Sentences with phrase «minority males»

Changes in judicial policies, particularly those related to drug offenses, have led to a large increase in the incarceration rate of minority males.

Can lawyers find ways to keep minority males in school?

Criminal activity is concentrated among minority males; it begins in early adolescence and peaks when most youth should still be enrolled in secondary school.

Earlier studies have shown sexual minority males have one of the highest known prevalence rates of skin cancer, with up to twice the risk of heterosexual males.

Finding minority male teachers remains one of the toughest challenges for districts nationwide.

The central issue, he concludes, is the declining number of minority males who have jobs that...

African - American, Native American, and Hispanic men made up approximately 42 %, 48 %, and slightly less than 50 % of their respective racial groups» 2001 S&E graduate enrollments.2 The lack of minority male graduate enrollments in S&E contrasts with the overall S&E graduate population, which is 59 % male.

Students know their shortcomings, and so many — especially minority males — act up, act out, or drop out to rebel against the prevailing, unsubstantiated notion that all one has to do is work harder.

Other urban districts also have begun to focus on minority males to reduce the achievement gap or address skewed discipline statistics or stereotypes, all issues that have been magnified since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August.

Their advice to school boards and district officials: prioritize the importance of increasing minority male educators and recognize that they offer a solution to many of the education problems facing adolescent boys; and don't automatically focus on these educators in a behavioral capacity instead of the educational capacity for which they were trained and hired and may prefer.

The report warned that suspension rates among minority male students with disabilities were disturbingly high.

Schools to Jail: Research by sociologist Bruce Western and his collaborators documents that youg minority males who do not finish high school experience witheringly high rates of imprisonment by the time they are 30 (close to 2 / 3rds).

He promised to address «very high unemployment among young minority males, black and brown,» which he called «just unacceptable,» adding, «We have to make special economic initiatives there.»

The researchers also looked at the data for sexual minorities (e.g. lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) compared to their heterosexual peers and found that sexual minority females on average had higher BMIs, whereas sexual minority males had lower BMIs.

As reported by the Aspen Times, Bloomberg stated that government needs to remove firearms from young minority males.

Blashill is currently working on a follow - up study evaluating the indoor tanning use of 14 - to 35 - year - old sexual - minority males in San Diego County to see if there is a similar phenomenon among college - aged and young adults.

While minority males struggle at the student level of S&E (and college period), no real progress has been made for either sex among S&E faculty, although minority males slightly outnumber minority females.

American Promise shows the emotional toll that each boy endures, not only from the image that their privileged peers have of minority males but, accordingly, their own lack of confidence.