Sentences with phrase «between racial groups in»

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Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

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.

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.

When cigarette use in the past month was examined, adolescents from every racial group, including whites, had even higher odds for attempting suicide in the past year ranging from 2.1 - 2.7, suggesting a link between these problem behaviors.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

Her claim that «there's no direct correlation between a racial group and anything in the human genome» is false.

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

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

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

As a result, the new study found that between 2004 and 2012, blacks surpassed whites as the largest racial group with simultaneous HIV infection and Hodgkin lymphoma, making up 49 percent of such cases in 2012.

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.»

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.

While there have been many movements against racism and people are, in general, becoming more racially tolerant, there are still gaps between racial groups.

And although such an approach is promising, as with any instructional reform strategy designed to bolster at - risk students» skills, the key in implementation will be accommodating differences, not only between linguistic and racial groups but also within them, while maintaining relentless attention to quality.

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

In addition, some results suggest that peer effects are stronger inside racial groups than between racial groups.

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

But not all MCPS students take the SAT or ACT; in fact, participation rates vary significantly between racial and income groups.

The lack of a statistically significant association between racial imbalance scores for any group and the availability of alternatives to traditional public schools is consistent with the hypothesis that charter schools and affordable private schools are not a necessary component of choice - based racial imbalance in public schools.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

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.

Many districts have seen measurable gains in reading / English / language arts, math, and science, as well as reduced achievement gaps between economic, racial, and special needs groups.

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

Principal Kevin Simmons said the «driving force» for the increase in math minutes came as state exam results showed declines in math scores and gaps in performance between racial and socioeconomic student 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

However, in international law, as recognition of the existence of legitimate differences between racial groups has developed, there has been a broadening of the interpretation of the equal treatment obligation to approve the taking into account of «genuine difference».

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.

The right to equality and freedom from discrimination have special implications for Indigenous groups.3 As noted in the report of the United Nations Seminar on the Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on the Social and Economic Relations Between Indigenous Peoples and States:

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.

At the start of the study, there were no statistically significant differences between the Triple P and control group counties in observable characteristics (e.g., child maltreatment rates over the prior five years, poverty rates, racial composition).

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.

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 groupIn 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 groupin two or more racial / ethnic groups or examined the relation between parental expectations and students» academic performance in two or more groupin 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