Sentences with phrase «racial bias factors»
Is racial bias a factor in the US attorneys» corruption probes of state lawmakers, as some have claimed?
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The studies assess various social and economic factors, such as racial bias or unemployment, that might help to explain persistent poverty or dependency.
«Previous research tends to be polarized between the argument that students of color are overrepresented in special education due to racial bias in schools, and the argument that they are actually underrepresented in special education once you account for socioeconomic status and other related factors.
The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.
They said that the trial judge erred in not asking the Crown to address the relevance of referring to her as a prostitute, did not provide instructions to the jury to address the «widespread racial bias» invoked by referring to her as they did and «wrongly said a factor important to consent was that Gladue was a prostitute,» wrote the Court of Appeal judges in their decision.
In summary, they attributed racial disproportionality to external factors such as poverty and racial discrimination, to community and family characteristics such as the lack of informal and formal supports, and to internal issues such as worker bias.