Sentences with phrase «white parents»

About a third of white parents said they think the new standards will have no effect whatsoever.

High visibility of middle - class white parents in schools and meetings elevates their concerns while leaving those of other involved parents unheard.

Both suits were brought by white parents whose children failed to get into the school they sought.

In my research on school choice, one cultural disparity came up repeatedly as a reason for why white parents leave the schools they are trying to integrate.

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

Couldn't it be that wealthy white parents simply have better medical insurance?

But if a school isn't white enough, white parents simply won't apply.

It was white parents choosing segregation that helped get us to this state.

Yet at the heart of this pedagogical desire was really a need to attract white parents, parents who otherwise wouldn't send their children to urban schools.

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.

Critics responded that, no, it was a movement of affluent white parents and not that many of them.

Many black and Latino kids end up in lower academic tracks and white parents protect exclusive opportunities for their kids.

Of course the heart of the problem is that most white parents perceive that their children will be made uncomfortable and even unsafe in a school that has a heavy black enrollment and identity.

Every African - American parent in our survey whose teenage child has a cell phone agreed with this assertion, as did 98 % of white parents and 95 % of Hispanic parents.

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.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

He's a black kid with white parents.

Now the school has an intensely active PTA, led by white parents from Northside.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

Have You Heard, an education podcast, profiles an urban Montessori school in Washington, D.C.. From the podcast: When Maria Montessori developed a new teaching method for society's «lost» children in the early 1900s, she had no idea it would become one of the go - to ways rich white parents educate their toddlers.

The principal of a Manhattan public school where white parents spoke out against desegregation efforts has requested more police at her campus.

«Once a school becomes «too black,» it becomes almost all black as white parents avoid it.»

, Kaluuya's Chris harboring the appropriate amount of skepticism over meeting the upper - crust white parents of his girlfriend Rose (Williams).

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.

I first heard about the reports from a pair of well - off white parents who send their kids to Success Academy's Upper West Side school, one of the most ethnically and economically diverse of the network's 46 schools.

Those numbers reflect what is colloquially referred in education circles as the tipping point, the moment in which white parents pull their children from a school because it's too black or enroll their children in a school because it has the right composition of black folk (typically middle class).

Magazine published a piece entitled What Happens When White Parents Adopt Black Children and Move to Black Neighborhoods.

«Even several decades ago, it wasn't hard for Gary Orfield to convince white parents in his Washington, D.C., neighborhood to send their kids to a racially segregated black school.»

And PS 199 was where NY1 videotaped a meeting in April during which white parents spoke out against controversial plans to integrate neighborhood middle schools.

Among charter - school parents, 70 percent of Asian parents and 67 percent of white parents say they are «very satisfied,» compared to 63 percent for Hispanic parents and 54 percent for African American parents.

They contend that North Carolina's charter schools have become a way for white parents to secede from the public school system, as they once did to escape racial integration orders.

Many white parents sent children to local elementary schools and then pulled them out for high school, leaving many D.C. high schools overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.

... funny how many White parents took money from Michael Jackson for their kids.

This was somewhat of a mystery because it contradicted the experience of European - American children; overly strict and unresponsive white parents typically produce messed - up losers.

This article also comes out of conversations I've had with other white parents, who have voiced their questions about what is developmentally appropriate to talk about with young children, and expressed their discomfort when their child says something about a racial difference in public.

Transferable wealth or the lack thereof, may help explain why the study found that white parents contributed $ 12,000 over the course of a college career, whereas, black parents contributed only $ 4,200.

Yeah white parents.

After dating for about five months, Chris (Kaluuya) and Rose (Williams) are headed upstate to hang out with her aggressively white parents, neurosurgeon Dean (Bradley Whitford) and therapist / hypnotist mother Missy (Catherine Keener).

Lisa Delpit, in her classic 1986 Harvard Educational Review article, «Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator,» explained how upscale white parents in the Philadelphia school where she taught «learned the same kinds of things I had learned about education» — progressive things.

Initially a tool for desegregation efforts in the 1970s (i.e., by encouraging white parents to stay in urban districts), magnets have evolved to serve a wide variety of purposes and settings.

Three years ago, Mr. G. told me, a group of white parents pushed to get the school to move to homogeneous classrooms for reading as well as math.

Terry Moe finds that inner - city white parents who are opposed to diversity are especially interested in switching to private schools («Hidden Demand,» Research, Spring 2001).

Everywhere, except in the most exceptional cases, we have seen the resistance of suburban white parents to sending their children to inner - city schools with near majorities or majorities of black children.

Last April, I sat in the library of the Rock Creek Forest Elementary School in Montgomery County, Md., one of five white parents talking over our concerns with the principal.

Perry, a senior at West Charlotte High, a formerly all - black school on the city's west side, was protesting a court case that found one white parent suing the school system over the claim that his daughter was twice denied entry to a local magnet school on the basis of her race.