Sentences with phrase «for nonwhite»

Graylan Hagler, a candidate for D.C. Council who attended the speech, challenged Henderson's record of progress, pointing to the continued low test scores for nonwhite students.

Even on a strong morning for nonwhite nominees, Damien Chazelle's musical emerged with what could well be unstoppable momentum

Brashear petitions for two years to get into the diving school only to be foiled at every turn by a base commander (Hal Holbrook) who feels the only place in his Navy for a nonwhite, is as a cook.

«Disparities are occurring as early as high school and therefore it is crucial to address alcohol and marijuana use early on, especially for nonwhite youth,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and senior behavioral scientist at RAND.

For nonwhites the situation was much worse.

Not exact matches

But some listeners can't forget that America wasn't always all about freedom for some people and talking about the past in a way that ignores those experiences comes across like cluelessness at best or nostalgia for the political marginalization of nonwhites at worst.

Opinion polls indicate that the share of the nonwhite population holding (moderately) center - right policy views is significantly larger than the share that voted for Romney.

When the victim of rape is nonwhite — as in the trial of Joan Little for the murder of her rapist — it takes the rousing of national support to get justice done.

What I already knew notionally I saw with my own eyes: that up to half of the young nonwhite men in the area surrounding the jail would at some point pass through this correctional institution, mostly for minor offenses, with the upper limit a 30 - month sentence.

It is no accident that in Gerbner «s TV - violence profile, lower class and nonwhite characters are especially prone to victimization, are more violent than their middle class counterparts, and pay a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).12.

The Democratic Party's elites have thoroughly abandoned their mid-1990s skepticism about increasing future low - skill immigration, and have tried to present support for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration as a referendum on whether Hispanic Americans (and nonwhites generally) are to be accepted as full American citizens.

She thinks that for Korean Americans to be the progressive force in evangelicalism that they have the potential to be, they must not simply step outside their comfort zone into heterogeneous churches but must identify (and worship) with other nonwhites, especially with African Americans.

The Trump administration, for all of its obnoxiousness, seems most to have irritated affluent white liberals, rather than the nonwhite and relatively poor who are supposedly Trump's great targets.

In 1977, the life expectancy for white females was 77.7, compared with 69.9 for white males; nonwhite females have an expectancy of 73.8 and nonwhite males 65.0.

Meanwhile, the growing numbers of nonwhites have moved to the center of the Democratic coalition, joined, at least for the moment, by the expanding secular population.

It is no accident that in the Gerbner TV - violence profile, lower - class and nonwhite characters are depicted as especially prone to victimization, as more violent than their middle - class counterparts, as paying a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).

Whether the issue is size of government, or taxes, or abortion, a larger fraction of nonwhite voters are (moderately) on the conservative side of the issue than voted for Romney.

The Republican Party (the electoral vehicle for the center - right) should have spent the last three years trying to win over the missing white voters and right - leaning nonwhites.

Compared with those included in the analysis, mothers of excluded participants were less educated, had lower annual household income, were more likely to be of nonwhite race / ethnicity, and breastfed for a shorter duration.

The Senate's only Latina, and one of three nonwhites in the IDC, she has accused Peralta's critics of being racist for attacking a minority lawmaker.

A casting call seeking «nonwhite men and women» to audition for the hit show «Hamilton» drew criticism from the union representing theater actors, prompting producers to say that they'll amend its language to make clear that anyone is welcome to try out.

Supporters of these changes have long maintained that the NYPD disproportionately arrests and charges nonwhites for such infractions, often leaving young black and Latino men with damaging criminal records.

Several nonwhite speakers like Chris Moss, the Chemung County sheriff and one - time GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, offered a robust defense of the department.

In contrast, Rank said, the risk of poverty for an individual between the ages of 25 - 29, who is nonwhite, not married, and with an education of high school or less, is «a whopping 72 percent.»

Female, nonwhite, and poor patients are more likely than other patients to wait six hours or more before seeking help for a heart attack, according to a study of elderly Medicare patients led by a Georgetown University researcher.

