Sentences with phrase «high black population»

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The London constituency's population is 23 % black, according to the 2011 census, much higher than the UK national average.

For example, when the CEI (blue dotted line) is adjusted for growth in population (red dotted line) or the labor force (black dotted line), the stock market's failure to sustainably break out above its Apr 26 high in the S&P 500 index (SPX) at 1220 is understandable, as it has been predictable by our business cycle model explained our email to you four days ago (copied in below).

Hundreds of monuments to slavery still stand throughout the Southeast, such as Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama, where a student population that's 94 percent black attends classes in a building that honors a man who claimed the horrors of slavery.

Black is the original or «normal» skin color for humans — lighter skin colors evolved in the last few tens of thousands of years as populations adapted to higher latitudes.

Although for a variety of reasons the per capita rate of conviction for most types of crime has been higher among the poor and the black, that alone can not explain why a tenth of the population should account for more than half of those executed.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

The campaign should continue to have a special focus on the black and American Indian / Alaskan Native populations because of the higher incidence of SIDS and other sleep - related infant deaths in these groups.

And it CAN be a good for political organizing, if your targets are in populations with high cell - phone and / or Twitter usage (for instance, younger — and plugged - in — urban black and latino voters).

The city came under fire in 2015 when a report found Syracuse had the highest concentration of poverty among its black and Hispanic populations, out of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.

The district, though majority Latino, boasts a large and higher - turnout black population that helped elect Mr. Stevenson and could propel someone like Mr. Benjamin, who is also black, into office again.

According to Wildsafe BC, British Columbia has one of the highest populations of black bears in the world — between 120,000 and 150,000 animals.

«We found that Asian and black patients have a substantially higher risk of severe cutaneous adverse reactions to urate - lowering drugs than do white or Hispanic patients, which correlates with the frequency of the HLA - B * 5801 gene in their U.S. populations,» says Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, of the MGH Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, senior author of the report that has been published online in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

The highest HPV vaccine initiation rate was among girls living in communities where the majority of the population was Hispanic (69 percent), and the lowest rates were among girls living in majority non-Hispanic white communities (50 percent) and non-Hispanic black communities (54 percent).

At the same time, analysis of Census data demonstrates relatively high segregation of black, white and Latino populations in the district.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that men, blacks, and low - income populations had higher risk estimates from PM2.5 exposure compared with the national average, with blacks having mortality risks three times higher than the national average.

Another study of 201 transgender black and Latina women — a population that has one of the highest new infection rates in the country — in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, found that 86 % knew about PrEP.

«Many of these deaths could be prevented if high - impact and affordable solutions reached the populations that needed them most,» says study leader Robert Black, PhD, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School.

Researchers have long theorized that blacks are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease due to genetics and higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases in this population.

Blacks, Hispanics, and other populations with darker skin show the highest rates of deficiency.

«We delve into cultural competencies and discover the impact that culturally responsive teaching can bring to a community,» explains Carla Smith, the teacher academy coordinator for Renton High School in Renton, Washington, a 10 - year - old RWT site where over two - thirds of the student population is black, Asian, or Latino.

[3] The old conventional wisdom may be intuitively appealing because aggregate disability rates — with no adjustments for family income or other student characteristics — are higher for students who are black (1.4 times) or Native American (1.7), and lower for whites (0.9) and Asians (0.5), with Hispanic students about as likely to be identified as the rest of the population.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

The accomplishments that have earned Match such recognition are even more impressive in light of the students the school serves: in the 2012 — 13 school year, 76 percent of Match High School's student population was classified as low - income, 93 percent of students were black or Hispanic, and 20 percent spoke a first language other than English.

The issue has surfaced at a time of growing concern over the high rate of smoking - related deaths among Washington's black population, as well as anger nationally over cigarette manufacturers» efforts to entice young blacks and women to smoke.

The two populations — uncertified and AC teachers — differ in a number of ways: AC teachers are less likely to be black or Hispanic, tend to be several years younger when hired, and attended colleges with substantially higher median SAT scores (see Figure 1).

