Sentences with word «nonwhite»

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

See Infographics A graphical look at the growth of nonwhite students in the nation and select districts.

The typical school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating was large and had a majority nonwhite population, with many students who had previously failed an 8th - grade exam.

His once sky - high approval rating had dropped 13 points in just a week, including a 22 - point drop among nonwhite voters, to 45 %, the Marist poll showed.

Ronald Brownstein argues that Republicans need to win over a larger share of nonwhite voters if they are to remain competitive in future presidential elections.

I wanted to show the ways that race is not just an issue for nonwhite people; it's an issue for everybody.»

The proportion of predominantly nonwhite school districts in the Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Newport News area more than doubled over the past two decades, while the share of diverse districts shrunk considerably.

Mr. Hudgins and his wife, Thelma, have grown close to Henry and Marie - Josée Kravis, who in recent years have added works by nonwhite artists like Mark Bradford, Kevin Beasley and Oscar Murillo to the walls of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the $ 51 billion private equity firm founded by Mr. Kravis and his partners.

One is the world - wide revolutionary situation, in which subject peoples of Asia and Africa are rising to claim their independence and their right to a fair share in the opportunities of life, and in which nonwhite peoples are challenging the exclusive privilege and world dominance of the white man.

Conservatives who hoped that nominating Rubio would help them with nonwhite voters were starting at the wrong end.

City leaders in both parties chalk up the withering of the urban GOP to an array of forces: dropping crime rates that have made voters indifferent to law - and - order politics; Democrats» increasing willingness to confront public employee unions and a radioactive national Republican brand that's utterly lethal among many nonwhite voters.

Ms. Clarke, Ms. Velazquez and Mr. Meeks all represent majority nonwhite districts containing a politically active religious Jewish minority population.

Compared with those included in the analysis, mothers of excluded participants were less educated, had lower annual household income, were more likely to be of nonwhite race / ethnicity, and breastfed for a shorter duration.

Students attending rural schools generally graduate in four years at higher rates than the national average, but that's not true for black, Hispanic and other nonwhite students in rural areas, according to a report from the Rural School and Community Trust.

The share of predominantly nonwhite school systems quadrupled in the last ten years, from about 11 % to 44 %.

However, as their student populations diversified, some states saw stagnation or decreases in their percentages of nonwhite teachers.

Whites fled, but zoning and banking policies closed off suburban options to most nonwhite families.

Like Alcantara, Hamilton represents a largely nonwhite district with a significant stock of rent - regulated apartments.

We will no doubt see even further how big blockbusters might benefit from nonwhite perspectives when Black Panther, Ryan Coogler's forthcoming science - fiction saga set in an uncolonized pan-African paradise, opens next year.

Although future research will no doubt focus on fine - tuning current models for nonwhite groups, for now Kurian recommends that Asian women and their doctors err on the side of caution when using them to consider genetic testing.

«Put another way,» Rachleff said, «this is what New York's downtown art scene looked like at mid-century when women artists and nonwhite artists were included.»

At JACK SHAINMAN Hank Willis Thomas's archival tour de force, titled «Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015,» presents 100 carefully culled print ads that trace the halting progress of feminism and — by omitting nonwhite women — the even more dispiriting state of racial equality in this country (513 West 20th Street, through May 23).

At the same time, he and his members» livelihood depended on a voracious criminal justice system that swallows up thousands of mostly nonwhite young men each year.

Research shows that the reliance on punitive school discipline like suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests — «school pushout» — deprives students of learning time and takes the greatest toll on nonwhite students, students with disabilities, LGBT youth and other vulnerable student groups.

Largely because of broken families, he wrote, 56 percent of nonwhite children received means - tested public assistance at some time in their lives under the nation's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, which mainly assisted female - headed families.

How important is it for you to tell stories about nonwhite characters that capture their complexity and truths?

I do not know which Promise Keepers rallies those 16 percent nonwhite men attended, but it wasn't Oakland.

The study found that white Europeans are more «American» than are nonwhite Americans in most minds.

The effects of segregation were so ugly that in 1998, then — Schools Superintendent David Hornbeck filed a federal civil - rights lawsuit contending that state funding discriminated against nonwhite students.

In Texas schools serving 90 percent or more nonwhite students, per - pupil spending is $ 514 less than at all other schools, and $ 911 less than at schools serving 90 percent or more white students

But Kelly also came under fire for his use of aggressive police tactics, including a program that spied on Muslims and a dramatic spike in the use of stop - and - frisk, which disproportionately affected nonwhite New Yorkers.

In departments in which white employees believed that differences should be ignored, we found that the sense of engagement felt by nonwhite workers was lower than in departments in which white workers publicly espoused support for diversity — regardless of how many persons of color actually worked in the department.

In December 2013, the CFPB and the Justice Department ordered Ally Financial to pay $ 80 million in damages and $ 18 million in penalties after finding more than 235,000 nonwhite buyers paid higher interest rates for auto loans between April 2011 and December 2013.

Klan ideology, at its core, is centered on the idea that white Americans are threatened by nonwhite minorities and that most of these threats are arranged or encouraged by a sinister Jewish conspiracy.

It also reflects a society in which nonwhite skin tones are proliferating, and whiteness, both as a construct and a fact, is changing and shrinking.

Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

Republicans should be ashamed that a larger proportion of nonwhites voted for Trump than for the smug, exhausted identity politics for rich people represented by the Jeff Flakes of the world.

Now, as Artur Davis pointed out, many of these right - leaning nonwhites are moderate in their conservatism and leery of taking a hatchet to the welfare state.

We put together three - person groups — some consisting of all white members, others with two whites and one nonwhite member — and had them perform a murder mystery exercise.

As is, the most prominent nonwhite actor is Chadwick Boseman as a faintly bitchy incarnation of Thoth, the father of science, religion, philosophy and magic.

Rather than deep - six one of its most enduring female characters after Carol's promotion, Marvel went in a bold new direction in a comics industry that rarely promotes nonwhite superheroes.

Survey results indicate the gap between nonwhites and whites is present even among respondents with similar earnings.

The data reveals a cultural divide among three regions in the U.S.: cities and suburbs, rural areas, and the extended Black Belt, an area extending from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard and up to Washington as well as locations with large nonwhite populations.

I learned that things were different only through circumstances: not being allowed to enter certain shops in town, using the «nonwhites only» toilets, and the fact that, as a community, we avoided white people.

That study found that outcomes were most affected by how differently white people acted when nonwhite people were around — they paid more attention to details, made fewer mistakes and noticed more gaps in the evidence.

By 2050, however, most of the faithful will be poor nonwhites south of Europe, the U.S., and Russia, who will spur a revival of Christianity's root emphases on healing and prophecy.