Sentences with phrase «for racial minorities»

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

Is it from concern for racial minorities?

«The numbers were worse for racial minorities with disabilities: 36 percent of black students with disabilities in secondary school were suspended at least once.»

As much as equality movements have improved matters for racial minorities, women, and LGBT employees, the burden often rests on these individuals to manage their identity within the dominant culture.

We meet a similar, and similarly contradictory, construal of justice in some feminist literature, as well as in the claim that the society should be both color - blind and have preferential quotas for racial minorities.

So they read Hard Times in order to gain sympathy for the poor, Wright's Native Son in order to gain sympathy for racial minorities, and Forster's Maurice in order to gain sympathy for homosexuals.

From the 1940s onwards, liberal Democrats began pushing for desegregation and civil rights legislation for racial minorities.

«For racial minority adolescents, cigarette and alcohol use linked to suicidality: Study reveals pervasive lifetime substance use among US adolescents in ninth to 12th grades, especially for alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana.»

Vastly more jarring is that the central goal of the report — the development of an education system that provides equal educational opportunity for all groups, and especially for racial minorities — has not been attained.

For antiracism education to be effective, school staffs need to ensure that student racial and ethnic characteristics are reflected in the teaching and support personnel, because an ethnically diverse teaching staff has the potential to enrich the school's teaching and learning, and to provide a voice for racial minority concerns (Solomon, 2002).

With staff, these leaders should systematically examine the content and process of schooling to eliminate racism and to provide opportunities for racial minorities to express the negative impact of racism on their lives (Shields, LaRocque and Oberg, 2002).

In the United States, residential mobility, or the frequency of changes in residence, is higher for both racial minorities and for low income families (Ihrke and Faber).

I use novel data on teachers from the nationally representative High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 to test whether teachers» beliefs that they can overcome students» social disadvantage are related to higher student achievement, and whether associations are stronger for racial minorities and economically disadvantaged students.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

There are times in living memory where espousing a belief in equal rights for racial minorities (and more recently homosexuals) could get a person disowned, ostracised, or fired.