Sentences with phrase «black achievements as»

Black History Month is an annual celebration of black achievements as well as a reminder of the ongoing struggle against adversity.

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As a virtually all - American production, «Black Panther» is an incredibly positive achievement.

Thus the rapturous promotion of Nelson Mandela as a role model for American blacks, clearly suggesting that the course of black achievement is in overthrowing the white oppressor.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Applicants will be judged on their academic and civic achievement and on the quality of their written submissions as to what Black History Month means to them.

Steiner cited Black's «exceptional record of successfully leading complex organizations and achievement of excellence in her endeavors,» saying this warrants her certification for service as long as she will be supported by a «team of experienced educators.»

Of course, your credentials are impeccable, but according to stereotype threat, your achievements and abilities did not filter through the lens through which you were perceived, which was clouded by your identification as a black male.

Though it was showered with praise for its technical achievements, «2001» lingers more potently in the mind as a tall, black riddle: where are the new bones, the new tools, that will take us higher?

stands as one of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's crowning achievements, even if it's not as well - known as Black Narcissus or The Red Shoes.

As a contribution to illustrated history from a black point of view, Still I Rise is a unique achievement, one that will be valued by students, educators, collectors and general readers for a long time to come.»

As one of Charlie Brooker's crowning achievements, the anthological, chillingly dystopian sci - fi series Black Mirror returns for a fourth season.

Established in 2000, The Black Reel Awards were originally conceived as a vehicle to recognize African - American achievement in Hollywood.

Visionary director Darren Aronofsky's (Black Swan) «action spectacular» (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal) is being hailed as «a fascinating achievement» (Eric Goldman, IGN) filled with «grit, grace and visual wonders [that] never cease» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).

Chris is a little worried about Rose's family's reaction to him — she hasn't told them that her boyfriend is black — but they're very nice to him, even if Dean's pointedly enthusiastic comments about the achievements of Olympian Jesse Owens and loving Obama come off as a bit clueless.

The achievements of actors like Berry, Washington, and Poitier — as well as Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong» o, Barkhad Abdi, Jennifer Hudson, and films like 12 Years a Slave — may inform the diversity discussion's focus on black actors and filmmakers, but the reason is also much broader.

She claims «the people who wrote the Common Core standards sold them as a way to improve achievement and reduce the gaps between rich and poor, and black and white.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

Fordham and Ogbu traced the roots of the «oppositional culture» to institutionalized racism within American society, which they contend led blacks to define academic achievement as the prerogative of whites and to invest themselves instead in alternative pursuits.

They emphasized that, while many people might think closing the gap is impossible, black - white test scores, evolving research on intelligence development, and motivation as a nation are all indicative that a future without the achievement gap may exist.

Recalling that black students have the lowest scores on both the reading and math tests, one can see that these results can be interpreted as the effects of peer achievement.

Today, many believe that the continuing difference between the earnings of black and white workers is due in good part to differences in their educational achievement, as measured by tests of cognitive ability.

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

Yet despite Coleman's groundbreaking work, the black - white achievement gap appears nearly as large today as it was fifty years ago.

The CREDO analysis also shows that Michigan's low - income students, who comprise the vast majority of charter students in Detroit, make modest achievement gains (less than a month of additional learning in math each year) compared to district schools, as do black and Hispanic students.

From 1994 to 2003, Price served as president of the National Urban League, where he launched a national campaign to raise the academic achievement of black youth.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

Despite decades of one - off interventions and reforms, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

However, our results show that the achievement gap, while negligible among black and non-Hispanic white children with similar characteristics when they enter kindergarten, expands as they grow older.

And in a landmark ruling, the Kansas Supreme Court has ordered the state to address significant shortfalls in how its public schools are funded, citing low academic achievement by black, Hispanic, and low - income students as among the deciding factors.

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

One commentator, reviewing dozens of studies of the educational benefits of desegregated schooling, found that the studies have provided «remarkably consistent» results, showing that: (1) black students» educational achievement is improved in integrated schools as compared to racially isolated schools, (2) black students» educational achievement is improved in integrated classes, and (3) the earlier that black students are removed from racial isolation, the better their educational outcomes.

If, as is likely to be the case, fewer black and Hispanic students are enrolled in advanced courses, will that finding be interpreted as discriminatory or a nearly inevitable result of the very racial achievement gap we are trying to reduce?

As a result, the black - white gap in academic achievement now seems to account for a sizable share of the black - white gap in wages.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

With our focus on closing the achievement gap between blacks and whites, framing reform as the «civil rights issue of our time,» and the attention and praise we have heaped on inner - city charter schools — one of reform's few bona fide success stories — we have tacitly made education reform a race - based endeavor.

As educators have become increasingly aware of the stagnating black / white and Latino / white achievement gaps, schools and districts have committed to addressing those gaps by supporting initiatives that can create equity, such as preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programAs educators have become increasingly aware of the stagnating black / white and Latino / white achievement gaps, schools and districts have committed to addressing those gaps by supporting initiatives that can create equity, such as preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programas preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programs.

Three strategies emerged from our study as promising practices schools can use to develop black students» critical consciousness and harness the connection between critical consciousness and student achievement.

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

But in other areas, the «achievement gap» — the ethnic disparity between higher - and lower - performing students — widened, as white students jumped further ahead of black and Hispanic students.

As little as one year in a Boston charter closes about one - third of the racial achievement gap between black and white studentAs little as one year in a Boston charter closes about one - third of the racial achievement gap between black and white studentas one year in a Boston charter closes about one - third of the racial achievement gap between black and white students.

Dr. Braddock has received many honors for his work, including the James E. Blackwell Founders Award (for distinguished service and lifetime achievement) from the Association of Black Sociologists (2008), and an appointment as a Member of the National Research Policies and Priorities Board, U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (appointed by Richard Riley, U. S. Secretary of Education 1995 - 1999, reappointed for six - year term 1999 - 2005).

Gabrielle previously served as a member of the Baltimore County Public Schools Board of Education; a member of the Achievement Initiative for Maryland Minority Students Steering Committee; and the Chair for the Black Policy Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Now retired, Holtz says his experiences teaching and working in a number of school districts of various sizes and demographics make him a superior choice to Evers at a time when Wisconsin has been labeled as having the largest gap in academic achievement between black and white students in the nation.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

He found that the black - white achievement gaps in reading and math across the country are nearly as large today as they were in 1965.

«We as Minnesotans have a monumental task to design and implement a new state education plan that will replace the most significant civil rights education law in the U.S. in the past last fifty years,» said Marika Pfefferkorn, director of the Black Male Achievement Network.

My research explores how equity - focused school leadership can be used as a lever to improve Black children and youth's academic achievement and socio - emotional well - being across a range of K - 12 educational settings.

As researcher Thomas Kane writes, «Oversubscribed charter schools in the Boston area are closing roughly one - third of the black - white achievement gap in math and about one - fifth of the achievement gap in English — in a single school year!»

As a school turnaround specialist, Mr. Ankrum has consistently helped schools to make sizable gains in hopes of bridging the achievement gap for students in the hardest to move subgroups, which include but are not limited to Black and Latino students.

Despite the achievements of England's first black head teachers, the ethnic make - up of those in senior teaching roles remains broadly static with 93.5 % of heads describing themselves as «white British».