Sentences with phrase «ethnic backgrounds of»

There are people coming to this country who have religious beliefs and ethnic backgrounds of hatred for other religions and ethnic cultures.

I encourage staff to ensure that meals provided reflect the cultural and ethnic backgrounds of children and families served.

I ensure that meals provided reflect the cultural and ethnic backgrounds of children and families served.

Less obvious are changes in the social and ethnic backgrounds of those who work in the law and in the attitudes and prejudices of those with power and influence over the profession.

Yet the diversity of the various ethnic backgrounds of its people makes Toledo a microcosm of Belizean culture.

For this reason, we are diverse by design with a school - wide approach that reflects and actively includes the rich socio - economic, racial and ethnic backgrounds of students and families.

Taken from the school census, these data show the number of pupils in each school in the country who are on free school meals, have SEND needs or are identified as EAL, and also the ethnic backgrounds of pupils in each school.

They also celebrate the different ethnic backgrounds of their families, many of who do not have English as their first language.

NASW does not collect statistics on the ethnic backgrounds of its members, but one longtime NASW member tells Science Careers, in an e-mail, «We have extremely few minority members, so few that I can probably name a good proportion of them just off the top of my head.»

And while the ethnic background of those committing crimes involving gambling, loan sharking, drug dealing and prostitution has changed over the decades, a recent bust by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Westchester District Attorney Anthony Scarpino was old school, with the arrest of 10 people who all had ties to the Lucchese crime family.

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

Forensics could get a boost from the findings as well: DNA from hair or blood could be used to reveal the precise ethnic background of a victim or suspect, for example.

Same is the case with British boys in Dubai as their priority while dating is beauty not the ethnic background of the girl.

Within five minutes Miller insults the ethnic background of both Casey and Jeff, and every race and culture they meet along the way.

The researchers analysed responses according to the ethnic background of participants.

But some of the markers randomly assigned were given this extraneous information — either a photograph of the student or some educational classification or the sex or ethnic background and the other ones either weren't told this information or were given information about the student who supposedly submitted the work, putting the person in the more favourite category, which might be the dominant ethnic background of the culture, it might be males, or it might be say the student is a gifted student in primary school.

Through purposeful experiences outside the classroom in cultural contexts related to the ethnic background of minority students, the absolute authority of the preservice teacher was brought into question.

The diverse ethnic background of our students contributes to the unique nature of the Syracuse City School District.

According to the articles «Integrated Schools: Finding a New Path» (Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg, and Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, p. 22) and «Overcoming Triple Segregation» (by Patricia Gándara, p. 60), segregation by ethnic background of public schools in the United States is on the upswing, a reality which limits minority students» prospects for a high - quality education and all students» prospects for learning to work and interact with students from varied cultures.

You do not need to be the same race as the child you want to adopt, but some states do give preference to prospective adoptive parents of the same race or ethnic background of the child.

NACAC believes that community - based (i.e. churches, advocacy groups, and other organizations reflective of populations of color) minority and specialty foster care and adoption agencies offer excellent opportunities for recruiting families who reflect the racial and ethnic background of children in care.

Not exact matches

Almost 80,000 people live in this community with a range of ethnic backgrounds.

The trick with successfully hosting any kind of focus group, says Bell, is finding a broad range of college students — from all ethnic backgrounds and walks of life.

A company made up of employees from diverse ethnic backgrounds, generations, genders, races and religions (just to name a few) has more creative energy to harness than one with a more homogenized workforce.

When your workplace is home to a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences, your company can more effectively market to all groups of consumers, from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds, men and women, older and younger adults and those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

He draws from his unique ethnic background and Wall Street career to entertain audiences nightly, highlighting the struggles of the 1 percent.

They are mostly in their 30s and 40s, of all ethnic backgrounds, and in conversation obviously consider themselves to be on the make.

But she stresses that study groups show that investors have an affinity for advisers of a similar gender or ethnic background — those «who «get them» and share common experiences,» she says.

I have never hired anybody, whether it's a person of colour or a different ethnic background or age or gender, unless they're the very best person I can find.

Students of all ethnic backgrounds who attend community colleges are not recruited as heavily as students from Ivy League schools, although they may have the skill - set necessary to succeed in a given role.

Think of the following criteria: age, gender, location, education, income levels, occupation, marital status and ethnic background.

Increasingly, women of every ethnic background.

Specific statistics on ethnic background are harder to come by, but the overwhelming majority of venture partners are white, and there's little disagreement that the pool of entrepreneurs they fund isn't very diverse, either.

It was adopted as part of the official party doctrine at the NSDAP congress in 1920 to express a worldview which was Christian, non-confessional, vigorously opposed to the spirit of «Jewish Materialism», and oriented to the principle of voluntary association of those with a common racial - ethnic background.

Our educational and political leaders keep suggesting that bringing people together from diverse backgrounds — whether it is racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, or some combination of the above — makes for better schools, more effective workplaces, and even morally superior environments.

«We have many different chapels to many different ethnic groups, so depending on the background of the individual group, they tend to like what relates most personally to them,» MacLean says.

The EPRDF has successfully kept religion as a background political discourse by placing the focus of democratic life around ethnic and regional identities, which go together.

More than 1 in 4 prisoners in the UK is from a minority ethnic background; however 87 % of Britain is white.

The reaction was also likely influenced by Ahok's Chinese background — he's the first ethnic Chinese to be governor of Jakarta.

It is ok to be proud of your ethnic background, but it is not ok to cry out racism every single time a confrontation happens between an African American, and another race.

Intolerant: Opposed to the inclusion or participation of those different from oneself, especially those of a different racial, ethnic, or social background.

:: Households of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, black, mixed and other backgrounds were more likely to receive income - related benefits and tax credits than those in other ethnic groups.

For Williams the brief exchange was ans example of how diverse the Muslim community in the U.S. is drawing people from all different ethnic backgrounds.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a state fostering agency must recognise the «desirability of continuity in a child's upbringing and to the child's ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.»

I invited a handful of pastors and church leaders from different ethnic backgrounds to reflect upon their experiences within the evangelical church or to suggest steps Christians could take towards greater reconciliation.

I didn't realize I saw it that way until one day about 10 years ago, when various slurs started coming to mind as I walked down a street in my neighborhood and saw people of different ethnic backgrounds.

Over the course of the next three weeks, I will be running the responses I received from about a dozen men and women from all over the country and from a tapestry of ethnic backgrounds.

This is totally wrong but it is liberal politically correct and I am tired of having to bend over backward to watch every word I say around someone who is of a different ethnic background.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul responded to those protests by issuing a statement rejecting «acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam» and adding that «Americans from all religious and ethnic backgrounds reject the offensive initiative by this small group in Florida.»