Sentences with phrase «cause of racial disparities»

The Leadership Conference Education Fund poll found «an overwhelming sense of racial inequity in school funding,» with lack of funding for students of color seen as the biggest cause of racial disparities in education by both African American and Latino parents and families.

Lima cautions, however, that much remains to be understood about the root causes of racial disparities and how to fix them.

«A doctor with high racial bias may understand the pain of other - race patients in a more detached or disembodied manner and, in principle, this may contribute to the causes of racial disparities in healthcare,» Avenanti says.

Not exact matches

SIDS mortality rates, similar to other causes of infant mortality, have notable racial and ethnic disparities (Fig 2).17 Despite the decline in SIDS in all races and ethnicities, the rate of SIDS in non-Hispanic black (99 per 100 000 live births) and American Indian / Alaska Native (112 per 100 000 live births) infants was double that of non-Hispanic white infants (55 per 100 000 live births) in 2005 (Fig 2).

Sections also include the extent of racial health disparities in the US; the causes; the role of government policies in perpetuating these disparities; the adequacy of government response; and key actions needed to address health disparities.

«Further studies need to help identify the causes of these racial differences so we can design interventions for hospitals and physician offices that can reduce population level disparities.

How does the «criminalization of pregnancy» cause racial disparities in reproductive autonomy?

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

«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.

«Cancer is a major burden for all racial and ethnic groups in San Francisco, but the impact falls disproportionately upon specific racial and socioeconomic groups, causing persistent disparities,» said first author Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and associate director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Implication # 3: New repayment options such as the Revised Pay - As - You - Earn (REPAYE) plan may alleviate the worst consequences of racial debt disparities, while failing to address underlying causes.

Critics of disparate impact have long pointed out that the doctrine actually compels discrimination, since remedying any disparities caused by neutral policies requires racial quotas and classifications.

Among the overlooked is a randomized controlled study of a teacher - training program found that a yearlong training designed to improve student achievement through greater teacher engagement of students caused a reduction in exclusionary discipline and near - elimination of racial disparities in disciplinary office referrals.

From the administration's perspective, though, time was of the essence, both because excessive suspensions and the like were causing material damage to affected students and because racial disparities in discipline represented a violation of students» civil rights.

Recognizing that disparities in disciplinary rates may be caused by a range of factors, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice said in a joint letter that these differences can not be explained by more frequent or more serious behavior by students of color, but rather, «schools may be engaging in racial discrimination that violates the federal civil rights law.»

In that same spirit, we urge you now to consider the voices of thousands of educators from across the country who are committed to ending racial and gender discipline disparities in our schools through evidence - based strategies aimed at addressing the root causes of student misbehavior.

Rescinding this guidance would be a major setback for students, and for teachers who are committed to implementing evidence - based strategies that address the root causes of student misbehavior and end racial discipline disparities in our schools.

Education is just one sector with racial disparities, but the same root causes affect outcomes in health care, criminal justice, child welfare, banking, housing, employment, and other areas of society.

A new study from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) casts doubt on the success of an Obama - era guidance meant to reduce racial disparity in school suspensions, arguing that it did not always reduce racial disparity, confused causes of suspensions, and may not be in the best interest of teachers.

Starting in prekindergarten, black boys and girls were disciplined at school far more than their white peers in 2013 - 2014, according to a government analysis of data that said implicit racial bias was the likely cause of these continuing disparities.

This presentation discusses research, statistics, and causes of early childhood expulsion and suspension, highlighting the gender and racial disparities, as well as explores how the law came to pass, how it is being implemented, and best practices and resources programs can utilize to implement its practice.