Sentences with phrase «many of us white teachers»

Middle and high school students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

White teachers were 9 percentage points less likely to expect a black student to earn a college degree than their black colleagues when both teachers were evaluating the same student — on average, 33 percent of black teachers expected the student to finish college, compared to 24 percent of white teachers.

This is consistent with the notion that the apparent achievement gains associated with having a black teacher reflect in part the relatively low quality of white teachers who work in more disadvantaged schools and in schools with large populations of African - American students.

Of course, this does not diminish the contribution of white teachers, but it does offer a great deal to the conversations that many charter schools are having about how to diversify their classrooms.

Ta - Nehisi Coates demonstrated well in a recent interview how a lack of cultural awareness on the part of White teachers can lead to serious consequences for Black students who grow up in violent neighborhoods.

For many of us White teachers who grew up with little - to - know exposure to people and cultures of Color and who don't have a connection to our own ethnic cultural identities outside of Whiteness (notably,

Overall, in 1937 — 38, the average salary of African American teachers was $ 526, slightly more than half the $ 1,019 average of white teachers.

The new data also showed that the overall population of white teachers has decreased and the percentage of Hispanic teachers has increased since the last survey.

The number of white teachers in California has declined from 210,000 in 1998 - 99 to 193,000 in the 2016 - 17 school year — or a drop from 77 percent to 63 percent of the total.

In New Orleans, 89 percent of public school students are black and many of the white teacher newcomers have struggled to connect with students.»

And their efforts appear to be paying off: From 1987 to 2012, the percentage of teachers of color entering the profession grew twice as quickly as the percentage of white teachers (Casey et al., 2015).

The Hartford Courant wrote a story months after the event and focused on one of the white teacher's hurt feelings about being captured in the photo frame and Dr. Best's protest.

Just 24 percent of White teachers expected their Black students to finish high school and higher education, according to a 2017 study led by Seth Gershenson of American University and Nicholas Papageorge of Johns Hopkins University.

As a result, the proportion of white teachers in the whole district rose from 68 % to 77 % from 2004 - 12.

With White Bread, Sleeter artfully explores the challenging topics of race, culture, history and identity critical to the success of white teachers in multicultural settings.

Not exact matches

The nation's teacher of the year let her buttons do the talking Wednesday after she was presented the distinguished honor by President Trump at a White House ceremony.

You may just know chalk as the white, powdery writing utensil your elementary school teachers used at the front of the class.

Andrew Pollack, father of slain Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Meadow Jade Pollack, joined by his sons, speaks during a listening session with President Donald Trump, high school students, teachers and others in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 21, 2018.

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump, after listening to a series of emotional stories and pleas to enhance school safety at the White House Wednesday, floated the idea of arming teachers and school staff, an idea that was met with support from many of the attendees.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

«There's a scene in Breaking Bad «s first season in which Walter White's hoodrat lab assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tells Walter he just can't «break bad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's point at all.

Ever since Bible - quoting Sunday school teacher Jimmy Carter won the White House in 1976, presidential candidates have followed his example of using religious rhetoric that is testimonial, partisan, sectarian and liturgical.

In the good exercise of these new responsibilities, the White Rose members are inspiring teachers for us, too.

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

In the final season of Breaking Bad, Walter White, the chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, has made more money than he can spend without breaking his cover as a mild - mannered cancer survivor.

T. H. White's description of the older Guinevere, who became a nun after the death of Arthur, could easily describe these Ephesian teachers: «She became a wonderful theologian, but cared nothing about God.»

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

The media (both white and black) portrayed him as a teacher of hate and a promoter of violence.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

I never knew there was actually a movement back in the day that tried to press the claim that Jesus was white... as a teacher of history I really enjoy learning new things like this.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

I think the only folks Jesus used ugly words for were the «sons of vipers», «whited sepulchers» «child of hell» Pharisees and teachers of the law... or in short those entrusted with teaching people God's ways but who were in fact either driving them away of making serving God burdensome.

I just made it for the 3rd time in 2 weeks, (once was for a class of kids, so my hips aren't entirely hateful... lol,) I have no idea what Symphony bars are, I used a combination of Skor bits, white chocolate and semi sweet chocolate in the centre... the kids love it, I love it, Hubby loves it, all the teachers asked for the recipe... LOVE this recipe!!!! Thanks!

There was Butch, sanctum sanctorum, with several hundred people leaning over a green - and - white cord trying to hear a snippet of conversation between teacher and pupil.

I want to give credit to two fellow handwork artists, Patricia Livingston, handwork teacher at the Rudolf Steiner Waldorf School and Cindy Hansen of White Mountain Waldorf School, from whom this article was inspired, along with my teachers and colleagues at the Waldorf Applied Arts training in Spring Valley; and the book, «Will - Developed Intelligence» by David Mitchell and Patricia Livingston.

White students, who have little reason to believe they'll be judged via teachers» stereotyped views of their race, were only slightly more likely to revise their paper if they got the «high expectations» message.

I write this from the perspective of being a white kindergarten teacher and mother of two biracial daughters.

The New York State United Teachers union on Friday blasted the appointment of former Education Commissioner John King to become the acting secretary of education and urged its members to call the White House to «express their displeasure.»

A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school classroom» has resurfaced after a White House conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.

«Yesterday a school filled with innocent children and caring teachers became the scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil,» President Donald Trump said from the White House in his first public comments on the country's latest school shooting, the 18th so far this year.

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

In the Buffalo Public Schools, for example, although 67 percent of students are black or Hispanic, 85 percent of teachers are white.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

«Albany's budget cuts threaten teacher layoffs,» the voice says, as the screen displays black - and - white photos of frustrated - looking teachers.

Jackson is an African - American with historically close ties to teachers unions, Rangel's Harlem machine and to an array of predominantly white liberal clubs in the southern reaches of the district.

When Mr. King first walked onto the stage in the Eastport - South Manor High School auditorium, he was greeted with a large portion of the 1,000 - person crowd, mostly teachers, quietly holding up green and white signs that read, «We are all more than a score.»

WHITE PLAINS — Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton told some 300 people at a School Safety Symposium at Purchase College Wednesday parents, teachers, police, fire and other first responders need to work together to help stave off incidents of violence like the Newtown, CT tragedy.

In the Rochester district, 80 percent of teachers are white, while only 10 percent of students are, according to the New York State Education Department data website.

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The list includes «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon; former Clinton White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes; Bertha Lewis of the old ACORN grass - roots organization; and Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, partner of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.