Sentences with phrase «between white children»

The concept of an achievement gap dates back to the 1960s and focuses on the differences in educational outcomes by race (between white children and children of color) and socioeconomic status (between children from low - income and higher income households).

There are large gaps between white children and their black and Hispanic classmates.

Even more sobering, the analysis shows that the largest gaps between white children and their minority classmates emerge in some of the wealthiest communities, such as Berkeley, Calif.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Evanston, Ill..

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

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In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

When her little one lay dying on her bed, suspended between heaven and earth, the child asked her if she could see the beautiful woman dressed in dazzling white?

The long record of racial mixing under slavery between masters and female slaves (as in the much - debated case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings) produced populations that were so lightskinned that they passed into white society (as several of Sally Hemings» children did) and populations so darkskinned that they lost all memory of the white European genes they inherited.

Even now we have not achieved full equality between the white European immigrants, the native Americans, the children of black slaves from Africa and the newer immigrants from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

That child grows up, and his tastes mature only a little: Ordinarily, the adult prefers chunky peanut butter to the smooth variety he smeared between two slices of white bread as a youngster.

• promote tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort by finding the balance between outright avoidance and «white - knuckling» through a fear • find lighthearted ways to release tension in the moment, labeling stressful emotions on a child - friendly scale • tackle their own anxieties so they can stay calm when a child is distressed • bring children out of their anxious thoughts and into their bodies by using relaxation, breathing, writing, drawing, and playful roughhousing

White women specifically are delaying childbirth; in 2008, 53 % of white women between the ages of 25 and 29 had no chilWhite women specifically are delaying childbirth; in 2008, 53 % of white women between the ages of 25 and 29 had no chilwhite women between the ages of 25 and 29 had no children.

There is a choice between white noise, nature sounds, and music which can amazingly last for up to 60 minutes to ensure your child is most likely to have fallen asleep before any need to come into the room and reset the toy arrives.

For the cost of $ 4 for adults, $ 3 for senior citizens and children between the ages of 6 and 12, visitors will see men in top hats and women in flowing, floor - length dresses displaying and demonstrating their crafts, which include wood carvings, photography, quilts, white oak baskets, suede cloth, handwoven rugs, Chinese brush paintings, stained glass, pottery, jewlery, metal sculputure and watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings.

The percentage point difference in the rate of exclusive breastfeeding through 6 months between black and white infants was 7.8 for children born during 2003 — 2006 (CDC, Nutrition Branch, unpublished data, 2016), and 8.5 for infants born during 2010 — 2013.

Also, Minnesota's Voluntary Recognition of Parentage form, which establishes a legal relationship between father and child when the parents are not married to each other, spells out dads» rights in black and white: «When a child is born to parents who are not married to each other the law gives custody of the child to the mother.

Between doctor appointments, keep a running list of nonpressing questions and concerns as they pop up, like how to get your child to eat when she suddenly decides she will eat only white food.

The highchairs have a white plastic, detachable tray with a cone - shaped center divider that fits between a child's legs.

Rep. Chris Collins, a staunch Trump supporter, injected himself into the feud between the president - elect and Georgia Rep. John Lewis, Democratic congressman and civil rights icon — should be compared to a «spoiled child» after casting doubt that Trump had legitimately won the White House.

A growing body of research has found that the child's specific age makes a big difference in his or her ability to differentiate between say a ghost and someone wearing a white sheet.

In a bid to assess the amount of violence young children might be exposed to, they analysed the length of time it takes for key characters to die in the 45 top - grossing children's cartoons, released between 1937 (Snow White) and 2013 (Frozen), and rated either as suitable for a general audience (G) or with parental guidance suggested (PG).

She has shown through morphometric brain imaging that white matter — which carries impulses between neurons — is larger in children with autism.

There were no significant differences in inflammatory and metabolic markers between black and white children except for insulin resistance.

Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas, Los Angeles has one of the highest rates of segregation between white and Latino children, even after adjusting for the large Latino child population in Los Angeles, Owens said.

Even so, it had a lower level of segregation between white and Latino children.

Both measures of segregation indicate that children are more racially segregated between neighborhoods than adults, with white children living in slightly more white neighborhoods than white adults.

DTI reveals structural differences in white matter tracts between bilingual and monolingual children.

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There are thousands of interracial children between a single black woman with a white man.

That leaves two potential demographics for the movie, with a wide age gap in between — older audiences who recall the original black - and - white Stooges shorts and features, and small children who will be receptive to the barrage of silly slapstick gags and pratfalls.

As the children come through the wardrobe into Narnia, they find themselves as the most savored pawns in a war for supremacy between the noble lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson, Batman Begins) and the White Witch, in the ultimate battle between good and evil.

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They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

As a result, he concluded, the report «may have missed the most important differences between the school environments in which black and white children found themselves.»

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

The legal battle between Isle of White Council and a father who was fined for taking his child out of school during term time will be decided in the Supreme Court.

The white matter variations accounted not only for the range of scores among typical readers but also for the differences in performance between these children and others with a likely reading disability.

However, by the late 1980s and 1990s, the gap between black and white children grew larger.

Contributors to the Magnuson and Waldfogel collection are interested only in the third of those questions, with specific reference to the test - score gap between African American and white children.

For instance, according to the National Assessment Educational Progress (NAEP) math and reading data examined by Waldfogel, the 1970s and early 1980s brought closure between white and black children's scores from 44 points to 29 points.

The steps taken to desegregate schools and increase black student exposure to white students were not strong enough after 1980 to offset the demographic shifts that were increasing the amount of contact between both whites and blacks and the children of immigrants from Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere.

Several factors affect poor children's academic performances, and more money doesn't always close the gap between their test scores and the scores of their white, middle class counterparts, Neill told Education World.

When this study began, the school system enrolled mostly black children, with so few whites that their presence in the sample was expanded to permit meaningful comparisons between black and white.

The size of the disparities in special education service receipt between otherwise similar white and minority children are very large.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

A prominent literacy organization is launching a campaign to tackle the achievement gap between minority youngsters and their white peers through workshops, an interactive Web site, and collections of children's books that reflect diverse backgrounds.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

The plaintiffs argued that the curriculum would widen rather than narrow Seattle's achievement gap between minority and white children.

Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on teachers for their politics; conflicts between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.

Reardon and Portilla noted that other data — from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- show that the white - black and white - Hispanic gaps in fourth - grade test scores likewise narrowed between the same cohorts of children.

However, there was a 24 percentage point gap between white adults who have a college degree and those who don't; 80 percent of whites with a degree said they'd want their child to go to a four - year college, compared with 56 percent who don't have a degree.