Sentences with phrase «from nonwhite»

Racial tensions are heightened as a result of a president who continually makes reprehensible remarks about immigrants from nonwhite countries.

Reported drug crimes came mainly from nonwhite and low - income neighborhoods in 2010 (left).

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«When I was in film school, no one ever talked about lighting nonwhite people,» Berkofsky said in this essential piece from Mic.

Managers and workers, men and women, straights and gays, whites and nonwhites, «normal» people and «deviants»: all the oppressors need a means of understanding emotionally the grievances of the oppressed, and the oppressed groups can benefit, themselves, from a means of understanding the points of view of their oppressors.

Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

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.

The popular, if illegal, bouts are masterminded by Horn (Brian Dennehy), a Faustian promoter who sets up his young, mostly nonwhite fighters against one another and then sits back and gloats, happily collecting the cash from bets.

To leave the boundaries of the Shimmer, the Asian humanoid must adopt a white body via a shift from nonhuman to human, a binary coded as nonwhite and white.

Individual CMS schools vary widely in demographic composition: CMS high schools in 2003 ranged from less than 10 percent to close to 90 percent nonwhite, and were also dissimilar in average test scores and rates of high school graduation.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

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).

They were put off by near - constant yelling — from principals, teachers, school aides, and nonwhite parents who come to drop off and pick up their kids.

Although much of the development of student rights originally emerged from concern about nonwhite students in urban areas, educators in those settings had only a 41 percent probability of contact with a legal challenge.

During the past two decades, the percentage of nonwhite students has more than doubled, from roughly 20 percent in 1980 to slightly more than 50 percent in 2002.

«Many of those ethnic groups assimilated into the dominant group with groups like Italians going from being considered nonwhite to white in a span of decades.»

A total of 48 studies were excluded from the database because they combined all minority children into a nebulous «nonwhite» category, failed to include a comparison group consisting of white children, or did not perform separate analyses with children disaggregated from adults.

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

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

The report asserts that while «choice» measures and the rise of charter schools were meant to better integrate the state's schools, the opposite occurred, and in a 12 - year span, Minneapolis schools jumped from 34 percent nonwhite to 59 percent nonwhite.

From 1999 to 2010, the percentage of teachers in the state who were not white or Asian grew by 50 percent, increasing from 16 percent to 24 percent.118 In addition, the average SAT score of nonwhite, non-Asian teachers in the state increased significantly more than the SAT scores of white and Asian teachersFrom 1999 to 2010, the percentage of teachers in the state who were not white or Asian grew by 50 percent, increasing from 16 percent to 24 percent.118 In addition, the average SAT score of nonwhite, non-Asian teachers in the state increased significantly more than the SAT scores of white and Asian teachersfrom 16 percent to 24 percent.118 In addition, the average SAT score of nonwhite, non-Asian teachers in the state increased significantly more than the SAT scores of white and Asian teachers.119

It should give people pause when two white suburban legislators propose having a white county executive appoint a «commissioner» to be able to pluck schools away from the democratically elected school board of an overwhelmingly nonwhite district.

To obtain that figure, we subtracted the percentage of nonwhite teachers — 20 percent — from the percentage of nonwhite students — 57 percent — in the state.

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

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.

Apart from American Indians, and later a number of nonwhite immigrants such as Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese and Japanese, United States society has been divided into two major racial castes — Negroes and whites.

The data reveals a cultural divide among three regions in the U.S.: cities and suburbs, rural areas, and the extended Black Belt, an area extending from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard and up to Washington as well as locations with large nonwhite populations.

Sure, the beginnings of Apartheid reform and desegregation were present, as slow as molasses as it were, and by now Nelson Mandela had gone from lawyer to militant to prisoner to free, but the conditions of schools in nonwhite townships were deplorable, the country volatile, and teachers would stop teaching as a form of protest.

The artists range in age from 27 to 62, hail from 12 states in all regions of the U.S., including two artists from Alaska and one from Hawaii, and eighty percent identify as nonwhite.

COUNTRY OVERVIEW President: Eduardo Duhalde (since January 2002) Independence: July 9, 1816 (from Spain) Population (2002E): 37.8 million Location / Size: Southern South America / 2.8 million square kilometers (1.1 million square miles), about four times the size of Texas Major Cities: Buenos Aires (capital), Córdoba, La Plata, Mendoza, Rosario, Santa Fe Languages: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French Ethnic Groups: white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97 %, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3 % Religion: nominally Roman Catholic 92 % (less than 20 % practicing), Protestant 2 %, Jewish 2 %, other 4 % Defense (8/98): Army (41,000), Navy (20,000), Air Force (12,000), Reservists (375,000), Paramilitary Forces (31,240)

The settlement stems from Toyota dealerships charging certain nonwhite customers higher interest rates on their auto loans than white customers.

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.

These can include conflicts resulting from differences in language fluency and misunderstandings, citizenship status, and experiences around micro -(and sometimes macro --RRB- aggressions that the nonwhite, nonnative - born members of the couple often face.

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 same.