Sentences with phrase «attract white children»

But, like its West Coast counterpart, the William Monroe Trotter School, in Beantown's poor Roxbury section, was built as «a showcase for new methods of teaching» — enough of a showcase, it was hoped, to attract white children to a black neighborhood for their schooling.

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Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

To attract young readers and increase the stand - out appeal of the pack, a beautiful white ribbon has been added, which also aids easy opening of the product for children.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

The schools, which deliver instruction entirely or primarily via the internet, tend to attract lower - income, lower - performing white students, then fail to provide those children with the supports they need, the study concluded.

White working - class children need schools with incentives to attract high - quality teachers and longer days to allow pupils to do their homework, says a cross-party committee of MPs.

Yet at the heart of this pedagogical desire was really a need to attract white parents, parents who otherwise wouldn't send their children to urban schools.

Maho Beach, a part of the Maho Resort and Royal Island Club, is a small stretch of white beach, that is not really appropriate for children for swimming, but it is the location what attracts all of its visitors.

Children can be so attracted to the colorful sparklers with their bright white light!