Sentences with phrase «than their white counterparts of»

Female AI / AN adolescents have higher risks than their white counterparts of needing but not getting medical care and of perpetrating violence (Table 4).

Male AI / AN adolescents have a higher risk than their white counterparts of skipping breakfast, having poor / fair health status, and perpetrating violence.

Not exact matches

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

To bring attention to the fact that black women earn 17 % less than their white female counterparts and that black women are paid 63 % of the dollar men are paid.

The analysis is part of Reveal's ongoing coverage of modern - day redlining in America, which found 61 metro area s, from Jacksonville, Florida to Tacoma, Washington, where people of color were significantly more likely to be denied a conventional home loan than their white counterparts.

Around that same time, a study came out that revealed that black head coaches, despite winning a higher percentage of games, were less likely to be hired (and more likely fired) than their white counterparts.

This raises the question of whether being religiously unaffiliated among African - Americans and Hispanics means something different than it means among their white counterparts.

When choosing breads, select whole grains whenever possible — whole grain products are higher in fiber and other nutrients than their bleached white counterparts and have been shown to play a role in the reduction of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic issues.

James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.

However, in calling for the hearings, Cuomo said more than 70 percent of all tipped workers in New York are women, and that African - American workers are often tipped less than their white counterparts.

Most analysts agree that if McMahon holds Oldham as expected (albeit with a majority much reduced from Meacher's 14,738), it will be largely thanks to the 20 % of the constituents who are British Pakistani or British Bangladeshi, traditional Labour voters who are far more likely than their white counterparts to turn out and vote.

State Street Corp., parent company of the investment firm behind Wall Street's iconic Fearless Girl statue, agreed to pay a combined $ 5 million to more than 300 women and 15 black employees who were paid less than their white, male counterparts, according to a federal audit.

But at the same time, black teachers hold black students to a higher standard of behavior than do their white counterparts, the researchers found.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

► «Armed with new data showing black applicants suffer a 35 % lower chance of having a grant proposal funded than their white counterparts, NIH officials are gearing up to test whether reviewers in its study sections give lower scores to proposals from African - American applicants,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Thursday.

And Dommond isn't alone: a faculty survey carried out by the Higher Education Research Institute found that 42 per cent of minority women in scientific disciplines reported subtle discrimination — far more than their white or male counterparts did.

The results also show that if GPA and other measures of performance are excluded from the analysis model, it gives the impression that African - American men achieve lower educational levels than their white counterparts.

Black Americans of any age also tend to be in worse health than their white counterparts, by any number of measures.

Compared to their white counterparts within each alcohol drinking pattern (never, moderate, excessive) investigated, black men and women were significantly more likely to get less than 6 hours of sleep, less likely to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep and generally more likely to get 9 or more hours of sleep.

African - American women are equally, if not more, likely to experience infertility than their white counterparts, but they often cope with this traumatic issue in silence and isolation, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Additionally, a smaller proportion of African American men had health insurance, identified as current drinkers and reported heart disease than their white counterparts, while a larger proportion of African American men in the national sample were physically inactive, obese, and reported fair / poor health, hypertension and diabetes.

The authors also concluded that there was no evidence of a lower likelihood of black patients receiving a cardiac stress test with imaging (odds ratio, 0.91 [95 % CI, 0.69 to 1.21]-RRB- than their white counterparts — although some modest evidence of disparity in Hispanic patients was found (odds ratio, 0.75 [CI, 0.55 to 1.02]-RRB-.

Also, more American black students — irrespective of their class or background — will set off on this education path than their white counterparts.

The study is one of two NIH - funded projects — the other strips previous applications of all identifying characteristics before subjecting them to a new round of reviews — now underway that were spawned by a 2011 finding that black scientists have a much lower chance of receiving an NIH grant than their white counterparts.

When it comes to dietary choices, not every «brown» version is better than its regular counterpart, and nowhere is this as true as in the case of white vs. brown rice.

If you need one more reason to ditch the white variety, think of the added health benefits of sweet potatoes, which are one of the richest sources of beta - carotene (a precursor of vitamin A) plus more potassium and dietary fiber than their white counterparts.

For a long time, there have always been a number of white women whose preference of partners lies more on the charming black men than their white counterparts, with a wide range of reasons, most being facts others fictitious but still hold water with many white women.

The United States, after all, elected Barack Obama as its head of state twice and has seen a highly - privileged section of African - Americans — no less reactionary than their white counterparts — in some of the highest offices of the state (Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Eric Holder, etc.).

According to the authors, minority students, with the exception of Asian students, fare worse on the eighth - grade MCAS than their white counterparts.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Dr Roach said the growing inequality and institutionalised discrimination in some schools saw some women teachers earning just 85 per cent of their male counterparts and BME teachers earning less than white teachers.

«The fact that African American and Latino corps members tend to stay in teaching longer than their White counterparts is very important, given the nation's shortage of teachers of color and increasing numbers of children of color in our schools,» Donaldson said.

Washington — A Pentagon - sponsored study comparing military recruits with a representative sample of other young Americans has found that the military volunteers — black, white, and Hispanic alike — score better than their civilian counterparts on a standard vocational aptitude test.

In a similar comparison of students by race, the researcher found that African - American students in Nebraska were six times more likely to be identified as emotionally disturbed and those in Iowa were four times as likely to be labeled emotionally disturbed than their white counterparts.

Unlike No Child Left Behind, which had the goal of all students being proficient by 2014 (less than 14 months away), D.C. officials are implementing new, lower standards of academic performance for African American, Latino, and poor children compared to their more affluent White and Asian counterparts.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

Since programs for students of color often receive less funding than their white counterparts, legislation is needed...

By every possible indicator, the kids that both of us care so much about — low - income students of color — are doing worse than their higher - income white counterparts.

As it stands today, teachers of color are 24 percent more likely to leave the teaching profession than their white counterparts, according to research by Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying the issue.

Between 1988 and 2008, teachers of color were 24 percent more likely to leave teaching than their white counterparts, according to Ingersoll's research.

Before the Whole - School Social Justice cohorts program, African American students were more likely to be suspended out of school than their white counterparts.

Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.

Cami Anderson, former superintendent of Newark public schools, talked about the way that current discipline policies negatively impact students of color, referencing research that shows that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts as early as kindergarten.

- Black students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 33 fewer days of learning in reading and 30 fewer days in math than their counterparts in non-charter schools - Latino students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 30 fewer days in reading but 21 more days in math - Asian students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 75 fewer days in reading and 53 fewer days in math - White students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 107 fewer days in reading but 9 more days in math

Discipline Disparities Students of color in North Carolina schools have significantly higher rates of both short - and long - term suspensions than their white counterparts.14 Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Consolidated Data Report 2014 - 15 (Rep.).

According to KIPP, last school year, more than 70 percent of Morfin's class scored proficient or advanced in English on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress state tests, while only 37 percent of California's Latino fifth - graders and 65 percent of their white counterparts achieved the same results.

As both the American Psychological Association and Russell Skiba of Indiana University have determined, young black men are also viewed by teachers and school leaders as being older, less - innocent, and greater troublemakers than white counterparts.

It's been widely reported that, per Department of Education analysis released last year, black preschoolers are «3.6 times more likely to be suspended» than their white counterparts, and twice as likely to get expelled.

I don't know if this was a simple mistake or a targeted attempt to impart separate expectations, but the message this counselor was sending (intended or not) is that students of color should aspire to less than their white counterparts.

Black teachers were paid salaries of about 40 % lower than their white counterparts, despite being on average better educated.