Sentences with phrase «several racial and ethnic groups»

Despite some significant academic gains over the years, serious achievement gaps persist among many of our students, particularly those from several racial and ethnic groups.

Not exact matches

Growth groups can also be used to build bridges of communication and empathy across the barriers that divide mankind — the ethnic, racial, national, and political differences that isolate us from our fellow human beings, During several workshops on counseling in India, my wife and I led growth groups for participants.

And since modern societies commonly contain several religious groups, the notion of religious pluralism has been seen as analogous to or even synonymous with racial or ethnic pluralism.

It's also flawed, they argue, with several questions having multiple right answers and reading portions that require the test - taker to speed - read in order to finish in time — unnecessary burdens that are reflected in the low pass rate for all racial and ethnic groups.

Notably, several studies suggest that scales that appropriately measure feeding practices in this population do not capture the feeding processes of more diverse ethnic / racial or socioeconomic groups (Anderson et al., 2005), that these items may be misunderstood by more diverse samples (Jain, Sherman, Chamberlain, & Whitaker, 2004), and that ethnic / racial group may impact the frequency of use of some feeding practices (Faith et al., 2003; Hoerr, Utech, & Ruth, 2005).