Sentences with phrase «minority children do»

Publicly funded pre-K is often touted as a means to narrow achievement gaps, but this goal is less likely to be achieved if poor / minority children do not, at a minimum, attend equal quality pre-K as their non - poor / non-minority peers.

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.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

Some minority children do need special education support, but far too often they receive low - quality services and watered - down curriculum instead of effective support, the research suggests.

In 1991, Arthur Tannebaum, distressed that minority children don't receive what he considers an equitable education, started the reading program.

That it means pushing for a rollback of federal education policy that have helped black and brown children as well as a return to the bad old days when states and districts were allowed to ignore their obligations to poor and minority children doesn't factor into any of their thinking.

Not exact matches

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It has failed to make minority faith schools more diverse, because parents of other religions and none do not send their children to those schools.

Red headed step children of outliers indeed and certainly not a minority, don't de so presumptuous.

Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?

People who think homosexuals should not have special legal entitlements as a minority group, parents who do not want their eight - year - olds instructed in the use of condoms, those who insist that abortion is very bad for unborn children and their mothers — bigots one and all.

Child - free marriage is viewed as a minority decision, but one that can be responsibly made by those concerned with overpopulation or those whose personal careers and psychological capacities do not dispose them to parenting.

Does that mean that if we move to an area where we have the minority religion we should be in the closet, or convert so our child doesn't have to deal with bullying of having a different faDoes that mean that if we move to an area where we have the minority religion we should be in the closet, or convert so our child doesn't have to deal with bullying of having a different faith?

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populationsChildren's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populationschildren with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

The children we observed tended to be of higher socioeconomic status and were less likely to be of minority race / ethnicity than the children we did not follow up, which could have led to overestimates if the effect of breastfeeding on cognition was much weaker or in the opposite direction in those who dropped out, situations we find unlikely.

Once typical of only poor and minority women, this trend doesn't seem to be slowing down, as the stigma of being a single mother has been replaced by the choice by women to have children on their own.

Interestingly, the only non-ethnic in the race who doesn't also have minority children, Jim Gilmore, is unambiguously in last place for the Republican Party, the party with the most «white» support.

Too many minority and immigrant children don't have the services like after school and ESL that they need.

And should it be used to persecute a minority that is simply seeking equal rights?If you are going to selectively use your Bible to justify hating homosexuals and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 23).

«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.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Park Slope home was the destination for immigration activists Tuesday night; they marched through Brooklyn to protest the senator voting in favor a short - term federal funding bill Monday that did not include protection for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

Two months to the day before Dan Loeb accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins of doing more harm to people of color than the KKK, the billionaire hedge fund manager was scolding Richard Buery, one of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's most senior black officials, about his apparent ignorance of the obstacles faced by black children in the city.

Intervening on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in the Commons, his Labour shadow, Helen Goodman asked: «Could you explain to the House why cutting tax credits for large families is a fair thing to do when it will be concentrated... on families where children are living in poverty, on Roman Catholic families, on Catholics from other minorities.

«What Gov. Cuomo is doing is an unprecedented and underhanded maneuver to further his political agenda and it unfair to the children of New York,» Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Geneva) said.

A significant minority of the free schools are opting to use these methods of allocating places despite concerns that they do not promote fair, equitable access for all children.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

3) Public School Education and Common Core During your meetings with our neighbors do you ever discuss the breakdown of the educational opportunities being provided to the minority children in East Ramapo?

«Even though I am «the only» in my department — the only female underrepresented minority, the only assistant professor with children, the only one doing education research — I know I will find allies across campus and students who can identify with my experience,» she says.

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

Many minority families do not have the financial resources to send their children to another city to pursue higher education.

Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all children?

«People don't appreciate that parents are around children a minority of their days,» he says, so it really will take a village to turn back the clock in terms of kids» environments.

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

Yet the sense of relief does not last, for these islands of clarity are invariably surrounded by a broad sea of circumspection and equivocation that leave one adrift, wondering just how reliable they and similar assertions are, and just how policymakers might go about using this book to improve educational outcomes for minority children.

This is a problem familiar to education reformers: a voluntary 25 - year - old program that sends minority students from Boston to surrounding suburban districts has a waiting list that exceeds 12,000 kids because the receiving schools say they don't have enough space to accept more children.

Only a small minority of American blacks are Catholic, but black parents were sending their children to Catholic schools, despite tuition fees and instruction in a religion the parents did not themselves follow.

For Silver, those results validate his decision in the late 1990s to look beyond the strictures of traditional American classrooms and dream boldly about what could be done to reach low - income minority children struggling to make the grade.

American voters are becoming increasingly aware of the No Child Left Behind Act, but a growing minority of them are deciding they don't like it, a new poll sponsored by the Public Education Network and Education Week suggests.

Despite all the emphasis on reading programs and encouraging students to read, many children, especially minority students, still do not read with a high level of comprehension and fluency, independently, or for fun, according to Dr. Sally M. Reis, a professor and the department head of the educational psychology department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as principal investigator of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented.

The intent was admirable: to ensure that schools do not ignore minority children.

Nor do I doubt that some of America's 100,000 - plus schools discriminate against minority children.

Poor and minority children bring just as many problems to schools here as they do in New Zealand, especially when poverty is concentrated.

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other «tangible» factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?

«The challenged statutes do not inevitably lead to the assignment of more inexperienced teachers to schools serving poor and minority children,» said Boren, who received his judicial appointments from Republican Govs. George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson.

«There's much more awareness now in poor and minority communities that they don't want their children hidden from performance standards and accountability,» Miller said.

«The challenged statutes do not inevitably lead to the assignment of more inexperienced teachers to schools serving poor and minority children,» Presiding Justice Roger Boren said in the 3 - 0 ruling.

A disproportionate share of low - income and minority children are enrolled in charter schools and a recent study by CREDO found that charter schools do a better job educating low - income and minority children than traditional district schools.

A total of 48 studies were excluded from the database because they combined all minority children into a nebulous «nonwhite» category, failed to include a comparison group consisting of white children, or did not perform separate analyses with children disaggregated from adults.

I'd love to see charter associations ask OCR to investigate states that don't do enough to provide equitable funding to charter schools serving high proportions of poor and minority children.