Sentences with phrase «between race and income»

Florida proved that there was a clear correlation between Race and Income / Education levels, and made the case that insurance companies were indirectly using race as a factor, a practice that is illegal under both State and Federal guidelines.

This design — and the relatively small number of private schools in rural communities — has greatly contributed to this socio - economic segregation.64 Such policies, if adopted nationally in the United States, could have similar consequences for economic and racial segregation considering the strong correlation between race and income in many places.

Not exact matches

Occupy Wall Street made popular the idea of a country divided between the 99 % and the 1 %, but its really the chief executives of the nation's biggest businesses that are pulling away in the income race and leaving everyone else behind, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.

All the time these things were going on, the gap between the average white income and the average black income in this nation continued to widen, while the white population says such things as, «We have made significant progress in race relations in the last ten years.»

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

In between is a steeply slanted line that links family form to education, income, and race.

As another way to avoid the trade - off between race - blind policies and student diversity, some have suggested race - neutral «class - based» admission policies — targeted at low - income and disadvantaged youth (9 - 11).

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

Gender, specific age, race and income did not influence the association; the study found that all demographic groups were equally affected by the link between social media and eating and body image concerns, indicating that preventative messages should target a broad population.

By 2008, there is no relationship between college graduates» SAT scores and their likelihood of applying to teach, when controlling for the other variables in the model (college major, undergraduate GPA, college selectivity, parents» occupation, parental income, and race / ethnicity).

It is a story about how scholars have tried to unravel the tangled relationships between race, income, school, and children's academic and life outcomes.

We also conducted a more sophisticated analysis that measures the relationship between a family's demographic characteristics (such as eligibility for free - or reduced - price lunch, median household income of the student's residential neighborhood, race, and student prior achievement level), a school's poverty level, and the likelihood that the parent makes a request.

Importantly, Moe finds that «the effect of choice... is to reduce the social differences between public and private» in terms of the educational background, income, race, and religiosity of parents who would place their children in private schools.

«This is what we are talking about when we look at interaction between race and neighborhood — it's something not explained by income but explained by the segregation of neighborhoods,» he said, adding that the problem is so tenacious that it affects generation after generation of African Americans.

New York City's progress in narrowing the achievement gap confirms that policymakers and advocates can no longer use demographic factors like race, ethnicity, income, or zip code to excuse differences in educational achievement between high - and low - needs students.

A decade ago, the No Child Left Behind Act ushered in an era of federally driven educational accountability focused on narrowing the chasms between the test scores and graduation rates of students of different incomes and races.

It must be said, however, that the digital divide (in terms of race, income and location in terms of rural communities) remains a key factor that some studies indicate are leading to even greater disparities between well - to - do and disadvantaged schools and districts.

Study Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.&Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.&income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.»

To overcome the achievement gap that still exists between poor and minority children and their more affluent peers, we must stay true to the law's core tenet — that all students, regardless of income, race, ethnicity or disability should have access to a quality education that prepares them for success in college and a career,» he said.

A multi-year study of students enrolled in two - way dual - language programs in North Carolina between 2007 and 2010, found that low - income black children in these programs scored higher in reading and math than their classmates of the same race and socioeconomic background who were being taught in one language.

«Neither of those appear to have been considered to date as we have significant segregation by race as well as income, special needs and Limited English Proficiency between charter schools and their sending districts, and we have charter schools draining necessary resources from public school districts,» she said.

Charters, by severing the tie between residential neighborhood segregation and school segregation, might help reinvent the old idea of the American common school, where students of different races, incomes, and religions could come and learn together under a single schoolhouse roof.

Sadly, the Board of Teaching s one of the rasons we have such a large gap between students of different races and income levels.

The Report finds that Chicago has not only made much greater progress than the rest of the State in improving third grade achievement between 2001 and 2016, but it now is consistently outscoring the rest of the State in apples - to - apples comparisons that control for race and household income.

But scores are still low, and achievement gaps between students of differing race and incomes remain wide.

Research shows that teachers of color help close achievement gaps for students of color and are highly rated by students of all races — a fact that is all the more relevant in light of persistent gaps between students of color and students from low income families and their peers who are White or from more affluent families.

The concept of an achievement gap dates back to the 1960s and focuses on the differences in educational outcomes by race (between white children and children of color) and socioeconomic status (between children from low - income and higher income households).

Because of the relationship between socio - economic status and race, trends based on income and those based on race are not mutually exclusive.

Eliminating those differences in test scores between middle - class white students and minority, low - income and non-native English - speaking children is one of the key components of Obama's Race to the Top initiative and the proposed changes to No Child Left Behind.

We wanted to make sure that the lack of association between divorce and improved well - being for unhappily married adults was not an artifact of differences in age, race, education, income, or parental status.

Bullying behavior has been shown to vary with the child's race, age, and sex, 7,8,32 as has the amount and type of television viewing.35, 36 The association between bullying and socioeconomic status, including parental income and education, has not been explicitly explored, but socioeconomic status has been shown to be strongly associated with externalizing behavior generally.28 Socioeconomic status is also known to influence both television viewing and parenting style.22, 36 Model covariates therefore included the child's sex; race (Hispanic, African American, or non - Hispanic / non — African American); the child's age when the bullying question was asked in 2000; and the parents» income and educational levels.

On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31

Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between parenting style and overweight in first grade, controlling for gender, race, maternal education, income / needs ratio, marital status, and child behavior problems.

We expected this association between wedding guests and marital quality to be mostly related to having more economic means, but controlling for income and education (as well as race / ethnicity and religious differences, which we did not expect to be significant here) did not eliminate a strong association.

The associations between marriage and age of marriage to relationship quality, social and emotional well - being, and future income generally hold up, even after we control for social and economic factors such as race, ethnicity, education, and family background.

Using the 1998 National Health Interview Study on 9529 mother - child dyads, they found an association between an activity - limiting depression, anxiety or emotional problem in mothers, and ADHD in their children aged four to 17 years, even after adjusting for the child's age, sex, race, household income and type of family structure [35].