Sentences with phrase «among black male»

For the first time this year, we are taking an «Edcamp» approach, a participant - driven teacher development approach that allows for more voices to be heard among black male educators.

They've offered all - too - rare and meaningful opportunities for Black male educators and their supporters across the region to gather for what often turns out to be an educational and recharging experience that — in and of themselves — helps combat the high turnover rate typically found among Black male educators.

But he knew that black unemployment never sank below ten percent; and among black males under twenty - five, unemployment has ranged up to fifty percent in some recent years.

But when these two statistics began to diverge, and AFDC cases increased despite falling unemployment rates among black males, Moynihan felt that changes within the black community were decoupling economic opportunity and family stability.

We have to go to the disaster that encompasses the black family, the failure to close educational achievement gaps, the rise of worklessness among black males, the increase in crime, and, behind all these, there are other factors in infinite regress.

The 2008 Schott Foundation report on high school graduation among black males found that only 19 percent of black males in Indianapolis, 20 percent in Detroit, 27 percent in Norfolk, Virginia, 29 percent in Rochester, New York, and 47 percent nationally were graduating from high school.

For example, the introduction of minimum - competency exams only increased the probability of dropping out among black males.

And though he unfortunately talks about «intergenerational impacts [that are] strongest among black males» in the prison population, he does at least, in the end, get to the nitty - gritty question for educators:

Counselor support can also make a tremendous difference for students from low - income families and students from underrepresented groups, as in the examples of counselors helping students of Mexican descent build stronger relationships at school (Malott et al., 2010) and increasing the sense of empowerment and aspiration among Black males (Wyatt, 2009).

This is mostly seen among black males, who all sport afros, and females who are all scantily clad, usually of the dominatrix variety.

Among black males, the figure was 3,405.

Among Black males 20 — 24, 51 % are employed which means 49 % are without jobs, although not necessarily unemployed, as that indicated that they are seeking employment.

Not exact matches

I have suggested previously that the academic witch - hunters are responding to a catastrophic outcome among minority students: «Little more than a third of black male college students obtain a bachelor's degree (ideally a four - year program) after six years of university attendance.

Also, throughout nature, fully 8 % of the animal kingdom is * exclusively * same - sex oriented, including examples among male bighorn sheep, black swans, lions, giraffes, and hundreds of species.

Still among adult males, we're mostly a circumcised nation: approximately 80 percent of American males are circumcised (non-Hispanic whites: 90 percent; blacks: 73 percent; Mexican - Americans: 42 percent).

Nicoletti had an edge with voters who are male, more conservative, older or white while Perez Williams led among women, liberals, younger voters and black voters.

In a new study of indoor tanning and skin cancer risk, the use of indoor tanning among non-heterosexual black male teens was found to be nearly equal to that of heterosexual white females.

Among the team's samples were nine ancient individuals — six males, two females, and a child of undetermined sex — from the Yamnaya culture north of the Black Sea in today's Russia.

Among western black widows, in fact, the females go to great lengths to reassure the males that post-coital slaughter is not on the cards.

This three - year grant funds a study examining daily patterns of self - care and mobility among Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic males living with SCI.

You've probably heard it before, but that's because it's a black and blue honest retort to the common fear among females of bulking up: Females do not have the same amount of testosterone (the muscle building hormone) as males.

Among the projects supported during the first Lab are QUESTION BRIDGE: BLACK MALE by Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, 18 DAYS IN EGYPT by Jigar Mehta and Yasmin Elayat, and KILL SHAKESPEARE by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery.

At most times since the mid-1970s, black male unemployment has been roughly twice as high as among white men, and the black poverty rate has been roughly three times higher.

Among the most disturbing findings is that for black males the chances of being labeled «mentally retarded» actually increase as factors associated with wealth increase.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

On the other hand, schools with higher clusters of black male teachers tend to be among the hardest to staff, economically disadvantaged, and lowest performing schools.

And «every year, we notice fewer and fewer Black male teachers among them,» she adds.

