Sentences with phrase «ethnic composition»

We also demonstrate that all this deterioration is independent of the changes in the wealth or the racial or ethnic composition of the neighborhood.

As we have suggested previously, 3,39 use of routine data to evaluate the effectiveness of local or national policy changes over time, or between areas, with respect to breastfeeding rates needs to account for differences in ethnic composition and socioeconomic status.

Ethnic composition not defined.

These included the dropout rates in various Chicago high schools, given such cues as ethnic composition and class size, and the incomes of academics, given cues such as gender, rank and years since graduation.

In terms of ethnic composition White Irish remains the largest group, accounting for more than 80 % of residents.

Singapore has a diverse ethnic composition, world - class clinical facilities, and excellent clinical data management.

Blacks were denied services because of raising prices and because people wanted to maintain the current ethnic composition of the area that would be primarily white (Coates, 2014).

However, staff recommended that the board impose several conditions on the charter: Submit an English Learner Master Plan; a revised budget; a report of the racial and ethnic composition of student enrollment on or before Aug. 30, 2014; revised expulsion policies and procedures; and a report demonstrating compliance with the conditions by May 30, 2014.

«In the next 15 years, many more rental households will form because of the size and ethnic composition of the millennial generation.

But over time its population increased, its class divisions became more pronounced, its ethnic composition became more diverse, its neighborhoods changed their configurations, and its economic system became more geared to the impersonality of the marketplace.

Dominant in the ethnic composition of modern «day Hungary are in fact another nomadic Eastern people, the Magyars (the word meaning «Hungarian» in modern Hungarian).

In terms of racial and ethnic composition, cohabiting single dads are much less likely to be white and much more likely to be Hispanic.

However, similar findings were observed in a previous study in North Carolina that assessed whether there were differences in breastfeeding support services available through the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program based on the county level racial / ethnic composition of the WIC sites.

As the chart below illustrates, the ethnic composition of the cabinet rarely sees much change - in fact, the latest reshuffle had no affect on the percentage of white cabinet members.

According to Henry, the most important geographic factor affecting HPV vaccine initiation was the racial and ethnic composition of the community.

The variation in the ethnic composition of the urban and rural populations of the Brazilian Amazon region and of distinct regions in Brazil [26, 46], may influence the allelic and genotypic distributions reflecting in matrixes of genetic mechanisms favorable to the susceptibility to infectious and parasitic diseases, in particular to malaria.

In recent weeks, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo have reported the gender and ethnic composition of their respective workforces.

Ethnic composition of the student body is also an important determinant both of the probability of leaving the public schools entirely and of switching from one school district to another.

But teachers» own preferences may be even more important, as suggested by the fact that the decision to leave the Texas public schools altogether — a decision much more closely related to the individual teacher's preferences than to the district — is influenced in the same way by the schools» ethnic composition.

If the ethnic composition of the school is the most important factor affecting teachers» decisions to change jobs, financial considerations are also relevant, especially when it comes to a decision by a somewhat less experienced male teacher to move from one district to another.

The differential effect of the ethnic composition of the student body for white and African - American teachers could reflect personnel policies that prefer minority teachers in schools with higher concentrations of minority students.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

While they also rate schools with fewer poor students more highly, we found no signs that the grades parents gave their school is influenced by its racial or ethnic composition,» observed Martin West, one of the study's authors.

Race doesn't matter (not even to parents): Neither citizen nor parent ratings appear to be influenced by a school's racial or ethnic composition.

Nor does he bemoan - again, at least not directly - the changing racial and ethnic composition of America.

What's worse, people of color and underrepresented groups are defined by journalists covering these events, who themselves don't reflect the ethnic composition of our country as a whole.

The finding holds, even when one adjusts for changes in the ethnic composition, free - lunch eligibility, class size, and education expenditures for each state (see Figure 3).

They compared enrollment patterns in the Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington urban areas with changes in the number and ethnic composition of school - age children in the schools» attendance zones.

Critics of school choice often claim that parents ignore quality when evaluating schools and draw their conclusions on the basis of the school's racial or ethnic composition.

The racial and ethnic composition of the student bodies attending pilot elementary and middle schools is similar to that at traditional BPS schools: around 45 % black and 30 % Hispanic.

The analysts also collected publicly available information on the school's average class size, racial and ethnic composition, and the percentage of students who were of low income.

, Pew Hispanic Center, June 6, 2007), and that black and Hispanic students are increasingly isolated from white students in the public schools (Fry, The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools, Pew Hispanic Center, Aug. 30, 2007).

Because other school characteristics may also influence perceptions of school quality, we incorporated into our analysis data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of poverty), average cohort size (our preferred measure of school size), and pupil - teacher ratio (a proxy measure of class size) in the 2007 — 08 school year.

While Teske and Schneider argue that parents are principally motivated by academic concerns when choosing schools, Ladd sees considerable evidence that parents select schools on the basis of their ethnic composition.

Like those of other citizens, parents» ratings of local schools are not influenced by the schools» racial / ethnic composition, school size, or pupil - teacher ratios.

The reason has to do with dramatic changes in the racial / ethnic composition of the U.S. student population during the past few decades.

The ethnic composition of the student population was 55 percent Hispanic, 27 percent African American, 18 percent Asian American, and 1 percent Caucasian.

Some organizations may even opt for the strategic development of multi-lingual or multi-cultural coursework based on the ethnic composition of their employee base.