Sentences with phrase «racial minorities tend»

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

Not exact matches

Although white traditionalists tend to be outnumbered, the electoral scales are balanced somewhat by their greater turnout: ethnic and racial minorities, white modernists, and seculars voted less frequently.

There is nothing wrong with this per se, as segregation does lead to inequalities, and those inequalities (in access to good teachers, safe facilities, educational resources, etc.) tend to disadvantage poorer students and racial minorities...

That these schools and their magnet programs tend to have a racial composition closer to that of the neighborhood — majority minority — only reduces their attractiveness to whites.

Since minority students tend to come from lower income families, racial integration might be achieved indirectly by giving low - income families their choice of school, whenever that would facilitate integration across socioeconomic lines.

Schools must report «adequate yearly progress» for groups that tend to struggle: racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, English language learners, and those with learning disabilities.

More specifically, they found that for the Danielson Framework and CLASS (the two more generalized instruments examined in this study, also of main interest in this post), teachers with relatively more racial / ethnic minority and lower - achieving students (in that order, although these are correlated themselves) tended to receive lower observation scores.

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.

In Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, Dean David Thomas of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business states that minorities in corporate settings are often overlooked for promotions because people tend to view members of their own racial groups as more promotable, and often give them higher performance ratings.

Indeed, in a 2007 FTC study, «The FTC cited other studies that found tying insurance rates to credit scores tends to discriminates against low income and minority consumers because of the racial and economic disparities inherent in scoring.»

Results of this analysis have been published elsewhere.29 Briefly, nonrespondents tended to be younger, less educated, or from racial or ethnic minority groups.