Sentences with phrase «because of racial disparities»

These policies have sparked controversy because of racial disparities in suspension and expulsion rates as well as incidents in which students have been suspended or expelled for seemingly trivial infractions, such as making a paper gun (American Psychological Association, 2006).

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Racial disparities in obesity rates among the third of U.S. adults considered obese are often blamed on socioeconomic status because of its influence on diet and physical activity, but new findings from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published in Obesity suggest otherwise — particularly for women.

«This continuing gap is disappointing because improving racial and ethnic disparities in access was a key objective of the reform,» said Amresh Hanchate, PhD, of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a study co-author.

From the administration's perspective, though, time was of the essence, both because excessive suspensions and the like were causing material damage to affected students and because racial disparities in discipline represented a violation of students» civil rights.

However, to the contrary, there is racial bias in discipline practices because poverty rates or levels of misbehavior do not entirely explain the disparities.

Indeed, in a 2007 FTC study, «The FTC cited other studies that found tying insurance rates to credit scores tends to discriminates against low income and minority consumers because of the racial and economic disparities inherent in scoring.»

First, the estimates presented herein may underestimate the true cumulative prevalence of maltreatment and misestimate racial / ethnic disparities in child maltreatment because our estimates are based on maltreatment that came to the attention of and were confirmed by CPS.

Researchers have traditionally paid little attention to the role child maltreatment and foster care placement play in shaping child health and racial / ethnic disparities in child health, presumably because they assume that both of these events are rare.