Sentences with phrase «number of minority children»

National Research and Assessment of Disproportionality: Racial Equity Strategies, Tools, and Programs (PDF - 274 KB) Black Administrators in Child Welfare & Casey Family Programs (2008) Discusses strategies, tools, and programs used in nine States to prevent and reduce the number of minority children in out - of - home care.

This movement is essentially rejecting all objective measures of educational achievement and, subsequently, lets children, including a disproportionate number of minority children, fall through the cracks.

Not exact matches

Kozol chronicles the «new emboldenment among the relatively privileged to isolate their children as completely as they can from more than token numbers of the children of minorities.»

She is part of a growing number who represent the highest percentage of minority women nursing their children since researchers began tracking such data.

If you go by the raw numbers, it looks like children of minority families are more likely to end up in special education programs.

«The higher number of black and Hispanic children now being identified with autism could be due to more effective outreach in minority communities, and increased efforts to have all children screened for autism so they can get the services they need,» he added in an agency news release.

The U.S. Census Bureau had been predicting it, but it happened sooner than expected: The number of Hispanic children has surpassed the number of non-Hispanic black children, making Hispanics the largest minority group among children younger than 18.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

The services are being provided to help children who are economically disadvantaged to better succeed in school, and a disproportionate number of these children are racial or ethnic minorities.

Between 1968 and 1980, the number of black children attending a school where minority children constituted more than half of the school fell from 77 % to 63 % in the Nation (from 81 % to 57 % in the South) but then reversed direction by the year 2000, rising from 63 % to 72 % in the Nation (from 57 % to 69 % in the South).

Similarly, between 1968 and 1980, the number of black children attending schools that were more than 90 % minority fell from 64 % to 33 % in the Nation (from 78 % to 23 % in the South), but that too reversed direction, rising by the year 2000 from 33 % to 37 % in the Nation (from 23 % to 31 % in the South).

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

In Improving Schooling for Minority Children: A Research Agenda, August and Hakuta (1997) state that one research need is «to learn how to increase the number of teachers skilled in working with English - language learners» (p. 269).

White parents fled in huge numbers to the suburbs to avoid busing / integration for their children, leaving many cities with high percentages of minority communities.

Consequently, the No Child Left Behind law provides very little protection to lower performers who might be pushed out of school, a disproportionate number of whom are minorities.

The policy that they crafted, which was approved by the N.C. State Board of Education in February, will seriously undercount the number of low - income, minority children who qualify, she says, and it's a violation of federal law.

To some experts, this research suggests that a teacher with a large number of low - achieving minority children in a classroom, for example, might have a more difficult job than another teacher with few such students.

Yet, staff stability actually varies considerably across schools with similar numbers of poor and / or minority children.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's hostility to race - conscious integration and in recognition of the disproportionate number of minority, and especially black, children from poor families, localities have adopted plans to integrate schools by income instead of race.

The participation rate of 90 is also required among a number of student subgroups, such as minorities, students whose primary language is not English and children in the foster care system.

«the number of verified acts of bullying in the state, an analysis of the responsive action taken by school districts and any recommendations it may have regarding additional activities or funding to prevent bullying in schools and improve school climate to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education and children and to the speaker of the House of Representatives, the president pro tempore of the Senate and the majority and minority leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate» was submitted.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

Schools with high numbers of children with disabilities who are also English Language learners or from minority backgrounds face unique challenges to student achievement.

A number of the classrooms have high percentages of poverty and minority children, and none of the children could read at the beginning of the kindergarten school year.

If we become a country that rejects facts and analyses that do not support our political positions, sees research independently conducted and reviewed as dangerous, treats public education as only one — and one of the least desirable — ways to educate our children, makes it even harder than it is now for poor and minority children to get a college education, then, in my view, our days are numbered.

To politicians like de Blasio, I — an educator of poor and minority children — am public enemy number one, but to thousands of families across New York, Success Academy schools are proof of what children can achieve and they have raised their voices to demand educational opportunity for more students.

At last, grueling effort has translated into test score gains at a school serving poor, minority students and a continually increasing number of children with learning and emotional disabilities.

An agency - wide focus on permanency for all child welfare involved families has the residual impact of fostering permanency for minority families, and therefore reducing their numbers in the child welfare system.

Although the data set was primarily non-Hispanic white, there was still an unprecedented number of videotaped observed mother - child eating episodes in low - income and minority populations compared with the samples in prior published work.

We entered the number of patients and control group members, mean age, percentage of girls and of members of ethnic minorities, the country of data collection, year of publication, type of illness, duration of illness, the sampling procedure (1 = probability samples, 0 = convenience samples), the use of a control group (0 = yes, 1 = comparison with test norms), equivalence of patients and control group (1 = yes, 2 = not tested, 3 = no), the rater of depressive symptoms (1 = child, 2 = parent, 3 = teacher, 4 = clinician), the measurement of the variables, and the standardized size of between - group differences in depressive symptoms.

Several early family characteristics (whether one or both parents from a minority ethnic group, both parents» ages when their child was born, the number of children in the family, adverse family events such as illnesses and deaths) are not associated with later father - child relationships.

Research has shown that Black and minority ethnic children are over - represented in the care system in relation to the numbers of minority ethnic children in the general population.

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Lower marital quality and poor health may be associated with female gender (Robles et al., 2013; Rieker & Bird, 2005), racial minority status (Bulanda & Brown, 2007; Williams, Mohammed, Leavell, & Collins, 2010), lower education, lower income, and unemployment (House, 2002; Karney & Bradbury, 2005), greater number of children (Kotler & Wingard, 1989), higher - order marriage (Barrett, 2000; Booth & Edwards, 1992), and depression (Ormel, Rijsdijk, Sullivan, van Sonderen, & Kempen, 2002; Whisman, 2001).

We controlled for mother characteristics (age and ADL status), offspring characteristics (gender, age, education, and minority status), and family factors (offspring — mother relational quality, mother's marital status, problems of the participant's own children, and the number of siblings living geographically close to the mother).