Sentences with phrase «minority children»

Do targeted recruitment programs, designed to increase the numbers of minority foster and adoptive parents, result in decreased numbers of minority children in the child welfare system?

The prior work mostly has been limited to reporting on the relative proportions of minority children in the general school age and special education populations.

Towards a culturally competent system of care: A monograph on effective services for minority children who are severely emotionally disturbed.

One of the most challenging and controversial issues facing the child welfare system is the disproportionate representation of ethnic minority children and families, particularly African - American children.

Put another way, we find strong evidence that schools may be biased against identifying minority children with clinically significant needs as having disabilities.

He does not think school choice will do much, as many believe, for poor minority children.

This school would utilize curriculum which had proven effective in helping minority children from similar backgrounds catch up with their peers.

There were no language minority children in any of the classrooms of teachers interviewed for the study.

These are the few low - income minority children whom some high - profile charter schools serve.

It has commissioned over twelve studies on the impact of high stakes testing policies on minority children.

The gap between Catholic - school students and public - school students was largest among urban minority children.

On the other, he knows that these standards are delivering real results for the nation's students, especially minority children, particularly in states that have embraced this hard work.

Notably, the report also showed that poor and minority children living in these areas were even less likely to have access to broadband.

It is also unfair to lower expectations for poor, minority children by suggesting they can't get high scores.

The education many minority children receive through the current system is failing them and likewise failing the community.

These included agencies that held contracts with the public child welfare agency or were serving minority children and families in the same service area as the public agency.

There are many reasons outside education for why low - income and minority children face tougher odds, but high - poverty schools can and must overcome those factors.

Religious schools, it is charged, deny opportunities to poor and minority children while failing to provide an adequate education to those pupils unfortunate enough to attend them.

Finally, what research there is on racial attitudes in young minority children actually suggests that they show considerably less prejudice.

Poor and minority children also come to school with rich backgrounds.

The data once again serves as a reminder that educational malpractice borne upon poor and minority children visit their better - off peers in the form of academic neglect.

On both implicit and explicit measures, young minority children tend to show less bias than White children.

Rather, the focus — then as now — was simply on figuring out how to help poor and minority children learn to read.

Most of these schools are also underperforming schools, which fail to provide minority children the quality education they deserve.

Because sitting poor, minority children next to middle - class white ones magically improves their achievement.

The substantial majority of those left behind without such choices are relatively poor, inner city, and often minority children.

In fact, all bold education reformers today care about minority children, unlike you fat, lazy teachers.

These researchers also find that white children are more likely than otherwise similar minority children to receive treatment for disabilities.

We repeatedly find that white children are more likely to be identified as having disabilities, and so more likely to receive special education services, than otherwise similar racial or ethnic minority children.

The paper also describes the disparate outcomes for minority children in the child welfare system, and identifies agency challenges in finding permanent families for African - American children.

Is this school really more «public» than an inner - city Catholic school serving poor minority children?

Improving schooling for language minority children: A research agenda.

Yet when fictional classrooms are filled with lower - income minority children, the teachers tend to be superheroes who triumph over poverty and racism by sheer force of personality and perseverance.

A meta - analysis: The effects of parental involvement on minority children's academic achievement.

And donations from teachers unions shouldn't buy anyone's silence in the face of the harm done to minority children by our city's worst schools.

It is imperative that minority children receive the same level of educational opportunity as white children.

With these standards, minority children in urban areas will have to be taught the same thing in the same way as white children in the suburbs.

Going beyond bargain hunting, Wang drew on his most important asset: a heartfelt mission to help minority children who don't have health insurance.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

«We do not want Paul Ryan in our city visiting a school on Malcolm X Boulevard, a school with mostly minority children, to have a photo op,» Becker said.

And with a program like NSLP that so heavily serves black, Latino, and other minority children in the U.S. who, again, face the highest risk of dietary related health problems, their voices should should have a larger role in shaping the future of this program.

The study consisted of an end - of - preschool follow - up of a group of predominantly low - income, ethnic minority children enrolled in the Child - Parent Centers (CPC) for the full day (7 hours; n = 409) or part day (3 hours on average; n = 573) in the 2012 - 2013 school year in 11 schools in Chicago.

Cultural Diversity E561: Addressing Diversity in Special Education Research (1997) E496: Bilingual Special Education (1991) E497: Communicating with Culturally Diverse Parents of Exceptional Children (1991) E498: Multicultural Education for Exceptional Children (1991) E499: Effective Instruction for Language Minority Children with Mild Disabilities (1991) E501: Functional Language Instruction for Linguistically Different Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities (1991)

Beyoncé will now be marketing sugar - sweetened beverages, products increasingly linked to childhood obesity, especially among minority children.

In a pattern that has remained unchanged for years, minority children got just 10 percent of the spots at New York City's specialized high schools.

Through small group discussion, lecture, and question - answer, participants explore what ethnic minority children need from their parents, siblings and other caring adults in order to grow up with strong self - esteem.