Sentences with phrase «racial mix»

Is racial mixing desirable and / or necessary in our educational system?

The country's volatile racial mix — ethnic Chinese, Malays, and Indians — makes firm direction essential to promote cooperative effort.

Years afterward when I was a freedom rider, an earnest figure of the early «60s, I endeavored to test (and change) the law that enforced apartheid — the practice of separate lives and opportunities for blacks and whites — and that even forbade racial mixing at a lunch counter.

Why a Good Racial Mix May Also Create a Sense of Comfort at School (The Christian Science Monitor) Lee Teitel weighs in on integration in schools and how there is a need to focus on what is happening in schools, not just the demographic make - up of its students.

While school choice has emerged in some districts as a strategy for racial mixing, self - separation by language, gender, ethnicity, and disability is becoming more prevalent in magnet and pilot schools, charter schools, and many private schools.

The study compares the experiences of students who lived in the same neighborhoods — potentially just across the street from one another — but ended up at schools with different racial mixes as a result of the zoning change.

In Milwaukee, which first introduced school vouchers in 1990, Wolf found in 2012 that students had mostly transferred from heavily minority public schools to private schools with similar racial mixes.

The study focused on racial mixes to show if there's a «representation gap» between the percentage of minority students compared to the ethnic mix of their teachers.

Uncovering the effect of school racial composition is difficult because racial mixing is not accidental but instead an outcome of government and family choices.

To address the issue, he called for social policies to restrict immigration and prohibit racial mixing.

Your observation is valid, and I hope in all the post-event analysis a more balance racial mix will be considered when planning the next conference.

The abstract works echo the industrial city's abundance of brutalist architecture, suggesting aestheticized takes on labyrinthine housing projects, while the two canvases featuring Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and Marcus Garvey allude to his hometown's racial mix through reference to other times and places.

• Three casta paintings from a series by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, circa 1760, representing the process of racial mixing among Indians, Spaniards, and Africans in colonial Mexico: VII.

Broad social, economic and racial mix.

Whites protest school integration with signs like «Racial mixing is Communism.»

It's also irksome that he's cast Omar Sy as Nicolas; it introduces a racial mix into the story, making it more plausibly about modern France, but at the uncomfortable cost of making Nicolas a compliant black sidekick.

While conventional wisdom, at least in some circles, holds that people judge schools on the basis of something other than academic quality — most odiously, the racial mix of their student body — here we have reassuring evidence that people evaluate schools on the basis of academics.

At least one of the academic articles the dissent cites to support this proposition fails to establish a causal connection between the supposed educational gains realized by black students and racial mixing.

Overall, across the two analyses, it does not appear that charter schools are systematically skimming high - achieving students or dramatically affecting the racial mix of schools for transferring students.

Schools» racial mix, students» optimism, and the black - white and Latino - white achievement gaps.

Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix.