Sentences with phrase «black than white children»

Exposure to SSB [sugar - sweetened beverage] ads decreased over time at all ages, but the decrease was less for black than white children.

Not exact matches

She is facing a gauntlet shared by black mothers, one that is in many ways far different than those that white mothers of white children must endure.

For example, Martin Luther King in the last decade had a dream that one day white children and black children would walk and work together in a land where character counts rather than color.

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

This father was surprised when he asked his children what they identified as, and rather than replying with one or more parts of their background (Latino, Asian, Black), they reply with, «White.»

But prenatal testing can not tell you who your child will be, anymore than a fuzzy, black and white sonogram can tell you how your child will look.

Overall, one in three children in the U.S. struggle with obesity, but Black, Latino, Native American and Alaska Native kids are more than one and a half times more likely to be obese than white kids.

«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.

However, black children are diagnosed with ASD at older ages than white children and children of other races.

White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilWhite educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chilwhite children.

There was some evidence of racial / ethnic disparities — among four - year - olds, rates of early evaluation were lower in black children than in white children.

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

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged since 2008.

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged in recent years.

Black children who undergo urologic surgery are more likely than white children to have postsurgical complications and hospital - acquired infections 30 days after the surgery.

«Particularly perplexing and worrisome is the confirmation by this new survey that black children have higher HbA1c than white children and that the underlying cause of this persistent racial disparity in HbA1c is unclear,» notes Dr. Chalew.

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

Not only were audiences treated to The Room, but the gang pre-gamed with a black and white children's safety film, «Live and Learn» that featured more lessons than you can shake a dangerous pointed stick at.

Today's research tells us two new things: that underrepresentation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

Indeed, research shows that among Medicaid - eligible children with autism diagnoses, white children are diagnosed over a year earlier than black children.

Readers may also wish to read an important new essay by sociologist George Farkas, «The Black - White Test Score Gap» (Contexts, Spring 2004), which says that the racial rift is caused, more than any other thing, by divergent child - rearing practices (and preschool opportunities).

Empowering parents is one of the best ways to combat the persistent finding that black children are statistically more likely than white children to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabchildren are statistically more likely than white children to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabchildren to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning DisabChildren with Learning Disabilities.

A federal study that shows black children die from asthma at a higher rate than white children demonstrates that many African - American families lack adequate medical care, child - health experts and educators said last week.

Black children are 7.5 times more likely and Hispanic children 2.5 times more likely than white children to have an incarcerated parent.

If, as some have argued, white teachers have lower expectations for black children, one would predict that black students with white teachers would lose more ground than black students with black teachers.

However, it turns out that the black children in our sample were less responsive to changes in socioeconomic status than the white children: a one - standard - deviation improvement in socioeconomic status for a black child was associated with a 0.18 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared with 0.32 among white children.

Note that these raw black - white gaps, while sizable, are substantially smaller than those observed in earlier data sets for children of the same age.

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.

Beginning in middle school, African - American students are more likely than Asian and white students to say they are treated unfairly when it comes to school discipline.11 Black students are also more likely to come from family backgrounds associated with school behavior problems; for example, children ages 12 - 17 that come from single - parent families are at least twice as likely to be suspended as children from two - parent families.

Black children are three times more likely to be born into poverty than their white counterparts, and four times more likely to be born into extreme poverty where average daily funds are less than $ 1.25 per day, according to The World Bank.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

Black children randomly placed with black teachers showed more improvement than black children taught by white teachers, Dee conclBlack children randomly placed with black teachers showed more improvement than black children taught by white teachers, Dee conclblack teachers showed more improvement than black children taught by white teachers, Dee conclblack children taught by white teachers, Dee concluded.

The economists found that white children who had been in Head Start were significantly more likely than their siblings to graduate from high school and to attend college; black children, meanwhile, were significantly less likely to have been convicted of a crime, but appeared to receive no education - related benefits from the program.

Teachers, meanwhile, perceive Black children to have substantially less self - control than White students.

Hispanic children, especially those in Spanish - dominant homes, were less likely than white and black children to use these technologies daily.

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.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

«Today's research tells us two new things: that under - representation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

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.

A surprising implication of these findings is that, relative to white children, black boys fare worse than their sisters in significant part because black children — both boys and girls — are raised in more disadvantaged family environments.

Black children are often perceived as older and more dangerous than their white peers.

In each of the five states with the largest differences in lost instruction — Nevada, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee — researchers found that Black children lost more than 107 days per 100 enrolled than their white peers with disabilities.

According to Losen's report, Black children with disabilities in most states lost about 50 days more than their white peers, and they were consistently found to lose more instruction time in all states that reported data, except in Wyoming and Hawaii.

Finally, so far all the e-readers are black - on - white or possibly gray - scale, which makes them less than appealing for illustrated books, whether children's books or adult non-fiction.

In 1845, Victor Robert exhibited Religion, Philosophy, the Sciences and the Arts Enlightening Europe, while in 1846, no less a figure than Baudelaire himself deigned to notice the Universal Charity of Laemlein, a bizarre confection representing a personification of Charity holding in her arms three children: «one is of the white race, the other red, the third black; a fourth child, a little Chinese, typifying the yellow race, walks by her side.»

EJI has documented more than 4,000 «racial terror lynchings» between 1877 to 1950 — black men, women, and children who were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, or beaten to death by white mobs.»

Children are painted in black - and - white to suggest this world is a dreamscape, rather than reality.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

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.

Black and Hispanic mothers talk less with their young children than do white mothers and are less likely to read to them daily.