Sentences with phrase «largest black population»

As a result of the subsequent importation of African slaves Colombia now has the third largest black population in the Americas, after Brazil and the U.S.

Western New York, with large black population in the cities and working - class whites in the suburbs, is a political bellwether.

«However, other states with comparatively large black populations like California and Texas kept the national gap from closing more than it did.

Also, when you have such large black populations that are involved in every aspect of everyday life, it makes it harder to pigeonhole an entire race into a monolithic stereotype.

The size of this estimated effect is similar to the effect of a larger black population, about 2 percent greater enrollment in charter schools accompanying a one - standard - deviation increase in the fraction of college - educated adults in the state.

Schools with the lowest percentage of black enrollment (0 % -6 %) do not suspend black students as frequently as schools with larger black populations.

Young said the charter schools in the South L.A. area tend to have a larger Black population than the noncharter schools, and the area has also seen a growing population of Latino students.

Hamilton County when compared to Butler County has more renters, a higher average salary at $ 40,000, a larger black population [23 % vs. 5 %] and a lower median house value at $ 148,000.

Using a sample comprised of capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, counties with relatively large black populations because they were termini of the underground railroad, Professor Walker investigates the «limits of freedom» for Ontario's African Canadians.

Not exact matches

But it won't be pressuring Apple or Facebook to hire black Americans in proportion to their representation in the population at large.

In a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

While it is true that 80 to 90 per cent of all births out of wedlock are to black teen - agers, and that half of all black children live in female - headed families, it is also the case that black males form the largest unemployed group in the total population, and are the lowest - paid of employed males.

There is still much segregation and discrimination, and even if poverty - stricken blacks are only one - third at most of all the poor in America, poor people are a much larger proportion of the black population than of the white.

Latinos make up the largest ethnic group in the district at 46 %, with non-Hispanic Blacks comprising approximately 37 percent of the population.

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.

Since August 2016, Carranza, 51, has been serving as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student population.

Among the U.S. metropolitan regions with the largest populations of people of color, New York City ranks 3rd in black / white segregation and 2nd in both Latino / white segregation and Asian / white segregation.

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.

Researchers also found that NGC 1448 has a large population of young (just 5 million year old) stars, suggesting that the galaxy produces new stars at the same time that its black hole feeds on gas and dust.

They adjusted the samples to reflect the U.S. population, a common practice for large, national surveys and the result was 66 - 71 percent white and 15 - 22 percent black, with 7 - 19 percent reporting another racial identity.

The team also discovered a similar galaxy, MASOSA, which, together with Himiko, discovered by a Japanese team, hinted at a larger population of similar objects, perhaps made up of the earliest stars and / or black holes.

Despite their aggressive, quarrelsome and omnivorous nature, Europe has seen a significant decline in herring gulls, lesser gulls and great black - backed gulls, the three largest populations.

The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the breeding populations of three species of large gull; Herring Gull, Great Black - backed Gull and Lesser Black - backed Gull on the Hebridean island of Canna, and the relationship between these gull populations and the fall in the quantity of fish landed in the nearby harbour of Mallaig.

The early figures from the 19th count of the U. S. population show a reduced rate of growth, large migrations to the West and South and a continued shift of whites to the suburbs and blacks to cities

Science Interests Formation of galaxies and black holes in the early universe and their growth over cosmic time; large surveys with Hubble and other telescopes to discover new populations of distant galaxies and black holes; physical properties of active galactic nuclei using observations from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet through to X-ray energies.

These vents (also know as black smokers) expel minerals dissolved by water which bacteria use to in chemical reactions to produce energy and support ecosystems involving larger multi-cellular lifeforms that feed off of of the massive and fast - growing bacterial populations.

Vermejo Park is home to abundant wildlife populations, including large herds of elk, deer, pronghorn antelope and bison, along with black bears, mountain lions, and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

The three confirmed detections by LIGO (GW150914, GW151226, GW170104), and one lower - confidence detection (LVT151012), point to a population of stellar - mass binary black holes that, once merged, are larger than 20 solar masses — larger than what was known before.

The three confirmed detections by LIGO (GW150914, GW151226, GW170104), and one lower - confidence detection (LVT151012), point to a population of stellar - mass binary black holes that, once merged, are larger than 20 solar masses.

According the 2010 Census, New York City boasts the largest population of black residents of any city in the US.

There never has been a large black Catholic population so this dynamic did not happen for black women.

Sioux Falls is the biggest city in South Dakota, so it has a much larger black community than most of the surrounding area, but African - American residents still only make up 4.2 % of the total population, according to the 2010 census.

In the United States, just over 50 years ago it became legal for black and white people to marry so, naturally, at this time the views of a large percentage of the human population was that interracial dating was something to frown at.

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.

In the five states with large ELL student populations, the proportion of ELL students scoring at or above the proficient level on the state mathematics test is often below the proportion of black students scoring at or above the proficient level.

This is consistent with the notion that the apparent achievement gains associated with having a black teacher reflect in part the relatively low quality of white teachers who work in more disadvantaged schools and in schools with large populations of African - American students.

Say that a large population of black and white 5th graders is given a standardized test.

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.

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.

New data related to the White House report released Tuesday found that many of these large school districts poised to lose funding serve largely black or Hispanic populations.

Moreover, these economic struggles have not affected all populations equally, contributing to large gaps among black, white, and Hispanic youth.

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.

While black and brown students make up a smaller fraction of the total student population, they account for a large majority of the students being suspended and expelled.

«While there is reason to believe that Black, Hispanic, and American Indian students would be the greatest beneficiaries of a diverse teaching force, there is evidence that all students — and our democracy at large — would benefit from a teaching force that reflects the full diversity of the U.S. population,» the report says.

The largest growth in the charter - school population came from students who are poor, black and Hispanic.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

This report finds that while the population of teachers of color overall is growing, Black and Native American teachers are a declining share of the teacher workforce and the gap between the percentage of Latinx teachers and students is larger than for any other racial or ethnic group.

American can no longer afford economically, much less, morally, to have one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian children struggling with literacy — especially when minorities make up the majority of enrollment in the southern and western states of the union (and large portions of school populations in the rest of the nation).

Left unchecked, the magnitude of such disparities will rise in coming years as blacks and Hispanics account for a larger share of the US population.