Sentences with phrase «on nonwhite»

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.

The idea is that box office success for a movie centered on a nonwhite superhero and cast could inspire Marvel to produce and create more movies like Black Panther in the future (the studio's previous 17 films have all featured white men as the superhero leads).

Not exact matches

Declines in homeownership among lower - income, nonwhite and young adults were especially dramatic following the housing crisis, as subprime lending, which many homeowners had previously relied on, all but dried up.

The media - strategy component is that many nonwhite and younger voters, based on their media consumption patterns, never even hear about when they do agree with conservatives.

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.

The Democratic Party's elites have thoroughly abandoned their mid-1990s skepticism about increasing future low - skill immigration, and have tried to present support for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration as a referendum on whether Hispanic Americans (and nonwhites generally) are to be accepted as full American citizens.

While Curran's attempt at diversity is obvious (one essay is by a lesbian, several are by nonwhite writers, and at least one is written by a thrice - married «encore bride»), and while the authors subscribe to a range of opinions on what constitutes a meaningful wedding, the essays tend to merge into one witty, young - hip - and - urban and mostly forgettable voice.

Whether the issue is size of government, or taxes, or abortion, a larger fraction of nonwhite voters are (moderately) on the conservative side of the issue than voted for Romney.

White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites.

The NBC4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist Poll found opposition to an extra impost on carryout sacks across all incomes, religious affiliations and ethnicities, with strongest opposition among nonwhites and those earning less than $ 50,000 a year.

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.

In contrast, nonwhite gun owners who have faced or may be coping with financially difficult times do not place as much importance on the gun, researchers found.

«Disparities are occurring as early as high school and therefore it is crucial to address alcohol and marijuana use early on, especially for nonwhite youth,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and senior behavioral scientist at RAND.

In the present study, although we did not have data on whole - grain intake per se, we discovered a 50 % risk reduction for women with the highest consumption of bread or cereals, which was mainly driven by nonwhite bread (data not shown) and was only marginally explained by the dietary GI.

Hispanic respondents have the highest average monthly spending and usage minutes Nonwhites are less loyal to mobile carriers than whites and plan to spend more on future handsets and services.

Even on a strong morning for nonwhite nominees, Damien Chazelle's musical emerged with what could well be unstoppable momentum

According to federal data, more than 40 percent of students are nonwhite, compared to just 17 percent of teachers, and that mismatch appears to be on the rise.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

Researcher: Nation's Future Depends on Raising White, Nonwhite Test Scores Observer & Eccentric, August 21, 2011» «If we can't make it happen, we may have already peaked as a nation,» said [Senior Lecturer] Ronald Ferguson, faculty co-chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard.»

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

Nationally, charter schools are 52 percent nonwhite while district schools are 41 percent nonwhite, suggesting that on the whole charters are serving traditionally underserved populations.

Where Prior Lake enrolls a little over 1,000 students, more than 90 percent of them white and only 1 in 20 on free or reduced - price lunch, Berkeley houses 3,000 students, one - fourth of whom are low - income and two - thirds of whom are nonwhite.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Nonwhites split evenly on vouchers when only private schools are mentioned but oppose them by a 27 - point margin when religious schools are included.

Moreover, all students — rich or poor, white and nonwhite alike — miss out on the substantial benefits of learning in richly diverse classrooms.9 As the research shows, students across the spectrum are better prepared for post-secondary success when they have been educated in diverse schools and have learned alongside peers who come from all walks of life.10

This index ranks states on the percentage - point difference between the percentages of nonwhite teachers and nonwhite students.

The United States spends $ 293 less per year on students in mostly nonwhite schools than on students in all other schools.

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.

Differences in views between whites and nonwhites are less pronounced on drug crime sentencing guidelines compared with their views of the criminal justice system's handling of crime more generally.

The settlement stems from Toyota dealerships charging certain nonwhite customers higher interest rates on their auto loans than white customers.

The groups did not differ on residential stability as measured by mean number of years living in Seattle by age 12 years and by the mean number of residences in which participants lived from age 5 to 14 years; socioeconomic status, as measured by years of parental education or proportion eligible for the school lunch program; proportion from single - parent families; proportion of boys; or proportion of whites or nonwhites.