Sentences with phrase «given by another ethnic group»

She and her colleagues compared the data with those from similar samples given by another ethnic group called the Saluan, who live about 25 kilometers away in the coastal village of Koyoan, but don't spend much time in the water.

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The report gives only passing attention to the positive impact of NCLB on the education of the most disadvantaged students, a consequence of the requirement to report performance by specific subgroups (e.g., racial and ethnic groups and the economically disadvantaged).

The hope was that by identifying historically disadvantaged students — which includes economically disadvantaged students, racial / ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and students with limited English proficiency — greater attention and resources leading to academic achievement would be given to these marginalized students.

Findings from the Rainbow Project, conducted by the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise, showed that assessing students for creativity and practicality in addition to analytic skills gave a more complete picture of student abilities, more accurately predicted academic success in college, and provided more opportunities to various ethnic groups to show where they excelled.

Inspired in part by the stories told by Outterbridge's elders when he was a child, the Ethnic Heritage Group gave him an opportunity to further research folk medicine, voodoo, and cultural superstitions in both the United States and Africa.

Given that decisions about whether to marry or cohabit vary by race and ethnic group as well as by education (e.g., Clarkberg, 1999; Manning & Smock, 1995, 2002), the benefits of marriage may be a result of parents» education and race and ethnic group rather than marriage per se.»