Sentences with phrase «income black youth»

The education and employment of low - income black youth in white suburbs.

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However, black and Latino youth still represented only one out of six high - scoring, low - income youth — 17 %.

Because black and Hispanic youth represented only 7 % of the top decile of test - takers, they represented a minority of most subgroups of applicants, even low - income applicants.

As a result, selective colleges and universities would have to admit six times as many students under an income - based policy to yield the same number of black and Hispanic youth as would result from an explicitly race - based policy.

In 1992, among the high - scoring high school seniors (those with test scores in the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, below).

Their «Capitol High,» a pseudonym for a predominantly black high school in a low - income area of Washington, D.C., had what the researchers said was an «oppositional culture» in which black youth dismissed academically oriented behavior as «white.»

The Black - White achievement gap in children's reading and mathematics school performance from 4 1/2 years of age through fifth grade was examined in a sample of 314 lower income American youth followed