Sentences with phrase «certain minorities»

Specifically, districts could select groups of students with similar test scores and determine whether certain minority students tended to have lower placements and / or teacher ratings.

«The exhibition highlights the work of two leading contemporary artists who grapple with the under - and misrepresentation of certain minorities in portraiture and American history.

The deal ends Yahoo as an operating company and leaves it with its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, its cash, convertible notes, certain minority investments, and a noncore portfolio of patents called Excalibur.

The constitutional question concerns the relation between an evangelical baker's freedom to exercise his religion and how that freedom is limited by the public's interest in non-discrimination against certain minorities.

However, one inescapable — and deeply uncomfortable truth underlying these latest figures is that certain groups of pupils continue to more likely to be excluded than others: boys; pupils with SEN; pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals; and pupils from certain minority ethnic backgrounds.

The NSPCC's services concentrate on seven important issues and groups of children most at risk: those who experience neglect, physical abuse in high - risk families (those families with violent adults, alcohol and drug abuse and mental health issues, those who experience sexual abuse, children under the age of one, disabled children, children from certain minority ethnic communities and looked after children.

You protect minorities only because the majority determines that there are certain minority positions that deserve protection.»

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

Now there is empirical evidence that inducing disgust can cause people to shun certain minority groups — at least temporarily.

«Sexual assault victimization disproportionately affects certain minority college students.»

At least one of these studies found that the use of credit scores for pricing had a disproportionate impact on certain minorities (primarily Latinos) and low - income individuals.

Spot on - you can see this especially when you take a closer look how thiscmasterrace is treating certain minorities.

Tech companies, in recent years, have been under fire for the underrepresentation of women and certain minority groups in their workforces.

What remains of Yahoo after the sale includes an approximately 15 percent equity stake in China's Alibaba Group Holding; about 36 percent in Yahoo Japan; cash and marketable debt securities; certain minority investments; and Excalibur, which owns some patent assets.

For a certain minority of investors, there are different types of exotic asset classes that can fit into an asset allocation portfolio model, including things like private equity and managed futures.

No, discrimination is when you try to create laws that deny equal rights to certain minorities.

Suggesting that the Barclay brothers were using the expenses scandal to undermine the British political system for a certain minority party probably didn't help her case.

In a concept called the «TV view of the world,» what we see in media actually impacts how we see the world — and each other — so if a certain minority group is constantly being presented in a negative or stereotypical light then that's a serious problem.

I'm pretty positive that's not anywhere close to the majority of the population, but I think a certain minority could be in that canal boat.

Birenbaum claims that less than 10 per cent of all sexual assaults are reported and in certain minority or marginalized communities that number drops to less than 10 per cent.

At an open developer meetup hosted at Cyberport in Hong Kong today, the solution was widely seen positively, though a certain minority expressed their concern that it would delay a hard fork - a process they believe will eventually be needed for later scaling solutions.

Without getting into a debate on discrimination, the law references many times a pre-existing inequity in regards to distribution of housing vouchers and burden of housing expenses, stating that certain minority groups are spending 50 % of their income on housing which is due to discrimination that makes them unable to secure fair / equal employment.