Sentences with phrase «racial disparities across»

The scope and depth of racial disparities across various health indicators and in breastfeeding — life's earliest health intervention — can not be ignored.

Not exact matches

They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.»

Faced with fresh evidence of the racial disparity in marijuana enforcement across New York City, Manhattan's district attorney said he will largely stop prosecuting people for possessing or smoking marijuana.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Faced with fresh evidence of the racial disparity in marijuana enforcement across New York City, Manhattan's district attorney said Tuesday he will largely stop prosecuting people for possessing or smoking marijuana.

«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.

Racial and gender disparities were evident across genres.

«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.»

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

Despite the wide disparities in expulsions and suspensions across racial groups, most people oppose policies that would require schools to suspend black and Hispanic students at the same rate as other students.

It's no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared with other nations, high dropout rates, significant teaching and performance disparities across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and a deficit of graduates equipped with the necessary skills for tomorrow's workforce.

Letters from the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to school district officials, threatening prosecution if disparities in discipline rates and resources across racial and ethnic lines are not justified, will be withdrawn or simply ignored.

We know this because racial disparities in grade - level reading, discipline rates, graduation rates, and many other outcomes have repeatedly shown up across the nation.

In that same spirit, we urge you now to consider the voices of thousands of educators from across the country who are committed to ending racial and gender discipline disparities in our schools through evidence - based strategies aimed at addressing the root causes of student misbehavior.

In Los Angeles, educators advocated for ways to implement the 2013 School Climate Bill of Rights, with the goal of reducing racial discipline disparities across LAUSD in The Equity Movement.

April 23, 2016 (St. Paul)-- Nearly one hundred teachers from across Minnesota joined Educators 4 Excellence - Minnesota for its annual member summit today, which focused on providing teachers with the skills to address racial disparities in school discipline.

Federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that we can bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and support all students to succeed in communities across our nation.

Twenty - three major organizations from across the country also signed a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, in which they stressed: «This federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that communities can work together to create solutions that bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and provide support so that all students can succeed in our nation.»

The reality of racial disparities in academic capabilities and outcomes within and across schools is a stubborn fact.

TCASN is one of five organizations across the nation serving as institutional policy partners for The Frontier Set, a select group of colleges and universities, state systems, and supporting organizations committed to significantly increasing student access and success, and eliminating racial / ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in college attainment.

Topic: Racial Disparity in School Discipline Black students are being suspended at rates three to four times higher than other students in school districts across North Carolina.

Full - service community schools — community - school partnerships that emphasize community - driven, holistic and asset - based school ideals — are increasingly implemented across the nation as a means to assist school stakeholders in addressing racial disparities and countering deficit, dehumanizing narratives of minoritized groups, including Black children.

This paper provides an overview of racial variations in health and shows that differences in socioeconomic status (SES) across racial groups are a major contributor to racial disparities in health.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: (1) Recognize national statistics on indicators of birth outcomes in the United States and understand regional, racial, and ethnic disparities across indicators, (2) Identify examples of existing state efforts to promote positive birth outcomes, (3) Synthesize and apply information to their local contexts and determine implications for home visiting.

Although states vary in their children's racial and ethnic make - up, all states are becoming more diverse and all states have disparities in well - being across the different measures used by Race for Results to contrast well - being among children of different backgrounds.

Overall in the U.S., the index shows that there has been improvement across the board in the majority of the indicators, but still no racial group has all children meeting all milestones and disparities still exist.