Sentences with phrase «racial minorities»

We use the term immigrant ethnic minorities to refer to those with a history of migration and are part of an ethnic of racial minority group in the country that they live in.

If a policy has a greater impact on racial minority groups, it must pass a stricter «compelling interest» test.

In the report, the researchers point out that most of the schools that are failing in terms of achievement are public schools that serve poor and racial minority students in urban areas.

Schools must report on the performance of different groups of students, such as racial minorities, as well as the student population as a whole.

One of the most controversial topics in the Canadian criminal justice system is whether the system is biased against racial minorities.

It's not just ethnic and racial minorities who are underrepresented among computer scientists and engineers.

The next hurdle for us is to love him back as we are very white middle class with only a few racial minorities, pray for us.

Approximately 90 percent of all American children attend public schools, and racial minorities comprise more than half of these students.

Most congregations that draw racial minorities can't keep them.

Some evidence does suggest that students with disabilities and racial minorities tend to be punished more severely than their peers for the same offenses.

What's going wrong between intention on the part of firms to be equitable and inclusive and the reality, which sees only six per cent of racial minority lawyers make partner?

We must question the effectiveness of a recruitment system that accommodates racial minorities (among others) if there is only a small number of minorities in the hiring pool.

Most opponents of race - based affirmative action believe that economic affirmative action should replace the boost given to members of racial minorities.

Another 20 percent were developed to serve a special population of students, including «at - risk,» language minority, disabled, or ethnic and racial minority students.

Addressing the disproportionate representation of students from ethnic and racial minority groups in special education: A resource document.

«The numbers were worse for racial minorities with disabilities: 36 percent of black students with disabilities in secondary school were suspended at least once.»

The stereotype can also be used to pit Asian Americans against other racial minorities, leading to verbal and physical harassment by non-Asian American peers or a distorted portrait of other ethnic groups as lazy or disruptive.

Liberals divided Finally, because alternative certification has been sought by racial minority groups advocating for education reform, the issue has divided political liberals into uncomfortable camps.

Hughes said she is hopeful that new training approaches will begin to address the disconnect between police racial attitudes and the day - to - day experiences of many racial minorities.

The study also found that racial minority patients with a strong desire for testing were less likely than white patients to discuss it with a professional, even though studies show that minority patients are not at lower risk for these mutations.

But the research clearly shows a correlation between school disciplinary policies and dropout rates and that students of ethnic and racial minority status, and for whom English is a second language, tend to be more likely to face disciplinary actions.

For antiracism education to be effective, school staffs need to ensure that student racial and ethnic characteristics are reflected in the teaching and support personnel, because an ethnically diverse teaching staff has the potential to enrich the school's teaching and learning, and to provide a voice for racial minority concerns (Solomon, 2002).

«For racial minority adolescents, cigarette and alcohol use linked to suicidality: Study reveals pervasive lifetime substance use among US adolescents in ninth to 12th grades, especially for alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana.»

While income and lack of insurance only partially explained the lower number of racial minority women receiving fertility assistance, lack of insurance appeared to play a crucial role in whether lesbian and bisexual women received medical fertility help, especially in more recent years, according to the nationally representative study published in the APA journal Health Psychology.

Since 1976 EATWOT has been sponsoring dialogues among theologians in Asia, Africa and Latin America and oppressed racial minorities in the U.S. Major conferences have been held in Tanzania (August 1976), Ghana (December 1977), Sri Lanka (January 1979) and Brazil (February 1980).

«If you are an egalitarian person, who is concerned about the division of resources between racial groups, the mention of scarcity might actually make you want to give more to protect racial minority group members,» Krosch said.

Civil rights groups, which fought hard to keep some requirement that states intervene in the lowest - performing schools as well as schools that consistently failed to educate racial minorities or poor students, cautiously welcomed the bill.

He says that the white Reformed response to this has left many racial minorities in America feeling «perplexed, at best, and disillusioned.»

Wanting to show that he could serve a multicultural student body well, Superintendent Wilson distanced himself from advocating racial minority concerns early in his administration.

Zoning laws and real estate agent interests have made housing markets inaccessible to some, especially racial minorities and lower class families.

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

Moore said last month «today, we've got a problem» because of «new rights» that were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was passed allowing racial minorities to vote.

Google has faced criticism over its diversity practices from both sides: those who say it's not doing enough to include women and underrepresented racial minorities, and those who assert that its efforts go too far.

For example, the mothers of the vast majority of the children born out of wedlock are racial minority teen - agers who come from broken families living below the poverty level.

Ironically, although the book is ostensibly about minorities, specifically racial minorities, what Brown really is getting at has more to do with ideology than race.

The theory, apparently, was that homosexuals were impermissibly burdened if they had to secure special protection, equivalent to that afforded racial minorities, at the state rather than the local level.

In a statement to be issued Tuesday, the caucus questioned why districts downstate were drawn with higher populations than upstate ones, effectively diluting the representation of areas where racial minorities are concentrated.

It was a matter of great pride to me that racial minorities prospered inside the unit.

What racial minority groups is Cuomo trying to appease with this idiot idea!

Racial minorities account for 27.1 percent of the city's 50,129 residents, according to the 2010 census.

«Consequently, while we were interested in identifying disparities for all U.S. racial minority groups, we wanted to pay special attention to estimating the national prevalence of, and disparities in, substance use and suicidality among these understudied and historically ignored adolescents.»