Sentences with phrase «by african»

The religion is also inspired by African history with Haile Selassie recognized as God incarnate on earth, and Africa is seen as a Promised Land for resettlement.

Abdul - Jabbar and Obstfeld introduce 16 mostly lesser - known African American inventors through a chatty and informal fictional story told by young twins, who learn that many items in a typical American house — the ice - cream scooper, the microphones in cell phones, and more — were invented or developed by African Americans.

Then, in his late 50s, he taught himself astronomy, wrote his own almanac — the first by an African American — and captured the attention of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.

Remember, in addition to promoting other outstanding books by African Americans this month, I'm also promoting my own.

Titles, selected by members and the group's facilitator, focus primarily on African American subjects or by African American authors, as well as recommended and popular titles.

Vivid watercolor illustrations bring to life the obstacles faced and great achievements made by African American Vivien Thomas in the field of neonatal surgery.

Today, hoodoo is practised across the United States, and not only by the African American community.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

PEEK: «Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.

«My Parents» Bedroom», a story included in this, his first book, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing.

«My Parents» Bedroom,» a story from his short story collection, Say You're One of Them, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007.

Hamill's hero comes to New York from Ireland in 1741, and is cursed / blessed with eternal life by an African priestess — as long as he never leaves Manhattan.

Publishes under three imprints: Surrey which focuses on food, dining, nutrition, and entertaining; B2 Books publishing business; and Bolden, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by African - American authors.

Like Nelson's M3 project in 1989, Mahungu transformed her 5 Series into an interpretation of traditional art — this time, the pattern was inspired by the paintings produced by the African Ndebele people.

Its flagship program, the Manhood Development Program, implemented an Afro - Centric academic curriculum with self - esteem building techniques taught by African - American male teachers into classrooms throughout the district.

Hispanic students have lost the most instructional days due to suspension this school year, followed by African - American students.

Why hasn't Obama, as the first African American president, more fully embraced Title I, which was so enthusiastically supported for decades by African Americans?

Recent polling shows increasing acceptance of charter schools and school choice options by African - Americans.

On Wednesday, April 26, African American mayors from across the country convened in the nation's capital for a two - day conference, hosted by the African American Mayors Association (AAMA), to discuss «Change, Challenge, and Opportunity.»

In 1972, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of Special Concern's Office of African - American Affairs, awarded NABSS a grant to conduct an in - depth research study of 40 school districts headed by African - American superintendents.

The text was nearly 600 pages long, and it contained perhaps 30 pages written by African Americans, no more than that by Americans of Hispanic heritage, literally nothing by Asian Americans, and a 3 page speech attributed to Chief Seattle for which there is no definitive text and a lot of mythology that served other people's interests.

It is anticipated that the model will include mentoring of African refugee high school students by African refugee university students.

In 2015, only 15 % of children's books were written by African - American or Latino authors, or focused on African - American or Latino characters» Over 80 % of public school teachers nationally are White women, though a majority of public school students are people of color.

When states required all high school students, specifically those in schools mostly attended by African - American students, to take at least three math courses, black students were able to qualify for better paying jobs alongside their white counterparts.

In turn, other work from Lindsay shows that black students — across elementary, middle, and high school — are less likely to be suspended or expelled by an African - American teacher.

At 9 a.m. at the Local 399 Operating Engineers union hall in the South Loop, the Chicago Teachers Union will hold an «alternative, peoples - centered celebration of the civil rights leader,» citing an effort by some African - American pastors to boycott Emanuel's breakfast.

This lesson guides students through the game «Continent of Secrets,» which reveals what investigative journalists uncovered about the use of offshore companies by African businesses.

During the month of February, many teachers at Kannapolis Charter Academy taught their scholars the importance of exceptional contributions made by African Americans.

Teacher licensing tests had been suspended in 1985 as a result of a lawsuit by African American educators demonstrating that the state's exams designed by National Evaluation Systems were racially biased and improperly validated (see Examiner, Spring 1987).

These were neighborhood private schools owned and operated by African Americans, often run on shoestring budgets, and often featuring Afrocentric or multicultural curricula.

Amid the intense debates about how much progress the nation has made in raising student achievement and whether federal investments in education have produced results, one important trend tends to be overlooked — namely, the notable gains made by African American and Latino students in reading and math achievement since 1971.

Let me first address some possible explanations for the math gains demonstrated by African - American students.

In math, the differences in gains made by African Americans and Hispanics at AYP schools and non-AYP schools are 11 and 12 percent of a standard deviation, respectively.

Black History Month is a celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their role in U.S. history.

She returns to Baltimore schools after serving for three years as vice president for K - 12 policy and practice at The Education Trust, a Washington, DC - based nonprofit focused on closing the achievement gap experienced disproportionately by African American, Latino, and Native students and students from low - income families.

However, until the recent past, it was not uncommon to find classrooms completely void of reading materials that either were written by African American, Latino, or Asian authors or which prominently featured... Read More

When we examine the impact of transfers on sending schools by race, the majority of transfers by African American and Hispanic students improve integration in their former public schools.

The Leadership Conference Education Fund poll found «an overwhelming sense of racial inequity in school funding,» with lack of funding for students of color seen as the biggest cause of racial disparities in education by both African American and Latino parents and families.

However, across the cities studied, «the average increase in the African American concentration experienced by an African American transfer student was 3.8 percent.»

Visitors can see the train car used during segregation (Jim Crow era) by African American passengers, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Gridded drawings from historical African masks, fact sheet to support initial research and an artist annotation planning sheet for the artist Marcos Roman (a contemporary artist influence by African art).

Catherine Clinton has gathered a thrilling collection of poems by African American authors.

I, Too, Sing America opens with the first poem ever written by an African American — the 1746 recounting by a slavewoman, Lucy Terry, of a bloody fight in which two white families were ambushed by Indians in a meadow near Deerfield, Massachusetts.

There is also some evidence that the public schools attended by Hispanic students were superior to those attended by African American students.

, about the discrimination faced by African American contralto Marion Anderson when she performed in Washington, DC.

This year will see over 40 hosted roundtables each represented by an African government ministry or a leading educational institution.

Extensions for older students: Have students research additional inventions developed by African Americans from

Students learn about inventions created by African Americans and complete a worksheet about the information learned.

The summit has become known for its varied pre-scheduled meetings and round tables each previously represented by an African Government ministry or leading educational institutions.

Human Rights Watch (2014, September) The Power These Men Have Over Us: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by African Union Forces in Somalia, Published by Human Rights Watch, Washington DC, Vol ISBN: 978 -1-62313-1876, pg 98