Sentences with phrase «black schoolmate»

And yet, the Millers are finally driven from their Eden by the destructive behavior of their son toward a black schoolmate.

Not exact matches

Forty years after we met as schoolmates, the «Black Singles» website provided the path to meet again, and to recognize each other as our original soul - mates.

Jennifer is 17, a black - clad, metal - pierced, acid - tongued, death - obsessed, tattoo - inked, self - mutilating yet poetically inclined cactus of an outsider, at odds with her schoolmates, her self - delusively sunny mother (Carol Kane), her cipher of a stepfather (Michael McKean), and her aging hippie of a father (John Goodman).

A pronounced increase in Hispanic and Asian public - school enrollment and consequent decline in the white enrollment share, not a pattern of resegregation, has driven the fall in the exposure of black students to white schoolmates.

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.).

Just 13 percent of high school students took strong, comprehensive courses, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress; this included a mere seven percent of black students and six percent of their Latino schoolmates.

Desegregation efforts in the 1960s and 1970s did help middle class blacks gain greater access to society; but they, like their white middle class schoolmates, were already guaranteed some level of it.