"Racial diversity" refers to a situation or environment where there are people from different races or ethnic backgrounds, creating a mix of various races within a group or community.
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This is important in that while there appears to be decreases in
racial diversity in the aggregate for individual students, there may be significant variability across schools.
Research
on racial diversity in small groups, however, makes it possible to draw some causal conclusions.
The biggest concern expressed by judges at the meeting was what merit selection would mean
for racial diversity on the bench.
Recruitment: Research suggests that residencies bring greater gender and
racial diversity into the teaching workforce.
On the other hand, there are those who challenge the legitimacy of having higher education institutions take active measures to ensure
campus racial diversity, including through the use of affirmative action.
But, however worthwhile such policies may be, they will do little to
produce racial diversity on selective college campuses.
Now, in the face of mounting political pressure, schools are looking
beyond racial diversity to economic diversity.
A lot has been said in recent years about the need for greater diversity on the runway — not
just racial diversity, but body diversity.
When that family does not
include racial diversity it is a challenge to break with family tradition and try interracial dating.
The findings will have implications for how to
address racial diversity and student competition in privileged communities.
As such, they recommend districts interested in increasing
racial diversity explore these racially - neutral financial incentive structures.
And the decision to use staff pictures and social media to
estimate racial diversity for outlets that declined to respond generated a lot of concern among some journalists.
Education journalism is predominantly female, but shares some of the same challenges
re racial diversity.
Last week's column, about the lack
of racial diversity among education news organizations, generated a lot of attention and criticism — much of it misguided from my perspective.
Parents are willing to go to schools
with racial diversity and socioeconomic diversity, just not academic diversity.
These declines have taken place despite myriad «race - neutral» efforts intended to
achieve racial diversity and undermine the nation's ability to meet workforce projections and remain internationally competitive.
African - American parents, by an overwhelming margin, want the public schools to focus on achievement rather than
on racial diversity and integration, a survey released last week says.
At first glance, the charter school movement might look to be a modern - day model
for racial diversity.
In related news, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice issued joint guidance documents a couple of months ago for K — 12 schools and higher - education institutions that outline permitted race - conscious and race - neutral strategies for
promoting racial diversity.
FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The teachers union and state lawmakers are pushing to overhaul admissions at the city's top public high schools, calling the lack of
racial diversity at the schools «an embarrassment.»
A recent report on civil rights data found that Pennsylvania provides lower per - student funding to school districts with
greater racial diversity compared to economically similar districts with predominantly white student bodies.
In what seems to have been a risky legal argument, the Bush Administration tried to deny the existence of the trade - off itself, arguing that even highly selective institutions could achieve
racial diversity by race - neutral means, simply by granting automatic admission to students in the top of their high school class (3).
And the trend is to emphasize socio - economic as well
as racial diversity because using economic status avoids the legal problems associated with using race and because social science research suggests it is the economic status of classmates that most powerfully correlates with academic achievement.
New York Fashion Week Still Has a Long Way to Go on the Diversity Front (Fashionista) «
Racial diversity only increased the slightest bit — 0.4 percent, to be exact.
Making the tech industry more diverse The Facebook chief will look into an idea of convening a meeting of technology firms to
boost racial diversity in the industry, and said he would come back with data on employee retention at Facebook broken out by race.
Bauer joked with the crowd and the reporters present, «I can't wait to run home and see that positive reaction from the crowd
toward racial diversity played on CBS, NBC, and ABC!»
Her research showed a high combination of authenticity coupled with increased levels of perceived
racial diversity significantly decreased major experiences of discrimination (B = -.17, p <.05).
According to the CTC report released last week, not only did 1,900 additional teaching candidates enroll in educator preparation programs compared to recent years, they also
added racial diversity experts say is important in classroom settings.
This paper assesses the extent to which schools in the University of California (UC) system were able to
restore racial diversity among admitted...
Awol Erizku is an Ethiopian - born artist who works in wide range of mediums with the focus on the issue of the lack of
racial diversity through the history of art.
Liliana Garces, assistant professor of higher education at Pennsylvania State University,
said racial diversity has fallen significantly at schools that are barred from considering race as a factor in admissions.
feels like a logical argument against
racial diversity despite the historical record is precisely why this is a good battle to pick, I feel.