Sentences with phrase «of white children»

Only 21 percent of white children attended such schools.

For example, 40 % of black children but only 10 % of white children live in poverty.

What mothers of white children do, and don't, have to worry about.

Once it could not be said of black children, neither could it be said of white children.

The presence of white children should not be required to ensure students have adequate facilities, a challenging curriculum, well - qualified teachers, and a learning atmosphere conducive to success.

Hispanic parents are less likely to read to their babies and toddler than parents of white children, and Hispanic children are not adequately prepared when they start school, the report found.

Twenty percent of African American children aged 2 to 19 years old are obese compared to 15 percent of white children.

Nearly 4 in 10 (36 %) of Hispanic children, and nearly 1 in 4 (25 %) of white children live in father - absent homes.

It is an unfortunate fact that 53 % of white children breathe air that doesn't meet EPA standards.

The apparent assumption that those children could learn effectively only in the presence of some critical mass of white children struck many blacks as condescending at best.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

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.

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, white children comprised 74 percent of the school - age population in 1980; by 2008, the share of white children had fallen to 56 percent.

To borrow from the late great organizer Ella Baker, until the education of black and brown children — black and brown mothers» sons and daughters — is as important as the education of white children — white mothers» sons and daughters, we who believe in freedom will not rest until it comes.

Until the 1960s, white educators and politicians could look at a class of white children in which a number of students were doing poorly and shrug.

When African American parents pressed for an end to legalized school segregation in the years leading up to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, it was not the companionship of white children they were seeking for their children: It was access to educational resources.

Why did the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the previous Labor government confine the «stolen generation» inquiry to the fate of Aboriginal children, ignoring the deplorable history of white child migration to Australia?

Black Carers for White Children: Shifting the «Same - Race» Placement Debate Flynn Adoption and Fostering, 24 (1), 2000 View Abstract Proposes that the placement of some White children with African - American foster caretakers should be considered and encouraged.

The most recent data show that nearly 40 percent of black and Latino, and 32 percent of Native American / Alaskan Native children are obese, compared to about 27 percent of white children.

She is facing a gauntlet shared by black mothers, one that is in many ways far different than those that white mothers of white children must endure.

The graph shows a simple correlation between black - white discipline disparities (the percentage of black students given one or more out - of - school suspensions in 2013 — 14 divided by the percentage of white students given the same) versus black - white poverty disparities (the percentage of black children between the ages of five and seventeen in the district living below the poverty line divided by the percentage of white children living below the poverty line).

For example, according to the advisory, 13.8 percent of African American children have high blood pressure, compared to 8.4 percent of white children.

«Autism prevalence among black and Hispanic children is approaching that of white children,» said Dr. Stuart Shapira, associate director for science at the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.

Five years before Moynihan's report was released in 1965, roughly 20 % of black children and about 5 % of white children lived in families headed by an unmarried mother.

Compared to only 1 % of white children, 17 % of black children suffer from asthma because low - income African - Americans are more likely to live in substandard, allergen - dense housing.

For example, in 1998, 48 percent of black children age six and younger lived in families that were below 125 percent of the poverty line, compared with 24 percent of white children.

Among U.S. fourth graders whose reading achievement was in the lowest 5 % of the distribution — children who were all experiencing clinically significant and severe reading difficulties — over 80 % of white children were receiving additional help through special education.

We find that 43 % of white children were receiving special education services by third grade.

They found that about 25 percent of white children, and an astounding 79 percent of black children, were poor for at least a year during their childhoods.

But long - term poverty was much rarer: One percent of white children and 30 percent of black children were poor for at least two - thirds of their childhoods.

As of 1991, the bureau reports, 57.5 percent of black children lived with one parent, compared with 19.5 percent of white children, and 29.8 percent of Hispanic children.

About 14.2 percent of all white children were in families living below the poverty level in 1989, compared with 36.2 percent of children of Hispanic origin and 43.7 percent of black children, the study says.

In 3rd grade 94 percent of white children and 79 percent of blacks passed the state math test.

(By racial group, the percentages break out as follows: 19 % of white children, 28 % of Hispanic children and 50 % of black children.)

The research also revealed a racial dimension with 56 % of Asian and 42 % of black students saying they had experienced tutoring, compared with 25 % of white children.

The 2016 — 2017 California County Scorecard of Children's Well - Being found that although 41 percent of students in LA are reading at grade level in third grade, only 33 percent of Latino children and 28 percent of African - American children hit that benchmark, compared to 66 percent of white children.

Florida ranks 29th in well - being of white children, 9th with Hispanic children, and 28th with black children.

In 2015, eight percent of all black children did not live with either parent, compared with four percent of Hispanic children, three percent of white children, and two percent of Asian children.

In 2015, 34 percent of black children were living with two parents, compared with 83 percent of Asian children, 74 percent of white children, and 60 percent of Hispanic children.