Sentences with phrase «among racial groups»

Among racial groups, black and Hispanic children had absenteeism rates higher than the state average.

Among racial groups, Asians outperformed everyone else.

Since 2010, the civil rights office has issued detailed directives on eliminating racial disparities in school discipline; the allocation of school resources among racial groups; schools» responsibility for preventing bullying; the use of race - based assignments to achieve diversity; achieving gender equity in intercollegiate and interscholastic sports, and support for pregnant and parenting students.

In Black Power / White Power in Public Education (Praeger Publishers, June 1998), Drs. Ralph Edwards and Charles V. Willie examine dynamics of the community power structure among racial groups in relation to public education through the lens of two recent Boston events: the selection, appointment, and eventual removal of former Superintendent Laval Wilson and the changes in the Boston School Board before, during, and after Wilson's tenure.

Additionally, whereas the BioCycle Study had greater racial diversity than comparable studies (3 — 6), our study was limited by different sample sizes among the racial groups, which may have limited our power to detect significant differences in some of our subgroup analyses.

Among all racial groups surveyed, Hispanics remain the most undecided group, with 28 percent unsure whom they will vote for — more than any individual candidate, though Quinn comes closest with 25 percent of Hispanics surveyed.

Pushed out of the argument because it is so impossibly incorrect is The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which argued that IQ and other factors crucial to social success are genetically determined and are unequally distributed among racial groups.

It is noteworthy that hardly any writers on globalization, whatever their ideology, accentuate or even refer to this basic reality of the world distribution of land among the racial groupings.

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The percentage of children who live with two parents has been declining among all racial and ethnic groups.

Neither the decolonization of the post-war era, nor the collapse of the Soviet Union changed the distribution of land among the world's racial groupings.

More than 4 out of 5 evangelicals (84 %), practicing Christians (85 %), and those who attended church in the past week (85 %) said there was a lot of anger and hostility among the different ethnic and racial groups in America today.

The survey spanned various racial, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic groups, and was conducted among public, private and parochial school students.

In August 2012, the Michigan Department of Community Health released an Infant Mortality Reduction Plan to combat infant mortality and reduce disparities among racial and ethnic groups.

In our study, breastfeeding was protective among non-Hispanic whites but not other racial / ethnic groups.

Read more >> Celebrating Mothers of Memphis during Black History Month African Americans have the lowest rates of breastfeeding among all racial / ethnic groups in the United States.

Racial and ethnic disparities persist in the prevalence of preterm birth and infant mortality, and group prenatal care may be particularly useful in addressing disparities in perinatal outcomes such as preterm birth among black women.

The adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 2952: Support, Education, and Research for Postpartum Depression mandated ongoing research to better understand the frequency and course of postpartum depression, address differences in treatment needs among racial and ethnic groups, and develop culturally competent evidence - based treatment approaches (U.S. Department of Labor, 2012).

It will be the duty of the Commission to foster mutual respect and understanding among racial, religious, nationality and other groups in Dutchess County.

The fact that 11 % of likely voters this year are black indicates that turnout among blacks may be slightly less than among other racial groups.

For example, if 12 % of all Americans are black, turnout among blacks would have to be proportionately greater than that of other racial groups for their share of the electorate to exceed 12 %.

According to the poll, 78 percent of New Yorkers are not impatient with Cuomo's delay of any announcement on his possible plans to challenge Paterson, with the high level of patience consistent among all political and racial groups and in every region of the state.

«Consequently, while we were interested in identifying disparities for all U.S. racial minority groups, we wanted to pay special attention to estimating the national prevalence of, and disparities in, substance use and suicidality among these understudied and historically ignored adolescents.»

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

Incidence rates among African American service members were higher than rates in other racial and ethnic groups in all age groups.

The researchers sought to compile standards that more accurately reflect the best fetal growth during healthy pregnancies among the most common racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Among the study's limitations were the absence of a placebo group that could pinpoint the sources of side effects, and a lack of racial diversity, with 88 percent white participants.

African - American men earned less than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to African - Americans in 1999.1 However, Hispanic men earned half their share and Native American men slightly more than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to their respective racial groups.1 The dearth of minority males contrasts with the overrepresentation of males among whites and Asians in S&E, especially in engineering, mathematics, computer science, and the natural sciences.1, 3 Overall, nearly twice the total S&E doctorates awarded were earned by men in 1999.1 The lack of minority males goes beyond the S&E community, but does this shortage extend beyond minority populations as some contend?

The 2012 preterm birth rate among non-Hispanic black infants remains the highest of all the racial groups at 16.5 percent, down from 18.5 percent in 2006 and the lowest in more than 20 years.

A new study reveals that police recruits and experienced officers are more likely than others to subscribe to colorblind racial beliefs — the notion that they — and people in general — see no differences among people from different racial groups and treat everyone the same.

However, the improvement was more prominent among white and Asian women and those in urban areas, suggesting more work is needed to reach women in other racial and ethnic groups and those living in rural areas, Harvey said.

Even when examining only one racial group at a time, the researchers found wide variation in donation rates across the nation's donor service areas: consent rates among Caucasian patients, for example, ranged from 72 to 92 percent across the 58 donor service areas.

They also plan to assess whether there are any differences in the risk factor associations among different racial groups.

Investigators led by Jeffrey Drope, Ph.D., writing in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, say these populations include individuals in lower education and / or socioeconomic groups; from certain racial / ethnic groups; in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; with mental illness; and in the military, particularly among those in the lowest pay grades.

Research also has shown that even when congregations become more diverse, there is a greater turnover rate among members of smaller racial groups.

Even our own research across a diverse group of young breast cancer survivors has shown that blacks and Hispanics have much lower testing rates, which may be the result of lower awareness and access to genetic testing among racial and ethnic minorities,» she said.

«In addition, more research is needed to understand the differences in experiences among different racial and ethnic groups within the same hospice,» she added.

The risk was higher among blacks than among people of other racial and ethnic groups, according to the study.

According to national surveys, African Americans tend to have the lowest intakes of fruits and vegetables among ethnic and racial groups (USDA, 2004; HHS, 2004).

Kristyn Atwood was among a group of children Wahlberg and his friends attacked with rocks and racial epithets during a field trip in Boston in 1986

Under the leadership of president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy has undergone an aggressive push for more diversity among its ranks, an initiative that has seen a large number of women (46 percent of a record 683 movie professionals in 2016) and racial minorities (41 percent of that same figure) asked to join the prestigious industry group in recent years.

The Department of Education's guidance notes that significant disproportionality could result from «appropriate identification, with higher prevalence of a disability, among a particular racial or ethnic group.»

It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

«In analyzing the data, we found huge discrepancies among different racial and gender groups.

Controlling for this allowed us to study whether the narrowing of the gaps among racial and ethnic groups on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was comparable to changes on the highly regarded NAEP exams.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

For the past 16 years, the Puente program has strived to boost the academic achievement of underserved Latino high school students, who have the highest dropout rate and lowest college attendance among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Since the Common Core standards have never been field - tested, no one knows whether they will raise test scores or cause the achievement gap among different racial, ethnic, and income groups to narrow or to widen.

The decline also is notable because it occurred among all racial and Hispanic origin groups.

The decline has been evident among all major ethnic groups, so the racial disparities associated with this form of discipline have not disappeared.

In the end, the most pressing questions in the education wars are not just empirical, scientific questions, but also ethical ones regarding the unfortunate social consequences of the progressive faith, especially the perpetuation of the test - score gaps among racial and economic groups.