Sentences with phrase «u.s. racial minority»

«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.»

Not exact matches

Since 1976 EATWOT has been sponsoring dialogues among theologians in Asia, Africa and Latin America and oppressed racial minorities in the U.S. Major conferences have been held in Tanzania (August 1976), Ghana (December 1977), Sri Lanka (January 1979) and Brazil (February 1980).

While over half of the world's nations have abolished capital punishment, and while international criticism of the U.S. has been intense, America continues to condemn the poor and racial minorities (particularly those who kill whites) in disproportionate numbers, as well as the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, juveniles (here the U.S. leads the world) and sometimes the innocent — and all this to no apparent deterrent effect.

A Massapequa - based business repeatedly allowed employees to use epithets against minority co-workers — even condoning employees programming their phones with a racial slur announcing a colleague's call — the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit against the company.

In spite of increasing numbers of U.S. minorities in grades K - 12, racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with disabilities are not replacing the potential workforce shortfall in the sciences.

Hispanics are the largest racial and ethnic minority group in the U.S. Currently, nearly one in six people living in the U.S. (almost 57 million) is Hispanic, and this is projected to increase to nearly one in four (more than 85 million) by 2035.

The number of white women (all U.S. citizens) earning doctoral degrees has almost doubled over that span, and ethnic and racial minorities, a group that consists of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, have done even better, nearly tripling their presence.

Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all children?

Viral videos of U.S. police officers beating and shooting black citizens have sparked a national conversation on how they interact with racial minorities.

Schools, teacher quality and family income all play a large role in student success, but these factors do not fully explain the academic differences seen in the U.S. between whites and disadvantaged racial / ethnic minorities, including blacks and Hispanics.

The changing racial and cultural landscape of America is certainly a much - discussed topic — some researchers studying U.S. Census data and demographics even say that America could be a «minority majority» country as early as 2050.

White children are much more likely than otherwise similar racial and ethnic minority children to receive special education services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civil right.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week weighed the constitutionality of the practice of drawing voting - district lines to boost the election prospects of candidates who are members of racial minorities.

The AP report, published Monday and headlined «U.S. Charter Schools Put Growing Numbers in Racial Isolation,» says that «charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.&Racial Isolation,» says that «charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.&racial isolation.»

So while «efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers and place them in schools serving disadvantaged and minority students have been very successful,» the report states, «there continues to be a persistent racial - ethnic parity gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system.»

The book includes «lessons and essays about racial profiling, environmental racism, unfair mortgage lending practices of Big Banks, the «overabundance of liquor stores» in minority communities, and slave - owning U.S. presidents,» EAGnews» Ben Velderman wrote.

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S.

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.

«Today, fully 41 percent of all births in the U.S. are to unmarried parents, with even higher proportions among racial and ethnic minorities.

Data shows that families composed of racial or ethnic minorities in the U.S. are more than twice as likely to be living in poverty or low - income than their white non-Hispanic counterparts.

Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012, (U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, June 2013)