Sentences with phrase «fewer white children»

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And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

Previous studies have controlled for the fact that lesbians are better educated, more likely to be white, have fewer children and live in cities, but a 6 % wage premium still exists.

In 1960, the overwhelming majority of prime - age white adults (the cohort of 30 to 49 - year - olds that Murray focuses on) in Belmont and Fishtown were married, bore very few children out of wedlock, and rarely divorced.

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.

As passionate as I was about social justice and alleviating poverty, child sponsorship struck me as an old - fashioned model for giving in which a few select children essentially walked through a breadline to receive meals, schools supplies, and medical attention from far - away white «saviors» whose first - world guilt was eased by letters ensuring that their contributions made a difference.

I have a child with sensory processing disorder, and simple white butter buns are some of the few foods he eats.

Riki Taubenblat, Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, tells Romper, «Smaller day cares that are located in a home environment and have fewer children are often willing to follow up with the parent's sleep training and may even provide a separate bedroom for naps, complete with white noise, and blackout curtains.»

The mothers were predominantly white (84 % compared to 72 % nationally in 2010)[29], older, and more likely to be well educated and employed with fewer children.

The study found that compared to white parents, black parents reported significantly fewer concerns related to symptoms of ASD in their children with the disorder.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

For the past few years I've been avoiding white clothes because with my young children they white clothes never last «white» for long, lol.

However, landing the perfect interracial companion is certainly not child's play and you need to be very cautious about it.Here are a few tips that would help you successfully date a white woman.

The three members of this group vary in size; the smallest (a translucent white being with few discernible features) is a fraction of Mei's size, the middle one is about as tall as the girl, while the largest is big enough to support Mei on his rounded stomach (which he does, in their memorable first encounter) as well as a dozen other children her size.

Few facts are known of Slow's childhood and upbringing, although Marrin fills in details of Lakota (or Sioux, as they were known to the white explorers and settlers) child - rearing practices.

Related disparities arose in births out of marriage and in children living with a single parent — not much change in Belmont, a great change in Fishtown: almost 30 percent of white births are now nonmarital, up from just a few percent in 1960.

When this study began, the school system enrolled mostly black children, with so few whites that their presence in the sample was expanded to permit meaningful comparisons between black and white.

«When I showed them photographs of «Colored Only» signs and police dogs and hoses being used against demonstrators, and then pictures of the KKK taken just a few years ago with young children in white robes, they understood the material in a far deeper way.»

The American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex for thousands of boys and girls, of various ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball — for everyone.

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.

Larrick's 1965 landmark article, «The All - White World of Children's Books» (reprinted in Muse, 1997) pointed out that minority children had few opportunities to read about characters like themselves or see themselves in thesChildren's Books» (reprinted in Muse, 1997) pointed out that minority children had few opportunities to read about characters like themselves or see themselves in theschildren had few opportunities to read about characters like themselves or see themselves in these books.

The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.

But in the last few years, the White House has become a vocal supporter of Common Core, including provisions in its Race To The Top grant program and No Child Left Behind waiver program that states implement «college and career ready standards.»

The growth of charter schools has promoted segregation both in California and nationwide, increasing the odds that black, Latino and white students will attend class with fewer children who look different from themselves, according to two new studies.

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.

Although they seemingly have few things in common, a white woman named Hazel and a black woman named Vida are linked by the devastating deaths of their young children.

Located on the slopes of the secure Temple Hill estate, Villa Jamalu is a few minutes» walk (the staff will happily show you the shortcut) from the tranquil waters and white sands of Jimbaran Bay, where the shallow sea is ideal for swimming and paddling, and the perfect beach for families with small children.

So the other week I was happily vintage treasure hunting about these beaches... I must say that there may have been some broomstick twitching in this old cottage to get me out hunting... I had been doing too much and not getting out for any me - time... broomstick tends to twitch when I let that happen... so I took a few hours out, got myself in the Beach Mobile (I would like to say that this is a vintage white vehicle from the past, however it is a typical car of a forty - is - the - new - thirty woman of this time with three children to cart around to various activities), grabbed a coffee, a basket and my wipes (op - shops are the grubbiest of abodes) and went to work.

A few years later Hursh launched his own company, Artes Teatrales, where he illustrated children's books and worked on set design and artwork for live black - and - white TV programming.

Since 1981, the few studies that have evaluated maternal feeding style by direct observation in association with child weight status have included a total of only ∼ 200 child participants, and > 80 % of these participants have been white (3, 4, 10, 18, 28, 29).

Intervention families in the sample interviewed at 30 to 33 months had fewer demographic risk factors than did control families; a greater percentage of mothers in intervention families were college graduates, white, non-Hispanic, had family incomes of $ 50 000 or greater, and had children not insured by Medicaid (Table 1).

They do well on overall rankings neither because they have reduced disparities nor have done exceptionally well for their white non-Hispanic children, but because they have so few children of color.

Society is also contradictory in expecting loving relationships between stepmothers and children while, at the same time, portraying stepmothers as cruel and even abusive (Snow White, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel are just a few bedtimestories we are all familiar with).

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.

Babies born today mark the first generation where whites make up only 50 percent of the population, and in a few years, white children will no longer make up the majority, according to U.S. Census data.

I put my antique child's wheelbarrow on my long french country dining room table, and filled it with apples and a vine of white berries, along with a few fall leaves.

Let me tell you some of the indicators that suggest you could be susceptible to gallbladder issues: White Woman Between 20 and 40 years old Have had children Overweight Others in your family have had it That's a few of the ones I remember from when I had mine out.