Sentences with phrase «education of white children»

To borrow from the late great organizer Ella Baker, until the education of black and brown children — black and brown mothers» sons and daughters — is as important as the education of white children — white mothers» sons and daughters, we who believe in freedom will not rest until it comes.

Not exact matches

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

Then a child's education would not depend on whether she was born in the poorest white rural section of southern Ohio or the richest white suburb of New England.

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

It leaked into the schools, wasn't rectified by the passing of Brown vs. the Board of Education, and, as recent as 2014, black and white children still attended segregated public schools.

Other: A White Paper on Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education produced by the Department of Education entitled, Healthy Children Ready to Learn (2005), highlights the need for local wellness policies and outlines steps the Department is taking to accelerate their adoption and implementation, including collaborative efforts, promoting a coordinated school health approach, and supporting state legislation supporting wellness policies.

3) Establish an annual White House Online Safety Summit bringing together leaders in government, industry, NGOs, education and scientists to address the concerns and challenges, particularly for children and young people online, as well as to highlight best practices and the many positive benefits of our digital lives.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

One such instance occurred in 1954, when the court famously declared, in Brown v. Board of Education, that the doctrine of «separate but equal» public schools for black children and white children was unconstitutional.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Several factors affect poor children's academic performances, and more money doesn't always close the gap between their test scores and the scores of their white, middle class counterparts, Neill told Education World.

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised some hackles when he told a gathering of state education superintendents on Nov. 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from «white suburban moms» upset that their children weren't as «brilliant as they thought they werEducation Arne Duncan raised some hackles when he told a gathering of state education superintendents on Nov. 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from «white suburban moms» upset that their children weren't as «brilliant as they thought they wereducation superintendents on Nov. 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from «white suburban moms» upset that their children weren't as «brilliant as they thought they were.»

The size of the disparities in special education service receipt between otherwise similar white and minority children are very large.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportuniteducation for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunitEducation, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

Among U.S. fourth graders whose reading achievement was in the lowest 5 % of the distribution — children who were all experiencing clinically significant and severe reading difficulties — over 80 % of white children were receiving additional help through special education.

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In a June speech at the City Club in downtown Chicago, Lewis asked her well - heeled audience, «When will we address the fact that rich white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African - Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents» income or education level?»

The White House, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and their allies have spent the last couple weeks drawing lines in the sand, blasting House Republicans, manufacturing new demands (like addressing pre-K in ESEA), and finding all kinds of creative ways to accuse Republicans of unconcern for low - income children.

Child -, youth -, and education - related programs would get nearly one - half of a «modest investment package» of $ 48.8 billion over five years, under an option contained in a White House budget memorandum that incited controversy last week.

He says what matters is getting «a first - rate education,» and low - income parents of color don't believe «that their children can't learn well if they're not sitting alongside affluent white kids.»

In Missouri v. Jenkins, when the court and its self - appointed experts tried to improve the quality of education for African American children in Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would want.

As Secretary Duncan told a room full of state education chiefs, «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden --[realize] their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were.»

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Philanthropic foundations that support education causes are interested in serving as many poor and minority children as possible; when 30 % to 40 % of a student body is made up of white or affluent students, the school is deemed suspect, as reform - minded foundations see such programs as «wasting» a third of their seats.

It then moved to the White House as the basis of the No Child Left Behind law when Rod Paige, the superintendent of the Houston schools, became the education secretary under George W. Bush.

Meeting the need for high quality teachers: e-Learning solutions [White paper written for the U.S. Department of Education Secretary's No Child Left Behind Leadership Summit.]

Details will be given in an education white paper this autumn, but Mr Gove said it would focus on giving children a broader education and a «core body of knowledge».

The Louisiana Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, commends Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White for his plan that would remove all of the 362 students on the Louisiana Scholarship Program waiting list, and allow them to enroll in the private school of their choice.

The Tennessee Federation for Children has been running cable TV ads in Tipton and Rutherford counties, declaring that Reps. Debra Moody (R - Covington) and Dawn White (R - Murfreesboro), both members of the Education Subcommittee, can make a difference on the issue.

In this webinar, sponsored by the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Opportunities (CEELO), Dr. Steven Barnett, Principal Investigator of CEELO and Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and Dr. Milagros Nores, Associate Director of Research at NIEER, will present data that looks at how children from various language and immigrant backgrounds participate in pre-K programs and at how these children perform relative to their White peers at Kindergarten entry.

Just as school consolidation makes integrated schools possible, school secession has proven to be a tool to keep the education of black and white and rich and poor children separate — most recently in Jefferson County, Alabama, and in Shelby County, Tennessee.

A DfE spokesperson said the white paper reforms were the next step in ensuring every child had access to an «excellent education by putting control in the hands of the teachers and school leaders who know their pupils best.

In a statement in response to the AP story, Shavar Jeffries, national president of Democrats for Education Reform, said sarcastically, «Apparently, the school segregation problem boils down to Black and Brown parents choosing schools that aren't White enough, as if the doors of all - White schools would magically open if only they had the good sense to seek to enroll their children in them.»

Most are familiar with the famous 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws creating separate public schools for white and black children were unconstitutional.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

«As set out in our White Paper we are determined to continue with our vision to ensure every single child has the best possible education, as well as raising the status of the profession.

I wonder if the report K - 12 Education Through the Public's Eyes asked white parents what kind of curriculum, college prep or vocational, do they expose their children to, what we would learn about our beliefs.

«And as set out in our White Paper we are determined to continue with our vision to ensure every single child has the best possible education, as well as raising the status of the profession.

In a white paper published in March last year, the former education secretary Nicky Morgan said the government would consider ways for parents to petition RSCs to move their child's school to different trusts in cases of underperformance or in other exceptional circumstances.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

«When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African Americans and Latinos — no matter what the parent's income or education level.»

«When you have national standards, it becomes very hard for a state school board to control what exactly your child is learning,» said Jenni White of Restore Oklahoma Public Education, a parent advocacy group.

How do you prevent a sense of marginalization when Catholic students are clearly receiving preferential treatment (i.e. when bias, implicit bias, and property tax - based school funding preference the education of White U.S. children)?

Mr Wood was giving evidence to the Commons education committee, which is investigating how to improve the performance of white working class children in primary and secondary schools.

The author of the 1990 voucher bill, Annette «Polly» Williams, an African - American Democratic member of the Wisconsin Assembly, saw her voucher plan as a way of supporting African - American community schools and weakening the hold that white - dominated institutions had over the education of black children.

Paula White, NJ State Director for Democrats for Education Reform, added: «Democrats for Education Reform understands that the fight for high - quality public school choice is a crucial part of a larger, comprehensive effort to champion ALL of America's public school children, irrespective of their background or circumstance.