Sentences with phrase «racial composition from»

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?

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

In 2004 Anthony Lising Antonio, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, collaborated with five colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions to examine the influence of racial and opinion composition in small group discussions.

Research from North Carolina State University and Rice University finds that the racial composition of a labor market plays a significant role in whether workers find out about job leads — regardless of the race of the worker.

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

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

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

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resources.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

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.

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

While most people wouldn't consider a school that is roughly two - thirds white and one - third black or vice versa to be segregated, the Department of Justice does so long as its racial composition varies from the general population of the district.

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.

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).

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.

, Pew Hispanic Center, June 6, 2007), and that black and Hispanic students are increasingly isolated from white students in the public schools (Fry, The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools, Pew Hispanic Center, Aug. 30, 2007).

The goal of the policy is to assure that no school deviates by more than 15 percent from the district's overall racial composition, which is 60 percent minority (African American, Asian, and Hispanic).

Clearly, the takeaway message from the RAND study — as the authors explicitly state — is that students who transfer into charters in these cities attend schools with racial compositions that are similar to the TPS attended in the prior year.

Roger D. Goddard, Texas A&M University Serena J. Salloum, University of Michigan Dan Berebitsky, University of Michigan Trust as a Mediator of the Relationships Between Poverty, Racial Composition, and Academic Achievement: Evidence From Michigan's Public Elementary Schools Educational Administration Quarterly 2009 45:292 - 311

Of particular note, is Jay D. Scribner's unique ability to reach across racial, class, and gender differences in his mentorship - nurturing scholars from under - represented backgrounds into a profession largely homogeneous in composition.

Our students are diverse in many ways: the racial composition is 46 percent black, 33 percent white, 10 percent Latino, and 10 percent Asian; 49 percent of the students are from low - income families; 9 percent of students are in special education; and more than 20 different languages are spoken in our students» homes.

Transoceanic immigration into Mexico and South Africa from Africa, Asia, and Europe took place, but not on a massive enough scale to upset greatly the «racial» composition of the country.

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.

Although the maltreated and comparison groups were comparable in terms of racial composition, to prevent spurious associations that can result from variation in allele frequency and prevalence of trait by population (24), ancestry proportion scores were generated and included as a covariate in all analyses.

Similarly, Fair Housing laws prohibit agents from engaging in discriminatory practices, which includes discussing certain topics, such as the racial composition of a community, or whether an area is safe.