It will help children prepare for life since they will probably come into contact with people from different
racial and ethnic groups in college, work, and everyday life.
The Race for Results report contains an index that compares how children are progressing on key milestones
across racial and ethnic groups at the national and state level.
The report features the new Race for Results index, which compares how children are progressing on key milestones across
racial and ethnic groups at the national and state level.
Despite some significant academic gains over the years, serious achievement gaps persist among many of our students, particularly those from
several racial and ethnic groups.
The material will enable researchers across the nation to do detailed genomic and other studies that can help parse more about how and why these cancers occur differently in
various racial and ethnic groups.
Facebook is currently arguing in federal court that Section 230 immunizes it against liability for ad placement that blocks members of
certain racial and ethnic groups from seeing the ads.
[17][18] States must collect and review district - level data on how rates of identification — overall, by educational setting and disability category — vary across
racial and ethnic groups with no adjustments for variables that correlate with need for services.
If this is the case, and
racial and ethnic groups do not have the same distribution of these characteristics, then including controls for these effects might reduce or eliminate differences in award probability.
The Family Institute at Northwestern University actively seeks applicants from
underrepresented racial and ethnic groups so that our body of students, fellows, faculty and staff will more closely reflect the diversity of American society.
It is the leading cause of death across the board for people of
most racial and ethnic groups in the United States and about the same number of men and women die from heart disease each year (3).
Misuse of those tools has plunged Facebook into controversy, from targeting people who expressed interest in anti-Semitic topics such as «jew hater» to excluding
specific racial and ethnic groups when placing housing ads.
«As California is a highly populous majority - minority state, we are soon going to learn how
diverse racial and ethnic groups respond to legalizing physician - assisted death,» Periyakoil said.
Shareholders in the U.S. have filed motions over the years asking that more women and non-whites be named to boards, but the one submitted by Maldonado is the first to make a specific recruitment demand
about racial and ethnic groups, according to Edward Kamonjoh, head of the U.S. strategic research analysis at Institutional Shareholder Services in Washington.
They are called on to promote equal educational opportunities for children in
identified racial and ethnic groups, to monitor their development and academic achievement, and to address the unique challenges and opportunities faced by school board members working with issues concerning these students and their families.
Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other
racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.
The researchers sought to compile standards that more accurately reflect the best fetal growth during healthy pregnancies among the most
common racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
«All major
U.S. racial and ethnic groups face problems due to alcohol abuse, and alcohol use within those groups can vary with geographic location, age and gender.
[11] The same document prohibits states from combining «major racial and ethnic subgroups... into a... «super-subgroup,» as a substitute for considering student data in each of the major
racial and ethnic groups separately (emphasis added).»
Greene's «High School Graduation Rates in the United States» (revised in 2002) employs a unique method for calculating graduation rates and presents his own rates for each of the 50 states, for
distinct racial and ethnic group breakdowns, and for the 50 largest school districts.
States would now be required to use a standard methodology for
comparing racial and ethnic groups and to use quota - like «reasonable thresholds» allowed by the Department for determining when minorities are over-represented.
In our opinion, when Mr. Bush refers in the text of his plan to the «rest of us,» he is not talking about the individuals from
non-European racial and ethnic groups who make up most of the urban - school population that will one day become a sizable segment of America's workforce.
This report brings data from the newly - released 2016 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to the robust policy and research debate over the extent to which differences in aggregate special education participation rates
over racial and ethnic groups represent differences in underlying needs for special education.
For example, comparisons of the transcripts of 1990 and 2009 high school graduates reveal that larger percentages of 2009 graduates from all major
racial and ethnic groups completed a rigorous curriculum than did comparable 1990 graduates, and, on average, 2009 graduates completed about 420 more hours of coursework than did 1990 graduates.
During the first decade of the 21st century, gender gaps in graduation rates fell, especially among Hispanics, even though graduation rates for females in all of the major
racial and ethnic groups rose.
White, African American, and Latino students all scored higher on those NAEP tests than did students from the
same racial and ethnic groups in the 1970s, but African American and Latino students made greater gains than white students.
Controlling for this allowed us to study whether the narrowing of the gaps among
racial and ethnic groups on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was comparable to changes on the highly regarded NAEP exams.
Among racial and ethnic groups in New York, rates of children in poverty range from 14 percent to 33 percent with Hispanic children faring the worst and White children faring the best, according to a release.