Ellis could easily be talking about infusing the country's anemic Black male teacher pipeline or what's needed to diversify the country's teacher workforce, which in many districts has not kept pace with the growing diversity among students in the classroom.

Over 100 Black male educators will travel from Atlanta, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Memphis, among other cities to discuss topics ranging from toxic masculinity in school buildings to creating a culture of reading for Black boys.

Hundreds of black male students look to benefit from mentoring, career advice and general support as a project to reduce truancy and increase graduation rates among that demographic was announced Wednesday.

For example, among those groups with graduates» growth, the Black or African American increased more in both male and female when compared to other racial group, with Black or African American males increasing more than females.

Among public universities whose student populations are at least 5 percent black and one - quarter low - income, Rutgers - Newark had the second - highest black male graduation rate in the nation in 2013 and the fifth - highest black graduation rate overall.

Since Johnson arrived at Mann in 2014, there have been improvements among black and Latino males.

Master Class is a two - year paid summer program to get Black male college students who may be considering a teaching career direct experience assisting with — and even leading — summer class instruction for public school students, helping to build both skills and confidence among these future educators.

The event — open to everyone — aims to advance collaboration, networking, policy solutions, and professional development among male African American teachers to ensure we grow and continue the legacy of black male educators as fierce and relentless advocates of their children and communities.

Fifty - three percent of the Dominion State's young black men in fourth grade were functionally illiterate in 2011, a mere one point decline from nine years ago; this trails the eight percentage point decline nationwide, and the even more dramatic 13 - and 16 point declines in functional illiteracy among young black male fourth - graders in respectively, Florida and Alabama.

Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative, transmedia project that uses video to facilitate a conversation among black men from diverse backgroBlack Males is an innovative, transmedia project that uses video to facilitate a conversation among black men from diverse backgroblack men from diverse backgrounds.

Gordon Parks and Roy DeCarava among photographers, black males.

At the Whitney Museum, Golden organized many exhibitions including the 1993 Biennial Exhibition (directed by Elisabeth Sussman); «Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art» (1994 - 1995) and «Bob Thompson: A Retrospective» (1998) among others.

His work has been included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial; Black Male, also at the Whitney Museum; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, among others.

Barbara Kruger's adoption of advertising techniques emphasized the coercive authority of language while work by Renée Cox and Catherine Opie, among many others, brought renewed attention to the politics of the body — be it the black male body in the case of Cox's photographic collage, or the gay, lesbian and transgendered subjects of Opie's reverent photographic portraiture.

A multi-screen, documentary - style video installation, «Question Bridge: Black Males in America» presents a dynamic series of «exchanges» among black men, who span generations and backgrounds, about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant in this post-Obama era and in the wake of Ferguson and countless other police involved killings of African American men that have dominated the news for more than a yearBlack Males in America» presents a dynamic series of «exchanges» among black men, who span generations and backgrounds, about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant in this post-Obama era and in the wake of Ferguson and countless other police involved killings of African American men that have dominated the news for more than a yearblack men, who span generations and backgrounds, about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant in this post-Obama era and in the wake of Ferguson and countless other police involved killings of African American men that have dominated the news for more than a year now.

But I think what has already occurred through several series of exhibitions — mine among others, such as Thelma Golden's Black Male (1994 — 95)-- is awareness that art and exhibitions have the power to inscribe another regime of vision in ways the public can be included.

Quiz Ref IDThe elevated odds of suicidal behavior among girls and the lower odds among non-Hispanic blacks are consistent with prior studies.1, 3,7,37 It is well documented that, although females have higher rates of nonlethal suicidal behavior, males have higher rates of suicide death — a difference due in part to the more lethal methods used by males in their suicide attempts (eg, firearms).

Overall, among the 817 participants enrolled in the study, 344 (42 %) were male and all were black.

Logistic regression is employed to explore the racial / ethnic disproportionality in behavioral disorder diagnoses and psychiatric treatment provision among 8763 males (57.7 % Black, 11.8 % Hispanic) and 1,347 females (53.7 % Black, 7.6 % Hispanic) admitted to long - term juvenile justice residential placements in Florida.