Sentences with phrase «racial composition»

Consider the data above on racial composition of schools.

These findings are based on variations in racial composition of grades within a given school.

The reasons for the differences in maternity care practices by racial composition of the areas are not clear.

In conclusion, though school representatives and parents rarely talk about demographics, there are clearly many factors that affect racial composition of schools.

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.

By this measure, schools are closer to complete integration than ever before, and thus racial composition would have to change less now than when the report was released.

Integration - reducing transfers are those that move a school's racial composition further from the benchmark.

For the 2001 - 2002 school year, the deviation permitted from the desired racial composition was increased from 10 to 15 percent.

The court first considered whether a real estate licensee has any duty to provide information to a client concerning racial composition of a community when the client requests such information.

· effects due to racial composition of the student body apart from its level of educational proficiency.

However, a RAND study found that, in most states, students tend to transfer between traditional public and charter schools with similar racial compositions.

In the end, as RAND tells us, students who move into charter schools generally choose schools with racial compositions similar to those of the traditional public schools they exited.

Special time - series maps show the changing racial compositions of New York City from 1910 to 2000 and of Los Angeles County from 1940 to 2000.

In 1978, it found that the plan had brought all of Louisville's schools within its» «guidelines» for racial composition» for «at least a substantial portion of the [previous] three years.»

A transfer is considered to have positive effects on racial integration if it moves a school's racial composition closer to that of the surrounding area, as defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Mystic Morrison, a student from Brooklyn, says the cast's racial composition reflects «real life.

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.

Another school lost six black students and saw a change in racial composition from 30.1 percent black to 29.2 percent black.

Aside from Georgia (which has only three charter schools), the average racial composition of charter schools in the other states is similar to their statewide averages.

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.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

Because our data on school racial composition come from the 2009 — 10 school year, our analysis assumes that Louisiana public and private schools did not experience substantial demographic shifts between 2010 and 2013.

Slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago, but its effects are still felt today in K - 12 education in the south, according to a new Rice University study, «How the Legacy of Slavery and Racial Composition Shape Public School Enrollment in the American south.»

Regarding the second question, Coleman reported that families were more important for learning than were school resources, and, further, that school resources varied more by region than they did by a school's racial composition within any specific region.

Desegregation since the Coleman Report Racial composition of schools and student learning by Steven Rivkin

We rely on five - year population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey to approximate the school - age racial composition of each Louisiana Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) in 2009 — 10.

School authorities concerned that their student bodies» racial compositions interfere with offering an equal educational opportunity to all are free to devise race - conscious measures to address the problem in a general way and without treating each student in different fashion based solely on a systematic, individual typing by race.

The facts show, too, that bullying is an equal - opportunity torment — the size of a school, its setting (rural, urban or suburban) and racial composition seem to have no bearing on its occurrence.

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

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schools.

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.

We identify as integration - improving student transfers those that move a school's racial composition closer to that of the relevant CBSA benchmark.

The site's time - series maps show the changing racial compositions of New York City from 1910 to 2000 and of Los Angeles County from 1940 to 2000.

While informative, they do not conclusively show the effects of policies that alter the overall racial composition of a school through changes in attendance patterns, the policies that are of greatest concern to both the courts and to state and district policymakers.

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.

The average racial composition of the census tracts in Fulton and DeKalb counties, where Harbour purchased, was more than 86 percent African American.

Last month, for example, the Supreme Court upheld a verdict that two North Carolina districts were drawn with racial composition in mind (see «Battleground state»).

Institutional diversity: Studying case data from the 1990s to the present, the researchers found a correlation between jury racial composition and different legal outcomes.

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).

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?

As the ethnic and racial composition of students in U.S. higher education continues to diversify, it is critical that we take a moment to pause and reflect on the integral role that Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) play in recruiting, training, and producing future teachers of color.

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

The racial composition of the world's population is altering rapidly, for the population increase is occurring mainly among the non-white races.

Bruce Levenson, the controlling owner who started the process by self - reporting an email making stereotypes about the fanbase's racial composition, leads a Washington - based group that holds a 50.1 percent stake in the Hawks.

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.

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.