Sentences with phrase «school ethnic studies»

For the past four years, Emilio has taught seventh and eighth grade history and eighth grade language arts at the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, where he also designed a middle school ethnic studies curriculum.

Her research interests include Latina / o youth's multilingual and multiliterate repertoires, adolescent literacies, im / migration, emergent bilingual learners, critical pedagogy, youth activism, and high school Ethnic Studies.

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This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

For example, a study of adolescents in the San Francisco Bay Area found that the authoritarian parenting style was linked with lower school grades for all ethnic groups (Dornbusch et al 1987).

«This continuing gap is disappointing because improving racial and ethnic disparities in access was a key objective of the reform,» said Amresh Hanchate, PhD, of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a study co-author.

Bounceur had to deal with what felt at the time like some of the consequences of being an ethnic minority when politics stalled his studies while he was still at high school.

Now, a study by University of Missouri School of Medicine researchers shows that minority and ethnic groups are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer at younger ages and more advanced stages than non-Hispanic whites.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.

Therefore it is very important that our results are replicated in other studies with more diverse socioeconomic and racial / ethnic backgrounds,» said lead author Meng Yang, research fellow at the Harvard Chan School.

Inga Peter of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and her team looked for genes involved in the disorder by studying DNA from Ashkenazi Jews — an ethnic group in which Crohn's disease is up to three times more common.

«We believe we are the first to compare adolescent blood pressures to body mass index in these four major ethnic / racial groups,» said Joshua Samuels, M.D., M.P.H., the study's senior author, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School and an attending pediatric nephrologist at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

Obesity raises the prevalence of high blood pressure among adolescents but the increase is particularly pronounced among Hispanics compared to white, African - American or Asian ethnic groups, according to a study by researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

African American women were found to be twice as likely to be diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy as compared to women of Caucasian, Hispanic / Latina, Asian, and other ethnic backgrounds, according to a new study — the largest of its kind — published today in JAMA Cardiology by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Although differences in the environments in which people live often are suspected when asthma risks among populations differ, the new findings illustrate the importance of also considering genetic differences among ethnic groups in diagnosing and treating disease, said Esteban Burchard, MD, professor of bioengineering for the UCSF School of Pharmacy and the senior scientist for the study.

Most of these are based on need and also have award preferences related to field of study, ethnic / cultural background, geographic region, or high school or college attended.

While they also rate schools with fewer poor students more highly, we found no signs that the grades parents gave their school is influenced by its racial or ethnic composition,» observed Martin West, one of the study's authors.

According to more than 40 studies of elementary, middle, and high school English classrooms, discussion - based practices improve comprehension of the text and critical - thinking skills for students across ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic contexts (Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Applebee, Langer, Nystrand, Gamoran, 2003).

Over two provocative days, funders, activists, practitioners, public school officials, policy makers, and media met to discuss research and studies, and to brainstorm ways to overcome the nation's racial and ethnic achievement gap.

And, of course, most graduate and professional school programs in all areas of study suffer from poor participation by students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds.

The Los Angeles school board has voted to allow schools in that district to use a social - studies textbook series that was criticized by a wide range of ethnic and religious groups.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

Next fall, she will begin her Ph.D. studies at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, furthering her education in human development and psychological theory, while maintaining her work's ethnic studies lens.

This study examines the associations among a multicultural teacher culture, pupils» perceptions of teachers» multicultural educational practices, and the ethnic prejudice of Flemish secondary - school pupils.

Nine of those studies found that school choice provided a more integrated classroom experience, one found no visible difference, and no empirical study had ever found that a school choice program made ethnic segregation worse.

The American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex for thousands of boys and girls, of various ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball — for everyone.

Events focused around three key demands: ending zero - tolerance policies and implementing Restorative Justice, hiring more Black teachers in their schools, and mandating Black History / Ethnic Studies in grades K - 12.

Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.

In a study on young children's access to computers at home and at school, the defining characteristics that demarcate «haves» from «have - nots» are racial / ethnic and economic.

