Sentences with phrase «minority children in»

Not long ago, minority children in Fort Worth, Texas, were largely unaware of the role their ancestors played in settling the Old West.

This chapter reviews the literature on fathers and their unique influences on positive child development in minority children in the United States.

National Research and Assessment of Disproportionality: Racial Equity Strategies, Tools, and Programs (PDF - 274 KB) Black Administrators in Child Welfare & Casey Family Programs (2008) Discusses strategies, tools, and programs used in nine States to prevent and reduce the number of minority children in out - of - home care.

Differential exit rates of minority children in foster care.

Responding to concerns about the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system, particularly African - American children, the Children's Bureau sponsored an exploratory qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children of color.

Racial differences in the length of stay in foster care and types of placements may also account for over-representation of minority children in out - of - home care.

There are three dominant theories explaining the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system: 1) the disproportionate need found among minority families; 2) racial bias in child welfare decision making; and 3) family risk and child welfare practice.

Success Academy is often revered as a high - quality charter network where predominantly minority children in New York City have access to a challenging education that often puts them ahead of suburban schools.

The success of high - quality charter schools serving mostly - minority children in those urban communities (where the schools tend to also be segregated thanks to pernicious zip code education policies) also proves lie to the idea of integration as school reform.

It places poor and minority children in settings designed to provide developmental support and at least some intellectually stimulating activities.

However, a much greater investment of state dollars through the new funding formula is necessary in order to ensure that minority children in low - income schools in PA to receive the opportunities they need for success and that all children in the Commonwealth to have access to high - quality CTE programs.

Paul Hill's takeaway from the NAEP TUDA scores: the problem of educating low - income and minority children in big cities is still waiting to be solved.

The CORE districts also couldn't offer a specific plan for how they would provide comprehensive college - preparatory courses aligned to the standards to poor and minority children in their schools, as well as English Language Learners and children trapped in the nation's special education ghettos.

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.

More - importantly, because the quality of teaching varies more within schools (from classroom to classroom) than among them, the racial myopia of teachers (and their low expectations for the poor and minority children in their care) are matters that have to be addressed in order to help all children succeed.

Milagros currently runs an early childhood study in Colombia and another study on parental - child educational practices for minority children in the U.S..

While we appreciate any support we can get to fix a broken state funding system that penalizes poor and minority children in Chicago and around the state, we hope that Randi's support lasts beyond a 24 - hour news cycle.»

The National Education Policy Center has an extensive track record of finding fault with any and all research in support of the idea that poor and minority children in Milwaukee, and elsewhere, deserve the opportunity to choose their own school.

To some experts, this research suggests that a teacher with a large number of low - achieving minority children in a classroom, for example, might have a more difficult job than another teacher with few such students.

To this end, he bullies poor minority children in a way that would be totally unacceptable if his charges were middle class and «white.»

With OSEP funding, the National Research Council at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is undertaking a two - year study of the representation of minority children in special education and gifted and talented programs.

Both white and minority children in Connecticut's magnet schools showed stronger connections to their peers of other races than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in this research commissioned by the state of Connecticut.

«The Attorney General will have to explain to the American people why he believes poor minority children in Louisiana should be held back.»

As a parent and advocate for minority children in Seattle public schools, she says she's frustrated at how racial segregation has morphed and mutated — hidden but apparent to those facing it.

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

When Nicole Harris» son started fourth grade at Thurgood Marshall Elementary in the Central District this year, there were only minority children in his class.

With a personal passion for serving children and helping them achieve higher levels of success, Mr. Davis founded the JANDT Foundation to aid minority children in attending private and parochial schools in the Washington, DC area.

She said the minority children in her class were more or less evenly distributed among the groups.

She has devoted thousands of hours and millions of dollars to fighting for her vision of educational betterment — especially for minority children in high - poverty communities.

• Show that public charter schools could benefit the students most in need of new opportunities (poor and minority children in big cities).

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?

For Albany — and more importantly for Rockland — time is running out on the option of a constitutional solution to this unique situation concerning the education of minority children in East Ramapo.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

A minority child in an impoverished urban community may have the choice to go to this or that «academy» in a school choice model, but he / she will still have no choice but to attend a segregated, racialized school.

The teacher who understand the importance of his or her role in all of this; the awesome responsibility and power they have as — unfairly — the last line of defense for a low - income minority child in a battle for future prosperity and equality.

Not exact matches

They also won the Child's Magazine's Parents Choice Award in 2010, 2011, and 2013 and the Top 50 Franchises for Minorities, National Minority Franchising Initiative

«These are good ways to transfer minority stock stakes to your children at levels that will trigger little or no tax liability,» explains Michael Mullaugh, an estate - settlement manager with Mellon Private Asset Management, in Pittsburgh.

«Rather than waiting until after your death to leave the company to your adult child — who might have to pay 55 cents in tax on every $ 1 of its value — you want to start transferring a minority stake now, let's say 30 % of the stock.»

They pride themselves on their hatred for science, education, women, minorities, children after childbirth and attempts to restrict military guns in civilian hands.

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?

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

For some secularists there is only a fine line between a small minority of Muslims seeking heavy - handed influence in schools and children singing «Shine Jesus Shine»

Modern education seems to have had little effect in breaking down sectarian barriers between Shi'as and Sunnis since, as with all minority religions, the Shi'as take special interest in the religious training of their children.

Most of the children in foster care are older and / or in large sibling groups and / or have special needs and / or minorities, parenting situations that can be daunting.

Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.

Presidential debates, increased public affairs, innovations in news coverage, fewer commercials on children «s programs, more female and minority on - air employment, greater minority ownership of stations, «free speech messages» in many cities, greater responsiveness to viewer «s letters, and a temporary reduction in violent programs — all were brought about through the efforts of the broadcast reform groups.9.

John Gliedman and William Roth, in The Unexpected Minority: Handicapped Children in America (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), have demonstrated the numerous similarities between the prejudice toward black people and toward the handicapped.

You said that I am in the minority among atheists in my view that Christian children are brain - washed or indoctrinated.

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.

He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.