Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority children»

One of the most challenging and controversial issues facing the child welfare system is the disproportionate representation of ethnic minority children and families, particularly African - American children.

Longitudinal Patterns of Self - Regulation among Ethnic Minority Children Facing Poverty.

Through small group discussion, lecture, and question - answer, participants explore what ethnic minority children need from their parents, siblings and other caring adults in order to grow up with strong self - esteem.

Assessment of trauma history and trauma - related problems in ethnic minority child populations: An INFORMED approach.

When the Howard League published an independent review of the use of restraint against children by Lord Carlile he found staff were too quick to resort to violence and that it was disproportionately used against ethnic minority children and those with learning difficulties.

The study consisted of an end - of - preschool follow - up of a group of predominantly low - income, ethnic minority children enrolled in the Child - Parent Centers (CPC) for the full day (7 hours; n = 409) or part day (3 hours on average; n = 573) in the 2012 - 2013 school year in 11 schools in Chicago.

Ten years later, the possibilities Black Panther opens up, to the possibility that Marvel's vast roster of minority superheroes can lead their own pop culture revolutions — Pakistani - Muslim Ms. Marvel, Chinese kung fu hero Shang - Chi, queer Latin - American «Miss» America Chavez, oh so many more — can inspire ethnic minority children who have yet to connect to a superhero the way their white classmates have to Steve Rogers, to Tony Stark, to Peter Parker.

We have found that white children are more likely to be identified as having disabilities than otherwise similar racial or ethnic minority children whether we (a) use parent - or teacher - report of disability status, (b) examine the time period before, at, or after school entry, or (c) examine special education generally or look at a wide range of specific disability conditions.

The few studies that examined relevant subgroups of racial / ethnic minority children identified noteworthy racial / ethnic disparities.

Democratic Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel shuttered 50 public schools, mostly serving ethnic minority children, in one go, without caring to listen at all to the residents of the impacted neighborhoods.

However, disclosure was significantly different for White compared to ethnic minority children where White children were almost twice as likely to disclose traumatic experiences.

Research Interests: Trajectories of self - regulation development and relations to school readiness and achievement in low - income ethnic minority children.

Garcia Coll et al. (1996) argue that discrimination may directly affect the development of ethnic minority children through social interactions in environments that could ultimately shape their academic and social experiences.

Our data reconfirm that vigorous activity among ethnic minority children is lower than in non-Hispanic white children.17, 18 Such information must be considered when developing physical education curricula and community - based intervention strategies aimed at increasing physical activity among different target populations.

If I'm an ethnic minority child inside a school, and most of the diversity I see is among assistants and cleaners, that's a problem.»

We repeatedly find that white children are more likely to be identified as having disabilities, and so more likely to receive special education services, than otherwise similar racial or ethnic minority children.

As has been found in gifted education, we find that white children are more likely to receive special education services than similarly achieving racial or ethnic minority children.

White children are much more likely than otherwise similar racial and ethnic minority children to receive special education services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civil right.

Among children displaying the same clinical needs, white children are more likely to receive special education services than racial or ethnic minority children.

«[Schools] don't realise that ethnic minority children need role models from their own group,» one black secondary school teacher said, giving evidence for the report.

Ethnic minority children and those whose parents have a low income, are under - represented in gifted education.