Sentences with phrase «future of children of color»

Over half of America's school children are now poor; more of our children are members of ethnic and racial minority groups, there is deepening concern about the future of children of color; and inequities in our society are more apparent than ever.

Not exact matches

In a speck of watery material smaller than the dot over this i, all the future characteristics of the child are programmed — the color of his skin, eyes and hair, the shape of his facial features, the natural abilities he will have.

I imagined for a moment that I was seeing T's future - my child's minor transgressions answered with fear and fury due to the color of his skin.

as a knee - jerk response to the most negligible of activities (eating, drinking, coloring, jumping, swinging) in hopes [however unconscious] that our children will repeat the desired action in the future is detrimental to their overall ability to learn and self - motivate.

Together we represent parents, educators, employers, and millions of students with disabilities, low - income students, students of color, English language learners (ELLs), and the children of migrant workers — all boys and girls who, through education, are working to build bright futures.

IDRA's president, Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, has proposed imagining «a future in which the color of a child's skin, the language a child speaks and the side of town a child comes from are no longer considered barriers to a great education and a great life» (2009).

Dr. María Robledo Montecel, executive director of IDRA, asked the question, «How can we create a future in which the color of a child's skin, the language a child speaks, and the side of town that child comes from are no longer barriers to a great education and a good life?»

From Seattle, to Oklahoma City, to Houston, New York, and New Jersey, we see charter schools offering parents of color hope that their children can have a better future.

Weintraub explores potentials for the future of humanity through large - scale hyper - colored narrative paintings, which are saturated with information and describe a world where morals have fallen and children act without consequence.

With multiple layers of paint, color and line, she creates an ambiguous space that affords the viewer an intimacy with her subject matter and both obscures and recalls the pain it evokes («Pietà») In her catalogue essay, Tina Kinsella writes, «Bracha's recent paintings beckon us to reprise the work of mourning, to return to the grounds from which the act of lamentation arrives and to reappraise the particular emotion that the laboring through grief produces... the Pietà always threatens to disclose this excess of sorrow by surfacing the penumbra of future loss that lurks in the heart of the maternal relationship between mother and child.»

If big polluters don't pay their fair share for the price for pollution, the heavy burden will continue to fall on low - income families, communities of color, our children, wildlife and future generations.

If you are contemplating filing for divorce or you have already been served with a divorce complaint, you probably have legitimate concerns about whether the emotions that often accompany a marital breakup, such as anger, frustration, anxiety and bitterness, will color your judgment, impact your behavior and result in unintended consequences on your future and that of your children.

And the children of Abrazo are much - adored youngsters of every size and shape and creed and color, who are growing up with knowledge of and access to all the people who love them most in the world, because their futures were built on the foundations of open adoption.

Access to a continuum of high - quality child care and universal preschool is essential to the well - being and future successes of young children — particularly children from low - income families and families of color.