Sentences with phrase «which white parents»

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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.

Just use common sense his parents lived in Bethlehem they was decedents of King David a Hebrew take into the account Jesus was a carpenter and he also traveled outside a lot so he definitely wouldn't have been white looking to any of his contemporaries he was a probably more of an olive skinned person muscular and the physical appearance of someone that was a hard worker hardly what the Vatican or Protestants have pictured him out to be which is a sickly skinny weak looking person.

Parents who have used this bag swoon over the navy blue and white classic stripe design which lends itself to a very gender friendly style.

To help parents remember exactly what to do, I developed a simple method called the 5 S's, which consists of swaddling, side / stomach position (only when in a parents» arms), shushing (strong white noise), swinging (rocking / jiggling) and sucking.

Potty training takes an insane amount of time, energy, and absolute patience, which are all things that most parents white knuckle their way into acquiring.

Also, this is the only full body pregnancy pillow which comes with a brown, blue, beige or white pillow case, thus offering a choice of colours to the would be parents.

The study, which started in 1998 and has been funded by the federal government through 2009, is following 5,000 African - American, Latino and white children born in 21 cities, most to unmarried parents under the age of 25.

Also, Minnesota's Voluntary Recognition of Parentage form, which establishes a legal relationship between father and child when the parents are not married to each other, spells out dads» rights in black and white: «When a child is born to parents who are not married to each other the law gives custody of the child to the mother.

Though I hadn't given much thought to her technique, it turns out that sounds which mimic the environment of the womb, like whooshing amniotic fluid, are wonderful white noise options, according to Parents.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

He promised that under today's white paper reforms, the agency's debts - half of which are owed to parents looking after children - «will not be routinely written off» and said the CSA and C - Mec would use «every power available» to recover it.

He retweeted a news story referencing «wealthy white parents» in regards to an Upper West Side school meeting which featured a heated discussion on school diversity.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — To highlight National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, which runs through Oct. 31, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino encourages parents to take care to keep their homes lead - safe and to keep products that may contain lead away from their young children.

And in another move announced last week, the government will conduct an inquiry into a long - discredited policy which, up until the 1960s, resulted in tens of thousands of Aboriginal children being taken from their parents and raised by white families.

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.

Above it I added this white lacquer mirror from Bassett Mirror Company (also available here) and these killer navy bamboo lamps (which I shamelessly ordered right after seeing them in my parents» new house).

Black men usually came from two different parents due to which their family values have been divided where the rate of two different parents among white men are relatively low.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

This universal rite of passage inspired her screenplay for Lady Bird, which she started crafting in 2011, soon after shooting scenes for her title role in the film Frances Ha at the Sacramento airport, at her childhood home in River Park, where her parents still live, and at Burr's Fountain, a frequent haunt in Gerwig's youth for its hot dog sandwiches on white bread and ice cream frosts.

The other hot contender for Best Picture was the horror thriller GET OUT which earned Daniel Kaluuya the BEST ACTOR AWARD as the African - American boyfriend of a rich white girlfriend who goes home to meet her parents one weekend at their affluent estate, and discovers that his «having the creeps» is not unfounded.

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.

Almost as shocking as its narrative — which tells the story of literally tens of thousands of children, and the terrible abuses they suffered after in many cases being told that their parents were dead — is the fact that it is hardly known in the United States, where tales of adolescent mistreatment and murder are typically seized upon with a white - hot tabloid fervor, grist for the mill of the 24 - hour cable news channels.

Foremost was Get Out, Jordan Peele's «social thriller» about a black man visiting his white girlfriend's parents» home for the weekend, which earned four nominations.

Appropriate for a comedy about swelling numbers, NBC's latest venture in the multi-camera arena has a statistical basis: Studies like the one released by the White House's Council Of Economic Advisers in 2014, which found that 31 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 lived with their parents in 2014 — up from 28 percent in 2007.

When they arrived, I created a parking lot for them to leave individual questions for follow - up (Post-It notes on a white board works well), which preempted that doomsday scenario where one domineering parent hijacks the entire evening with a personal rant.

They could assign parents to one of nine categories, five of which are: Black / African - American (non-Hispanic); White (non-Hispanic); Puerto Rican; Dominican; and Other Hispanic.