Schools offer a robust selection of classes and after - school programs in the arts, languages, and ethnic studies, as well as Advanced Placement (AP) and honors courses.

The Stanford study provides the first comparable measures of ethnic achievement gaps in every U.S. school district, Reardon said.

Studies examining the following three issues are also summarized: ethnic and economic composition of schools; high school graduation rates; and students» academic attitudes and behaviors.

Teaching Opportunity Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Middle School ELD / Ethnic Studies Teacher Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) is a community of high - performing public schools that utilizes a...

Are you planning to implement Ethnic Studies classes at your school district or looking for ways to support your current Ethnic Studies teachers and programs?

What isn't mentioned here, but has been by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, is that the most widely used mechanism of «choice» in the state, that is charter schools, has increased economic and ethnic segregation in the schools (see its study).

Several studies have found that teachers of color can serve as role models for students of color, and when students see teachers who share their racial or ethnic backgrounds, they often view schools as more welcoming places.

Our AEP Ethnic Studies PD will help develop teacher capacity for the implementation of Ethnic Studies in your school district through custom educator training experiences, as well as help your current Ethnic Studies program reach even higher academic outcomes for your students.

This changed this year with new research that shows ethnic - studies classes boost student attendance, GPAs, and high - school credits for a key student group — a pivotal finding that brings hard evidence to the dispute over adding these courses in public schools.

In this study, we estimate the causal effects of an ethnic studies curriculum piloted in several San Francisco high schools.

As promised, herein lies the beginning stages of my first Maker project grounded in critical pedagogy guided by the Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) Ethnic Studies framework and the Critical Friends Protocol (CFP) with members of the Radical STEMM Educators of the Bay Area.

Does the school offer culturally relevant (or «responsive») pedagogy, as evidenced through literature, projects, assignments, events and field trips, ethnic studies courses, connections to families and communities, interventions, and other resources?

The San Francisco and San Diego school districts have already started on the path to required ethnic studies, and Lara said he is doing a presentation next week in Fontana for all their schools.

After Lara's presentation at the last school board meeting, Sylmar High School principal James Lee asked to bring ethnic studies to his school, and he contacted six east San Fernando Valley high schools about doing the same school board meeting, Sylmar High School principal James Lee asked to bring ethnic studies to his school, and he contacted six east San Fernando Valley high schools about doing the same School principal James Lee asked to bring ethnic studies to his school, and he contacted six east San Fernando Valley high schools about doing the same school, and he contacted six east San Fernando Valley high schools about doing the same thing.

K. Wayne Yang 2007 Panelist Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies UCSD Co-Founder East Oakland Community High School

Her work includes a study on perceptions of racial / ethnic bias for the Rhode Island Supreme Court and a project on school - based truancy courts for the Rhode Island Family Court.

A recent study by Mindset Scholars David Yeager and Geoff Cohen, along with their colleagues Valerie Purdie - Vaughns and Sophia Yang - Hooper, explores how students» levels of trust in their schools evolves over time, and examines the impact of ethnic and racial biases on trust.

Forster has conducted empirical studies on the impact of school choice programs in Milwaukee, Ohio, Florida and Texas, as well as national empirical studies comparing public and private schools in terms of working conditions for teachers, ethnic segregation and teacher and staff misconduct.

When new teachers were asked in a study published by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality how to improve teaching, they cited reducing class size and increasing training to help them deal with the ethnic diversity in schools and classrooms as their top two priorities.

Our study explores this question by examining ethnic and linguistic variation in the alignment between parents» and teachers» evaluations of their relationship, as well as the extent to which participation in a family engagement program designed to strengthen relationships among parents, school staff, and children might improve parents» and teachers» perceptions of one another or bring these perceptions into closer alignment.

Keren Dali, assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, and Nadia Caidi, associate professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information iSchool, are the recipients of the 2018 Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table's David Cohen Multicultural Award for their article in Library Quarterly titled «Diversity by Design.»

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