Increased
racial differences on breast cancer care and survival in America: historical evidence consistent with a health insurance hypothesis, 1975 — 2001
Knowing
racial differences on choice is particularly important because more than 30 percent of children attend private and parochial schools in New Orleans.
If you're still skeptical, consider this: In 2007, two researchers tried to gauge
racial differences on capital punishment and assess how blacks and whites responded to arguments against the practice.
Not exact matches
In recent years, intense focus
on diversity and multiculturalism has accentuated
racial, sexual, ethnic, class, and gender
differences on campus, frustrating attempts to imagine the university as a cohesive moral unit with common ends.
On the average, about half the responses given to such questions as why
racial differences exist, why someone might be killed in an airplane crash or die young, and why suffering in general exists were consistent with one another; the remaining half drew from different thematic traditions.10
The sharpest predictor of
differences was, paradoxically, their response to the question
on racial identification.
We see as much
on our tony college campuses and other bastions of progressivism where the cultural engineering promises
racial harmony and the erasure of any male - female
difference through speech codes, indoctrination, and 24/7 intimidation of dissent.
Growth groups can also be used to build bridges of communication and empathy across the barriers that divide mankind — the ethnic,
racial, national, and political
differences that isolate us from our fellow human beings, During several workshops
on counseling in India, my wife and I led growth groups for participants.
Another positive associated with adopting transracial children is that this means that parents are embracing the diversity and are more focused
on having a child rather than
on the cultural or
racial differences.
The pair also say that correlations with attitudes towards social issues like gender or
racial equality could explain the
differences, with those interviewed
on the phone seemingly more socially liberal than average, while those polled online are more socially conservative.
The famous «controversy» over
racial IQ, I thought I'd been taught, was about what causes the
differences in
racial test scores, not about whether those
differences exist in the first place — and
on that topic Watson really hadn't offered an opinion.
Our results should be of particular interest to state public health officials focused
on reducing
racial differences in health.»
«A physician or other clinical staff may not readily identify these
racial differences at a single - practice level, but these gaps may be important
on a larger scale,» explained Dr. Dotson.
«Other studies have looked at
racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused
on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment
on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
«Investigating
racial disparities could provide insight into the overall alcohol - sleep relationship, susceptibility
differences in sleep homeostasis / architecture across groups, and its subsequent impact
on health outcomes.»
The research, led by Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, sheds light
on the
racial and ethnic
differences in trends of nonmedical opioid and heroin use over time.
«Further investigation of the reasons for
racial and ethnic
differences, particularly
on a national level, is necessary to identify interventions that may help reduce disparities in pediatric liver transplantation.»
The assessment will obtain data
on environmental and psychosocial factors that may account for socioeconomic,
racial and ethnic
differences in problem behavior.
InterracialRomance.com works in favor of those singles that don't believe in
racial differences and are instead
on the lookout of finding someone from a different race.
The Greatest Showman is a wildly idealized take
on Barnum's humble beginnings that touts itself as an uplifting story about the importance of family, believing in yourself, celebrating your
differences, friendship, love, and
racial inclusivity.
On four items — school discipline, expectations for student achievement, school building and facilities, and the
racial and ethnic diversity among students — we find no significant
difference in the variation in satisfaction across sectors.
But even under the best circumstances, the
differences that divide us and the stupid cultural assumptions sometimes gift - wrapping those
differences can have a disarming effect
on a minority student who believes that college equals a
racial utopia in the land of happily ever after.
A chart accompanying a story about
racial differences in students» outlook
on school in the Nov. 20, 2002, print issue of Education Week carried an incorrect figure.
A dissimilarity index at the district level, however, measures the dissimilarity of districts and the overall student population in the area, and provides information
on changes over time in
racial differences in the distribution of students among districts.
The Coleman Report focused
on differences in schooling resources available to white and minority students and
on the degree of
racial segregation in America's public schools.
