We know
this because racial disparities in grade - level reading, discipline rates, graduation rates, and many other outcomes have repeatedly shown up across the nation.
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.
Not exact matches
Black Breastfeeding Week was created
because for over 40 years there has been a gaping
racial disparity in breastfeeding rates.
Speaking to about 1,000 people Nixon cast her support as primarily driven by
racial disparity in marijuana arrests, declaring that «I want to do it first and foremost
because it's a
racial justice issue.»
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.
However, to the contrary, there is
racial bias in discipline practices
because poverty rates or levels of misbehavior do not entirely explain the
disparities.
While the black community was hit harder by the firings
because so many teachers were African American, the researchers did not find a
racial disparity in who was rehired after the storm.
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).
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...
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.