Sentences with phrase «from other racial groups»

• 69 percent of those in the largest racial group report having close friends in these congregations, compared to 57.9 percent from other racial groups.

People from other racial groups have converted to Judaism, so not all Jews today are Caucasian, but the Jewish people of 2,000 years ago were definitely Caucasian.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

Not exact matches

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

In a world in which different groups are one hyperlink away from each other online, the church might be able to foster fellowship and coordinate projects across the ethnic, racial, geographic and denominational canyons.

Preachers will want regularly to include material in the sermon from racial, ethnic, and national groups other than those that predominate in the congregation.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

The result is that the black alliance within the Democratic party is not with other racial minorities but with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now divorced from the values of the party's traditional base, not to mention those of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).

Nationally, every state is prohibited from legislating racial discrimination, legislating literacy tests, and other devices historically used to discriminate against minority groups.

Over time, neighborhoods on the industrial west side changed from solidly African American to Latino, Asian — many of them refugees from war - torn Southeast Asia — and other racial and ethnic groups.

Black adolescents express depressive symptoms differently than people from other age and racial groups, requiring that clinicians take this into account when developing treatment plans, according to a new study led by a Rutgers University - Camden researcher.

Chet Susslin / National Journal The Supreme Court's decision upholding racial preferences in public - university admissions drew broad support on Thursday from AAAS and other scientific and academic groups that...

A new study reveals that police recruits and experienced officers are more likely than others to subscribe to colorblind racial beliefs — the notion that they — and people in general — see no differences among people from different racial groups and treat everyone the same.

In 2004 Anthony Lising Antonio, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, collaborated with five colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions to examine the influence of racial and opinion composition in small group discussions.

The program is open to individuals from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences at the career stages targeted by this program, including those individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The goal of the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is to recruit and retain individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, early in their careers.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

The decline in equity, with African American students falling behind students from other racial / ethnic groups, is particularly disturbing and has raised questions about the policies around school closings and openings, which disproportionately affected African American students.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, A + Colorado, and 111 other organizations signed a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

But you would not know that from the way we discipline black children compared to other racial groups.

Students who identified with two or more of the other racial / ethnic groups (e.g., White and Black) would have been classified as «other» and reported as part of the «unclassified» category prior to 2011, but from 2011 on were classified as «Two or More Races.»

When comparing the results for racial / ethnic groups from 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 to earlier assessment years, the 2017 data for Asian and Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander students were combined into a single Asian / Pacific Islander category.

When school settings include students from multiple racial groups, students become more comfortable with people of other races, which leads to a dramatic decrease in discriminatory attitudes and prejudices (McGlothlin & Killen, 2005; Rutland, Cameron, Bennett, & Ferrell, 2005).

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

Most educators, like most people, grow up and live in communities that reflect their background, and have few opportunities to interact with people from other racial, ethnic, language, and social - class groups (Banks et al., 2001).

Some maintained that these test results provided further evidence that socioeconomic and racial groups were genetically different from each other and that systemic inequalities were partly a byproduct of evolutionary processes.

While Latinx enrollment in public and private colleges reached a record high of 3.6 million26 in 2016, Latinxs are still less likely to graduate from a four - year college than any other racial group.27 According to the most recent available data, in Texas, for example, 34 percent of white students graduated from public universities in four years, while less than 19 percent of Latinx students met the same threshold.28

i3 funds are competitive grants (Development, Validation and Scale - up) given to LEAs and nonprofit organizations that have significantly closed the achievement gaps between economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities; or have demonstrated success in significantly increasing student academic achievement for all groups of students; or have made significant improvements in other areas such as graduate rates or increased recruitment and placement of high - quality teachers and principals.

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»

Known as «disparate impact» discrimination, the problem is that blanket policies may disproportionately exclude protected classes (based on racial groups, gender, or one of several other categories) from employment because the reason for exclusion is more common in a certain group.

12 Three applications for s10 in relation to native title might arise: (i) a State law forbids enjoyment of a human right or fundamental freedom, such as a right to property or freedom from the arbitrary deprivation of property, and the burden falls on all racial groups; (ii) a State law provides for extinguishment or impairment of land titles but provides for compensation only in respect of non-native title; (iii) a State law extinguishes or impairs only native title and leaves other land titles intact.

Limitations include small sample size, retrospective recall may have been compromised, and unable to differentiate condition from therapist effects, may not generalize to other racial / ethnic groups or to the broader population of depressed adolescents with comorbid conduct disorder and other psychiatric disorders, and randomization process resulted in unequal gender representation in the two conditions.

All racial groups had significant increases in days abstinent from alcohol and other drugs and in the percentage in recovery across the measurement period, but did not differ from one another at the six - month follow - up.