Sentences with phrase «between racial and ethnic groups»

But they also show there's work to be done, especially in 8th - grade math and in closing the achievement gap between racial and ethnic groups.

In it, state Superintendent Tony Evers acknowledges that «achievement gaps between racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities and English language learners persist.»

Preterm birth is the number one killer of newborns in the United States and serious gaps exist between racial and ethnic groups.

In addition, the researchers discovered stark differences between racial and ethnic groups and age groups.

Not exact matches

According to the latest census, the Asian population in the United States grew by 43.3 % between 2000 and 2010, the largest percentage increase of any ethnic or racial group.

The fundamental notion of dividing society into saints and sinners, separating the saints from the sinners as much as possible, and then instituting a system of external controls to bring the sinners into at least outer conformity with the moral expectations of the saints, originally had nothing to do with the relations between ethnic and racial groups.

These ideals of personal fulfillment have played into the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion in the relation between ethnic and racial groups.

There is a fundamental difference between the normal joshing between members of various ethnic and racial groups — what Dawidowicz referred to as low - key «antagonisms» — and the conventional understanding of anti-Semitism as irrational and unfounded hostility toward Jews, often accompanied by discrimination in employment and housing, for example, and by violent attacks.

We see the roots of wrong (Genesis 3:16 - 19) replay on the news each day — tensions between men and women; parents and children; brother and brother; differing religious, racial, ethnic and socio - economic groups.

While testing numbers improved across all ethnic and racial groups, performance gaps between black and Hispanic kids and higher - performing whites and Asians remained glaring.

Results showed a protective association of similar magnitude between a healthy overall diet and type 2 diabetes risk in all racial and ethnic groups.

Harvard's Steven Pinker, the celebrated author of The Blank Slate and an expert on the evolution of language and the mind, addressed that point in an interview in New Scientist magazine: «People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent.»

«We found the most striking and unexplainable differences between ethnic and racial 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.

By the time they're five and entering kindergarten, children begin to identify with an ethnic group to which they belong and are able to explore the range of differences within and between racial / ethnic groups.

The disparity between the percentage of teachers and the percentage of students of a given racial or ethnic group varies considerably from city to city and state to state, and Lindsay, Blom, and Tilsley offer an interactive graphic that makes this clear.

In addition, the gap in the completion rate between Hispanics and other racial and ethnic groups has widened, the report notes.

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.

These gains, however, have not included a significant closing of the gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, a fact that represents a serious issue in education today.

Figure 3 displays trends by racial or ethnic group between 1978 and 2008 in mathematics and reading scores for 13 - year - olds from the NAEP Long - Term Trend Assessment.

This contrast between trends for students overall and for racial / ethnic groups is especially notable at age 17.

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.

This movement has been induced by differences in school readiness and academic achievement between socioeconomic and racial / ethnic groups, and has shown that early interventions are cost effective and generally have the capacity to narrow achievement differences.

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.

This report finds that while the population of teachers of color overall is growing, Black and Native American teachers are a declining share of the teacher workforce and the gap between the percentage of Latinx teachers and students is larger than for any other racial or ethnic group.

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.

i3 funds are competitive grants (Development, Validation and Scale - up) given to LEAs and nonprofit organizations that have significantly closed the achievement gaps between economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities; or have demonstrated success in significantly increasing student academic achievement for all groups of students; or have made significant improvements in other areas such as graduate rates or increased recruitment and placement of high - quality teachers and principals.

This sentiment is echoed by Tannenbaum, «The mechanisms by which advertising and the media define identity and manipulate viewers are universal throughout the industrialized world... [Thomas] employs it to address issues that impact us all, such as diversity and tolerance within, as well as between, racial and ethnic groups, and the freedom to determine one's own fate and to construct one's own identity [3]».

DePelchin is in need of loving families open to adopting infants between the ages of 0 - 2 who are members of diverse racial and ethnic groups.

This study sought to examine the association between adolescents» relationship with family and school and depressive symptoms across ethnic / racial groups (White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian), and to test potentially unique explanatory power in youth — family relationship versus youth — school relationship, in a sample of 4,783 adolescents.

Although we acknowledge the differences between racial and ethnic minority groups, for better readability we use the term immigrant ethnic minority youth throughout this paper.

In 18 of these articles the authors contrasted the expectations of parents in two or more racial / ethnic groups or examined the relation between parental expectations and students» academic performance in two or more groups.

aIndication of whether the study compares parental expectations across racial / ethnic groups or examines the relations between parental expectations and academic performance in two or more racial / ethnic groups