Sentences with phrase «major racial disparities»

April 4, 2018 • Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., his hometown still has major racial disparities in mortality and other measures of health.

Not exact matches

One of the major tasks facing the U.S. church today is giving folks the tools with which to process and interpret their firsthand encounters with economic and racial disparities that characterize our hemisphere.

Currie and Alexander's study suggests that the characteristics of highly segregated neighborhoods may be a major factor behind such persistent racial health disparities.

«Cancer is a major burden for all racial and ethnic groups in San Francisco, but the impact falls disproportionately upon specific racial and socioeconomic groups, causing persistent disparities,» said first author Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and associate director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

During the ensuing decades major desegregation and compensatory education programs were undertaken with the intention of rectifying these racial disparities.

As Arne Duncan said at the time, «racial discrimination is a major problem today,» and disparities are «not caused by differences in children.»

A major reason for doing so is that racial disparities associated with suspensions are glaring: Suspensions of African - American students occur at rates three to four times higher than the state average for all students.

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

Rescinding this guidance would be a major setback for students, and for teachers who are committed to implementing evidence - based strategies that address the root causes of student misbehavior and end racial discipline disparities in our schools.

Twenty - three major organizations from across the country also signed a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, in which they stressed: «This federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that communities can work together to create solutions that bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and provide support so that all students can succeed in our nation.»

If we continue relying on property taxes as its major source of funding, we further racial disparities in our cities and deprive most minority children of a quality education.

This paper provides an overview of racial variations in health and shows that differences in socioeconomic status (SES) across racial groups are a major contributor to racial disparities in health.

She said racial disparity is still a major problem in the Massachusetts criminal justice system.