Sentences with phrase «by racial composition»

«New York City Housing Authority, Number of Families at Projects Under Parts I and II of the City - Aided Program, Shown by Racial Composition at Initial Occupancy and on June 30, 1954.»

«New York City Housing Authority, Number of Families at Federal Projects, Shown by Racial Composition at Initial Occupancy and on June 30, 1954.»

When they attended a school that was between 0 and 60 percent black, their math scores were unaffected by the racial composition of the school they attended.

The researchers also looked at the data by gender and found that black boys were most affected by the racial composition of the school.

Expected to show that African Americans were isolated in inferior schools, the study found that school resources varied mainly by region, not by their racial composition.

Prevalence of facilities meeting indicators for recommended maternity care practices, * by racial composition † of the zip code areas where the facilities were located — Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care Survey (mPINC), United States, 2011

The reasons for the differences in maternity care practices by racial composition of the areas are not clear.

Not exact matches

«Don't judge a school by its average test scores or its socioeconomic or racial / ethnic composition.

To analyze whether the implementation by maternity facilities of practices that support breastfeeding varied depending on the racial composition of the area surrounding the facility, CDC linked data from its 2011 Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to U.S. Census data on the percentage of blacks living within the zip code area of each facility.

All facilities, regardless of the racial / ethnic composition of the populations they serve, can support the breastfeeding decisions of their patients by implementing evidence - based policies and practices shown to be critical for establishing breastfeeding, so that more infants are able to reap the numerous health benefits of breastfeeding.

«Government can create opportunities for job creation and workforce participation, but can not mandate results, especially by ethnic or racial composition,» an Empire State Development spokesman said.

The authors begin by presenting a great deal of descriptive data on the overall enrollment and aggregate racial composition in public charter schools compared to traditional public schools.

• «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report,» by Steve Rivkin, which examines the evidence on the racial composition of schools and student learning.

By this measure, schools are closer to complete integration than ever before, and thus racial composition would have to change less now than when the report was released.

While they also rate schools with fewer poor students more highly, we found no signs that the grades parents gave their school is influenced by its racial or ethnic composition,» observed Martin West, one of the study's authors.

The Coleman Report revealed substantial achievement differences by school racial composition and emphasized the importance of considering various factors that contributed to those differences:

To ascertain whether this is the case, I draw on the best available public data on the racial composition of the nation's schools: the Public Elementary and Secondary School Enrollment and Common Core of Data issued by the Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education.

This is accomplished by using only that portion of the achievement of a gender or racial group that can not be explained by a linear time trend and the overall gender and racial composition of the group's cohort.

Regarding the second question, Coleman reported that families were more important for learning than were school resources, and, further, that school resources varied more by region than they did by a school's racial composition within any specific region.

In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.

Desegregation since the Coleman Report Racial composition of schools and student learning by Steven Rivkin

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schools.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

By contrast, the University of Arkansas researchers adopted a more rational definition of segregation that compares a school's racial composition to the larger metropolitan area using the U.S. Census Bureau's «core based statistical area» (CBSA).

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

For this benchmark, we use the racial composition of the larger metropolitan or micropolitan area, the Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, in which the school is located.

Data on private school enrollment and racial composition come from the Private School Universe Survey (PSS), a biennial survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

Similarly, when the researchers looked at whether transfers to charter schools affected the distribution of students by race or ethnicity, they found that, in most sites, the racial composition of the charter school entered by a transferring student was similar to that of the traditional public school that he or she had left.

In the administration of public schools by the state and local authorities it is permissible to consider the racial makeup of schools and to adopt general policies to encourage a diverse student body, one aspect of which is its racial composition.

The goal of the policy is to assure that no school deviates by more than 15 percent from the district's overall racial composition, which is 60 percent minority (African American, Asian, and Hispanic).

For instance, the racial composition of the school age population of the entirety of New York City has little relevance to concerns about and efforts to improve the racial balance of schools on Staten Island, which by virtue of its geography might as well be a part of New Jersey.

The paper demonstrates this point by showing that in the aggregate, a comparison of racial composition of sending and receiving schools shows no large differences — it appears that students are switching to schools of similar racial composition.

Simply equalizing a school's racial composition, the analysis concludes, can reduce the achievement gap by about 25 % — an impact as great as any reform strategy has had to date.

The states differ significantly in the racial or ethnic composition of students and in the characteristics of the families of students, so it would be expected that a significant part of the differences in the NAEP test scores might be accounted for by these differences.

Those sentiments were captured in another study by Harvard economics professor Caroline M. Hoxby, who compared the math and reading proficiency of almost all the nation's charter school students to the test results of those at their nearest public school with similar racial composition.

Specifically, we want to know the racial / ethnic composition of the schools, the proportion of ELL, SPED and low - income students (by free and reduced lunch eligibility).

A 2010 report commissioned by the American Alliance of Museums indicated that the racial composition of contemporary museum audiences has remained at a level of diversity reminiscent of the 1970s while the diversity of the general population has more than tripled during that time.

William Villalongo plays with deeply rooted art historical iconography by redefining racial and sexual politics in his compositions.

Luscious colors, complex compositions, transcendental narratives and an ability to seamlessly work across media: Marshall is shifting expectations on racial identity and art historical discourse by declaring himself and his culture Invisible No More.

Although the maltreated and comparison groups were comparable in terms of racial composition, to prevent spurious associations that can result from variation in allele frequency and prevalence of trait by population (24), ancestry proportion scores were generated and included as a covariate in all analyses.