Sentences with phrase «than white parents»

Some parenting differences have been identified in specific racial / ethnic groups; for example, in a study of a large diverse population, Hispanic parents were significantly higher on adolescent reports of parental monitoring than White parents, and African American parents were lower than White parents on adolescent reports of warmth (Chao & Kanatsu, 2008).

More Latino public school parents (61 %) than white parents (42 %) said they have received information about how to become involved with the plan.

«Minority parents also may evaluate schools differently than white parents and prefer schools where their children are not the minority,» Owens wrote.

Black parents were less likely than white parents to report concerns about two ASD symptoms — social deficits and restricted and repetitive behaviors.

The researchers found black parents reported fewer autism concerns than white parents.

Not exact matches

Studies also show that the emotional costs borne by children of color being raised by white parents - which often occurs with international adoptions - are less dire than critics believe.

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle - class Christian parents, a fact that — through no merit of my own — has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.

Spanish - dominant Hispanic parents are also more likely than English - dominant Hispanic parents or white parents to see potential harms outweighing the potential benefits of kids» tech use.

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In their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than grades.

Many parents claim it is more soothing than white noise or lullabies.The app also comes with timer options from 15 minutes to 8 hours of continuous shushing.

The Lightening Bug Sleep Clock (Free) app for Android has more than 200 white noise sounds that parents can mix and loop, as well as an alarm clock for moms and dads.

«Since 1994, white prospective parents have filed, and largely won, more than two dozen discrimination lawsuits, according to state and federal court records.»

State Street Corp., parent company of the investment firm behind Wall Street's iconic Fearless Girl statue, agreed to pay a combined $ 5 million to more than 300 women and 15 black employees who were paid less than their white, male counterparts, according to a federal audit.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

The $ 23.3 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received similarly Scrooge - like news for the holidays: The White House has offered less than a 1 % hike, not even enough to cover inflation, although NIH's parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is appealing.

The authors suggest that wealthy black parents are less able to transfer wealth to their kids than their white counterparts, perhaps, due in part to having fewer liquid assets such as stocks, bonds and savings, which can be passed down more easily to the next generation.

As we were talked through how to design, arrange, and plant our beautiful Earthenware Large Planters, I couldn't help but let my eye wander... As Andy, my parents and my bank account will tell you, The White Company is more than a small addiction for me (she says wearing her favourite White Company slippers under my White Company throw...)

Parents fear not: los esqueletos that populate the afterlife envisioned in Coco are charming, wise, and anything but threatening to no one other than perhaps a certain White House resident.

The film — which stars Daniel Kaluuya as a black photographer who reluctantly agrees to meet his white girlfriend's parents — became both a critical and box - office sensation, collecting more than $ 253 million worldwide.

Most of the same key players are back: Shia LaBeouf as Sam (friend to Optimus Prime), John Turturro (having cashed in on his 10 min of fame), Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson as soldiers, and Kevin Dunn and Julie White as Sam's parents in a couple of throw away scenes that cost much less than the CGI that dominates the movie.

Indeed, the study shows that the percent proficient among U.S. students whose parents are college - educated or who are white is significantly less than the percent proficient among all students in countries such as Korea, Singapore, and Finland.

On average, private parents have higher incomes and more education than public parents, and they are more likely to be white.

Empowering parents is one of the best ways to combat the persistent finding that black children are statistically more likely than white children to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities.

* Higher - income parents, college - educated parents, married parents, and white and Asian parents indicated that they would be willing to take slightly more steps to gain information about a school (such as tour the school, ask friends / neighbors, observe a classroom, etc.) than other parents.

«Some parents, in fact, say they feel more comfortable in academically rigorous, heavily minority schools than in schools with whiter student bodies.»

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

* Non-white and non-Asian parents were more likely than white and Asian parents both to choose «better education» as their top reason for choosing a private school (40.5 percent versus 23.7 percent) and to place high school graduation rates and postsecondary information in their top two pieces of important decision - making information (54.1 percent compared to 27 percent).

In the traditional lectures, black students and students whose parents did not attend college performed worse than white students on exams.

I have spoken with more than one superintendent about complaints from white parents alleging their children are being neglected because of the focus on closing racial gaps.

Black children are 7.5 times more likely and Hispanic children 2.5 times more likely than white children to have an incarcerated parent.

Columbia University professor Amy Stuart Wells, for example, concluded that the decisions of St. Louis parents participating in a voluntary desegregation program were based «on a perception that county is better than city and white is better than black, not on factual information about the schools.»

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

• Black, white and Hispanic parents express higher satisfaction with private schools than with schools in both the charter and district sectors, but Asian parents do not.

«Only additional funding will put matters right,» says Mr White, leading a campaign which has contacted more than three - and - a-half million parents in schools which have signed up to the joint letter.

Beginning in middle school, African - American students are more likely than Asian and white students to say they are treated unfairly when it comes to school discipline.11 Black students are also more likely to come from family backgrounds associated with school behavior problems; for example, children ages 12 - 17 that come from single - parent families are at least twice as likely to be suspended as children from two - parent families.

The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

In previous research, Ladd discovered that white North Carolina parents prefer schools that are less than 20 percent black.

Students and their parents submitted more than 1,500 recipes for the challenge, and winners were invited to the White House to attend the annual Kids State Dinner.

Parents, teachers and students especially need to advocate for social and emotional conditions that influence learning so we can create classrooms where youth can thrive — rather than be punished or made whiter.

Black teachers told researchers that superiors, coworkers, and customers — in this case, parents — often viewed them as less competent than their white peers.

Feeding on the fears and desires of parents and communities to improve their education system, many of these «education reformers» are little more than white - collar crooks, stealing and wasting scarce public resources.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

For example, a white female student could be from a single parent household, with a father that is incarcerated and a disabled mother, a female African - American student will have a very different experience of school than a male Native - American student.

They «were designed to offer parents an alternative to traditional educational programmes with the goal of encouraging families, White families mostly, to allow their children to be bussed to schools, other than their neighbourhood school» (Andre - Bechely, 1359).

For this reason, the positive contributions from white families, which tend to be more visible and tangible within the school, are more valued than the contributions of parents of color (Posey - Maddox 2014).

«I am still considered a second - class citizen, and at the fair, people tend to address my white team rather than me,» she sighs, «But we are beginning to reap the rwards of the fight started by our parents.

Alternatively, Hispanic children from two parent families were more likely to be reunified than white children from similar backgrounds.