Sentences with phrase «racial bias among»

Recently, the Yale Child Study Center identified implicit racial bias among early educators as a likely source of the disproportionate punishment received by black boys.

If students are placed in special education and gifted programs differentially because of racial bias among teachers, then students are likely receiving inappropriate educational services,» said Fish.

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As protests broke out at that Philadelphia Starbucks, Johnson and Schultz appeared in television interviews to pledge that the company would work to combat unconscious bias and racial profiling among its employees.

According to a 2016 study published by the Harvard Business Review, including more than one woman or member of a racial minority in a finalist pool helps combat unconscious bias among interviewers and increases the likelihood of a diverse hire.

Now an international team of researchers suggests that one way to reduce racial bias in young children is by teaching them to distinguish among faces of a different race.

There are three dominant theories explaining the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system: 1) the disproportionate need found among minority families; 2) racial bias in child welfare decision making; and 3) family risk and child welfare practice.

• Dr David Chae, a social epidemiologist from the University of Maryland's school of public health, whose research suggests that multiple levels of racism, including interpersonal experiences of racial discrimination and the internalisation of negative racial bias, may work together to accelerate ageing among African - American men, and