Mandarin is definitely the hot ticket, although an administrator at a school which offers both Spanish and Mandarin told me, «white parents want Mandarin, while Asian parents point out it's only spoken in a few places, places where everyone also does business in English.

The white parents were surprised to discover that not only is the authoritarian end of the schooling spectrum alive, which would be tolerable if not ideal, but also that their gentrifying neighborhood schools exhibit what these parents perceive to be an extreme and outdated education environment, characterized by strict discipline with yelling adults.

Cameron cited the White Paper, which said: «We will no longer require academy trusts to reserve places for elected parents on governing boards.»

The findings suggest a need to understand parents» experiences and engagement within and across both school and community contexts, particularly for parents of color in predominantly White settings in which schools may mirror or compound the microaggressions they may experience in nonschool settings.

The lineup sounds like the cast of a new «The Avengers» movie: a former CNN anchor, a former White House spokesman, and a legal team that won a landmark case in California installing a «parent trigger,» which allows public school parents to take over their schools by majority vote.

In the St. Louis area, school districts tend to be divided along racial lines, and a New York Times reporter covering the story of the transfers heard from white parents in receiving districts who expressed concern that troublemakers will be among the transfers, and that teachers may have to slow down to allow the students from struggling districts, which are predominantly black, to catch up.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

In two of the school districts he visited, white parents tended to be the ones most involved in the parent — teacher associations.They know, for example, about mathematics placement tests in fifth grade that dictated which classes students will take.

«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.

This meant that our teachers and staff needed both technical assistance — to help them make sense of the data — and time and support for the delicate work of forging bonds with local parents and other caretakers (which, for our mostly white workforce, often meant learning how to communicate effectively across cultural and racial boundaries).

The Educational Excellence Everywhere white paper proposed removing the requirement to have elected parent governors, which did not go down well!

It is starting to mirror the opt - out movement, which was mostly driven by well - off white parents concluding that the «poor kids» tests meant to spark more accountability in poor neighborhoods did little for their kids.

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.

«Educators, parents, students, and policymakers are voicing growing frustration with the current models of high - stakes assessments used across the United States, which rely too heavily on low - level end - of - year tests,» said Bryan Goodwin, president and CEO of McREL International, and co-author of the new white paper, Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative and Performance Assessment at the Heart of Learning and Accountability.

But White speaks for many anti-Common Core parents around the country when she notes: «We've already been through eight years of «transformational change» in public education and we don't need any more... I want a [n] Education] Secretary to hand off responsibility over education to the parents where it belongs... Yet, here is DeVos «ensuring» me of «opportunities» for my children — whom she doesn't know — in order to make sure she can benevolently «give» my kids what they need to fulfill their «highest potential» — which is MY job.»

The people advocating the loudest for gifted - education programs are typically middle - class white and Asian parents seeking to maximize advantages for their kids and others like them — which renders the whole project suspect for many advocates of the disadvantaged.

Black parents, please find an appropriately white manner in which to express your unquestioning gratitude.

The 2016 white paper «Education Excellence Everywhere», which was never made law, also said parents would be able to petition RSCs for a move to a different MAT.

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).

We now know that white parents will voluntarily bus their children to segregated schools in cities in which they don't live.

Posey - Maddox would cite this disparity in funding as one of the ways in which white middle - class and upper - class parent involvement and fundraising in «recreate new patterns of inequality within schools» (92 - 3) because they create new norms and expectations that are exclusive of low - income and minority parents.

The upcoming meeting at the White House, which ESA will attend, will provide the opportunity to have a fact - based conversation about video game ratings, our industry's commitment to parents, and the tools we provide to make informed entertainment choices.»

Ms. Kominsky - Crumb's self - excavation «Dream House,» all 33 original pages of which are pushpinned to the gallery's blindingly frigid - white walls, includes a panel in which the young Aline remarks that the modernist hard edges of her parents» aspirational new house make her feel «lonely and sorta scared,» while «Aline & Bob: In Troubles With Money,» recently published in Harper's Magazine, begins with an email from the gallery about a multimillion - dollar sale before plunging into a densely particular account of the couple's inability to manage or enjoy such a windfall.