Sentences with phrase «urban black families»

One hundred and sixty black leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.»

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A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

Too often relegated to urban slums, the projects have suffered from a concentration of extremely poor families and a disproportionate level of black occupancy.

Yet, as the important research of the University of Chicago «s William Julius Wilson has shown, the breakdown of black families is a relatively recent phenomenon that accompanied the evaporation since the 1960s of the high - paying, low - skill industrial jobs that had brought waves of black families to the urban North.

Dr. Raul Vazquez of Urban Family Practice in Buffalo says the risks of exposure are especially high among young people in Buffalo's Black and Latino communities.

Black - billed magpies and American crows, both members of the clever corvid family of birds, have adapted comfortably to life in urban and suburban communities.

Though he pointed out that some Negroes were managing to move into the middle class, he focused on documenting what he argued was the deteriorating situation of impoverished black families in the inner cities: «The family structure of lower class Negroes is highly unstable, and in many urban centers is approaching complete breakdown.»

It recruits a mix of black, Latino, and white families, in contrast to the homogeneous groups of low - income minority students urban charters generally serve.

Moynihan was convinced that what he was witnessing was fundamentally a phenomenon of the black community, and so could be explained by the tragic history of African Americans, which rendered black families uniquely vulnerable to the kind of social and economic pressures many faced in poor urban environments.

Meanwhile, increasingly middle - class Irish and Italian families started moving to the suburbs, leaving urban Catholic schools to cater to a majority of lower - income blacks and Hispanics.

Profiles of Culturally Salient Positive Parenting Practices Among Urban - Residing Black Head Start Families.

Results are most positive for charter schools in urban areas, and several student subgroups see particularly strong positive benefits, including black and Hispanic students, students from low - income families, and students receiving special education services (CREDO, 2015).

The amended platform language encourages parents to opt out of standardized tests, something black and brown urban families rarely choose to do and overwhelmingly oppose, precisely because they want real data about whether or not their children are learning.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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More importantly, they did not offer a platform for backing charters that appealed to suburban families, especially those from black and Latino backgrounds who are as desiring of choice as those in Boston and other urban communities.

White families are aligned with wealthy, middle class suburbs and black families are examined as they exist in working class urban backgrounds.

The position of black middle class families is often lost when discussing the intersections between race and class; most of the discourse surrounding socioeconomic statuses is based on the dichotomy between rich and poor, suburban and urban, and black and white.

Your book vividly conjures urban America twenty years ago, a time when the fracturing of families, the implosion of the inner city, and the sudden emergence of crack cocaine combined to create what felt like a catastrophic threat to the survival of young black men as a group.

Inspired by his mentors» early «photo paintings» and stark black and white images, Struth developed a unique photographic perspective, creating portraits of families, architectural facades, urban experiences, and crowds.

Sharon Bzostek, «Social Fathers and Child Wellbeing,» Journal of Marriage and Family 70, no. 4 (2008): 950 — 61; Maureen Black, Howard Dubowitz, and Raymond Starr Jr., «African American Fathers in Low - Income, Urban Families: Development, Behavior, and Home Environment of Their Three Year Old Children,» Child Development 70, no. 4 (1999): 967 — 78.

Black, Dubowitz, and Starr, «African American Fathers in Low - Income, Urban Families» (see note 18).

A record 67.6 million American families — including record numbers of black, Hispanic, and female - headed households — now own their homes, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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