Sentences with phrase «racial problems in»

The West Virginia Human Rights Commission has initiated a formal investigation of racial problems in a school district that rights officials say has produced more complaints of racism than any other in the state in recent years.

Not exact matches

Three years ago the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag highlighted the racial representation problem in the entertainment industry — especially in film.

For example, Reed says that if the employee in question recently «made complaints of racial or gender discrimination, yet the behavior or performance problem does exist, it's a good idea to talk to an attorney about how you might approach that person.»

Private school students, teachers and administrators all report fewer racial problems than in public schools.

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

If they spent 1/10 the time, money and attention to unwed mothers, poor families, and the racial divide in adoptions (everyone wants a white baby, no one wants ethnic babies, ethnic toddlers, or white or ethnic teenagers), then maybe women would be less scared about having problem / unwanted pregnancies.

This is certainly not a problem to be seen exclusively in its racial dimension, but race is an important factor.

Yet even in this year of racial turmoil, death and tragedy, the majority of Protestant clergymen in the progressive state of California had not devoted a single sermon to racial problems.

The problem of inclusion and exclusion has been especially acute with respect to racial groups but it has also arisen in connection with the national, linguistic, and ethnic groups who have come as immigrants to these shores.

One example of this is provided by the problem of racial antipathy, a problem that has been accentuated rather than diminished in the recent development of our civilization.

To help evangelicals grapple with the problems of implicit racial bias, Christian leaders must come to realize how deeply and personally experienced these problems are for so many in society and in the church.

With the emergence of new concern in our own century for the people caught in problems of urbanization, racial discrimination, industrialization, and the like, the churches moved first — through the so - called social gospel movement — to correct the previous emphasis on soul - saving as dealing only with individual persons.

In those places, particularly universities, where affirmative action has been most avidly embraced, the goal of racial equality and harmony is farther away than ever; and the inevitable response to this problem is an even more comprehensive and ambitious departure from the standard of color - blind policies.

Co-operation in the conquest of racial, national, economic, and social problems will by itself lead to the securing and maintaining of world peace.

Not because any biological inferiority results from a mixing of racial stocks, but because in the present state of society tensions are more often increased than abated by it, intermarriage is on the whole a step away from the solution of the race problem rather than toward it.

Economic class differences in the U.S. have caused problems — frequently racial ones — at cheap or free - admission high school events.

«You'll see on the backs of our shirts that we're highlighting a longtime problem of racial profiling and unjust violence against blacks in our country,» said Maya Moore in a pregame press conference.

Ask teens how they would address problems in their community, including economic inequality, racial tension or homelessness, to open the door to a dialogue around social justice.

Get help coping with equality / submission concerns, finances, family planning, parenting, in - laws, remarriage, blended families, domestic violence, sexuality problems, gender issues, health concerns, pornography, secrecy, housework, stress, cultural or racial differences, and even sleeping together.

Irving now devotes herself to working with white people exploring the impact white skin can have on perception, problem solving, and engaging in racial justice work.

I don't fully understand the present dynamic, and I don't think we will find the answer to our current problems by solely looking at the history of racial injustice in this country.

«Our country has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions,» Roberts wrote.

«The NASUWT welcomes the publication of this audit as a step to confirming the well - documented problem of racial discrimination at work and in our public life.

I'm proud of my role as Miranda, and if the popularity of the series will help me to raise awareness of the critical problems I'm running to fix in New York — like inequality, underfunded public schools, mass incarceration, and racial injustice — then I'm comfortable with that.

[96] During his first State of the State address in January 1963, Romney declared that «Michigan's most urgent human rights problem is racial discrimination — in housing, public accommodations, education, administration of justice, and employment.»

The racial gap between students and teachers in the Syracuse and Rochester school district is a complicated problem with no obvious solutions.

When cigarette use in the past month was examined, adolescents from every racial group, including whites, had even higher odds for attempting suicide in the past year ranging from 2.1 - 2.7, suggesting a link between these problem behaviors.

«Racial disparities in cancer mortality in general and cervical cancer specifically continue to be a vexing problem in the United States,» they write.

For racial disparities in legal outcomes, such acknowledgment of potential problems need not be cast as a «political issue.»»

The findings, published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hold implications for dealing not only with the problem of aggressive behavior in individuals, but also for better understanding of large - scale, long - standing cross-group conflicts such as the Arab - Israeli clash and racial strife in the United States.

«Racial inequality in educational outcomes is one of the biggest problems facing America today,» Adam said.

«We think that reducing implicit racial bias in children could be a starting point for addressing a pernicious social problem,» Heyman said.

The assessment will obtain data on environmental and psychosocial factors that may account for socioeconomic, racial and ethnic differences in problem behavior.

The last category of struggle women foresee would be that her inter racial children may encounter problems in this world.

His concern with social justice, which manifested itself in The Sun Shines Bright also became more evident during the early»60s, in films such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), all of which sought to address problems of racial prejudice.

Reflecting on this nearly four years later and there is still immense racial hatred in America and other irresolvable political problems.

That's true whether it's Spike Lee, reaffirming not just racial equality but also an empowering sense of black pride with Grand Prix winner «BlacKkKlansman» (his first film in competition since «Jungle Fever» in 1991), or Jury Prize winner Nadine Labaki, whose harrowing child - endangerment drama «Capernaum» calls attention to the problem of neglected children in Beirut.

Revisiting this topic in 2015, the many contributors to this issue of Education Next, writing from a broad range of perspectives, reveal that single parenthood is no longer limited to one racial group but constitutes a problem, with serious consequences for children, that still needs to be addressed.

As those who have studied the racial educational gaps in our public elementary and secondary schools have noticed, throwing children together does not solve the problems of dominance; it can, in fact, exacerbate them.

New York State did not actively encourage racial segregation in the Yonkers public schools and therefore bears no financial responsibility for remedying the problem, a federal judge ruled last week.

This longstanding problem has roots in America's racial history of white supremacy, and this country will never be whole until it acts justly by reckoning with its own past.

Conservatives think it's a problem to include social justice issues in the reform movement, because it threatens to splinter coalitions by introducing divisive racial and social issues.

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that significant adversity during childhood (e.g., from abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, deep and persistent poverty, and / or the cumulative burdens of racial or ethnic discrimination) can contribute to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and chronic health impairments such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes cancer, and depression, among many others.

Kahlenberg and Potter acknowledge the CRP's methodological problems, but dig the ditch deeper by citing one article that appeared in this journal and eviscerated the CRP's study (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector nationally.

«The problem I think we have in this country — and I'm not terribly optimistic that we can solve this in the future — is that we've forgotten about the racial aspect of these problems,» Rothstein said.

In the 2002 and 2004 elections, however, media coverage shifted to other issues, such as the closing of schools, the racial composition of schools and boards, disciplinary problems, and sports programs.

• Students in schools with large majorities of disadvantaged students [who are disproportionately likely to be racial minorities] do poorly on measures of educational achievement, and their schools are likely to have higher rates of disciplinary problems.

Identifying racial achievement patterns, however, is only the first step in solving the problem, she says.