Sentences with phrase «entering white schools»

Earlier this year, the group dropped $ 70,000 on an ad campaign in Pennsylvania comparing those who oppose a new measure to expand vouchers to segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, who blocked African - American children from entering white schools.

Not exact matches

The «functions» for which theological schools are to prepare future clergy are determined by the expectations of the membership of «mainline» white Protestant churches, and in general that membership expects ministerial leadership to be «successful» and «efficient» (Brown, 55) in helping them to preserve their social status and cultural roles in a nation that is entering a future marked by unprecedented urbanization, technological change, and massive social planning (Kelly, 230 - 31).

Their new documentary Lunch Line (Uji Films) follows the story of six Chicago high school students who enter a cooking contest to create a healthier school lunch and end up serving their winning meal to congressional leaders and touring the White House with executive mansion chefs.

«As blacks began to enter the local white public schools, private schools cropped up seemingly overnight,» the researchers said.

Mixed - race student Sam (a terrific Tessa Thompson) dishes «dear white people» advice on her college radio show («you now need two black friends to not appear racist, and your weed dealer doesn't count») and enters student politics with a pledge to bring more black culture to the school.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

In the second decade after the Brown decision, debate shifted from whether a black student could enter a schoolhouse to how best to bring black and white students together in school districts, particularly in light of the largely segregated housing patterns that existed in most communities.

For students of color, in particular, this means that attendance at a desegregated school tends to make them more likely to enter and persist in white - dominated or racially diverse settings when they perceive opportunity there.

Because black and Hispanic youngsters are indeed «underrepresented» in the entering classes of the SHSAT high schools when compared with the youth demographics of New York City — and there's no denying that they are, just as white and especially Asian youngsters are «overrepresented» — the NAACP asserts that the test must be discriminatory and therefore the federal Office for Civil Rights should make the city stop using it.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

Instead of the military (his younger brother and only sibling did become a naval officer), White entered the University of Virginia (UVA), where he majored in English and was aiming at journalism for a career until he discovered an interview of William Faulkner, who had taught at the school, describing Ike McCaslin, protagonist in Go Down, Moses.

The initial motivation for young white teachers entering urban schools appears to be the same as the people I interviewed, that is, they are concerned about racism as a moral issue and they want to make a difference.

Moreover, the impact may have been particularly great for black and Hispanic students larger shares of whom enter high school with weak mathematics skills than of white students.

In fact, economists Zvi Eckstein and Kenneth Wolpin show that, among white males who entered 9th grade in the early 1980s, those who failed to graduate from high school had lower academic skills and were less motivated for schoolwork than those who did graduate.

Once students enter school, however, the gap between white and black children grows, even after controlling for observable influences.

My children entered the neighborhood schools, my daughter into a totally desegregated middle school and my two sons into an all - white elementary school.

Disadvantaged white British children enter grammar school at the lowest rate of any major ethnic group.

In Public Schools, White Students Are No Longer the Majority U.S. classrooms will enter a new era this fall — one in which black, Hispanic, and Asian students form the majority.

Segregation lingers in US schools 60 years after Little Rock abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/s… 60 years ago today, 9 black students entered an all - white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

60 years ago today, 9 black students entered an all - white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

White - hat thinking shows it's needed: teachers are leaving at higher rates and fewer people are entering, right as a demographic bulge of teenagers maraud into schools.

Schools minister Nick Gibb said the government did not recognise this picture of teacher training and was «disappointed» the report did not recognise «the significant work already done, and the vision set out in the White Paper, to increase the number of people entering the classroom».

Standardized tests first entered the public schools in the 1920s, pushed by eugenicists whose pseudoscience promoted the «natural superiority» of wealthy, white, U.S. - born males.

This means that for students who used vouchers to transfer into a private school, both black and white students most often entered a private school in which their race or ethnicity was already over-represented relative to the community.

If the majority of students entering public schools across the nation are students of color and their teachers are white, schools have to be more intentional about teacher - to - student interactions and relationships.

Did you know that Sequoia Village School is an AdvancED accredited public charter school, entering its 15th year in the beautiful White Mountains of ArSchool is an AdvancED accredited public charter school, entering its 15th year in the beautiful White Mountains of Arschool, entering its 15th year in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona?

This brief, prepared for the White House Summit on Community College, discusses models of partnerships between community colleges and high schools designed to increase the likelihood that students will enroll in college, to raise the college - readiness of entering students, and to ease students» transition to college so that they are more likely to persist through completion.

The 5th grade scores of black students who enter school with average math and reading skills are one - half a standard deviation below those of their white peers and place at the 20 — 25th percentile of the white distribution.