Sentences with phrase «challenging white schools»

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Affirmative action programs are being challenged; attitudes toward immigration have taken a restrictionist turn; and many white families seek to place their children in schools with few children of color.

But when there's real progress underway — when the White House advances early childhood education; when a culture of school food reform is the new normal in districts nationwide; when the work takes on a life of its own — then the entrepreneur is ready to take on a different challenge, and begin work anew.

With the help of school food advocate and White House chef, Sam Kass, the four lunch ladies had extra challenges that regular Chopped contestants do not face.

A 2013 white paper by Denise Pope and Madeline Levine, both co-founders of Challenge Success, a research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other programs for parents, schools and students, suggests that isn't always the case.

«Cheat or Be Cheated,» a recently released Challenge Success white paper, discusses the evidence that dispels these misunderstandings based on its review of fifteen landmark studies on cheating in addition to their own research with schools and students.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — With the new school year underway, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today re-issued his challenge to all Westchester County students in grades 6 through 12: Win a free season pass to Playland by earning high achievement in the classroom.

Noah Cowan, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, says they are «an essential component in developing a child's ability to reason about space, time and even challenging concepts like entropy.

Predominantly white schools — and workplaces — face significant challenges in creating inclusive and welcoming environments, but various methods are available to do so.

If high school isn't challenging enough — many teenagers must also deal with white heads, black heads, pustules, and old acne scars.

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

Furthermore, schools of white segregation — as well as those that concentrate students of color — do not provide the educational opportunities for students to learn to challenge stereotypes and live and work in a diverse society.

Addressing these challenges is the focus of three new white papers a Public Impact team led by Lucy Steiner recently produced with the support of the National Charter School Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program.

We also document that although public - interest lawyers were initially motivated to expand student legal rights as part of a larger strategy to reduce social inequality, legal challenges to school disciplinary actions are disproportionately the province of white and higher - income students and their families.

The fact that nearly half of the former high school dropouts who join ChalleNGe are white shows that a broad swath of America's teenagers would profit from a healthy dose of academic and social development.

TFA sent White to Jersey City, to 3,000 - student Dickinson High School, overlooking the Holland Tunnel, where he taught English for three years and learned that «there are a lot of challenges and we shouldn't kid ourselves.

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Springschools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, SpringSchools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

When Johnson left TFA and joined Larchmont as its executive director, however, the school was facing a challenge experienced by many diverse charter schools: the annual admissions lottery was being flooded by white, relatively well - off parents, creating the danger that the school would lose the socioeconomic and racial diversity it was created to promote.

Downey's mesmerizing black and white footage captures 10 and 11 - year - olds putting such raw emotion into their parts in Antigone, Saint Joan and Julius Caesar, that I challenge any acting school in the country to top them.

A reluctant middle school student responded to a summer maker challenge and ended up demonstrating his sports training product prototype at a White House tech innovation fair.

Commenting on the school's contribution to the project, Rye St Antony's Head of Art and Design Jenny White said,» Each of these panels will seek to draw connections between the story of creation in Genesis and the contemporary challenge to overcome hostility and division by caring for the planet.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

This 2014 white paper jointly produced by AASA: the School Superintendents Association and BBA as a companion to the documentary Rich Hill illustrates the unique challenges many rural schools face in meeting their students» needs.

«We want to challenge everyone — parents, teachers, school administrators — to raise standards, by having the best teachers and principals, by tying student achievement to assessments of teachers, by making sure there is a focus on low - performing schools,» Obama said in a statement released by the White House on Monday.

Although the idea of opening a public school serving students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds would deter some educators, White and Suggs stared down the challenge and sought to figure out how to succeed with that population.

Once again, the current occupant of the White House has effectively issued a challenge to the school reform movement, especially to conservatives who once were the dominant force within it: Will they up stand against the administration's war against the futures of poor and minority children?

We spoke with Juanita White, Director of Family & Community Engagement, and discussed her background, challenges for families as they choose schools, and why AppleTree's partnership with DCSRN continues to strengthen each cycle.

Experts guess that better teachers are often attracted to whiter, less - challenging school districts because they often have more resources, cachet and management.

Both women, who are white, said one of the biggest challenges has been integrating parents from other cultures into the school's parent community.

Our goal as parents is for our children to learn in a diverse school environment, to become academically - equipped, stimulated, challenged, and entrenched in college readiness like their white counterparts.

«These school districts have made notable progress in raising student achievement and engaging the community while confronting some of the most challenging conditions in public education,» says Van Henri White, president of the Rochester, New York, school board and chair of the CUBE Steering Committee.

These students are different from the ones who have historically made up the bulk of the student body: white, middle class, born of educated parents and generally free of the kinds of out - of - school challenges that can impede learning.

The White House announced this week the six finalists for the Commencement Challenge of 2011, and San Diego's High Tech High International charter school was among the group.

We're thrilled that Olivia Thomas, who won last year's 2015 National STEM Video Game Challenge in the High School Gamestar Mechanic category, is attending this year's White House Science Fair.

Uncommon Schools was hearing similar feedback from its alumni, who faced financial challenges, struggled with being away from home, and felt uncomfortable at predominantly white colleges.

In a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.»

His many roles have taken him from teaching social studies at Stephen White Junior High School in Carson, CA, to serving as principal at four schools that faced special challenges including Angel's Gate Continuation High School and Locke High School in South Central Los Angeles.

One of the initiative's main goals is to support high school counselors, and a White House summit was held at Harvard University last summer to identity challenges in the field.

«This school has faced tremendous challenges, and I have extraordinary admiration for the students and the administrators who come here every day and face those challenges,» White said.

This white paper addresses the challenges facing Georgia's low - income students, the opportunity for high - performing Georgia charter schools to address these challenges, and the need for legislation to empower these schools to fulfill their missions.

A Cleveland Plain Dealer article explains why the boards felt the need to challenge White Hat in court: In the case of White Hat contracts, the board then hands over about 96 percent of the school's revenue to the company to handle the day - to - day business of running the schools.

Moving Up the Middle: What Texas Must Do To Prepare Its Middle School Students for Post-secondary Success By Houston A + Challenge [Read White Paper]

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

Racial segregation produces achievement gaps between white and African American schoolchildren because it concentrates students with the most serious social and economic challenges in single classrooms and schools.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

Set in the 1930s and drawing from the rich themes of noir - era storytelling, White Night blends third - person action, exploration and puzzle - solving with the mature tension, challenge and tone of old - school survival horror adventures.

The Court on Monday agreed to review cases from Seattle and Louisville, Ky., Mauro reports, in which «white parents challenged programs that used race as a factor in school placements in ways they say disadvantaged white students.»

Surprised to leave one hurricane and run straight into another, he and his family were fortunately unaffected by the storm.While transferring to a new school can be challenging, White has taken it in stride.

All of the reviews for this school are correct it is a top notch school the assistant principal is the only person that I have met in this school who I don't care for but the principal Carrol Wicker White is superb she takes as much time as necessary to speak and meet with parents and addresses their concerns.The teacher our son had this year is exceptional she is caring compassionate and very smart and handles challenges very well.Parents are very involved and kids are well taken care of and happy.We want to move to Carroll isd for high school but we will not leave this elementary school until our son finishes fourth grade because as great as the schools are in Carroll the elementary schools can not compare to this one this school truly is remarkable.