Sentences with phrase «in racial composition»

Blockbusting, or panic peddling, is a practice in which some real estate brokers, exploiting fears of change in the racial composition of the neighborhood and potential decline in property values, encourage owners to put their homes on the market.

What if there were a site that — for every U.S. public school district — tracked data on desegregation cases and linked it to trends in racial composition from 1968 - 2000?

Relying on cherry - picked statutory history, Brennan found that Title VII's plain text did not prohibit collectively bargained, voluntary affirmative action programs that attempt to remedy disparate impact — statistical imbalances in the racial composition of employment groups — even if such plans used quota systems.

Another school lost six black students and saw a change in racial composition from 30.1 percent black to 29.2 percent black.

The change in the racial composition of the 750 + student school was less than one percent.

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schools.

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resources.

Not exact matches

The average racial composition of the census tracts in Fulton and DeKalb counties, where Harbour purchased, was more than 86 percent African American.

In terms of racial and ethnic composition, cohabiting single dads are much less likely to be white and much more likely to be Hispanic.

To analyze whether the implementation by maternity facilities of practices that support breastfeeding varied depending on the racial composition of the area surrounding the facility, CDC linked data from its 2011 Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to U.S. Census data on the percentage of blacks living within the zip code area of each facility.

The findings suggest that the implementation of maternity care practices supportive of breastfeeding vary based on the racial composition of the area, which means women living in areas with higher percentages of blacks might have less access to these services.

The reasons for the differences in maternity care practices by racial composition of the areas are not clear.

This is the first report based on national data showing that practices at maternity facilities vary with the racial composition of the zip code area in which the facility is located.

Prevalence of facilities meeting indicators for recommended maternity care practices, * by racial composition † of the zip code areas where the facilities were located — Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care Survey (mPINC), United States, 2011

Last month, for example, the Supreme Court upheld a verdict that two North Carolina districts were drawn with racial composition in mind (see «Battleground state»).

The researchers also found that the HPV vaccination rates among Hispanic girls differed depending on the racial composition of the community in which the girls lived.

In fact, there have been relatively few studies on the racial and ethnic composition of populations that apply for federal research funding.

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 discussionIn 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 discussionin small group discussions.

Research from North Carolina State University and Rice University finds that the racial composition of a labor market plays a significant role in whether workers find out about job leads — regardless of the race of the worker.

Expected to show that African Americans were isolated in inferior schools, the study found that school resources varied mainly by region, not by their racial composition.

The key flaw in their report, as we describe in more depth in the article, is that the CRP authors compare the racial composition of all charter schools to that of all traditional public schools.

In the end, as RAND tells us, students who move into charter schools generally choose schools with racial compositions similar to those of the traditional public schools they exited.

However, a RAND study found that, in most states, students tend to transfer between traditional public and charter schools with similar racial compositions.

The authors begin by presenting a great deal of descriptive data on the overall enrollment and aggregate racial composition in public charter schools compared to traditional public schools.

Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter schools to that of nearby traditional public schools.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

Washington State Report Card data provide measures of racial composition, student - teacher ratios, the percentages of students enrolled in the free or reduced - price meals program, total enrollment, and the percentage of students who passed the reading and math Washington Assessment of Student Learning exams in each teacher's school.

While informative, they do not conclusively show the effects of policies that alter the overall racial composition of a school through changes in attendance patterns, the policies that are of greatest concern to both the courts and to state and district policymakers.

When we controlled for factors such as school racial composition, grades served, and religiosity, the coefficient on tuition became insignificant in Louisiana, but remained highly significant for the enrollment measure.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.

In a recent study, Lindsay, Blom, and Tilsley present an impressive analysis of the disparities between the racial composition of American children and the racial composition of the American teaching force.

Yet, there are readily available examples of both racial composition and impact in the world, like government and corporations.

In the 2002 and 2004 elections, however, media coverage shifted to other issues, such as the closing of schools, the racial composition of schools and boards, disciplinary problems, and sports programs.

The judge's finding that the district has not fully desegregated was based not on the racial composition of classrooms, but on such factors as racial disparities in academic achievement.

My analyses of the success of these magnets in actually attracting whites indicate that school structure and racial composition was important.

The basic flaw in the CRP study is that it compares the racial composition of charter schools, which tend to be located in inner cities, with that of traditional public schools, which are located in all different kinds of environments.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

Aside from Georgia (which has only three charter schools), the average racial composition of charter schools in the other states is similar to their statewide averages.

For this benchmark, we use the racial composition of the larger metropolitan or micropolitan area, the Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, in which the school is located.

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a wholIn each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a wholin assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

2002); Brief for Armor et al. as Amici Curiae, with Rosen, Perhaps Not All Affirmative Action is Created Equal, N. Y. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting»» [w] e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly»» and acknowledging that he» «did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but there's a big state variation»» (emphasis added)-RRB-.

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

In 1978, it found that the plan had brought all of Louisville's schools within its» «guidelines» for racial composition» for «at least a substantial portion of the [previous] three years.»

«Now we arrive at the point — in 2014 — where you can literally walk down a hallway in Columbia High School and look in a classroom and know whether it's an upper - level class or a lower - level class based on the racial composition of the classroom,» Fields said.

, Pew Hispanic Center, June 6, 2007), and that black and Hispanic students are increasingly isolated from white students in the public schools (Fry, The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools, Pew Hispanic Center, Aug. 30, 2007).

Similarly, when the researchers looked at whether transfers to charter schools affected the distribution of students by race or ethnicity, they found that, in most sites, the racial composition of the charter school entered by a transferring student was similar to that of the traditional public school that he or she had left.

In administering public schools, it is permissible to consider the schools» racial makeup and adopt general policies to encourage a diverse student body, one aspect of which is its racial composition.