But if this is true, then why is the black community still left with intense yoke on their shoulders. ... The African American subgroups find that attaining a postsecondary education is harder than it's portrayed to be. ... Some say crime doesn't pay, but to these kids it gives a lot more money than Mc Donald's or Burger King ever could. ... We move in, they move out, and then the property is devalued because of our presence. ... In some form or another Plessy vs. ...

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Russian Schools vs. ... Then there are sub-schools: primary (grades 1-4), secondary (grades 5-9), and senior (grades 10-11.) ... Since there are a lot of immigrants coming to America from all over the world, it would be nice for them to continue their lives rather than starting from the beginning. ... I am more than grateful to be able to experience American culture and I am more than blessed to be able to get education unlike other kids who don't have even that in their lives. ...

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For this reason, home schooled children are more accepted by the public then in earlier years. ... Frankly, I care more about what my son thinks than what a few friends or acquaintances think. ... This offers the same or even more self esteem and social understanding than a! ... Another test showed that home schooled children scored higher on self-concept than public school students (Farris). ... More than three-quarters felt that being taught at home had actually helped them to interact with people from different levels of society (Galen 29)." ...

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Then in September 1958 Governor Faubus closed all the public high schools in Little Rock in what the Supreme Court called an "evasive scheme" to prevent integration. ... County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 1968 v/s The court found a "freedom of choice" plan to be inadequate because it failed to achieve desegregated schools and because it placed the burden of eliminating segregation on parents and children rather than on the government which had fostered it. ... By the 1990's, the proportion of black students in majority white schools has decreased by 13 percentage point...

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"Over 30% of U.S. schools are in rural communities, yet less than 6% of research conducted in schools includes rural schools" (Hardré, Sullivan, & Crowson, 2009). ... Children growing up in impoverished homes or environments have different experiences than those who are not living in these conditions. ... As reported in the National Center for Education Statistics (Rahman, 2009), white students are still scoring higher than black students. ...

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