The researchers sought to compile standards that more accurately reflect the best fetal growth during healthy pregnancies among the most
common racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Not exact matches
There's too much attention paid these days to what separates different
ethnic and racial groups and not enough to what they have in
common.
United States history would reflect how our
common history emerged out of an interaction of influences from various
racial,
ethnic, cultural, religious,
and national
groups.
Since the
Common Core standards have never been field - tested, no one knows whether they will raise test scores or cause the achievement gap among different
racial,
ethnic,
and income
groups to narrow or to widen.
The point is not that we are racists but that we live in a culture in which negative characteristics are attributed to some
racial /
ethnic groups and positive characteristics are assumed to be more
common in other
groups.
Programs need to be grounded in evidence
and respond to
common experiences of racism, but also nuanced for specific
racial /
ethnic groups and contexts.