Sentences with phrase «kids than their white counterparts»

The authors suggest that wealthy black parents are less able to transfer wealth to their kids than their white counterparts, perhaps, due in part to having fewer liquid assets such as stocks, bonds and savings, which can be passed down more easily to the next generation.

Not exact matches

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

Meanwhile it allowed states such as Virginia, Florida, and Tennessee to define proficiency down for poor and minority kids by setting Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that only require districts to ensure that fewer black and Latino kids are learning at proficient levels than their white and Asian counterparts.

By every possible indicator, the kids that both of us care so much about — low - income students of color — are doing worse than their higher - income white counterparts.