In the present study, although we did not have data on whole - grain intake per se, we discovered a 50 % risk reduction for women with the highest consumption of bread or cereals, which was mainly driven by nonwhite bread (data not shown) and was only marginally explained by the dietary GI.

Years and years ago, this blog had a post about nonwhite wedding dresses that stuck in my head for some reason, and all I knew going into my dress search was that I didn't want all - white and that I * knew * it was possible.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is Carl Brashear, the son of a sharecropper who joins the Navy as a way out of his dirt poor existence and fights for the right to be the first nonwhite Navy diver.

Among reasons cited for the underrepresentation of blacks and other minorities in starring film and TV roles is a perceived resistance to nonwhite actors in foreign markets, where distribution accounts for a growing share of revenues.

Owen is every bit as two - dimensional as the other characters in the film, who also include a tedious baddie (Vincent D'Onofrio) who wants to weaponize dinosaurs for the military; the billionaire owner of the park (Irrfan Khan), who also fancies himself a helicopter pilot; and Owen's Nonwhite Best Friend (Omar Sy).

The idea is that box office success for a movie centered on a nonwhite superhero and cast could inspire Marvel to produce and create more movies like Black Panther in the future (the studio's previous 17 films have all featured white men as the superhero leads).

Black divorce rates, too, had increased: in 1940 these had been the same for blacks and whites, but by 1964 the nonwhite (here as elsewhere he meant Negro) percentage had become 40 percent higher than that among whites.

Still, the pressure for students — particularly underrepresented nonwhite and low - income applicants — to package themselves like this is acute at a time when «diversity» remains the only rationale for affirmative action that the Supreme Court has consistently upheld, most recently in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

In the School Rights Project, we found that white students were nearly twice as likely as nonwhite students to report having pursued a formal legal remedy for a perceived rights violation.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Moreover, all students — rich or poor, white and nonwhite alike — miss out on the substantial benefits of learning in richly diverse classrooms.9 As the research shows, students across the spectrum are better prepared for post-secondary success when they have been educated in diverse schools and have learned alongside peers who come from all walks of life.10

Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus have attacked the gainful - employment proposal and other regulations as discriminatory, as for - profit colleges enroll disproportionate numbers of low - income students and nonwhites.

School district leaders and state education chiefs have been trying to figure this out for years now, especially because research shows that having a teacher from similar demographic backgrounds has social and academic benefits for students, most of whom are nonwhite.

Just over one - quarter of the hires were nonwhite for the 2014 - 15 school year, according to that last presentation to the School Committee.

How important is it for you to tell stories about nonwhite characters that capture their complexity and truths?

Getting published is an accomplishment for any first - time author, but nonwhite writers find it particularly challenging.

The losses were heaviest for poor, nonwhite households, but still only about.3 % of wealth.

The groups did not differ on residential stability as measured by mean number of years living in Seattle by age 12 years and by the mean number of residences in which participants lived from age 5 to 14 years; socioeconomic status, as measured by years of parental education or proportion eligible for the school lunch program; proportion from single - parent families; proportion of boys; or proportion of whites or nonwhites.

Fact: The hypothesized per se «absence» of the father correlation was not found for «nonwhite» children, indicating that it's not about father - presence or absence.

About 20 percent of home buyers nationwide are nonwhite, which makes a place like CityCenter a model for new diverse urban communities.

Nonwhite renters are far more likely than white renters to cite financial reasons for not owning their home.

For example, consistent with the falling numbers of loan applications from blacks and Hispanics, 55 % of nonwhite renters say that one major reason they are currently renting is that they don't think they can qualify for a loan, compared with 25 % of whites who say the saFor example, consistent with the falling numbers of loan applications from blacks and Hispanics, 55 % of nonwhite renters say that one major reason they are currently renting is that they don't think they can qualify for a loan, compared with 25 % of whites who say the safor a loan, compared with 25 % of whites who say the same.