Sentences with phrase «suburban white parents»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The study employs 200 in - depth interviews with white, Chinese American, and Indian American students and parents in two wealthy suburban communities — one with a large, growing Asian American population — and ethnographic observations and staff interviews at the local high school in both.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

Really bad if the pushback forces succeed in drawing in white, middle - class, suburban parents by convincing them that charters drain money from their high - functioning schools.

Long dismissed as isolated incidents or the protests of a few «white suburban moms,» this parent movement shows no signs of relenting.

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.

I watch higher - income parents, mostly white, buy their way into high - performing suburban districts while demanding a «moratorium» on public charters in order to deny the school choice they exercise to low - income families, primarily of color.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

The claim raised a few eyebrows, given that white kids are on the rise in DCPS, private school enrollment has been declining, and DCPS had to start a fraud unit because suburban parents were faking residence to get their kids into district 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.»

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.