Sentences with phrase «nonwhite children»

Many researchers worry that I.Q. tests are biased against low - income and nonwhite children, and some recommend a more holistic approach that includes teacher referrals.

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

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.

Not exact matches

Now Papwa can play only in the nonwhite tournaments, which he generally wins, but the first prize is rarely more than $ 100, and he has a wife and five children to support.

Mothers who are nonwhite, unmarried, or lack a college education are more likely to have children with health and developmental problems.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

She's referring to what's known as the achievement gap in the United States — the persistent disparity in educational, and hence economic, success of its disadvantaged, and disproportionately nonwhite, children.

Seventy percent of parents say they'd prefer to have their child in a racially diverse school, including equal numbers of whites and nonwhites.

The Seattle school district classifies children as white or nonwhite; the Jefferson County school district as black or «other.»

If a racially diverse school is farther away, 57 % say they'd prefer to send their child to a closer but less diverse school; 61 % of whites say so, as do 52 % of nonwhites.

A total of 48 studies were excluded from the database because they combined all minority children into a nebulous «nonwhite» category, failed to include a comparison group consisting of white children, or did not perform separate analyses with children disaggregated from adults.

Quiz Ref IDMost children were male (62 %), and 29 % were of nonwhite race and / or Hispanic ethnicity (compared with 24 % and 36 % in Massachusetts and the United States, respectively).39 Participants were primarily mothers (96 %) and married (70 %), with a median age of 34 years.

Fact: The hypothesized per se «absence» of the father correlation was not found for «nonwhite» children, indicating that it's not about father - presence or absence.