Sentences with phrase «as white kids»

According to the podcast, there's a «problem we all live with... trying to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids.»

Nikole Hannah - Jones begins this story by emphasizing that the reason integration works is because it creates an environment where Black kids have access to the same resources as white kids.

As a white kid from the country, I quickly learned that my corduroy pants and cowboy boots were not going to cut it in hallways where many kids wore parachute pants and Air Jordans popular in my inner - city neighborhood.

Not exact matches

I live in Canada now, but I gave birth to both of my kids in the United States, and from the vantage point of the Great White North, I can tell you that parents here view the standard three - month American leave as unfathomable and a two - week leave as downright barbaric.

Perhaps the most important part of that strategy relies on Target resolving its distribution woes and stocking shelves this August with everything a parent or kid could want on a back - to - school list, as well as those special items they can't find at other stores (Shaun White's collection of skate shoes and apparel, for instance).

White says being written off as a kid was a big concern when he was starting Next Big Sound.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

Sabet, who worked in the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy during President Obama's first term and serves as director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, said the negative consequences of marijuana legalization include advertising aimed at kids, an increase in drugged - driving incidents and a spillover of marijuana from Colorado into surrounding states, where the drug remains illegal.

When suburban white moms are as fearful and afraid of their kids coming home as urban moms are, they change Congress.

Also, by your logic, almost ALL Americans and Israelis would be terrorists and extremists as well; most of them support blowing up little kids with drones, and the Republican party wants to create a medieval style, white - supremacist theocracy in the United States.

One of the trailers for the kid's movie has been removed, as it shows two of the dwarves spying on Snow White as she undresses.

While white kids, «who have been disadvantaged and have grown up in poverty» should perhaps be counted as disadvantaged.

The recipe I made for Hamilton Beach was a single serve breakfast cookie Chocolate Speckled and Seeded Breakfast Cookie, a much healthier option than the sugar and butter on white bread treat I would cook up as a kid.

I always leave some plain as two of the six kids prefer them without the white chocolate.Melt white chocolate chips over very low heat or melt in microwave.

Trust me when I say, kids will go crazy over this chocolate peanut butter mug cake as the outer portion of the cake is dark and when you cut into it, you get to see a whiter portion of the cake because of the melted white chocolate chips and the peanut butter.

This isn't so good for bread that is supposed to sing with flavor such as a San Francisco Sourdough, but it might be just the ticket for white sandwich bread for the kids.

For what it's worth, my frozen - white - castle - loving neighbor boy ate it up as quickly as my own kids.

What I love about serving up whole birds is everyone gets something they like, I prefer white meat and my husband prefers dark and our kids will eat anything so long as it's not spicy, so whole chickens (or game hens) get completely demolished around here.

Blessed with sunny weather, dry powder and a mild average temperature, Big White is best known as a family friendly resort where kids and adults can all have fun.

Even as a kid, I'd prefer to have no dessert at all than resort to eating white chocolate.

In Zambia a little white boy named Brian Knoetze, just turned 12 and weighing 73 pounds, struck Arthur as the best kid that size he had ever seen.

The directors would look back as they strolled to their offices after introducing him, and they would see a guy in a floppy Beatle haircut pulling a white rat — a real white rat, gutted and stuffed by a taxidermist and mounted on a skateboard — toward the microphone and roaring to the kids, «What kind of a greeting is that»?

I, a white kid from Woodstock, loved them; a few times I drove my Oldsmobile through the Louisville expressways for no other purpose than to play Aquemini all the way through, and as loud as I could.

He hardly plays and is always injured but is kept on as the «proof» that any local kid especially white kid can make it.

And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage than white women and even black men do.

So when it comes to improving school meals, health advocates logically want to remove the items that win out over healthier fare: nixing sugary chocolate milk, for example, so kids have to take white milk, or making sure pizza isn't offered on the same day as a healthier entree.

Encourage kids to choose cafeteria meals that include fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains, such as whole wheat bread instead of white.

Over a period of weeks or months, I'd be willing to bet, consistently having those fruits and veggies and white milk, etc. show up on kids» lunch trays — by their own choosing, sneakily or not — would likely lead to more consumption of those items as familiarity set in and kids, hungry for their lunches, realized that eating the orange and the salad might be better than leaving the cafeteria only half - full.

That standard never struck me as extremely rigorous; there are varieties of whole grain «white» flour out there that, at least for my own kids, can easily be slipped into baked goods without notice.

Would more kids start choosing and drinking white milk as it gradually became the norm?

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

Called «Feeding our Future,» the five - week series about kids and food has featured such notable guests as Alice Waters, White House chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives Sam Kass, Chef Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto (and Top Chef Masters!)

As if having a breathtaking white - sand Caribbean beachfront wasn't enough, Azul Beach Resort Riviera Maya boasts four swimming pools including an exclusive kids club pool (4 - 12 years old) plus a lazy river swimming pool that winds its way throughout the property.

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

Last night, my little public elementary school, Nettelhorst, hosted a public screening of the powerful new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago high school kids as they set out to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

Now some see school food as a teachable moment in which the first lady grows a vegetable garden at the White House and kids learn life lessons in how to eat better and stay healthy.

Not as good as whole wheat — but better than regular pasta, I swapped and my kids never knew the difference, since it looks just like white pasta.

So I think rocking your kid to sleep is fine, as is putting your baby in the swing, or nursing to sleep, or using a pacifier, or having the baby go to sleep with a comfort object or white noise machine or anything else people use.

Plus, we tell kids white lies as we explain Santa and the Tooth Fairy, and sometimes where babies come from.

These classes are taught by Park District staff or contractual groups such as Sports Kids, Chicago Fire camps, Chicago White Sox camps, and more.

Chef T represented the USDA Southwest Region as a chef for the Annual White House «Garden Harvest» in Washington, D.C. in 2015 and has been a member of the Culinary Institute of America «Healthy Kids Collaborative» board since 2014.

SNA President Bauscher kept emphasizing the need to supply kids with white flour «regional favorites,» like biscuits in the South and white flour tortillas in the Southwest, as a justification for significantly weakening the current whole grain standard.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

Breastfeeding is recommended by the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity as one one of the ways to reduce the risk of childhood obesity (1 out of 3 American kids is now overweight or obese).

The white DaVinci Jayden furnishings include a 4 - in - 1 crib that grows right along with your baby, since it can be easily converted into a toddler bed or big kid beds as your child gets bigger.

Grown ups are getting red, white and blue sangria, so the kids need something fun as well.

Grab a pack of pencils and some of your favorite washi tape rolls as done by Stephanie White and begin wrapping regular pencils to give them a brand new look for your kids to use this year at school.

Sure, kids can get calcium from sources other than milk, but the best non-dairy calcium sources are things like canned fish with bones and skin (like sardines or salmon), white beans, turnip greens, and kale — not exactly kid favorites, and children would have to be eating these foods in sufficient quantities three times a day, every day, to get the same amount of calcium as they get from milk.

Lunch Line follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch — and end up at the White House.

Whenever strawberry season comes around I make sure I pick up a lot extra or send the kids and rainy day dad on an extra strawberry picking trip so that I can make these delicious Strawberry Muffins (I love making them at the same time as the mousse so that I can use the egg yolks in the muffins and the white to make the mousse!)