Sentences with phrase «white school seems»

Sometimes their status as black males in a predominantly white school seems to at issue; at other times it is simply their very different life circumstances.

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The White House seems not to have denied the incident to the Times, only clarifying that the girls» track team was from another school.

Alex Whiting, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at Harvard Law School, said he found it «striking» that «Mueller seems to be preparing the report with an expectation that it will eventually become public.»

In fact, «Catholic high schools seem to correct the tragedy where minority students fall further and further behind white students the longer they stay in school.»

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

When I observed how many kids seemed to prefer the chocolate milk, my wife informed me that since the new USDA guidelines call for restricting fat even more, the school will soon limit its milk offerings to 1 % white milk, skim white milk, and skim chocolate milk.

Cosmetology doesn't seem like a good option, as I feel completely smothered by the strict black or white, no black - and - white patterns, dress code at my school...

It's clear why Linklater and White would tackle something like School of Rock, enfolding both artists» affection for professional outsiders married to the questioning of the system in a giant, sloppy embrace; the problem with the picture is that nothing about it seems especially organic: the kids are cute, Black is cute, Joan Cusack is severe and cute, and the parents who want to kill Dewey come around in the end mainly because the narrative strictures of stuff like this demands that they do.

It's true that a single school - board member with an agenda or strong political views can jeopardize an entire curriculum, but the teacher - leader network that White and Kockler have constructed in Louisiana seems likely to insulate students from the passions and politics of the moment.

The research seems to indicate, says Tuck, that if schools in the poorest, mostly white districts are better resourced than even schools in the wealthiest, high - minority districts, there would seem to be factors beyond funding formulas and district property taxes in play.

In my last post, I made this argument: it seems unfair to me that schools that are wealthier, whiter and with less English learners seem to do better on the Core Index Score, the new measurement for LAUSD schools.

There are way bigger problems in the world, but this NYT claim about white parents flocking to private schools in DC still seems way off.

The answer of how to solve the question of segregation seems to be: 1) We entice white kids to a predominately black / brown school; OR 2) We bring black / brown kids to a predominately white school.

Seems like the Obama administration is making some final efforts to tech - enable schools this year before handing over the White House keys.

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

Yet another study seems to indicate that white and Asian middle - class families benefit more than minority and lower - class families from open enrollment programs where students can choose to go to public schools outside of their neighborhoods.

Few senators seem concerned with the fact that the administration's gambit takes away real data on school performance (making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and making it more difficult for researchers to do their work), and lets states and mediocre districts off the hook for poorly educating black, Latino, Native and poor white and Asian kids in their care.

But from the onset, White, who has degrees from the University of Virginia and D.C.'s tony prep school St. Albans, seemed more politically astute than many of his allies.

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

so you get mixed in with a lot rough looking ppl (black, white, and Latin) who seem like they just got out of jail or never graduated high school....