Sentences with phrase «black children in the study»

According to Dr. Dotson, the increased usage of corticosteroids and biologic medications among black children in the study could suggest a more severe disease course that may be attributable to worse intrinsic disease in black children.

Black children in the study had higher levels of insulin resistance than the white children.

Not exact matches

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second yeaIn New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second yeain «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second yeain the first or second year.

In the study, black children had a 1.5 times higher frequency of hospital readmissions because of Crohn's disease compared to white children.

«Black children were slightly older at the first admission than white children, which could represent a subtle marker of diminished access to medical care or a delay in disease recognition,» said Dr. Dotson, who explained other studies have shown that the role of biology in health disparities in chronic diseases is often modest, and there are many other factors, such as access to care and health literacy, that contribute to disparities in care.

«Reduced reporting of ASD symptoms may contribute to missed or delayed diagnosis in black children, since healthcare providers often rely on parent report about typical behavior,» said Meghan Rose Donohue, a co-author of the study and Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Georgia State.

The study found that compared to white parents, black parents reported significantly fewer concerns related to symptoms of ASD in their children with the disorder.

Racial differences in parents» reports of concerns about their child's development to healthcare providers may contribute to delayed diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in black children, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

This study offered insight into delayed ASD diagnosis in black children by examining whether the concerns parents reported to providers about their child's development prior to diagnosis differed based on a parent's race.

Asking whether the person pictured was black or white would have sped up their performance, yet subjects — adults in one study and children as young as age 10 in the other — rarely mentioned race unless their partner did so first.

Yet, few studies have examined parents» mental health and personal growth, especially in black and Hispanic parents, following their child's death in the NICU or PICU.

Currie and Alexander's study couldn't say definitively what exactly about the neighborhoods in «black» ZIP codes is triggering asthma in low - birth - weight children.

When this study began, the school system enrolled mostly black children, with so few whites that their presence in the sample was expanded to permit meaningful comparisons between black and white.

In the study, a diverse Florida school district implemented a universal screening program for gifted programs, and the number of black and Hispanic children identified as gifted increased.

Based on secondary analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, children with non or minimal exposure to recess were more likely to be black, low income, live in large cities, to be from the Northeast or South and to attend...

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

In cities including Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., black children are more likely to leave their own neighborhood in search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programIn cities including Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., black children are more likely to leave their own neighborhood in search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programin search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programs.

A recent study showed evidence that having just one Black teacher in elementary school can make a tremendous difference for Black children, from being less likely to drop out of school to an increase interest in aspiring to go to college.

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.

This is a nationwide study of Black families and the children in them who have been homeschooled more than half of their school - age lives.

While one - fourth of the entire studied cohort lived in poverty, almost half of Black and Hispanic children (46 percent) and almost two - thirds of Hispanic English language learners (63 percent) lived in poverty.

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Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out - of - school suspension, according to the study released by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights in March.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Not only does Wright's study bear out three decades of research on overuse of discipline (including those than control for socioeconomic status), it even proves Vanderbilt Professor Daniel J. Reschly's assertion about the role of teacher beliefs (and misinterpretation of data) in the overidentification of Black and other minority children as special ed cases.

One of the most studied initiatives in this area was the Perry Preschool program, which worked with disadvantaged black children in Michigan in the 1960s.

The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.

According to the study, which looked at teachers» perceptions of student behavior as well as academic performance for both black and Latino students, the only significant area where mismatch played a role for Latino children — and Spanish - speakers specifically — was in early literacy skills for non-English-proficient students (assessed in Spanish).

The growth of charter schools has promoted segregation both in California and nationwide, increasing the odds that black, Latino and white students will attend class with fewer children who look different from themselves, according to two new studies.

My crash course in childhood development ended two years later, when Dad tried to replicate Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark's study of color consciousness in black children using white and black dolls.

The set is presented with two films, a black and white dance choreography by Anita Pace in the manner of Martha Graham's mythological dance pieces, and a large color projection of a dance filmed in Kelley's installation of the same work created in 1999, where dance movements were derived from the monkeys in the laboratory experiments, with violent movements evoking the films of psychologist Albert Bandura's studies of the effect of televised violence of on children.

The curatorial thesis of this exhibition began with two baby dolls that were used in Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark «doll test» to study the psychological effects of segregation on black children.

Hundreds of Kibera residents have used the library, accessing titles in history, biography, women's studies, black studies, health, many children's titles, art, poetry, spirituality and more.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Support for this hypothesis was provided in a study by Baumrind and Black (1967), in which they found that parents using authoritative discipline had preschool - aged children who were significantly more socially competent than the children of parents using either authoritarian or permissive discipline.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

Chelsea Bond, Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit) at the University of Queensland wrote at The Conversation that Leak's cartoon was a reminder of the need interrogate and scrutinise «what white men are saying and doing to black Australia (men, women and children) and the lived consequences of these commentaries, caricatures and policies on the lives of black people in this country».

As children develop, parental hypervigilance leads to less school engagement, report Brigham Young University researchers Laura Padilla - Walker and Larry Nelson in a study of 438 students, «Black Hawk Down?

Particularly for black families, the study did find ways in which children did better with two parents.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study tested the efficacy of the Effective Black Parenting Program (EBPP) on inner - city African - American parents and their children in regards to parenting practices, the quality of the parent - child relationship and child behavior problems and competencies.

One much - cited study is of a preschool program that offered high - quality services to a few dozen black children in Ypsilanti, Mich., in the early 1960s at a two - year cost per child of about $ 15,000.

This self - report questionnaire was established and has since been commonly administered in studies evaluating co-parenting among new parents and / or parents of young children (Black et al., 1999; Forehand et al., 2014; Tornello et al., 2015).