Sentences with phrase «of black families»

In addition, the projects had become heavily populated with problem families, very poor families, and too large a proportion of black families in a community struggling with the realities of integration.

How then, can they throw their support behind a resolution that would strip away the rights of millions of black families to exercise choice when selecting a school for their children?

Last year, nearly 60 percent of Black families with kindergarten - aged children in public schools chose a school, including the 9 percent who lived in all - choice districts.

The white families expected a highly structured children's ministry, while many of the black families came from churches in which the children were a part of the entire worship service.

They can not ignore the loud and clear voices of Black families demanding better school options for their children.

From my upbringing, professional and personal experiences, school choice and high - quality options serve the best interests of Black families.

The current epidemic youth violence, mostly in Black communities, can be traced back to the degeneration of the Black family.

When polled, 70 percent of Black families are demanding school choice.

The imposition of services deceptively provided to improve the quality of life of Black families only to lack any measures of accountability and do more harm than good — the payday loans, the ITT Tech's, the neighborhood improvement projects that only lead to gentrification and push the Black residents out.

Growing up there in the 1910s and»20s, his was among a small number of black families in the neighborhood, which was also populated by Jewish, Irish, and Italian communities.

Night riders began to appear at the homes of black families living in the county, and their message was clear: «Get out!»

Since Daniel Patrick Moynihan first lamented what he identified as the decline of the black family in his 1965 report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, marriage has been a controversial subject for social policy and scholarship.

In unison with Black Breastfeeding Week, this year's theme, Bet on Black recognizes and acknowledges that the inherent wisdom, strength and self - reliance of black families has always helped to overcome challenges and resulted...

«Our experiments showed that restoring H19 expression hindered by too much p53 restored «protective differentiation» of osteoblasts to counter events of tumor growth early on in bone cancer,» said co-author, Ihor Lemischka, PhD, Director of The Black Family Stem Cell Institute within the Icahn School of Medicine.

According to Ihor Lemischka, director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at Mount Sinai in New York City, this is one of the first computational models of stem cell fate decisions.

So, you can just imagine what happens here when they try to tackle a very real story of a black family moving to an all - white neighborhood in which they were not wanted, and they risk their lives each time they step outside their home.

In some cities, white residents responded to the arrival of black families with riots, home bombings, and cross burnings.

This is a nationwide study of Black families and the children in them who have been homeschooled more than half of their school - age lives.

Dr. Fuller points out the number of black families who choose to send their children to charter schools is growing, with nearly 200,000 additional families enrolling over the past five years.

Aaron Fowler's wonderful «Family» (2015), an assemblage that uses materials from paint to Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal and a bamboo earring, depicts the artist leading his family «to the promised land» (according to a gallery handout) but also refers to the ruptures of the black family under slavery, recently addressed by Ta - Nehisi Coates in an essay in The Atlantic, «The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.»

It depicts the artist leading his family to the promised land but also refers to the ruptures of the black family under slavery, recently addressed by Ta - Nehisi Coates in an essay in The Atlantic called «The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.»

A blog entry by Derrell Bradford, «The NAACP's Duplicitous Engagement of Black Families on Charter Schools is a Betrayal,» was posted on the EdNext blog this week.

Moynihan, at the time a sociologist and research assistant at the U.S. Labor Department, called for more government action to improve the economic prospects of black families.

Later this same person hid for two hours in a bedroom of a black family's home while the deputy sheriff s car circled the neighborhood searching for him.

Maybe they should have spent their time researching how Lib policies have screwed our nation over the last 50 years and caused a complete decay of the Black family.

Being the instrument of the black community and the touchstone of the black family, it must conceive of religion as the life of learning to love and loving to learn.

But he also made it clear that the crisis of the black family was the result of having been «battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice and uprooting.»

But that reputation changed in recent decades, and Harlem became a symbol of the deterioration of black families and neighborhoods in the post-civil rights era.

The report drew fire for its critique of black family structures and what some perceived as bias against African - Americans.

In what is being called «the nation's worst crisis in the history of the Black family,» hearing participants attributed the degenerating situation to the particularly disturbing plight of young African - American men, half of whom are now unemployed, and have 30 percent chance of serving time in prison before age 30.

The successful recruitment, adherence and retention of black families, many of whom were working poor, to an arduous, complex trial, should lay to rest the misperception that blacks are not willing participants in research,» said DeBaun, J.C. Peterson M.D. Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology.

The appearance of the Black family's House - Elf, Kreacher, was nicely - realised and perfectly creepy.

Critic Leonard Maltin called «To Sleep with Anger» an «evocative domestic drama about the effect storyteller / trickster (Danny) Glover has on the various members of a black family.

The NAACP's resolution to oppose charter schools left thousands of black families whose children attend charter schools stunned.

In Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family, James P. Comer uses autobiographical narratives prepared by his mother and himself to identify the «strategies and strengths» by which many minority families have overcome disadvantages.

The median household income for black families in 2001 was $ 33,600, while it was $ 54,100 for whites, a difference that can be attributed in part to the large number of black families headed by a single parent (see Figure 2).

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 report on the structural causes of the fragmentation of the black family has been so hotly debated that serious research on the complexity of the problem has been undermined for decades.

While it is possible that the black children in integrated schools had higher achievement because their white classmates causally affected them, it is just as possible that the sort of black families who were motivated and able to live in integrated neighborhoods were advantaged in numerous hard - to - observe ways.

A proposed moratorium on charter schools is putting the NAACP at odds with hundreds of thousands of Black families around the country who have demanded a better education and a better future for their children.

It is conspicuously not for the advancement of the millions of Black families trying to escape failing systems and schools.

The manifesto proclaims to raise questions about the role of black families and communities in shaping the schools that serve their children.

The strong ties alone between Dukes (who remains NAACP's most - influential board member) and AFT alone, along with the presence of Baby Boomer teachers in the outfits membership, all but ensures that the concerns of black families are secondary to traditionalist interests.

The median household income of black families in West Haven is higher than that of Hispanic families [4], so black families may indeed have more school choice agency than Hispanic families.

Obviously we now know how the terrible institution of slavery ruined generations of black families.