Sentences with phrase «segregation among»

However, the practice has reportedly caused segregation among pupils, with schools competing for facilities and resources.
Many free schools so far have been set up on religious grounds — these are likely to increase segregation among children not bring them together.
Housing patterns are the primary determinant of segregation among districts, but the district dissimilarity index provides only a crude measure of the extent of housing segregation.
Using a district - level comparison, then, the RAND study, like the Ritter et al. reanalysis, found evidence of higher racial segregation among charters.
School district boundaries are a key factor contributing to segregation among families with children.
Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.
Fifty years later, racial segregation among believers has declined.
Intensely aware of, but disturbed by, the pattern of self - segregation among young Korean American evangelicals, Ecklund is less interested in understanding the roots of their religious behavior than in analyzing its consequences for American civic life.

Not exact matches

The segregation of social conservatism as merely one alternative among several is itself is a bad sign.
We have also had other evils — among them, the long, disgraceful history of segregation and Jim Crow, of lynch mob and race riot.
Moreover, housing segregation in New York's metropolitan regions is among the highest in the nation by race and class.
By contrast, levels of ethnic segregation are high among school - age children.
Among the U.S. metropolitan regions with the largest populations of people of color, New York City ranks 3rd in black / white segregation and 2nd in both Latino / white segregation and Asian / white segregation.
Owens said she is working on a similar study of racial segregation trends among households with and without children.
She found that, among families with children, neighborhood income segregation is driven by increased income inequality in combination with a previously overlooked factor: school district options.
Income segregation between neighborhoods rose 20 percent from 1990 to 2010, and income segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those without.
The current lack of harmonization among these financing mechanisms leads to gaps in ECE affordability for some low - income families, economic segregation within ECE settings and classrooms, and underutilization of ECE services by middle - income families.
Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas, Los Angeles has one of the highest rates of segregation between white and Latino children, even after adjusting for the large Latino child population in Los Angeles, Owens said.
Among these, errors of chromosome segregation lead to infertility.
The study intended to report on, among other things, levels of racial segregation in charter schools across the United States.
Our new findings demonstrate that, while segregation for blacks among all public schools has been increasing for nearly two decades, black students in charter schools are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in intensely segregated settings.
Kahlenberg and Potter acknowledge the CRP's methodological problems, but dig the ditch deeper by citing one article that appeared in this journal and eviscerated the CRP's study (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector nationally.
In some states, there are concerns that charter schools are increasing segregation, but as Scharfenberg notes, some of the charter schools in Massachusetts that serve large numbers of minority students are among the highest - performing charter schools in the nation.
Rothstein says that teachers have a role to play in making sure that this history — which includes the denial of public services to certain neighborhoods, the segregation of public housing, the awarding of building contracts for developments that would exclude African - Americans, among other things — is better known.
The evidence is that choice among government schools reduced income segregation.
There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.
A legacy of racism and segregation are among the roadblocks that keep the children of Mississippi from reaching their full potential.
By contrast, among black students, the benefits of having a black teacher were concentrated in schools with higher levels of disadvantage and racial segregation.
The result is voluntary school segregation by race for whites and blacks, which is entirely consistent with a large literature demonstrating that Americans prefer to live among co-ethnics, and that this preference is particular strong for blacks.
Among frequently repeated charges is that charter schools are fundamentally destructive to the concept of public education for all and contributors to even greater segregation in urban settings in particular.
One study, for instance, found that among the country's largest 100 school districts, economic segregation between schools in the same district has risen 40 percent since 1970.36
Among the highlights was the panel on segregation with Hechinger's Emmanuel Felton, who wrote about school districts seceding in Jefferson County in Birmingham, AL. «We wanted to zoom in on where segregation was getting worse the most rapidly,» said Felton.
Vitter found it difficult to provide the right response to the Brown v. Board question because many among us still believe in segregation, and saying otherwise would challenge our life decisions, such as where we live and where we send our children to school.
Baltimore Sun: For letting star reporter Erica Green go to the New York Times just as she's been doing such amazing work (on segregation and juvenile justice, among other things).
The figure below provides an illustration of the degree of racial segregation even among households with the same incomes.
The first report, The Segregation of American Teachers, documented serious patterns of racial isolation among the faculties of U.S. K - 12 schools.
[see above CGS Sec. 10 - 66bb (h)-RSB- But the renewal process for Amistad Academy ignored its exclusionary disciplinary policies, racial and ethnic segregation, and provided no analysis of representative populations of bilingual children and students with disabilities, among others.
From there, it presents the research findings cutting across these strategies by addressing the evidence on test score trends, teacher evaluation, «miracle» schools, the Common Core State Standards, school choice, the newly emerging school improvement industry, and re ‐ segregation, among others.
As leaders and educators, we know that enrollment of minority students is not equally balanced across schools, and that today's children see variations of the segregation their grandparents faced in past decades.1 We know that poverty is becoming more concentrated, and that, in the 2015 - 16 school year, 65 percent of students attending city schools did so in high - poverty or mid-high poverty districts.2 We also know that achievement gaps persist among low income3, special education4 and minority students.5
She vividly presents the Panamanian setting, the difficult and dangerous job, and the system of segregation that was employed among the workers.
Gender segregation in Afghanistan is among the strictest in the world, I was repeatedly told, making such an act unthinkable.
However segregation seems to be simply ignoring the problem rather than trying to find an efficient means to discover a fine author among many.
African cultures have been virtually obliterated, among slaves; whatever small cultural differences exist between Negroes and whites (after controlling for social class) are the products more of cultural «drift» as a result of segregation than of surviving African traits.
A few other titles explore artists featured in her collection, among them, «Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,» Gordon Parks's «Segregation Story,» and «Alma Thomas,» the exhibition catalog documenting the artist's recent survey at the Tang Teaching Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. and Felix Hoffman, the book features a compelling array of highlights from seminal series made for picture magazines over four decades including Harlem Gang Leader, Back to Fort Scott, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, A Man Becomes Invisible, Fashion, Segregation in the South, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, The March on Washington, and Black Muslims, among others.
The investigators will visit several institutions, and among other things, review statistics, procedures, and other documentation related to segregation.
In the US, segregation was the glaring source of distress among black people.
4Sufficient levels of User Protection, Segregation of User Assets / Funds, System Risk Management, and Data Security are among the requirements for registration as a virtual currency exchange.
However, de jure segregation can also refer to codes and standards set up among private organizations — for example, in the early 20th century, the National Association of Real Estate Boards included in its code of ethics a rule prohibiting its members from selling houses in white neighborhoods to black homebuyers.
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