«I actually wanted insight into the school's
racial achievement gap,» he says, «and thought a survey
on how the students perceived the school — academics, teachers, extracurriculars, safety, and social morale — would reveal
differences between
racial groups.»
The survey, which gauges
racial attitudes in schools a half - century after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate schooling for black and white students, found
differences between teachers and students
on questions of race and education.
We use these responses to first document the presence of
racial bias in teachers» expectations, and then study the effects of
differences in teacher expectations
on students» likelihood of completing college.
In Other People's Children, Lisa Delpit explores the dissimilar styles of communication exhibited by people from different
racial and class backgrounds, and how these
differences might have a negative impact
on learning.
Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by
racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year
on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the
differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.
The 1998 study by Meredith Phillips and her colleagues, mentioned earlier, had the greatest success in explaining
racial differences in achievement, yet the unexplained portion of the achievement gap
on the vocabulary test used in their study was still so large that it nearly exceeded the raw gap in reading and mathematics we found in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey data.
Family education programs: Films, speakers or discussions for parents and guardians
on topics such as bullying prevention, identity development,
racial identity, gender expression, sexuality, learning
differences or family diversity.
We found no significant
differences between lottery winners and losers
on characteristics, including gender, age at high school entry, and the math and reading scores and
racial composition of their middle schools.
Along
racial lines, the report seems to dodge
differences on critical questions.
Exploring the Effects of Student Expectations about Financial Aid
on Postsecondary Choice: A Focus
on Income and
Racial / Ethnic
Differences
Brooks - Gunn and Markman found that these multiple
differences in parenting styles generated a 6 - to 12 - point
racial gap
on a common school - readiness test (structured like an intelligence test with a score of 100 as the median).
Since the only
differences in the profiles across participants will be the gender or
racial origin of the names
on top, we would expect no significant
difference by race or gender in the average likelihood of survey participants recommending a particular student profile for advanced coursework.
It is contingent
on... seeing cultural
differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging
racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based
on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»
Despite these gains, the rate of progress has varied among these
racial / ethnic groups and
differences by race / ethnicity persist in terms of increases in attainment and progress
on key indicators of educational performance.
In particular, focusing
on college - bound high school students, we use a
difference - in -
difference methodology to analyze the impact of the end of race - based affirmative action at the University of California in 1998
on both the overall level of SAT scores and high school GPA, and the
racial gap in SAT scores and high school GPA.
On some issues, there were clear
differences of opinion along
racial lines.
When I served as student body president at AU and began working
on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity,
racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a
difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.
The study calls for more data looking at outstanding student loan debt by race and claims that focusing
on undergraduate borrowing alone only reveals part of the picture of possible
racial differences.
There is almost always a division between factions, often based
on racial differences at war for global domination or revenge.
Other highlights of the exhibition include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around
racial difference; and a series of mixed media works
on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.
Neptune addresses the ideologies around white supremacy by focusing
on an artistic invention called «The Colorline,» a metal stand and green velvet curtain, «designed to block out the reality of systematic racism, cultural and
racial difference, white supremacy, and aggravated stress caused by interactions with non-white persons.»
Publications include Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (2007, German 2012), Wege in der Fremde: Deutsch - jüdische Begegnungsgeschichte zwischen New York, Berlin und Teheran (2012), and Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920 - 1950 (1995); co-edited volumes
on Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (2002) and After the Nazi
Racial State:
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (2009), as well as Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union (with M.Edele and S. Fitzpatrick) and The JDC at 100: Essays
on the 100th Anniversary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (with A Patt, L. Levi, M. Maud), both forthcoming 2017, and (with Tamar Lewinsky) the chapter
on 1945 - 1949 in Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart (ed.
And points to subject of «Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave» as an artist who «is not afraid to be explicit
on the subject of sex or
racial differences.
Other highlights of the exhibition at Bluecoat include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around
racial difference; and a series of mixed media works
on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.
In arguing that
racial differences do not justify
racial discrimination, Reich steps out
on some possibly dangerous turf.