Sentences with phrase «from racial groups»

The weight of social science evidence demonstrates that racially diverse schools are associated with achievement in math and reading, better critical thinking, and increased intellectual engagement for students from all racial groups.

The speakers are drawn from all racial groups.

Students from every racial group are more likely to attend college if they go to a Catholic school, but the positive impact is greatest for urban minorities.

When cigarette use in the past month was examined, adolescents from every racial group, including whites, had even higher odds for attempting suicide in the past year ranging from 2.1 - 2.7, suggesting a link between these problem behaviors.

If a woman is out on a date with you, she is not interested in hearing you detail every person from her racial group you have ever encountered in your life.

3) A simple demographic indicator identifies the percentages of students who are black, white, or from another racial group.

The data show that numerous school districts are not suspending large numbers of children from any racial group.

The analysis also illustrates the risk for out - of - school suspension faced by students from each racial group and by those with disabilities.

Not exact matches

When your workplace is home to a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences, your company can more effectively market to all groups of consumers, from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds, men and women, older and younger adults and those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

The company responded to complaints by meeting with Oakland activist group Neighbors for Racial Justice, and CEO Nirav Tolia said feedback from those meetings was incorporated into a new model for the site's crime and suspicious activity reporting feature.

Last month, the company said it was temporarily disabling the ability of advertisers to exclude racial groups from the intended audience of ads, and promised to «do better» at policing discriminatory practices.

Female employees, as well as those from different racial and ethnic groups, are also speaking up, sharing workplace injustices, and demanding equality.

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.

Misuse of those tools has plunged Facebook into controversy, from targeting people who expressed interest in anti-Semitic topics such as «jew hater» to excluding specific racial and ethnic groups when placing housing ads.

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.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

As a result of prior injustices, members of disadvantaged racial groups may differ from the more privileged ones in ways that are educationally significant — for example, in health, manners, and intellectual competence.

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.

The fundamental notion of dividing society into saints and sinners, separating the saints from the sinners as much as possible, and then instituting a system of external controls to bring the sinners into at least outer conformity with the moral expectations of the saints, originally had nothing to do with the relations between ethnic and racial groups.

By and large it has been only the racial groups that have not graduated, so to speak, from the status of controlled to the status of controller.

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.

Such a concern is valid, but it's also part of a larger concern for the denominations, While only 3 percent of those surveyed were from racial and ethnic minority groups, that figure reflects the realities in the denominations.

Especially insightful is her comment that anything written on the subject will trigger, axiomatically, cries of insensitivity, or worse, pure racism, from the racial advocacy groups.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

Those thus maligning Mormons are usually from the extreme right (mostly certain fringe groups within mainstream «Christianity») or the extreme left (mostly gay activists), both of these groups have much deeper racial issues than Mormons.

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).

Growth groups can also be used to build bridges of communication and empathy across the barriers that divide mankind — the ethnic, racial, national, and political differences that isolate us from our fellow human beings, During several workshops on counseling in India, my wife and I led growth groups for participants.

While it can never be fair to will that members of a disfavored class - whether the unborn, the disabled, or members of some racial or religious minority group - be excluded from legal protections one wills for oneself and those dear to one, a legislator or voter is personally responsible for no unfairness to the victims of an objectively unjust law where he supports that law precisely, and only, because the alternative is even less protective of its victims.

Second, reconciliation focuses on racial reconciliation, bringing together people from different ethnic groups in relationships that reflect the vision of Revelation 7:9, a great multitude of people from every tribe, nation and tongue, united in worship of Christ.

From 1996 to 2007, the cesarean rate increased for mothers in all age and racial and Hispanic origin groups.

As an african - american woman I and my child have the highest risks of death out of all racial groups despite my education and financial status, so I will be staying as far as possible from a hospital, and I'd rather do it at home as the vast majority of my ancestors did.

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

Mr. Loeb's comment also directly hit on the long - simmering racial tensions in Albany, where Mr. Klein's group has helped block Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black lawmaker whom Mr. Loeb attacked in his Facebook post, from ascending to the post of majority leader.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting was scheduled to begin at approximately 5:30 p.m. and once it did start, a group of protesters from the group «Queers for Racial Justice» began shouting for about 30 minutes, highlighting controversial Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino.

I'm not just Chris racial justice but everything that many groups in buffalo asking for the removal of Carl Paladino from the school board.

We have also brought on board highly qualified leaders from a diversity of ethnic and racial groups — more action.

«The result is our bill is supported by more than 120 groups that exemplify New York State's rich ethnic, racial, cultural, religious and geographic diversity — from local arts non-profits to immigration advocates to labor unions and more.»

Mr. Trump's call to ban Muslims — including U.S. citizens — from entering the United States is just the latest thing he's said to outrage a varying group of racial, ethnic and religious groups.

The head of a group that approves New York charter schools said Monday that it would be «very difficult» for Success Academy Charter Schools to expand if hedge - fund manager Daniel Loeb doesn't step down from the charter network's board in light of his recent racial remark.

The programs make special effort to recruit individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and those from economically, socially, culturally, or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.

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.

But, she pointedly adds, these «objective» cutoffs disproportionately exclude from the sciences members of underrepresented groups, including women and non-Asian racial minorities, who, on average, do less well than white and Asian men on the GRE, especially on the all - important math section.

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.

Laird analyzed federal unemployment data from 2003 to 2013 by gender, racial groups and public - and private - sector employment, and found that:

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...

The 2012 preterm birth rate among non-Hispanic black infants remains the highest of all the racial groups at 16.5 percent, down from 18.5 percent in 2006 and the lowest in more than 20 years.

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.

Now that antigens are better understood, cross-racial transplants often make better matches than those from within a racial group because, as Dunston is quick to point out, it's the individual response that counts, not the group's.