Sentences with phrase «between different racial groups»

This did not amount to a failure to have due regard to the statutory need to promote, for example, equality of opportunity between different racial groups.

The plans focuses on schools ranked among the very lowest performers on state tests, now called Priority Schools, or those with the widest gaps in achievement between different racial groups and other groups of children, labeled as Focus Schools.

This reflects the increasing approvals mixed dating get, the changes in attitudes towards couples of mixed races and the declining social barriers between different racial groups.

Not exact matches

According to Anderson, most results were consistent across the board, although some variation occurred between different racial or ethnic groups.

Interracial marriage refers to marriages that take place between people who are from different racial or ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds.

Interracial dating relationship is a term which describes dating that takes place between individuals who came from different ethnic and racial groups.

Thompson: Closing the achievement gaps between students of different racial groups continues to be a challenge, not only for urban schools but for schools across the board.

The prize was awarded Sept. 16 by the Los Angeles - based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which bestows the award annually to a city school district that has made notable strides in improving achievement, especially in closing gaps between students of different racial and ethnic groups.

Achievement gaps between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top - performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K - 12 students as a whole, according to a new report.

As Dr. Haertel points out, contrasts between age - based and grade - based gaps and trends can be useful because children are starting school at a later chronological age and students of various racial and ethnic groups are retained in grade at different rates.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

Many Bay Area schools show a large gap in performance not only between low - income students and more affluent peers, but between different racial / ethnic groups within the same economic status.

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The campaign is also national because while there are some regional differences in attitudes towards different racial and cultural groups — as the Challenging Racism project has found — there is little variation in attitudes between urban and rural areas.

The Committee responded that the balance is not between domestic political interests but between the enjoyment of rights by different racial groups in society.

A Pew Research Center study found that, though interracial marriage is increasing, as of 2008, only 8 percent of U.S. marriages were between members of different racial or ethnic groups; interfaith marriages are also on the rise, but 61 percent of us choose spouses of the same religion.

The Committee made explicit that the balance is not between domestic political interests but between the enjoyment of rights by different racial groups in society.