Sentences with phrase «teaching black kids»

Every student has something to teach, and peer tutoring shouldn't just be white kids teaching black kids or the bright teaching the slow.

«We have to figure out how to fix the horrible cultural narrative, which says that teaching black kids is at best rewarding and at worst impossible,» says Wilkins, who now works on civil rights issues at the College Board.

Not exact matches

I was taught as a kid that the mark God put on Cain was that he made him black.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) is keynoting a conference in Brooklyn featuring several controversial artists, including a group that teaches kids how to become «radical agents of social and political change» using principles of the Black Panther Party.

March 17: Our investigative reporter James Fanelli wrote about a Bronx mom Tyeesha Mobley, 29, who sued the city and NYPD after she had called the police to teach her son why stealing is wrong and ended up wrongfully arrested and taunted by an NYPD officer that «black b — es don't know how to take care of your kids.»

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

Black's terrifically funny, and his obvious love for classic rock music is infectious as he plays a very annoying, but very enthusiastic wannabe rock star who ends up teaching a class of prep school kids to appreciate the wonders of Led Zeppelin, Rush and AC / DC.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

And despite the stereotype of a Teach for America teacher as a rich white kid from Harvard, the organization had built a special recruitment team to seek candidates at 103 historically black colleges across the country.

How do you begin to teach black and brown kids who are impoverished?

That means that black kids from pre-k level to 12th grade are not even close to being as represented by the adults who teach them as they should be.

And since many of Ravitch's defenders also teach black and Latino children, makes you fear for the futures of our kids.]

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

But instead of justifying that omission with Black History Month, schools should teach black history year round, hire more black teachers, principals and administrative staff and bring back after - school programs to help motivate, mentor and engage ALL Black History Month, schools should teach black history year round, hire more black teachers, principals and administrative staff and bring back after - school programs to help motivate, mentor and engage ALL black history year round, hire more black teachers, principals and administrative staff and bring back after - school programs to help motivate, mentor and engage ALL black teachers, principals and administrative staff and bring back after - school programs to help motivate, mentor and engage ALL kids.

By pulling back the curtain and revealing that we don't necessarily see things from the same angle but are always open to each other's perspective, my wife and I teach our kids lessons about openness, compromise, gray area vs. black - and - white, and — here's a biggie — the value of persuasion as opposed to whining and begging.

Twice a year I schedule a charity pick - up and have the kids help me put everything in big black bags - this not only helps with de-clutter, organization, and keeping things tidy, but with teaching them the art of giving to those in need.