Sentences with phrase «with poor black children»

Then fill those schools with poor Black children.

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In a racist, heterosexist, class - injured world, God is likely to meet us often in images associated with children, poor women, black, brown, yellow and red women, lesbian women, battered women, bleeding women and women learning to fight back.

For reasons that are difficult to perceive, someone had decided that this sorry spectacle would make a great human - interest scene for the film as Arthur, the famous, rich black American athlete, nobly descends to the lower levels of life and plays table tennis with poor little African children.

(vi) engage particularly with groups of fathers who previously have been excluded from services and whose children are at risk of poor outcomes — including young fathers and black and minority ethnic fathers;

Some of the potential causes of poor breastfeeding outcomes among black and Puerto Rican women include breastfeeding ambivalence (7), the availability of free formula from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers (12).

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

12 percent of white and Asian children lived in poor families, compared with 36 percent of black children, 30 percent of Hispanic children, 33 percent of American Indian children, and 19 percent of others.

It gets worse, as she adds, «I am left in my more cynical moments with the thought that poor black children have become the vehicle by which rich white people give money to their friends.»

Here's my best guess: This poor child is the only black boy in that classroom, and we're paying good money for his Catholic school education, and here we are sending him to school with shoes like this.

Howard Fuller's memoir, written with Lisa Frazier Page, chronicles his journey from political activist to school superintendent and back again, revealing along the way the monumental challenge of ensuring that poor black children have access to a high - quality education.

This need for cultures that reaffirm the self - worth of poor and minority children (and ultimately, allow for them and their communities gain the knowledge needed to determine their own destinies) is why historically black colleges and universities, along with other minority - serving higher ed institutions, still exist.

Now on the 50th Anniversary of «The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» and in new research for Education Next, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson with Harvard colleagues James Quane and Jackelyn Hwang, find poor black children today are increasingly likely to grow up in family units in the inner city whose dire circumstances affect every aspect of their lives.

The biggest problem with the report is the underlying philosophy that Ferguson, Schwartz and others advance with their so - called multiple pathways: That poor white, black and Latino children are incapable of college - level learning.

Through that time much finger - pointing has taken place with poverty, poor parenting, bad teachers, etc. as the reasons why Black children continue to lag behind their White counterparts.

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.

That might be because many black children are poor, with less educated parents and fewer books at home.

Families in districts with majorities of poor black and Latino children are increasingly pushing back against educator recruitment groups like Teach for America, scorning their efforts as education tourism for privileged Ivy Leaguers.

While each subgroup of students — including economically disadvantaged children — made progress this year, achievement gaps remained stubbornly large: 92 percent of white students were proficient in reading, for example, compared with 52 percent of Hispanic students, 44 percent of black students and 42 percent of poor children.

Seeking, in his own words, «a crudity in style to match the crudity of my surroundings in the poor area of NYC,» Oldenburg adopted a papier - mâché technique that he found in a children's art book, using tattered scraps of newspaper and wheat paste to make objects that he then splattered with black paint.

The following statistics have been reported for this region: 10 % poor; $ 48,834 median yearly income; 78 % non-Hispanic white; 11 % African American / black; 88 % high school education or more; and 73 % marriage rate for families with children (FedStats, 2002; NCES, 2001).

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.