Sentences with phrase «on racial composition»

For example, schools can draw attendance zones based on the racial composition of particular neighborhoods because students in those neighborhoods would be treated the same regardless of race.

No matter how rich or how poor the district in question, funding gaps existed solely based on the racial composition of the school.

Consider the data above on racial composition of schools.

In this regard, there is a body of evidence indicating that information on racial composition dominates school choice searches.

«Now we arrive at the point — in 2014 — where you can literally walk down a hallway in Columbia High School and look in a classroom and know whether it's an upper - level class or a lower - level class based on the racial composition of the classroom,» Fields said.

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

The judge's finding that the district has not fully desegregated was based not on the racial composition of classrooms, but on such factors as racial disparities in academic achievement.

Taken as a whole, the evidence on racial composition, desegregation, and resegregation effects suggests that desegregation had a positive but likely uneven effect on academic and social outcomes.

To ascertain whether this is the case, I draw on the best available public data on the racial composition of the nation's schools: the Public Elementary and Secondary School Enrollment and Common Core of Data issued by the Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education.

• «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report,» by Steve Rivkin, which examines the evidence on the racial composition of schools and student learning.

The researchers also found that the HPV vaccination rates among Hispanic girls differed depending on the racial composition of the community in which the girls lived.

The findings suggest that the implementation of maternity care practices supportive of breastfeeding vary based on the racial composition of the area, which means women living in areas with higher percentages of blacks might have less access to these services.

To analyze whether the implementation by maternity facilities of practices that support breastfeeding varied depending on the racial composition of the area surrounding the facility, CDC linked data from its 2011 Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to U.S. Census data on the percentage of blacks living within the zip code area of each facility.

Not exact matches

Sociologists can speak of the age, sex and racial composition of the U.S. population with some precision, based on government counts.

This is the first report based on national data showing that practices at maternity facilities vary with the racial composition of the zip code area in which the facility is located.

In fact, there have been relatively few studies on the racial and ethnic composition of populations that apply for federal research funding.

Her repertoire included jazz, folk and American musical standards, as well as original compositions on racial and social injustice.

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

The authors begin by presenting a great deal of descriptive data on the overall enrollment and aggregate racial composition in public charter schools compared to traditional public schools.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resources.

When we controlled for factors such as school racial composition, grades served, and religiosity, the coefficient on tuition became insignificant in Louisiana, but remained highly significant for the enrollment measure.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.

Data on private school enrollment and racial composition come from the Private School Universe Survey (PSS), a biennial survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

Critics of school choice often claim that parents ignore quality when evaluating schools and draw their conclusions on the basis of the school's racial or ethnic composition.

We found no significant differences between lottery winners and losers on characteristics, including gender, age at high school entry, and the math and reading scores and racial composition of their middle schools.

For instance, the racial composition of the school age population of the entirety of New York City has little relevance to concerns about and efforts to improve the racial balance of schools on Staten Island, which by virtue of its geography might as well be a part of New Jersey.

Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composition.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010.

The figure makes clear that the racial composition of one's neighbors depends much more on one's race than on one's income.

«New York City Housing Authority, Number of Families at Federal Projects, Shown by Racial Composition at Initial Occupancy and on June 30, 1954.»

New York City Housing Authority Archives (LaGuardia Community College), Box # 0063C7 Folder # 11; Folder Title: R & D: RACE & COLOR OF TENANTS — STATISTICAL SHEETS OF NUMBER OF FAMILIES W / RE: TO RACIAL COMPOSITION - FEDERAL, CITY, STATE BOOKLET ON OBJECT LESSON IN RACE RELATION; APPLICATION.

«New York City Housing Authority, Number of Families at Projects Under Parts I and II of the City - Aided Program, Shown by Racial Composition at Initial Occupancy and on June 30, 1954.»

New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

Transoceanic immigration into Mexico and South Africa from Africa, Asia, and Europe took place, but not on a massive enough scale to upset greatly the «racial» composition of the country.

It explores the subject of racial violence and intimidation, incorporating imagery based on the memorial carving of Confederate leaders at Georgia's Stone Mountain into a disturbing composition of silhouetted figures.

Luscious colors, complex compositions, transcendental narratives and an ability to seamlessly work across media: Marshall is shifting expectations on racial identity and art historical discourse by declaring himself and his culture Invisible No More.

Relying on cherry - picked statutory history, Brennan found that Title VII's plain text did not prohibit collectively bargained, voluntary affirmative action programs that attempt to remedy disparate impact — statistical imbalances in the racial composition of employment groups — even if such plans used quota systems.

What if there were a site that — for every U.S. public school district — tracked data on desegregation cases and linked it to trends in racial composition from 1968 - 2000?

Evidence of differing levels of supply, depending on the racial and ethnic composition of a neighborhood, may not be purely a function of different communities» demand or need for quality child care.

In Study 1 (2001 — 2006), [Gross, et al. (2009)-RSB- the day care centers were matched on size, racial / ethnic composition, percent single parent households, and median income before randomizing them to waitlist control or intervention conditions.

Blockbusting, or panic peddling, is a practice in which some real estate brokers, exploiting fears of change in the racial composition of the neighborhood and potential decline in property values, encourage owners to put their homes on the market.