Sentences with phrase «parents of minority children»

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The data shows similar employment barriers also exist for the children of immigrants, especially those whose parents are visible minorities, despite the fact they achieve higher levels of education than Canadian - born children.

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.

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.

According to the Faith and Families project published last year, only a minority of the children of mainliners are mainliners, whereas a strong majority of evangelical parents end up with evangelical children.

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.

We seek through the vitality of influence and power to arrest the injustice of others but impose in turn new forms of injustice because we are never as just as we claim to be: parent with child, children with parents, protesters with establishment, majorities with minorities, minorities with majorities, rich nations with poor, and poor nations with rich.

There is a shroud of gloom that spreads on all areas of the life of the world today, the gloom that is spread over the children of broken families, over single parents, over the unemployed, over minority communities.

Even though single parent adopters of U.S. children tend to adopt older, minority, and / or handicapped children, they are often turned away by agencies.

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 proposal would ease admissions rules for a few of the higher - performing schools with the intent of attracting more minority students, and parents who fear that their children will lose out are pushing back.

Although education is compulsory in most places up to a certain age, attendance at school often isn't, and a minority of parents choose home - schooling, e-learning or similar for their children.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

This is particularly true of certain groups, such as ethnic minorities, those whose parents are not well - off, and women with 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.

The culture of many minority parents is that they strongly believe that access to education is one sure way to break the poverty spiral and provide their children access to a better life.

Because of the scarcity of clinical sleep laboratories and certified pediatric sleep specialists — as well as the high costs, inconvenience for parents and children and the need for overnight staff — only a minority of children with sleep apnea, even in the United States and Europe, are thoroughly evaluated.

'» jokes Troche, the child of immigrant parents who grew up hiding her minority identity on multiple levels in a tough Chicago neighborhood during the 1960s and»70s.

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which schools their children will attend — and other desegregation efforts benefit minority students.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

For example, they suggest that the parents of low - income, minority, and low - achieving children are much less likely to take advantage of informal opportunities to exercise choice from among teachers.

It's certainly true that some parents are dissatisfied and may think their children's schools are failing, but it's worth noting that they constitute a distinct minority of all parents.

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.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Party leaders have failed to respond adequately to the question of why poor minority parents should be required to send their children to failing public schools when luminaries like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Ted Kennedy saw fit to send their own children to private schools.

In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public school parents say they would send their children to private schools if they could afford the tuition.

Parents can grow defensive about their children's behavior, and, especially in low - income or minority communities, many families may have years (if not decades) of negative associations with school systems.

Some minority parents agree, asserting that lower standards for their children is a form of prejudice, the «soft bigotry of low expectations» as former President George W. Bush called it.

What has become clear is that explicitly focusing on the educational concerns of poor and minority children regardless of where they live, and expanding that to the criminal justice reform and other the social issues that end up touching (and are touched by) American public education, is critical, both in helping all children succeed as well as rallying long - terms support for the movement from the parents and communities that care for them.

White parents fled in huge numbers to the suburbs to avoid busing / integration for their children, leaving many cities with high percentages of minority communities.

Although a vocal minority of parents whose children tend to be enrolled in more affluent schools around the country have refused to let their kids take the Common Core tests, no Sylvanie Williams families have opted out.

These include: The Undereducation of American Youth, a study of the 16 - to 24 - year - old population in the 50 states; The Answer: Valuing Youth in Schools and Families, which presents strategies for communities, educators and parents working to keep young people in school and to educate those who have dropped out; and Hispanic Families as Valued Partners: An Educator's Guide, which provides background information about minority families and recommendations for involving them in their children's schools.

Dr. Martinez has demonstrated the highest caliber of scientific scholarship in his research publications on such diverse topics as minority health, effects of divorce, parent management skill building, child adjustment problems, and the effects of sexual harassment.

Of particular interest, the CRPE team found that «parents with less education, minority parents, and parents of special - needs children are more likely to report challenges navigating choice.&raquOf particular interest, the CRPE team found that «parents with less education, minority parents, and parents of special - needs children are more likely to report challenges navigating choice.&raquof special - needs children are more likely to report challenges navigating choice.»

Among the characteristics shared by urban schools include large class sizes, social and disciplinary problems, a large percentage of poor and minority children, and little involvement from parents compared to their suburban counterparts.

While politicians are fond of manipulating the truth, in order to win over targeted audiences, every minority parent in Connecticut should be insulted that a sitting governor would try to manipulate them and their children on this vital issue, for his own political gain.

Also troubling were data showing that many chronically absent students «were living in poverty, minorities, especially our Latino population, and children of parents who didn't find success in school themselves.

In at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice — or a vote — in their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeovers.

In addition to living in poverty, minority children face disadvantages that include living with one parent (as 65 percent of Black children do) and lacking access to preschool (as 53 percent of Hispanic children do).

Across the country, voucher and tax - credit programs are allowing low - income parents, many of them minorities, to choose better schools for their children.

Through an investigation of both informal and institutionally organized interactions, this study analyzes how participation in indigenous, national, and international literacy practices indexes different senses of cultural citizenship (Rosaldo 1997), which, in turn, inform Cham minority children's complex sense of belonging within, and their meaningful intergenerational engagement with, the language and culture of their parents amid Vietnam's post-socialist transformation.

Angry about what they perceived as years of turmoil and indifference to the needs of poor and minority children, the parents and community activists had little faith that new leadership would make a difference.

As charters have proliferated in predominately minority cities, children and parents of color bear the brunt of this destruction.

To challenge the labeling of students from minority groups as disabled, assessment must focus on (a) the extent to which children's language and culture are incorporated into the school program, (b) the extent to which educators collaborate with parents in a shared enterprise, and (c) the extent to which children are encouraged to use both their first and second languages actively in the classroom to amplify their experiences in interaction with other children and adults.

Barriers and engagement in education by ethnic minority parents of children attending Head Start.

Most parents of children from minority groups have high academic aspirations for their children and want to be involved in promoting their academic progress (Wong Fillmore, 1983).

When educators involve parents from minority groups as partners in their children's education, the parents appear to develop a sense of efficacy that communicates itself to their children and has positive academic consequences.

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As a little child (and as part of a minority) i had the «honor» to be exposed to the bizarr side effects of this indoctrination - at birthday parties i got praise / compliments from PC parents for most average things (eg.

Because children are incompetent to bring their own personal injury action due to their minority, parents or guardians must pursue a claim on behalf of the child.