Sentences with phrase «minority populations»

With the growth in minority populations, more minorities are being included in the patient population with acquired brain injury.

The state has the largest minority population in the country.

In elementary schools with the highest ethnic minority populations, regardless of poverty levels, there are fewer libraries specialists per 100 students than low ethnic minority status.

Given that art - gallery and museum attendance is shown to be dropping overall, the lack of traction with growing minority populations should be a significant cause for concern within the art world.

To avoid, minimize, or mitigate disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects, including social and economic effects, on minority populations and low - income populations.

A possible source of a long term effect would be an increasing minority population as a share of the overall population.

Lawyers from minority populations are still underrepresented, however.

It certainly was never based on concern for minority populations.

The areas in which Catholic schools are closing are also areas in which overall population may be declining, black and minority population increasing, and poverty rising.

The recipients of the grants will serve counties with high rates of chronic disease, and / or more than 40 percent minority population.

But while diversity — in terms of visible minority populations — increased in every census division in the GTA from 2011 to 2016, the numbers vary widely.

The rise of Muslim minority populations makes urgent the question of international law: What is the appropriate treatment for religious minorities?

I just started working on my Ph.D. in engineering in a town with a very small minority population, and I feel extremely isolated and alone.

It's not hard to understand why many charter schools have a majority minority population.

In the past few years, its home - grown leadership team has overseen a striking rise in test scores, especially among its substantial minority population.

What do principals need to know and be able to do in order to be effective leaders of schools serving minority populations?

Since the early 1990s, the number of Hispanic students has increased over 200 percent, and the overall minority population has doubled.

A large number of these schools are in urban environments and are made up of largely minority populations.

But in these labs, you'll rarely see students and faculty from American minority populations.

He added that he thinks the focus on the achievement gap and low - performing schools would create two school systems, one with a predominantly minority population.

What do you do to make sure people from diverse backgrounds or minority populations feel comfortable?

Her research focuses on school readiness, mental health, and family functioning during early childhood, with an emphasis on low - income and ethnic / language minority populations.

These firms should make a conscious effort to recruit from second - and third - tier colleges — particularly those with large minority populations.

Until now little was known about the prevalence of food allergy in low socioeconomic ethnic minority populations.

Avoid, minimize, or mitigate disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects, including social and economic effects, on minority populations and low - income populations.

The visible minority population was relatively small — four per cent of the total population — with black, Arab and Chinese people making up the three largest communities within this group.

For example, it's not as easy to meet potential romantic partners at work or in the supermarket when you live in an area with a small minority population.

Unemployment is dropping, but is still high and three times higher among minority populations.

He volunteers at a local elementary school with a high minority population in hopes of inspiring students to shoot for their dreams as he did.

In 2014, Nevada's population was 48.5 percent minority, and it's expected to have a majority minority population within the next 10 years.

The Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies projects that our country will have a 30 percent minority population by the year 2010.

They want to extend these long - accepted reform measures to the nonviolent poor and minority populations who take up three - quarters of the bed space in prisons and jails.

NIH Deputy Director for Science, Outreach, and Policy Kathy Hudson, who co-chaired the working group, said the project hopes to recruit some participants through federally funded health clinics that serve low - income minority populations.

Focus research programs on high - risk, underserved and minority populations wherever possible

Co-authored by Kyle Crowder, professor at the University of Washington, and Amy Spring, assistant professor at Georgia State University, the paper notes racial integration slowed most sharply in western and southern cities, locations such as Atlanta, Las Vegas and Sacramento, where minority populations suffered a rash of foreclosures.

January 4, 2013 Study identifies strategies to help minority students in med school While minority populations are rising throughout the country, enrollment by minority students in the nation's medical schools has stagnated.

No other minority population has the level of disparity as do Blacks.

In fact, the study found that experienced drivers with good driving records in the largest minority population areas pay more for...

«There are issues today in science and health that disproportionately affect minority populations,» says Rob Irion, director of the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).

Utah's growing minority population also struggled.

Additionally, the Chicago area has a significant minority population which has been shown to have greater affinity towards unions.