Sentences with phrase «than white children in»

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She is facing a gauntlet shared by black mothers, one that is in many ways far different than those that white mothers of white children must endure.

According to the U.S. Census, by «2020 less than half of children in the United States are projected to be non-Hispanic white alone (49.8 percent of the projected 73.9 million children under age 18).»»

«More than 2,000 years ago, a child was born to two faithful travelers who could find rest only in a stable, among the cattle and the sheep,» Obama said at the tree lighting ceremony, a longstanding White House tradition.

For example, Martin Luther King in the last decade had a dream that one day white children and black children would walk and work together in a land where character counts rather than color.

Repeated studies have shown that there is a greater incidence of child molestation and incest among southern white evangelical christians than in any other group that participated in the study.

Now, compare her children or grandchildren, who are standing in the doorway watching, with my children, who think that chicken comes from a kindly old Kentuckian with a white goatee, and one arrives at an observation and then a question of wider than cultural significance.

I'm just going to say it: this is the best macaroni cheese I've ever eaten — better than the macaroni cheese I ate as a child; better than the macaroni cheese I brought my own children up on when they were little (they don't agree); better than any fancy restaurant macaroni cheese with white truffle or lobster; better than any macaroni cheese I have loved in my life thus far, and there have been many.

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold»In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold»in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

Children enjoy flavored milk more than white milk, but you can control the amount of flavoring and reducing it over time so that they are not getting increased sugar in their diet.

Sure, kids can get calcium from sources other than milk, but the best non-dairy calcium sources are things like canned fish with bones and skin (like sardines or salmon), white beans, turnip greens, and kale — not exactly kid favorites, and children would have to be eating these foods in sufficient quantities three times a day, every day, to get the same amount of calcium as they get from milk.

Overall, one in three children in the U.S. struggle with obesity, but Black, Latino, Native American and Alaska Native kids are more than one and a half times more likely to be obese than white kids.

Schools that serve children of color, who are at much higher risk of childhood obesity than white children, have been conspicuously missing from the debate and experts say the opposition could negatively impact the NSLP in the long run.

And when it comes to these children, who are so dependent on school meals for daily nutrition, it's incontestable that they are better served by the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates than by the SNA's current desire to return to foods higher in white flour and sodium, fruits and vegetables that kids are able to spurn on a daily basis, and school snack bars replete with pizza and fries.

If you've ever stood in the cafeteria line at a school, you will know that not very many children choose white milk over chocolate or strawberry — both of which have more sugar per fluid ounce than soda.

«Black children were slightly older at the first admission than white children, which could represent a subtle marker of diminished access to medical care or a delay in disease recognition,» said Dr. Dotson, who explained other studies have shown that the role of biology in health disparities in chronic diseases is often modest, and there are many other factors, such as access to care and health literacy, that contribute to disparities in care.

In this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enameIn this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enamein a millimeter - thick layer of white enamel.

White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilWhite educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilwhite children.

More than 50 AAAS staff members volunteered 6 April at the 137th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, spending a sunny Easter Monday on the South Lawn of the White House with more than 35,000 children and families, as well as Dora the Explorer, Cookie Monster, and the Cat in the Hat.

For instance, if a school wants children to drink more white milk than chocolate milk, they can make white milk more convenient (put it in the front of the cooler), more attractive (sell it in a shapely bottle), or more normal (give it half of the cooler space instead of a small corner of the cooler).

More than 60 percent of African American, Latino, and American Indian children live in low - income families, compared to about 30 percent of white and Asian children.

There was some evidence of racial / ethnic disparities — among four - year - olds, rates of early evaluation were lower in black children than in white children.

For example, by 1992, the Northern Territory's health department had immunised 95 per cent of Aboriginal children in rural areas — a much higher percentage than for the local white children.

Black children in the study had higher levels of insulin resistance than the white children.

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged since 2008.

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged in recent years.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

Both measures of segregation indicate that children are more racially segregated between neighborhoods than adults, with white children living in slightly more white neighborhoods than white adults.

Both Latino and white children in Miami in 2010 lived in neighborhoods where, on average, more than 60 percent of the children were Latino.

«Particularly perplexing and worrisome is the confirmation by this new survey that black children have higher HbA1c than white children and that the underlying cause of this persistent racial disparity in HbA1c is unclear,» notes Dr. Chalew.

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

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This means that his own journey can't end with his violence unto others, and moreover, that his serial sacrifices for the white child so abused by every adult in sight — save for him — make him less admirable than frightening, a specter of payback that extends far beyond his own experience or representative capacity.

The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, is highlighting that under proposals in the Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper, councils will retain their responsibility to make sure all children get a school place, but from 2022, when all schools are academies and free schools, will have no powers to force schools to expand — even where there is demand and capacity within the school.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of EducatioIn some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Educatioin the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Using data from surveys of representative samples of families that included information on whether children had or had not participated in Head Start, Currie found that white children who attended Head Start centers were less often held back in school than siblings who did not participate in Head Start.

As has been found in gifted education, we find that white children are more likely to receive special education services than similarly achieving racial or ethnic minority children.

«The fact that African American and Latino corps members tend to stay in teaching longer than their White counterparts is very important, given the nation's shortage of teachers of color and increasing numbers of children of color in our schools,» Donaldson said.

White children are much more likely than otherwise similar racial and ethnic minority children to receive special education services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civil right.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), there are more than a dozen other nations where, by the time children reach 15, math problem - solving scores are higher than for white students in the United States.

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.

In Boston and NYC schools, African - American children face school suspension up to six times more often than white children.

However, it turns out that the black children in our sample were less responsive to changes in socioeconomic status than the white children: a one - standard - deviation improvement in socioeconomic status for a black child was associated with a 0.18 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared with 0.32 among white children.

Note that these raw black - white gaps, while sizable, are substantially smaller than those observed in earlier data sets for children of the same age.

The topic discussed in their joint letter is whether administrators are punishing minority children more harshly than white children for the same infractions.

Rather, the authors collectively define racism as any act or situation that, even unwittingly, tolerates, accepts, or reinforces racially unequal opportunities for children to learn and thrive; allows racial inequalities in opportunity as if they are normal and acceptable; or treats people of color as less worthy or less complex than «white» people.

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Superintendent White's plan would allow schools to enroll students on the waiting list if the schools agree in writing to accept a potential «worst - case scenario» of a nominal payment from the state of less than $ 100 per child for the year.