Sentences with phrase «white students from»

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

White students from poor families are doing better in schools across the state than black students from families with money.

With many suburban neighborhoods divided into racial clusters, white students from white neighborhoods are attending almost all - white schools, while...

The plaintiff's attorney, Arthur Benson, and his expert witnesses assured Judge Clark that if he ordered the requested improvements the school district would draw tens of thousands of white students from the suburbs back into the district.

Black students learn more from black teachers and white students from white teachers, suggesting that the racial dynamics within classrooms may contribute to the persistent racial gap in student performance, at least in Tennessee.

White students from families with below average incomes are much more effectively taught mathematics in the City's middle schools than are (the relatively few) Blacks students from more prosperous families:

To comply with NCLB, the Richland Parish School Board notified parents that the Rayville Elementary School was failing, but on the advice of its legal counsel it prohibited Rayville's white students from transferring to certain other schools because of provisions «in the federal Richland Parish School desegregation case.»

This referred to a decision of the Fifth Circuit in 1968, in a consolidated case involving dozens of school districts, that purported to prevent white students from making transfers under freedom - of - choice plans if the result would be to create «all Negro» schools.

I'd never heard the term, but suddenly we envisioned McCarver as a school of excellence — good enough to pull in white students from the more affluent neighborhoods.

However, when they get to college, most find themselves for the first time in an environment of predominantly white students from higher - income communities.

Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

A White student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more than four times as likely to be brought to grade level in eighth grade reading than a Black student from a lower - income family.

Not exact matches

Briefly known as «Suspect 2,» the man in the white baseball hat in the background was then -19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American college student from Cambridge.

In a recent article in Time, Martha White covered the rise of prepaid offerings on college campuses and the benefits some of these schools may receive from marketing them to students.

White's article highlights the new Wolfpack One card at North Carolina State University, which combines a student ID with a prepaid debit card from U.S. Bank.

After more than a day of criticism from the students, the White House said the president would hold a «listening session» with unspecified students Wednesday and meet Thursday with state and local security officials.

The comment came during a White House listening session marked by poignant testimony from students and parents affected by school shootings.

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

The shooting in Florida prompted the White House to highlight the administration's actions as students from the school included Mr. Trump among the politicians they criticized for failing to keep them safe.

The mass shooting has prompted a wave of youth activism that has reverberated from South Florida to Washington, where hundreds of students gathered outside the White House gates on Wednesday before the listening session, chanting, «Enough is enough!»

On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

But it's hard to imagine students from the largely white, solidly middle - class Florida suburb being painted as «thugs» or «extremists» for their actions.

That doesn't mean white students should be separated from «colored» students, just because some might think it's okay.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

Taylor is also one of several black students who told me that white students would often touch her hair without permission and make comments about its texture and differences from white hair.

Taylor remembers one white student joking that they were «as free as Rosa Parks» grandchildren,» prompting laughter from others.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

told a group of students who visited the White House that many of his ideas had come from students.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

That is why the loudest yelps about white privilege come from pale - skinned students at the most expensive liberal arts colleges.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

The blacks, advised by two white women students from Cape Town University, are to put on a play in their own tribal language, whose general drift, if not clear from the action, will be explained by locals at your side.

Activists usually are from the middle class; in the United States they tend to be white, from the northeast or from large cities in the west and midwest; women, college students and «modernist» Protestant clergy have been conspicuously represented.

Inside, as young student chefs in towering white toques scurried up and down the large staircases, several dozen executives from across the food industry gathered around wine, appetizers, and several jugs of what was labeled «Mexican Lime with Chia Seed Water» — basically a chia fresca.

Hard to believe, but I'm not making my own Thanksgiving dessert this year — I gave in and am buying a white chocolate pumpkin cheesecake from the local culinary institute as part of a fundraiser for my college's business students.

Connor Fraley, a student at nearby Belmont University, told the Tennessean he was in a Ford truck with three friends when they rolled up alongside the white Denali to inform the driver there was a strange smell coming from his exhaust.

My 8 month - old daughter sees me in my white coat & stethoscope at least a couple times a week (I'm a medical student), and she's happy to let me listen to her heart from time to time.

Removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias may reduce calorie and sugar consumption, but it may also lead students to take less milk overall, drink less (waste more) of the white milk they do take, and no longer purchase school lunch.

Halls understood her issues from the get - go, says Schein; when it came to grabbing the students» attention, the white cinder block walls and stainless steel of the cafeteria could not compete.

The results published in the journal Clinical Therapeutics [i] showed white milk sales increased by 141 % from 7.4 % of the students to 17.9 %.

She chose Jason Lee School, which serves a fairly even mix of Asian, white, Latino and African American students, three - fourths of them from low - income families.

Michaela «Churro» White is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is currently a second - year student majoring in International Affairs at UGA.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

Last spring, a class of fifth - grade students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District descended on the South Lawn of the White House to help us dig, mulch, water and plant our very first kitchen garden.

Based on 2010 statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of black students, 77 percent of Latino students, and 68 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native students were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, compared to only 28 percent of white students.

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

«The families and students suffering from the heartbreak of gun violence deserve real leadership, not a White House that cravenly tiptoes around the NRA,» House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.

There were some white people who helped her children, but she remembered them coming home from school describing how they'd been teased by other students because of their race.