Sentences with phrase «white children»

For example, 40 % of black children but only 10 % of white children live in poverty.

We do not observe any advantages of teacher - student race match for white children in terms of their discipline outcomes, although we do find a small positive impact on math achievement.

The point about not being able to hold up a black as a role model for white children is, we think, particularly poignant.

The real problem is that black children are underrepresented in special - education classes when compared with white children with similar levels of academic achievement, behavior and family economic resources.

• Black children were three times as likely to live in poor families as white children in 2015.

The same arrogant assumptions led to the removal of many white children from their families and their subsequent adoption.

We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families.

Nearly 4 in 10 (36 %) of Hispanic children, and nearly 1 in 4 (25 %) of white children live in father - absent homes.

The report argues that as a particularly low - achieving group, poor white children would have the most to gain from access to outstanding schools and the best teachers.

How many White children who are counted as legitimate, are living with one parental figure which is not their biological parent?

There are large gaps between white children and their black and Hispanic classmates.

Only 21 percent of white children attended such schools.

What mothers of white children do, and don't, have to worry about.

It's always been the case that many more white children test high enough to enter these programs than black children.

The adoption agency from their local council told them that there were only white children in need of adoption and only British or European applicants would be given preference.

When high - achieving black children were taught by a black teacher, they were just as likely to get assigned to a gifted program as similar high - achieving white children.

These researchers interviewed 130 middle - class, white children ages 7 and 10 and adolescents age 13.

There were no significant differences in inflammatory and metabolic markers between black and white children except for insulin resistance.

This shift has already happened in schools, where fewer white children are enrolling in schools than students of color.

However, by the late 1980s and 1990s, the gap between black and white children grew larger.

Likewise, new forms of «tracking» students were put into place to protect white children from «ill prepared» black children.

Yet across the country, we continue to invest more in schools serving white children than in schools serving African American and Latino children.

Our results suggest that black children and white children with similar characteristics now start school at similar levels of achievement.

With these standards, minority children in urban areas will have to be taught the same thing in the same way as white children in the suburbs.

By contrast, this figure was 9 percent among white children.

Other experts say that across the country, it was mostly affluent, white children who brought down their percentages.

Few questions in education are more pressing than this one: How can we reduce academic achievement gaps between middle - class and poor children and between white children and children of color?

Four of the children are black or Hispanic and live in gritty neighborhoods, while the one white child lives in a leafy suburb.

Twenty percent of African American children aged 2 to 19 years old are obese compared to 15 percent of white children.

White children in immigrant families use center - based care in higher proportions than their representation in the population.

However, our results show that the achievement gap, while negligible among black and non-Hispanic white children with similar characteristics when they enter kindergarten, expands as they grow older.

Using a single composite score placed on a scale of one (lowest) to 1,000 (highest), Asian and Pacific Islander children have the highest index score at 776, followed by white children at 704.

Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Race for Results, 2012 Note: Rankings of states on white children for 1 - 50, for AA children 1 - 46, for Latino children 1 - 47, and American Indian children 1 - 25.

Across the United States, Asian and Pacific Islander children have the highest index score at 783, followed by non-Latino White children at 713.

Further analyses show that graft failure and mortality rates remained higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.

The respondents were almost uniformly white children from middle - class families, so the results don't tell us much about the longevity of other groups.

If an agency hikes up the adoption fees for the most «in demand» babies (typically white, healthy newborns) while «discounting» the adoption fees for babies in less demand (children of color, especially males), they are not only baby selling (see point # 1), but they are also allowing only the wealthier families to adopt white children while «limiting» less wealthy families to children of color.

«Intact bussing» was a system in which African American children were bused to schools attended by white children while their schools were being renovated.

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.

Huge sums of money were appropriated by Missouri under court order to build and rebuild inner - city schools and establish magnet programs to draw suburban white children, with nothing like the success we witness in Wake County.

The approach that was developed, with the advice of education - school professors, was to create «magnet» programs, which it was hoped could draw white children from Kansas City suburbs.

Some Maori, Pacific Island, and poor white children receive a better education than they would have under the old system.

What no one disputes is that the average black child enters and exits the school system with lower scores than the average white child.

But, like its West Coast counterpart, the William Monroe Trotter School, in Beantown's poor Roxbury section, was built as «a showcase for new methods of teaching» — enough of a showcase, it was hoped, to attract white children to a black neighborhood for their schooling.

However, disclosure was significantly different for White compared to ethnic minority children where White children were almost twice as likely to disclose traumatic experiences.

Or that Michelle Obama can not stand white children.

It is an unfortunate fact that 53 % of white children breathe air that doesn't meet EPA standards.