Sentences with phrase «comparing racial and ethnic groups»

States would now be required to use a standard methodology for comparing racial and ethnic groups and to use quota - like «reasonable thresholds» allowed by the Department for determining when minorities are over-represented.

Not exact matches

But black, Hispanic, AIAN, and NHPI women experienced a smaller gender pay gap compared with men in the same racial / ethnic group than did white and Asian women.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.

Although CRC affects all racial and ethnic groups, African Americans carry an excessive burden of disease with the highest overall incidence, highest incidence of advanced stage at presentation, highest mortality, and lowest survival rates compared to any other ethnic or racial group.

«We believe we are the first to compare adolescent blood pressures to body mass index in these four major ethnic / racial groups,» said Joshua Samuels, M.D., M.P.H., the study's senior author, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School and an attending pediatric nephrologist at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

Compared with non-Hispanic whites, women of all other racial and ethnic groups were more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced stages of breast cancer, the researchers found.

Figure 1 compares special education rates for major racial / ethnic groups across the NSCH and NCES data.

When comparing the results for racial / ethnic groups from 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 to earlier assessment years, the 2017 data for Asian and Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander students were combined into a single Asian / Pacific Islander category.

Although the percentage of white students in the country has declined dramatically over the past 50 years, while the percentage of black students has changed very little, the achievement levels of black students compared to white students (and other racial / ethnic groups) has barely narrowed, according to a study by University of Illinois economist Steven Rivkin.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT ® project released today the first Race for Results index, a report that builds on the well - known KIDS COUNT annual data book by comparing how children are progressing on key milestones across racial and ethnic groups at the national and state levels.

2017 Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children compares how children of different racial and ethnic groups are faring across the country on key indicators of children's opportunities at the state and national level.

The Race for Results report contains an index that compares how children are progressing on key milestones across racial and ethnic groups at the national and state level.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.

Regression analysis was used to predict group differences in depressive symptoms, substance use, and health complaints of specific biracial / ethnic identification groups as compared with adolescents identifying as monoracial in one or the other racial / ethnic category, while controlling for complex sampling design, mother» s education, single parent family, and student» s grade.

aIndication of whether the study compares parental expectations across racial / ethnic groups or examines the relations between parental expectations and academic performance in two or more racial / ethnic groups