Sentences with phrase «caucasian peers»

Simultaneously, 84 % of all 8 - 18 year olds have Internet access in their homes and the digital divide has disappeared so that Black / African Americans have access to online resources at comparable rates to their Hispanic and Caucasian peers.

Ferguson - Florissant's percentage of white kids labeled as special ed is just slightly higher than the 5.7 percent for their Caucasian peers in St. Louis.

Because African - American youth experienced greater odds of dating violence than their Caucasian peers, culturally tailored interventions will be essential.»

«African - American multiple myeloma patients have higher incidence rates and lower survival rates than their Caucasian peers despite this being a relatively easy - to - treat cancer.

This all tells us for a black man in Virginia to get the same treatment as his Caucasian peer, he must earn an additional $ 90,000 a year.

For a black man in Virginia to get the same treatment as his Caucasian peer, he must earn an additional $ 90,000 a year.

Not exact matches

All I wanted to do was blend in with my peers, which was basically impossible given the (sometimes painfully) obvious difference of being Asian and low income in a community that was 99 % Caucasian and very affluent.

From that larger study of adult Caucasian twins, study authors analyzed data from a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood, ages 12 to 25 years.

«Within most early education programs, many if not most African - American and Latino children are taught by Caucasian teachers and it is these very children, often poor, who enter kindergarten behind their same - aged peers,» the UVA report states.»