Sentences with phrase «white children attended»

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Her doubts about Christianity began when, as a child, she attended services with her uncle, who was so light - skinned he could pass for white.

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

It leaked into the schools, wasn't rectified by the passing of Brown vs. the Board of Education, and, as recent as 2014, black and white children still attended segregated public schools.

By Brandy Black I was recently asked to attend a meeting at the White House on helping children explore, learn, and dream without limits.

As a child attending Ed White elementary from 1970 to 1976, it goes without saying — that very menu was taped on the inside of our pantry door.

The sentiment is commendable, except that a voluntary scheme would see only the usual suspects attending — the kids who do Duke of Edinburgh, the white middle - class children whose parents are obsessed with how things look on their Ucas form.

It is the children of white collar workers that account for the major increase in people attending university in recent years.

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

In the wedding, which was well attended by other Nigerians in the US, Solar - Percy and her bridge decked up in both traditional attires, while another picture she posted showed her wearing a white wedding gown and being attended to by her first child.

Some 478,000 children — overwhelmingly Black and Hispanic students — attend failing schools, while top - rated schools are reserved almost exclusively for white and Asian students.

«If segregation were not occurring, then all children would live in neighborhoods and attend school in districts with this majority Latino, minority white ratio,» Owens said.

White's wife Gwen; children Mark, Paul, and RaeAnne; daughter - in - law Melissa; and a standing - room - only crowd attended.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

Famous entertainers and performers attend the White House Easter Egg Roll each year At the end of the event, each child recieves a special wooden egg as a souvenir.

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.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

Sixty - four percent of white public school parents expect their child to attend college full time, compared with 57 % of blacks and 47 % of Hispanics.

These findings are consistent with — but not definitive proof of — the argument that systematic differences in the schools attended by white and black children may explain the divergence in test scores.

«Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.»

Her youngest child, Freshandra Willis, wanted to leave her public school and use a state tuition voucher to attend Glades Day School, which was opened in 1965 for white families who...

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

«In 1960, six - year - old Ruby Bridges became the first African - American child to attend an all - white public elementary school in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New Orleans.

One paper that Fryer and Levitt wrote suggested that the gap in early test scores between black and white schoolchildren is largely caused by the fact that most black children attend worse schools.

The geographic area the school serves is 5 percent Hispanic and 93 percent white, but the white children are mostly Orthodox Jews, who overwhelmingly attend yeshivas.

Teachers College of Columbia University did a study that found the typical opt out activist — the target of the Long Island teachers group — is «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

A recent study noted that parents whose children attend schools with mostly white students are much more likely to rate their child's school as excellent: 61 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly white students rate their child's school as excellent, compared to only 14 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly Black students.

A report last summer from Columbia University depicted the «the typical opt out activist» as «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

typical opt out activist» as «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

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

In a city where housing segregation parallels that of our schools, there are no easy solutions to improving academic outcomes of children of color by having them attend schools with their white and Asian counterparts.

The economists found that white children who had been in Head Start were significantly more likely than their siblings to graduate from high school and to attend college; black children, meanwhile, were significantly less likely to have been convicted of a crime, but appeared to receive no education - related benefits from the program.

Attending the same schools that white children did seemed the most likely means to achieve it.

For residents living in majority Hispanic and African American census blocks, the chance of their children attending racially - identifiable, high poverty, or low - performing schools is dramatically higher than for those in majority white census block.10 The State of Exclusion: An Empirical Analysis of the Legacy of Segregated Communities in North Carolina (Rep.).

If you are a white or middle - class family living in Washington, your child will likely attend a socioeconomically segregated neighborhood school or a higher - quality magnet, and will outperform her peers in suburban public schools.

Meanwhile, the expansion of school choice in DC encouraged more white and middle - class families to send their children to public schools, and provided an escape route to some poor children who would otherwise have attended failing neighborhood schools.

In a much - heralded democratic concept like parents choosing the schools they want their child to attend, you wouldn't think folks — especially liberal white folks — would protest it so vehemently.

She thinks Hamilton Avenue Elementary, which her two children attend, could have more white children, she said, but it has an array of nationalities.

The growth of charter schools has promoted segregation both in California and nationwide, increasing the odds that black, Latino and white students will attend class with fewer children who look different from themselves, according to two new studies.

Children in the extended family had nannies, and those not sent to boarding school in England — Mr. McShine and his brother were not — attended the prestigious Queen's Royal College, the second - oldest secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago, sharing classrooms with the islands» white elite.

Moreover, black and Hispanic students are far more likely to grow up in poorer households, but middle - class black and Hispanic students are more likely than poor white children to attend schools with a higher percentage of poor students.