Sentences with phrase «races and income groups»

According to the Houston Chronicle, ``... the lack of affordable housing is being viewed as a crisis that affects Americans of all ages, races and income groups.»

Not exact matches

covariance with ethnicity / race and socio - economic attainment (i.e. people of the same ethnic or racial groups may have similar incomes, and in some cases socio - economic attainment affects racial or ethnic identification as in the U.S. where as income rises, families who historically identified as latino begin to identify as white)

Having studied the group demographics on income, employment, marital status, education and race, the team were able to establish latent class segmentation of the group based on kudos - seeking food buying behaviours.

Gender, specific age, race and income did not influence the association; the study found that all demographic groups were equally affected by the link between social media and eating and body image concerns, indicating that preventative messages should target a broad population.

That incoming group is now a fifth of the voting membership and can dramatically shift the Oscar race towards films that celebrate young, diverse film - makers — the kind of talents who get their start at Sundance.

All that distinguishes the groups is their randomly drawn lottery numbers, so we can be confident that the groups are comparable not only in observable ways (like race and income), but also in less tangible ways, such as motivation to succeed.

They agreed that states would be required to «disaggregate» test scores by race and income, so that schools and districts could be judged on the performance of individual groups.

This brief reveals a significant level of absenteeism in the early school years, especially among low - income children, and confirms its detrimental effects on school success by examining children from across various incomes and race / ethnicity groups in a nationally representative sample of children entering kindergarten.

He expects schools to provide the high quality of teaching and support that will enable students of every race, income group and ability level to achieve.

In every school where teenagers were interviewed, they said the cliques and groups that develop — the geeks, the athletes, and so on — are sometimes more powerful forces than race or income.

The odds are greater that it will, but too many problems stand in the way: the opposition to «all things Obama,» a spending freeze on the part of Republicans, the consternation among civil rights groups fearful that Congress will remove things like annual testing and reporting results by race and income, or the disagreement among conservatives about what the conservative thing to do is.

It would warm your heart to see a group of first graders of all races and income levels excitedly discussing how they are going to design a new planet, respectfully listening to one another's suggestions, and encouraging participation and consensus - all while learning critical thinking at levels that surpass much older children in other schools.

One of the primary policy goals of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and the inspiration for its name, has been closing achievement gaps among groups of students defined by race, ethnicity, income, and other characteristics.

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

Emilia: Interpersonal violence is one of the most pervasive yet under - recognized human rights issues in the world, affecting hundreds of millions of individuals across the globe each year from every social class, income group, race, and culture.

If banks take into account social media, they could gather information they aren't legally allowed to ask for on a credit application — including race, marital status and receipt of public assistance — or worse, redline low - income groups and communities.