Schools with large populations, schools exclusively serving middle school grades (e.g., grades six to eight), and schools serving a high proportion of poor or black students are all associated with elevated suspension rates for African - Americans.

Unlike New York City's public school system where African - Americans and Hispanics comprise 70 percent of the population, only 3 percent of the students at Hunter College High School are Black and 1 percent Hispanic.

But even if one school has a student population that is 75 percent black and 25 percent white, and the other has those percentages reversed, there is still no evidence of any form of discrimination if the school with the majority black students has a higher overall discipline rate.

Using the SRI, I calculate the mean for each district of the difference for each high school between the percentage of students that is black and the percentage of the school age population in the surrounding two - mile area that is black.

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

At the time of our study, a high proportion of its student population was black, and a significant proportion of the community lived below the poverty line.

Had the board voted to surrender control over the schools, all of which serve predominately black and Hispanic student populations in high - poverty neighborhoods, the district could have received a two - year reprieve from state sanctions.

While KIPP serves a majority of black students, Hiawatha's student population — spread out at the elementary and middle school levels, with a new high school set to open in the fall of 2018 — is mostly Hispanic (89 percent of students).

In addition, the two lowest - achieving of those sub-groups (black and Hispanic students) have come to represent a larger portion of the total student population, while the highest - achieving of those three sub-groups (white students) has come to represent a smaller portion of the total student population.

«Any agenda aimed at improving college access and success for Black undergraduate men — one of the most underrepresented populations in U.S. higher education — would be incomplete without the participation of policymakers at all levels,» says Harper.

All 14 affected schools are in high - poverty areas, and nearly all serve predominately black or Hispanic student populations.

In 2015, Lincoln High School, one of the earlier labeled «dropout factories,» graduated 94 percent of its black students and 84 percent of its Hispanic student population.

They research which campuses have the highest percentage of students of color and speak to classes and student organizations about the benefits of TFA; they have visited more than 25 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and multiple colleges with large Latino student populations.

Importantly, these discussions included our target population; for instance, Hispanic and black high school boys helped to determine the two metrics we would focus on at high school.

Among public universities whose student populations are at least 5 percent black and one - quarter low - income, Rutgers - Newark had the second - highest black male graduation rate in the nation in 2013 and the fifth - highest black graduation rate overall.

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

The New York Times wrote yesterday in Beyond Black and White, New Force Reshapes South The states with the highest growth in the Latino population over the last decade are in the South, which is also absorbing an influx of people of all races moving in from other parts of the country.

Outside Baltimore City and Prince George's County, only three districts have any schools with a black population higher than 75 percent, The Sun's analysis showed.

In their 2016 annual report, Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates, they outline five populations which have the greatest opportunity to help drive the graduation rate toward the campaigns 90 percent goal: low - income students, black and Hispanic / Latino students, students with disabilities, English language learners, and low - graduation rate high schoHigh School Graduation Rates, they outline five populations which have the greatest opportunity to help drive the graduation rate toward the campaigns 90 percent goal: low - income students, black and Hispanic / Latino students, students with disabilities, English language learners, and low - graduation rate high schohigh schools.

The Agenda is the Fellowship's advocacy platform for policy changes that: support the recruitment, development and retention of Black male educators; promotes a teacher workforce as racially diverse as the student population it serves; closes the student achievement gap; and advances high - quality education for all.

More than three - fourths of New Orleans schools are at least 95 - percent black, according to New Schools for New Orleans, but those that do draw larger populations of white students often have far fewer black students than the city as a whole — Lycee has 17 percent black students, Lusher has 28 percent, Ben Franklin High has 33 percent, Hynes has 39 percent and so forth.

Of the students who graduated high school — a number that hovers around 60 percent — Harrington found that 13 percent of African American males got some sort of post-secondary degree (compared to 19 percent of black females, and 20 percent of the general population).

Racial tensions were running high throughout the city as the black population was growing, and the ensuing race riot resulted in 34 deaths.

In 2000, half of the adult Hispanic population in Texas, 80 percent of Anglos and Asians, and 75 percent of blacks completed high school (Kelly 2005).