Sentences with phrase «black students said»

But nearly 60 percent of black students said that their parents are resistant to their interracial relationships.

At a press conference Wednesday, black students said that they were being ignored in coverage of Parkland, noting that media coverage hasn't reflected the fact that their school is 11 percent black.

And then that young black student said this: «You can't understand why I'm crying, try as hard as you will.»

«When I read about the recent column in the Columbia Daily Spectator by a black student saying that Jews were responsible for spilling African blood, I felt a chill.

The research also revealed a racial dimension with 56 % of Asian and 42 % of black students saying they had experienced tutoring, compared with 25 % of white children.

Not exact matches

«Student Land had a shock of black hair, dark piercing eyes, a jerky manner, and a sophisticated but incurable enthusiasm about almost everything in the world but especially about a light polarizer that he had devised in his teens in a rudimentary home laboratory,» we said in a 1938 profile.

You don't go to these institutions and feel overwhelmed by the number of black and brown students you see there and say, «Oh, they're taking Asian - American spots.»

Law students say they are committed to fighting racism after the recent vandalism of two posters at Osgoode Hall Law School commemorating Black History Month.

Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

In Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

The students also said that the post-Parkland gun control debate has failed to fully acknowledge how gun violence affects black youth.

However, if a group of students wants to be able to discriminate — say a Catholic group wants to forbid women from being in leadership, or a fundamentalist groups wants to forbid blacks from joining, they will need to go off campus.

This student said it was a clear reference to the National Anthem protests being led by black players in the NFL.

The challenge to say something about God and the black liberation struggle was enhanced when Ronald Goetz (a classmate during my student years at Garrett) invited me in February 1968 to lecture at Elmhurst College, where he was teaching.

Black students are on the mark when they say that religion is what black folk do when they are not able to do anything Black students are on the mark when they say that religion is what black folk do when they are not able to do anything black folk do when they are not able to do anything else.

«When you are in the kitchen, you can reflect your passion in your cooking and you can tell if [the students] are having fun being in there,» said Beriau, who added that Black and her closest competitor «were totally focused and at the top of their game, and it showed through the whole competition.»

At Wyoming the Black Student Alliance said it would set up picket lines at the San Jose game.

In addition to training students and having awarded an average of three black belts every year over the past 30 years, the Krupas are perhaps the most fulfilled by the impact they've had on their students: «To watch a young person who grew up here go off to college and now make their way in the world is so rewarding,» said Joyce.

«Governor Cuomo's entire argument on school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working class,» said Nixon, who added that the governor's budget «does not value the lives of the majority of New York's children.»

He was among the first black students to attend the school after the district was integrated in the early 1960s, he said.

The two members said they prefer Paladino have a chance to apologize to the parents and students in the predominantly black district, than be forced out.

I hope that funds from the proposal are concentrated more in those districts where the fewest students have access to the type of gifted and talented programs that feed into the specialized high schools,» said Carole Brown, member of Stuyvesant Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, Stuyvesant High School Class of 1981, Fordham University» 85, Columbia University «90.

He called the students «radical partisans,»» Black said.

Police say Justin Tavarez, who's a student at Skidmore College in upstate New York, took offense when he saw a white man dining with a black man and smashed a plate over the white man's head.

Three black female college students say they were physically assaulted Saturday by a group of white men and women during a racially motivated attack aboard a city bus in Albany.

Citing problems that require «innovative solutions,» Bloomberg said Black's experience at Hearst with digital media equipped her with the expertise to expand Department of Education technology, including bolstering the student data reporting system.

«The College Corps helps place students in jobs that are enhancing their education as well as keeping them in the Mohawk Valley... we take pride in this area and what it has to offer as we continue to recruit new employees,» said Lisa Kimmel of Black River Systems, one of the many high tech employers in the program.

In the «No to Scapegoating» session, Murad Qureshi AM said the Home Office «Go Home» vans demonstrated Lynton Crosby's dog - whistle politics, while NUS Black Students Officer Aaron Kiely said Labour would only lose votes in ceding to the right on immigration.

At an Albany press conference later that month, Nixon called his focus on transparency a «classic stall tactic,» and said, «Cuomo's entire argument on school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working - class.»

«[Cathie Black] loves New York and she wants to do what's right for the families and students that we serve,» Bloomberg said.

The parents of public school students say 66 - year - old Cathie Black lacks the required educational experience or academic credentials to be even a teacher, much less direct the 80,000 teachers of 1.1 million students.

Patricia Morgan, executive director of JerseyCAN said the data showed a persistent performance gap between urban and suburban, high to low income kids and / or white compared to hispanic or black students.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

Despite the added attention, the state budget did not meet AQE's goal of a $ 4.2 billion increase in school aid, 74 percent of which they say is owed to schools with predominantly black and brown students.

«The Albany proposals have the right goal, to target resources at enhancing academics and test prep for promising black and Latino students,» Cary said.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

«With Black History Month coming this February, it is appropriate to provide support to a new generation of students who will soon be making history thanks to what are sure to be their many outstanding future accomplishments,» Borough President Katz said.

Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»

For example, Black says that she stresses the inevitability of making mistakes, driving away the unfounded belief among many minority students that they must be perfect to be credible.

And it failed to make black, Latino or Asian students in the study any more likely to say they would declare a STEM major in college.

«One could say this is a progressive outcome, because black students are actually being affected in a behavioral manner — they're taking more AP STEM classes.

«For instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake said.

«But it's a real Men in Black kind of suit,» one former student says.

«A year at Brown costs $ 34,000, and in addition there are very few students of color in computer science,» says James Wyche, associate provost at Brown University and head of a national project that partners the Ivy League schools and other elite universities with so - called historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

The Black Faculty and Staff Council at the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus was established in 1978 to address «the unimpressive recruitment and retention of black administrators and faculty, as well as supporting students,» says professor Natasha Flowers, who co-chairs the couBlack Faculty and Staff Council at the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus was established in 1978 to address «the unimpressive recruitment and retention of black administrators and faculty, as well as supporting students,» says professor Natasha Flowers, who co-chairs the coublack administrators and faculty, as well as supporting students,» says professor Natasha Flowers, who co-chairs the council.

«The NSF has consistently supported the importation of foreign graduate students by various means and pushed for the establishment of the H - 1B program in 1990,» says Keith Jackson, president of the National Society for Black Physicists.

Florian Peissker, a PhD student at the University of Cologne in Germany, who did much of the observing, says: «Being at the telescope and seeing the data arriving in real time was a fascinating experience,» and Monica Valencia - S., a post-doctoral researcher also at the University of Cologne, who then worked on the challenging data processing adds: «It was amazing to see that the glow from the dusty cloud stayed compact before and after the close approach to the black hole.»

Korey Smith, a student at North Carolina's Johnson C. Smith University (one of the nation's 104 historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs), said that presenting his research on working memory and neural activity in rhesus macaques was just one reason to attend ERN.

These results are robust against astrophysical uncertainties», says Riley Connors, PhD student at the UvA and an expert in black hole astrophysics.

«It is the first time that we have seen outflowing cold gas moving at these large speeds at such large distances from the supermassive black hole,» said Claudia Cicone, a PhD student at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and lead author on the first of the two papers.