Sentences with phrase «bias against minorities»

Only then will bias against minorities be eliminated — that is, when individual ability matters most and everyone has had access to the same educational tools and global opportunities.

In theory, RAIs reduce bias against minority groups in criminal justice decision - making, and are used to inform where prisoners serve their time and when they are released.

SAT and ACT exams, the most commonly used college - admissions tests, are biased against minority students and provide a poor indicator of success in college, said Jeffrey I. Johnson, the national youth - councils coordinator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Concludes that many tests are inaccurate or biased against minority and low - income students, and that relying on standardized tests to make decisions results in worse, not better, education.

The disparate - impact standard therefore is only weakly justified on the grounds that it is necessary to uncover hidden forms of unconscious race bias against minority students.

Not exact matches

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

Therefore the pertinent debate regarding black hiring is never «merit vs. race» but whether hiring decisions will be based on merit, influenced by race - bias against blacks, or on merit, influenced by race - bias, but with special consideration for minorities as mandated by law.

There is another stand - off in Parliament with the Minority declaring a silent protest against the Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Ocquaye whom they accuse of bias.

«There were only a handful of studies for each of the 19 instruments, and very few looked at anything that could give us insight into potential bias against racial or minority groups.»

And are any of them biased against African Americans or other minority groups?

Responding to critics who charged that standardized tests failed to measure the full range of student abilities and were biased against women and minorities, the college dropped its requirement that applicants submit their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Put another way, we find strong evidence that schools may be biased against identifying minority children with clinically significant needs as having disabilities.

It's time to end the bias in American education against gifted and talented pupils and quit assuming that every school must be all things to all students, a simplistic formula that ends up neglecting all sorts of girls and boys, many of them poor and minority, who would benefit from more challenging classes and schools.

During our follow - up conversations with districts, we found cases where teacher recommendations are biased against high - achieving minority students; we also found cases where teacher recommendations are advancing minority students who do not test well on standardized tests.

The authors suggest that standard measures of academic performance are biased against non-Asian ethnic minorities and women in quantitative fields.

Many have raised concerns that teacher perceptions may not be objective and may be systematically biased against certain groups of students, particularly economically disadvantaged and minority students (Card and Guiliano 2015; Quazad 2014; Donovan and Cross 2002; Figlio 2005).

The drawback of objective measures, such as test scores, is that they may be biased against students who are not good test takers, as well as against low - income and / or minority students, who tend to have lower scores that do not reflect actual knowledge or predict future success (Steele 1997; Rothstein 2004; Hoffman and Lowitzki 2005; Madaus and Clarke 2001).

Beyond the technical components, she says the venture capital world has a bias against funding female and minority founders.

He claims his troubles are the result not of his own behaviour but of a system that's biased against blacks, aboriginals, and other minorities.

One of the most controversial topics in the Canadian criminal justice system is whether the system is biased against racial minorities.