Sentences with phrase «suburban white children»

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It shows three white and two black children checking each other out as movers unload the black family's possessions into their new suburban home.

If you should see a short, dark - haired suburban white woman navigating her children of many colors through a public place, do me a favor.

Parents are reacting to a comment made by Arne Duncan that some of the opposition to Common Core standards comes from white suburban moms who are upset that their children are not doing well on the new common core - aligned tests.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised some hackles when he told a gathering of state education superintendents on November 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from white suburban moms upset that their children weren't as brilliant as they thought they were.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised some hackles when he told a gathering of state education superintendents on Nov. 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from «white suburban moms» upset that their children weren't as «brilliant as they thought they were.»

Everywhere, except in the most exceptional cases, we have seen the resistance of suburban white parents to sending their children to inner - city schools with near majorities or majorities of black children.

As Secretary Duncan told a room full of state education chiefs, «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden --[realize] their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were.»

Parents are reacting to a comment by Arne Duncan that some of the opposition to Common Core standards comes from white suburban moms who are upset that their children are not doing well on the new common core - aligned tests.

He told a groups of school superintendents last November that he was «fascinated» by the backlash from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN: And it's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from sort of white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, their schools aren't quite as good as they thought they were.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

Although much of the media coverage surrounding parents opting their children out of state tests has focused on white, suburban parents, these families are not alone in taking a stand against tests they see as having no value for their children or schools.

If Americans know Education Secretary Arne Duncan for anything at this point, it would be as that guy who claimed last week that opposition to the Common Core national K - 12 educational standards sprang from «white suburban moms» who feared that tougher requirements would reveal their children to be as not «brilliant» as they thought.

At the moment, suburban white students have the most choices, and, once again, poorer children are subject to band - aid solutions, experiments in privatization, and other ideas that only harm them more.

As parent and Connecticut journalist Sarah Darer Littman recently explained, «Democrats from Arne Duncan on down are trying to frame the growing nationwide revolt by parents, K - 12 educators, university professors, and child development specialists as «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.»

It's proof, reformers say, that low - income, minority children can perform just as well as white, affluent, suburban kids.

In 2013, former federal education secretary Arne Duncan famously portrayed the opposition to Common Core standards and tests as a bunch of «white suburban moms» upset that their precious children were being challenged.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan dismissed these concerns, telling a group of state school superintendents at Richmond, Va., on Nov 15: «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were.»

«Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has been supportive of the new rules, didn't help the cause when he said in November that opposition comes from «white suburban moms who [find]-- all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

White suburban moms, among many others, have certainly played an important role in organizing resistance to high - stakes tests in actions that have led to important victories in Texas, New York, and beyond as they fight to defend their children from abuse by a multibillion - dollar testing industry that is homogenizing education and draining resources from cash strapped school districts.

The fact is, the children of the white suburban moms Duncan mentioned had been doing just fine.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan touched off a torrent of criticism last November when he told a group of state school superintendents that opposition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) was coming from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought.»

Duncan, a white suburban dad who has two children in public schools, said he knows that «no one enjoys hearing tough news from school.»

A Round - Up of Bloggers on Duncan's Gaffe About the Moms» that highlighted the work of education bloggers from around the country and their coverage of Arne Duncan's absurd claim that the problems associated with the roll - out of the Common Core Standards could be attributed to suburban, white moms who didn't want to find out that their children weren't that bright after all.

In a November 17, 2013 speech to state school superintendents, then U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commented that it was «fascinating» that some of the opposition to the Common Core was coming from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought it was.»

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it «fascinating» that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

.@arneduncan says foes of Common Core = white suburban moms who find their «child isn't as brilliant as they thought» & «that's pretty scary

«It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary.

In 2013, he briefly suggested that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was «impolitic» to place opposition to the Common Core State Standards upon «white, suburban moms» who don't want to find out that their children are not brilliant — just before he jumped in and declared that Secretary Duncan was right to be concerned that «a laudable set of guidelines» would be rejected for making kids work too hard, characterized most opposition to the standards as «welling hysteria» from the right and left wing, and chided parents concerned about the increasing lack of joy in school with declarations that portions of school ought to be «relatively mirthless» while blaming stories of students breaking down from stress upon their parents.

If you are a white or middle - class family living in Washington, your child will likely attend a socioeconomically segregated neighborhood school or a higher - quality magnet, and will outperform her peers in suburban public schools.

State Commissioner John King and the Board of Regents dismissed parent complaints, and Secretary Arne Duncan brushed them off as the whining of «white suburban moms» who were disappointed to learn that their child was not as brilliant as they thought and their public school was not as good as they thought.

When the former Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, made a statement, «The Opt Out Movement is led by white suburban mom's because they don't want to hear their children aren't as smart as they think they are,» many parents across the nation were infuriated.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

School choice programs are created to bring white students and wealth from suburbs into cities or poor black children into nice, suburban schools.

Democrats from Arne Duncan on down are trying to frame the growing nationwide revolt by parents, K - 12 educators, university professors, and child development specialists as «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.»

Education Secretary Arne Duncan last month blamed some of the Core backlash on «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

The subtext here is clear: Duncan is asserting that «white suburban moms,» driven by the goal of providing advantages for their own children, are resisting the implementation of the Common Core because it exposes fears that their children really aren't doing very well in school.

Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post reports that Duncan said, «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary.