Sentences with phrase «likely than white»

While it is difficult to match credit risk to demographic characteristics, black and Hispanic borrowers are more likely than their white counterparts to have low credit scores.

Nonwhite renters are far more likely than white renters to cite financial reasons for not owning their home.

Due in part to discriminatory social policies such as redlining, children of color are more likely than white children to live in areas that can not afford the abatement programs necessary to address lead in their communities.

Black children and youth are more likely than their white and Hispanic peers to have had three or more adverse experiences (15 percent, compared with 11 percent, each).

However, the new data, which is based on the National Survey of Family Growth and reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also shows that African - American and Latino teens are less likely than white teens to use highly effective birth control methods such as the IUD, pill, patch, ring, or shot.

Four in ten Latinas will become pregnant before the age of 20 and Latina teens are 1 1/2 times more likely than their white non-Latina peers to have a repeat teen birth.

Both African - American and Hispanic children are less likely than white children to be adopted (Courtney & Wong, 1996; Wulczyn, 2000).

Global temperatures are plummeting at a record rate — but if there's one thing even more likely than a white Christmas it's that the greenies will try to blame it on man - made climate change.

In 2014, black people were almost three times more likely than white people to die from asthma, according to the Department of Health and Human Services» Office of Minority Health.

Some Demographic Groups Under - Represented Among Investor Households, FINRA Foundation Research Finds Wednesday, September 30, 2015 More than 3 in 10 U.S. households own taxable investment accounts, but black and Hispanic households are significantly less likely than white households to hold taxable accounts, according to A Snapshot of Investor Households in America, a new report issued by the FINRA Investment Education Foundation.

African American drivers are less likely than white or Hispanic drivers to buckle up, but the difference disappears in states with primary belt use laws.

Looking at the exact same behavior, a study in 2011 found that «African American and Latino students were more likely than their White peers to receive expulsions or OSS as consequences for the same or similar problem behaviors.

As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

In Minneapolis, a low - income black student is six times more likely than a white student to be suspended for at least one day in a school year.

Hispanic children, especially those in Spanish - dominant homes, were less likely than white and black children to use these technologies daily.

High - achieving, Black, elementary school students are much less likely than their White peers to receive assignments to gifted and talented programs in math and reading, according to a new study.

During the 2013 — 2014 school year, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights reported that black students were 3.8 times more likely than white students to receive an out - of - school suspension.

Teachers of color are two to three times more likely than white teachers to work in high - poverty, urban schools.

Students of color are more likely than White students to be suspended one or more times.

Teacher turnover is increasing, and black teachers are more likely than white teachers to leave their jobs.

For example, black and Hispanic students — even if they are not poor — are much more likely than white or Asian students to be in high - poverty schools.

The Honoré Center is rooted in the concept that black male teachers may be more effective at teaching young black men, who are more likely to struggle in the classroom and are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to graduate from high school and college.

On the Praxis II — a series of commonly used licensure tests that are subject - specific — African American test takers are much less likely than white test takers to pass the tests the first time; per Table 3, this finding holds true across various subject and grade level Praxis II tests.83

When examining responses by students» self - reported race / ethnicity, we see that black or African - American students are slightly more likely than white students to feel that they must be ready to fight to defend themselves.

Overall black students are 4 times more likely than their white peers to be suspended.

Women and minorities are far less likely than their white, male classmates to major and pursue a career in STEM.

Black students are 3.4 times more likely than white students to be subject to a school - related arrest, and students with disabilities account for 25 percent of arrests at school but only 12 percent of the student population.

Black students in the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools during the 2015 - 16 school year were 10 times more likely than white students to get a short - term suspension, according to a report released this month.

These studies suggest that black teachers are powerful role models, particularly for black boys; that they are more likely than white teachers to recognize competence in their black students; and that subjective judgments by teachers play a vital role in determining success at school.

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Across the United States, black and Latino students are far more likely than their white classmates to be removed from school as punishment.

Black students, the study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found, were more likely than white or Hispanic students to have had sex, and boys were more likely than girls to have done so.

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

• With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - priced lunch and students of color in the cities were less likely than white students to enroll in high - scoring elementary and middle schools, take advanced math courses, and take a college entrance exam.

It also noted that black students are nearly four times as likely than white students to be suspended from school and twice as likely to be expelled.

Despite rising college attendance, black students are still less likely than their white counterparts to attend prestigious schools that may give them connections or a leg up in the career world.

«But,» he writes, «schools serving more students of color are less likely to offer advanced courses and gifted and talented programs than schools serving mostly white populations, and students of color are less likely than their white peers to be enrolled in those courses and programs within schools that have those offerings.»

Black children are 7.5 times more likely and Hispanic children 2.5 times more likely than white children to have an incarcerated parent.

African - American students are far more likely than their white peers to receive a subpar education, in larger classes taught by unqualified teachers in decaying buildings, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

* Non-white and non-Asian parents were more likely than white and Asian parents both to choose «better education» as their top reason for choosing a private school (40.5 percent versus 23.7 percent) and to place high school graduation rates and postsecondary information in their top two pieces of important decision - making information (54.1 percent compared to 27 percent).

Empowering parents is one of the best ways to combat the persistent finding that black children are statistically more likely than white children to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities.

This pattern likewise falls disproportionately along racial lines: for example, Latino students are 1.4 times more likely than white students to attend a school with a law enforcement officer but not a school counselor (while Asian students are 1.3 times as likely and black students are 1.2 times as likely).

• A 2014 study by Goldrick - Rab, Kelchen, and Houle and a 2015 report by Demos show that black students borrow more than other students for the same degrees, and black borrowers are more likely than white borrowers to drop out without receiving a degree.

After the Institutes reviewed a 2011 analysis that found African Americans significantly less likely than white applicants to win NIH research grants, it pushed for a deeper look.

Black patients remained significantly more likely than white patients to be readmitted following surgery, after controlling for comorbidities.

The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.

Black children who undergo urologic surgery are more likely than white children to have postsurgical complications and hospital - acquired infections 30 days after the surgery.

But the survey showed that women of color are less likely than white men, white women, and minority men to report having primary advisers who embody both the instrumental and respectful advising styles.

Study after study has shown that black defendants are more likely than white ones to receive the death penalty.

The study also found that racial minority patients with a strong desire for testing were less likely than white patients to discuss it with a professional, even though studies show that minority patients are not at lower risk for these mutations.