None had prior exposure to Triple P. All were rural or semi-urban, with an average
African American population of 31 % and poverty rate of 15 %.
White flight has left the city with a majority
African American population.
The city has a 37 percent
African American population with historical roots.
Spearheading the campaign is museum director Salvador Salort - Pons, who aims to shift the organization's programming and collecting priorities to make DIA more culturally relevant to Detroit's
African American population.
I tend to think of the legacy of slavery as the effect it has on
the African American population having to battle so long and hard for equality.
As reported in 2014, the public schools now an 87 % Black student population — in a city home to a 60.2 % percent Black or
African American population — suggesting private school attendance for many White families (Louisiana DOE, 2015).
SEI Academy is a public charter school and an outgrowth of Self Enhancement Inc., a non-profit that has pushed since 1981 to broaden opportunities for children, with a focus on Portland's
African American population...
This climate, in turn, was a major factor in the high level of relational trust found in this most unexpected place — a 100 percent low - income,
African American population in a school serving a public housing project, with a white, male principal.
A public charter school, the SEI Academy is an outgrowth of Self Enhancement Inc., a non-profit that has pushed since 1981 to broaden opportunities for children, with a focus on Portland's
African American population.
Growth in a neighborhood's
African American population is also significant, which could mean that these neighborhoods are slowly changing.
For the other variables, each percent increase in the poverty rate would mean an increase of 0.35 percentage points in the boundary participation rate, each percent increase in the change of
African American population over time would mean an increase of 0.75 percentage points in the boundary participation rate, and each percent increase in the share of the population that is African American would mean a decrease of 0.29 percentage points in the boundary participation rate.
This seems unlikely given that
the African American population has declined by 5 percent across elementary school boundaries over the last five years, and no elementary school boundary has a poverty rate higher than 48 percent.
We consider change in
African American population to see if boundary participation is different for neighborhoods that are shifting.
Otherwise,
the African American population would have grown by 33 percentage points over the last five years, or the poverty rate would be 70 percentage points higher.
Since 2000,
the African American population has quadrupled in Byram, doubled in Ridgeland and Madison, and grown by 50 percent in Pearl, Brandon, and Clinton.
The African American population in every city bordering Jackson has grown, significantly in many cases.
Its application for a high school with flexible hours for working students who had previously dropped out was a strong one, targeting an at - risk, mostly
African American population.
Its Edgewood Middle campus, a Tier - 1 school for four consecutive years, secured the highest score on the PCSB tool and serves a predominantly low - income
African American population.
It is difficult to gauge the extent to which the movement of African American five - year - olds from Head Start to kindergarten might have offset positive impacts of kindergarten attendance elsewhere in
the African American population.
Utilising archival images and interview footage of the author and the three social - change giants, as well as historic misrepresentations of the black man in white American culture, I Am Not Your Negro offers an arcing, aching narrative that spans the centuries of abuse and oppression suffered by
the African American population.
The site is interactive and deals with many issues that are important to
the African American population, specifically.
In the 1990s, after two genes for familial breast cancer were identified, Dunston secured a NIH fellowship to study the alleles of breast cancer genes in
the African American population.
In the late 1980s, researchers across the United States began reporting a link between discrimination against African Americans and poor cardiovascular health within
the African American population.
«The older
African American population is growing at a rapid pace, and the burden of aging - related cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease will continue to present a tremendous challenge,» said Lisa Barnes, PhD.
Why is it that
the African American population has a higher incidence of prostate cancer and a worse prognosis compared to those of European American decent?»
The poor, largely
African American population that remained was left with a city that couldn't afford to take care of itself.
That eastern end, with a large
African American population and markedly less prosperity than the western end, is politically much more receptive to de Blasio than the Republican - heavy western end.
One of her mechanisms was to promote breastfeeding among
the African American population who have the lowest breastfeeding rates among all ethnicities.
while visiting a city with a large
African American population, she simply responded, «Because a lot of brown people live here.»
This is a particular problem for African or
African American populations, which are more genetically diverse than other groups.
Two of the network's Tier - 1 schools (Congress Heights and Shaw) place among the top five charters for reading growth scores, and both serve overwhelmingly low - income
African American populations.
Notably, many of the neighborhoods with small or growing
African American populations are also located in the Wilson HS boundary, which reinforces our primary finding (see Figure 12).
Looking at race, elementary school neighborhoods with low
African American populations are likely to have higher boundary participation rates than neighborhoods with high
African American populations.
[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller
African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small
African American populations to begin with.
Some schools buck the trend Of the schools with higher in - boundary participation rates than expected, Powell ES and J.O. Wilson ES are located in racially diverse neighborhoods with declining
African American populations.
A couple of schools outside the Wilson HS boundary (labeled in the scatterplot below) show a similar pattern of small and growing
African American populations as well boundary participation rates that are higher than the city average.
However, poverty is the only factor that is positively associated with boundary participation rates aside from location in the Wilson HS boundary or the change in
African American populations, which means that higher concentrations of poverty could explain boundary participation in areas that are similar in other aspects.
Powell ES and J.O. Wilson ES are located in racially diverse neighborhoods with declining
African American populations.
Of the three schools that draw higher proportions of in - boundary students than expected, Powell ES and J.O. Wilson ES are located in racially diverse neighborhoods with declining
African American populations.
Specifically, the Bronx is one of the most ethnically and socio - economically varied constituencies in U.S., composed largely of Latino and
African American populations as well as increasing audiences originally from West Africa and the Caribbean.
By contrast, the Authoritativeness subscale had poorer psychometric properties when used in lower SES, primarily
African American populations.
Not exact matches
That said, there are certain
populations that are overrepresented on Twitter in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center: young people aged 18 to 29,
African -
Americans, city dwellers, and audiences reporting a household income of $ 75,000 or more.
In Virginia, a court upheld 12 state legislative districts and rejected a constitutional challenge, even though lawmakers made sure that at least 55 percent of the eligible voting - age
population in each district was
African -
American.
Our museum has worked hard over the last several years to improve our reach into the
African -
American and Hispanic communities, since the region has a large
population of the former and is experiencing rapid growth among the latter group.
According to their research, the percentage of the
population that regularly uses the Internet ranges from more than 50 % in Scandinavia to less than 1 % in many underdeveloped
African, Central
American, and South Asian countries.
As the U.S.
population continues to shift toward diversity and a multicultural majority, brands can not afford to ignore the unique preferences of
African -
Americans.
Longtime residents, many of them
African -
American, have been displaced, and the city's homeless
population has grown.
African American (21 %) and Hispanic (18 %) business owners were more likely than their counterparts in the general
population (10 %) to be in the startup phase.
Only about half of small business owners say they have ever borrowed money for their business, including the general
population of small business owners (50 %), Asian (53 %) and Hispanic (51 %) segments, while the percentage of
African American business owners who have used credit (42 %) is somewhat lower.
On the topic of business education, the Gallup study showed that
African American, Asian, and Hispanic business owners were more likely than business owners in the general
population to be extremely or very interested in learning how to build a strong business credit application, choose a credit product, and develop a business plan.