Sentences with phrase «predominantly white schools»

The mentorship program is particularly valuable for students who may be attending predominantly white schools that look and feel different than KIPP schools, which tend to be more diverse, because «there's something special about knowing there's someone who's gone through a similar journey as you on campus,» Stith explains.

And even when there are Black children in predominantly white schools, honors and Advanced Placement classes are as segregated as ever.

Many of these so - called «gentrifiers» grew up in mostly - or all - white suburbs and attended predominantly white schools.

• Polarization, incivility and reliance on unsubstantiated sources have risen, particularly in predominantly white schools.

• A growing number of schools, particularly predominantly white schools, have become hostile environments for racial and religious minorities and other vulnerable groups.

Similarly, the results for white students could merely reflect the possibility that the black teachers in predominantly white schools tend to be of lower quality than the white teachers in those schools.

Too many black students, even those in predominantly white schools, continue to trail their white peers; too many schools have remained segregated for too long; too little attention is being given to teaching students how to read, write, and calculate.

In one particularly thoughtful moment the principal at Banneker wonders why black children are encouraged to go to predominantly white schools to increase diversity, but white children are seldom encouraged to move to predominantly black schools to achieve the same effect.

His roots in Chicano politics taught him about L.A.'s racial dynamics in the 1950s, when «Mexicans» were simply kept out of predominantly white schools.

White families with children continue to live in predominantly white neighborhoods, in part to send their children to predominantly white schools, according to a new study on racial segregation in 100 metropolitan areas.

Predominantly white schools — and workplaces — face significant challenges in creating inclusive and welcoming environments, but various methods are available to do so.

Levels of gang activity in a school are also closely related to its safety, and some schools may be safe for some students and not for others (e.g. a gay student is at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many schools, and black students are at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many rural predominantly white schools).

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Synopsis: A campus culture war between blacks and whites at a predominantly white school comes to a head when the staff of a humor magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.

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Adapted from the 2014 film of the same name, this college - based comedy follows a group of students of colour at a predominantly white school, who attempt to fight the social injustice that dominates their campus.

Sometimes their status as black males in a predominantly white school seems to at issue; at other times it is simply their very different life circumstances.

My daughter has been in a predominantly white school since 1st grade and I often worried about how this would affect her socially and psychologically, she adapted well and at the time saw no color.

The city wants to redraw the zones in a way that would send kids from this predominantly white school to a nearby school where enrollment is over 90 percent black and Hispanic and which draws many of its students from a public housing project.

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In high school I attended a predominantly white, middle...

He left all that behind in August 1986 to attend Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCC - SF), a predominantly white church in a denomination that ministers to the lesbian and gay community.

Only one black was among the 37 university presidents who framed the legislation, and representatives of predominantly black schools were incensed by the weight given to the standardized tests, which have been widely and persuasively attacked as culturally biased in favor of white, middle - class youngsters.

«This will be the greatest learning experience of your life,» my mother told me on my second day at a predominantly white public school.

«Our findings are complementary to earlier studies that showed an association between gambling with an earlier age of onset of sexual activities, however, participants in these samples were predominantly white,» said Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Mailman School associate professor of Epidemiology, and first author.

I went to a predominantly white high school where i was one of maybe five black kids.

Which is not to say these stories of predominantly white, privileged high school girls in New York aren't worthy of being told.

Perhaps inevitably, the viewpoint most favored is that of Cobie Smulders «science teacher, a white woman in a predominantly black school — so it's a mark of just how good relative newcomer Gail Bean is as her most promising senior - year student that the resulting story feels much more evenly balanced.

A newcomer to a predominantly Latino high school in the small California town of McFarland, Coach Jim White (Costner) recognizes the boys» exceptional running ability, their unwavering commitment to family and each other, and their impressive work ethic.

Into the 1970s, urban education reform focused predominantly on making sure that African American students had the opportunity to attend school with their white peers.

Their «Capitol High,» a pseudonym for a predominantly black high school in a low - income area of Washington, D.C., had what the researchers said was an «oppositional culture» in which black youth dismissed academically oriented behavior as «white.»

Using Census and other educational data, Frankenberg found that just a few years later, starting in 1959, residents in predominantly white communities began to leave the county's school system, despite Jefferson County being under a desegregation order.

Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation.

The school, South Boston High School, attracted national attention in 1974 when it was wracked by riots in the wake of court - ordered busing that brought black students into its predominantly white neighboschool, South Boston High School, attracted national attention in 1974 when it was wracked by riots in the wake of court - ordered busing that brought black students into its predominantly white neighboSchool, attracted national attention in 1974 when it was wracked by riots in the wake of court - ordered busing that brought black students into its predominantly white neighborhood.

The suit, filed in 1989, alleged that district officials intentionally discriminated against black students by building several new schools in predominantly white sections of the Las Vegas Valley while building none on the city's heavily black west side.

All family types (e.g., race, income, location) predominantly preferenced high - performing schools, but non-poor and white students are significantly more likely to choose a specialized program (e.g., dual language, expeditionary learning, single gender).

Even after things settled down, a sharp racial division was carved between the predominantly minority schools in central cities and the overwhelmingly white schools in suburban areas.

Journalist Patrick McCloskey spent the 1999 — 00 school year embedded at Rice High School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves school year embedded at Rice High School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves today.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

The idea was simple enough: draw white students to predominantly black schools by offering a special education with a focus on a particular aspect of the curriculum, such as performing arts, or Montessori, or advanced math, science, and technology.

In one public school, six black students left using LSP vouchers, thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district.»

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populschool segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populSchool for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populschool, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populschool rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

The plan created three new middle schools at three school buildings in the predominantly white north end.

It then created a «mixed» student body by assigning to those schools students who would otherwise attend predominantly white, or predominantly black, schools elsewhere.

The findings suggest a need to understand parents» experiences and engagement within and across both school and community contexts, particularly for parents of color in predominantly White settings in which schools may mirror or compound the microaggressions they may experience in nonschool settings.

In addition, the plan to accept transfer students from low - income, predominantly black communities at mostly white suburban schools was, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, «met with acrimony.»

They show the contrasts we would expect between a high school in an urban and predominantly black school district, and one in a suburban, predominantly white, and middle - class county.

Fifth, consider the likelihood that OCR's threats may have the unintended effect of encouraging white and Asian families to decamp (more than they've already done) for predominantly white and Asian schools.

In the St. Louis area, school districts tend to be divided along racial lines, and a New York Times reporter covering the story of the transfers heard from white parents in receiving districts who expressed concern that troublemakers will be among the transfers, and that teachers may have to slow down to allow the students from struggling districts, which are predominantly black, to catch up.