Sentences with phrase «black child in the neighborhood»

Diggs said that, as a child, it would have been nice to have books that helped him out, especially with the isolation of being the only black child in the neighborhood.

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Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

As I turned the corner onto Plantation Drive — the street that would usually take us out of the neighborhood — what I saw startled me: a small black sedan, like a child's toy in the bathtub, bobbing up and down on the swollen waters that blocked our way out to safety.

Suppose, as was the case, that some black parents preferred that their children remain in their neighborhood school, without regard to its racial make - up.

Describing the difference between the play of male and female children in the black community where she developed, Johnson says: the boys in the neighborhood had this game with rope... tug - o» - war..

In contrast, in 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhooIn contrast, in 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhooin 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhooin a moderate - high - poverty neighborhood.

Currie and Alexander's study couldn't say definitively what exactly about the neighborhoods in «black» ZIP codes is triggering asthma in low - birth - weight children.

When I was a child, I grew up in a black neighborhood until I was 13, so I have an affinity for the culture.

A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

Moonlight (2016) is both a poetic and provocative portrait of a young black child, the sensitive, bullied son of a crack - addict single mom in a tough Miami neighborhood, presented through three acts of his life from childhood to adulthood.

Demand for the film has been high, and some fans have even been organzing special viewings for children in their neighborhoods who may not otherwise be able to attend, courtesy of the Black Panther Challenge, started by Frederick Joseph, who was surprised by star Chadwick Boseman and talk - show host Ellen DeGeneres for his efforts.

Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working - class.

The school district of Little Rock has received a federal appellate court's permission to proceed this fall with a student - assignment plan that will leave about 1,500 black children in segregated neighborhood schools.

Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhBlack children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhblack neighborhoods.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

Based on a poem Diggs wrote in college about growing up the only black child in a white neighborhood, Chocolate Me!

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.

Schools that most disadvantaged black children attend today are located in segregated neighborhoods far distant from middle - class suburbs.

Four of the children are black or Hispanic and live in gritty neighborhoods, while the one white child lives in a leafy suburb.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

In cities including Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., black children are more likely to leave their own neighborhood in search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programIn cities including Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., black children are more likely to leave their own neighborhood in search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programin search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programs.

It was a neighborhood school and a magnet school, part of LAUSD's voluntary integration program, for black and Latino children living in parts of the city beleaguered by poverty, violence, and other harms of racial isolation.

As a child, I loved spending Saturday afternoons at Eso Won Books, a Black - owned bookstore in the Leimert Park neighborhood...

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

What's more, unlike the Perry and Abecedarian pre-schoolers, these poor, mostly black children live in inner - city neighborhoods, where life stresses are especially acute.

Schools that educate our black children, in particular, in our own neighborhoods have always been undermined through the restriction of funds, quality staff, and other resources.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Children — nearly three - quarters were black — who moved into and attended schools in more affluent neighborhoods outperformed comparable children who attended schools with higher proportions of low - income students (SchwartzChildren — nearly three - quarters were black — who moved into and attended schools in more affluent neighborhoods outperformed comparable children who attended schools with higher proportions of low - income students (Schwartzchildren who attended schools with higher proportions of low - income students (Schwartz, 2010).

Just as Mrs. Thompson was told over 60 years ago, that she could not have access to a school within walking distance of her home, black children are denied access to public schools in their neighborhoods today; some traveling more than 3 miles to attend school.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

The Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC) is committed to dismantling the pipeline to prison through education and by expanding programs that work such as the CDF Freedom Schools ® program and replicating the Harlem Children's Zone model in other communities through the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative.

Black middle class families in wealthy black neighborhoods tend to give their children whatever is within their means in order to guarantee their future middle class stBlack middle class families in wealthy black neighborhoods tend to give their children whatever is within their means in order to guarantee their future middle class stblack neighborhoods tend to give their children whatever is within their means in order to guarantee their future middle class status.

Instead of ensuring that every child has access to a high - quality, well - resourced public school in his or her neighborhood, too many students, particularly in low - income, Black and Latino communities, have been subjected to flawed «reforms» — such as school closures, school takeovers and vouchers — all of which have stripped the public's voice in local schools and have never lived up to their hype.

Black parents embrace in white neighborhoods embrace the idea that living among white people will prepare their children for dealing with racism and majority white environments in the future (Pugh, 2009).

Jones» debut is a sensitively written coming - of - age story, set against the backdrop of Atlanta's African - American neighborhoods in 1979, where black children were being murdered by an infamous serial killer.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.