Sentences with phrase «rate than white children»

A federal study that shows black children die from asthma at a higher rate than white children demonstrates that many African - American families lack adequate medical care, child - health experts and educators said last week.

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«From 2012 to 2014,» the researchers note, «the annual firearm homicide rate for African American children (3.5 per 100000) was nearly twice as high as the rate for American Indian children (2.2 per 100000), 4 times higher than the rate for Hispanic children (0.8 per 100000), and ∼ 10 times higher than the rate for white children and Asian American children (each 0.4 per 100000).»

Latino children are less likely to get an autism diagnosis and treatment than white children, even though the autism rate is gr...

There was some evidence of racial / ethnic disparities — among four - year - olds, rates of early evaluation were lower in black children than in white children.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

Newly released data the rate of children entering into the California foster care system for the first time has fluctuated since 2000, African American and American Indian / Alaska Native children continue to enter that system at more than three times the rate of Latino and white children.

This is a school choice rate considerably higher than that of White, Asian, and Hispanic children.»

The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.

Close to 3 out of 4 African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant, and African - American children have an 80 percent higher rate of asthma and are nearly three times more likely to die from asthma than their white peers.

Same - sex couples in the South have among the highest rates of childrearing in the country, and same - sex couples of color are more likely to be raising children than white couples.

Puerto Rican children 1 to 4 years of age were found to have a higher crude mortality rate than their white counterparts (Table 3).

Similarly, while Alabama often scores well below the national average on the overall Kids Count rankings and has a higher rate of overall poverty, its rankings rise when examined by different races and ethnicities — and the disparities (differences in overall scores for white non-Hispanic children and African - American non-Hispanic children or Hispanic children) are much smaller than many northern states.