percent.

I looked at results for racial subgroups such as African Americans and Latinos, not only for the socio - economically disadvantaged umbrella group.

According to information provided to HuffPost, 55 percent of next year's corps of 5,900 new teachers will come from low - income backgrounds or communities of color, including 15 percent who identify as African - American.

In San Francisco, whites and Asians are moving INTO traditionally black neighborhoods as African Americans continue a longtime exodus from the city.

According to Prosperity Now, a national nonprofit to expand economic opportunity for low - income families, and the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, white households have seven times the amount of wealth as African Americans, and six times as much as Latinos.

CT3 associate Vynesha Johnson shared her thoughts on growing up as an African - American in Alaska, and how that experience helped her shift mindsets — a skill she uses in her work at CT3.

Although Williams was discarded by her allies, her name and face were still used throughout conservative media as an African American Democratic supporter of school vouchers.

Just because a child is Jewish doesn't mean she knows the meaning of Hanukkah, for instance, just as the African - American child may never have heard of Kwanzaa.

The authors demonstrate that the effects of high - stakes testing pro- grams on outcomes, such as retention and graduation, are different from the results of using grades alone, and that some groups of students who are already faring poorly, such as African Americans and Latinos / Latinas, will do even worse if high - stakes testing programs are used as criteria for promotion and graduation.

It's also a vital question to me as an African - American educator.

Before Niambi Jaha - Echols, artist and consultant, moved east from Chicago in 2014, her now -13-year-old son Jelani was struggling at a private school that, in her view, set a lower expectation for him as an African American male.

Now in his 60s, Blake remembers his experiences as an African American student in New York.

Sixty - two percent of the students identified as Euro - American, 18 percent as African American, 10 percent as Asian American, and 9 percent as Latino.

«As part of Harvard Graduate School of Education's (HGSE) yearlong focus on diversity, experts from computer science, engineering, and education gathered to discuss why the underrepresentation of women and girls, as well as African - Americans and Latinos, is so common.»

Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.

TFA, which has long drawn criticism for sending too many white teachers into all - minority schools, has moved fast to diversify: In 2009, said Johnson, 9 percent of the corps identified as African - American; today, 20 percent do (nationally, that figure is 7 percent for traditional schools).

First, many one - semester courses, designed to be highly relevant, differed widely in rigor and content, ranging from potentially substantive courses in areas such as African American literature to trendy offerings like «Rock Poetry.»

For example, in California there are twice as many API students (12 %) as African - Americans (6 %).

When evaluating the size of this «overprediction» for learning - disabled males, the majority panel noted that it was smaller than the overprediction for other groups of students, such as African - American males.

On the other hand, it can not be the whole story, as African American and non-Hispanic white students also made strong gains during this period.

Kenyan students wanted to know about the possibility of what they saw as an African president in the United States.

I have always taken the position that for me, as an African - American lawmaker, what the other party is trying to do is not my concern.

As African - Americans, we have to understand the power of our own leadership has grown, and our responsibilities have grown along with it.

Like many minoritized students, attending HGSE catalyzed an identity crisis of sorts, where I had to make meaning of my dual - identity as an African - American male from the Southside of Chicago, as well as a future HGSE alum.

As an African - American heroine, she appears in texts, curricula, and tests more frequently than almost any other figure in American history.

As an African American woman who completed doctoral - level graduate work in computer - generated art / design and digital media, my stewardship and presence in the lab models a pathway into STEM for minority groups.

Alternatively, one might classify students as African - American only if both parents are African - American or if the child's primary parental caretaker (usually the mother, but on a few occasions the father) is African - American.

They identify students of mixed heritage as African - American as long as either the mother or the father is African - American.

A lot of the diverse produce (such as African spinach and native Rosella) we have growing in our garden comes from these seeds.»

As much as I wanted to offer answers, I focused my heart and mind on hearing her perspectives as an African - American mother.