Sentences with phrase «class white neighborhoods»

The middle class white neighborhoods paid just $ 717 per year on average.

White students, especially those previously from the schools in upper - class white neighborhoods, felt that they were being dumbed down to accommodate black students.

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The real Fishtown is a white working - class neighborhood in northeastern Philadelphia that has been the subject of a number of sociological studies over the past fifty years.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

«In white neighborhoods — middle - class, upper - class ones like this one — everybody has the pool in the back, the grill in the back,» he said.

But the problem fans mostly come from the same mostly working class white and Italian - American South Philadelphia neighborhoods as the cops themselves.

RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.

Mr. Weiner cast himself as being in the vanguard for the middle class and as a native son of predominantly white neighborhoods outside Manhattan.

An Indiana University study found that white flight from one suburban neighborhood to another occurs when white residents move away from «ethnoburbs,» suburban neighborhoods that attract a growing number of middle - class minority residents.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

More than one - third are middle - class white students who would otherwise be attending their suburban neighborhood public school.

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

The resulting separation between white suburbs with new schools and middle - class students and an increasingly minority central city are all vividly recounted by Grant, who with his wife was deeply involved in efforts to counter the decline, and who in one neighborhood had some success in doing so.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

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.).

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

In my neighborhood, charter schools marketed themselves to white, middle class families as a way to send their kids to school without «those kids».

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

We want the choice of world class, sustainable neighborhood schools to anchor our communities, just as white brothers and sisters enjoy.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

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.

Yet another study seems to indicate that white and Asian middle - class families benefit more than minority and lower - class families from open enrollment programs where students can choose to go to public schools outside of their neighborhoods.

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

When busing ended I had the sense that many in Denver felt that the district could get back to business as usual, maintaining traditional neighborhood schools and creating magnets seemingly designed to keep white middle class kids in the district.

If you are a white or middle - class family living in Washington, your child will likely attend a socioeconomically segregated neighborhood school or a higher - quality magnet, and will outperform her peers in suburban public schools.

Meanwhile, the expansion of school choice in DC encouraged more white and middle - class families to send their children to public schools, and provided an escape route to some poor children who would otherwise have attended failing neighborhood schools.

«The location where we are right now (is) a neighborhood that is middle - income, middle - class and predominantly white,» Marcio Sierra said.

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.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

To avoid the problems associated with living in a majority white environment, some middle class black families will seek out a majority black middle class neighborhood (Lacy, 2007).

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

Owning homes in upper - middle class black neighborhoods puts families in a unique situation where they can begin to accumulate wealth, but where the racial composition of the neighborhood puts them at a disadvantage compared to black families in majority white neighborhoods.

We can see this practice being carried out by white middle and upper - middle class families who are gentrifying neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Black middle class neighborhoods, such as these developed out of early white flight (Lacy, 2007).

The BBC recently featured a number of noted photographer Pablo Bartholomew's stunning black - and - white pictures of Mumbai (then Bombay) from the»70s and»80s, a time long before steel barons and call center magnates began erecting tall glass homes and whole neighborhoods were transformed, making room for the country's burgeoning middle class.

Willemstad's World Heritage City encompasses four colonial neighborhoods, including world - class museums and stunning architecture, while the white sand beaches and crystal turquoise waters of Westpunt, on the western coastline, can be reached in less than two hours.