Sentences with phrase «states than white children»

The report, Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children, says that last year, for the first time, more children of color were born in the United States than white children and that by 2018, children of color will represent a majority of children in this country.

Not exact matches

According to the U.S. Census, by «2020 less than half of children in the United States are projected to be non-Hispanic white alone (49.8 percent of the projected 73.9 million children under age 18).»»

According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), there are more than a dozen other nations where, by the time children reach 15, math problem - solving scores are higher than for white students in the United States.

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Superintendent White's plan would allow schools to enroll students on the waiting list if the schools agree in writing to accept a potential «worst - case scenario» of a nominal payment from the state of less than $ 100 per child for the year.

Both white and minority children in Connecticut's magnet schools showed stronger connections to their peers of other races than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in this research commissioned by the state of Connecticut.

As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

For residents living in majority Hispanic and African American census blocks, the chance of their children attending racially - identifiable, high poverty, or low - performing schools is dramatically higher than for those in majority white census block.10 The State of Exclusion: An Empirical Analysis of the Legacy of Segregated Communities in North Carolina (Rep.).

In each of the five states with the largest differences in lost instruction — Nevada, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee — researchers found that Black children lost more than 107 days per 100 enrolled than their white peers with disabilities.

According to Losen's report, Black children with disabilities in most states lost about 50 days more than their white peers, and they were consistently found to lose more instruction time in all states that reported data, except in Wyoming and Hawaii.

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22

Similarly, while Alabama often scores well below the national average on the overall Kids Count rankings and has a higher rate of overall poverty, its rankings rise when examined by different races and ethnicities — and the disparities (differences in overall scores for white non-Hispanic children and African - American non-Hispanic children or Hispanic children) are much smaller than many northern states.

More than half of black and Hispanic children live in low - income families, compared to less than 20 percent of Asian and white children; the state average is 32 percent.