Sentences with phrase «black urban neighborhood»

One is her home in a poor black urban neighborhood; the other is the tony suburban prep school she attends with the white boy she dates there.

Not exact matches

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

All black and Latino students don't come from low - income, urban neighborhoods.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

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 programs.

Big City School is located in a low - income urban neighborhood and serves primarily Latino (65 percent) and black (33 percent) students; 93 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

At a celebration in February for Teach for America's 20th anniversary, Education Secretary Arne Duncan sang the praises of an all - male, largely black charter school in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Urban Prep Academy, which replaced a high school deemed a failure.

The sheer number of failing and non-failing schools in urban districts increases the likelihood closing a school will happen in a black neighborhood.

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.

So, I went to Redfern — the Sydney neighborhood that's home to a sizable urban Aboriginal community — to experience the literal black side of Australia on this day of reflection.»

* He grew up (and still lives) in South Central Los Angeles, a mainly black neighborhood mythologized for its urban decay.

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.