Sentences with phrase «than white children»

However, black children are diagnosed with ASD at older ages than white children and children of other races.

Black children in the study had higher levels of insulin resistance than the white children.

On both implicit and explicit measures, young minority children tend to show less bias than White children.

That is, black children do not behave any worse than white children; rather they are subject to more harsh discipline for similar behaviors as their peers.

Black children who undergo urologic surgery are more likely than white children to have postsurgical complications and hospital - acquired infections 30 days after the surgery.

The topic discussed in their joint letter is whether administrators are punishing minority children more harshly than white children for the same infractions.

That Mayweather was once a black child, and that black children are more than three times as likely to live in extreme poverty than white children in America.

Exposure to SSB [sugar - sweetened beverage] ads decreased over time at all ages, but the decrease was less for black than white children.

Black children also continue to demonstrate a higher likelihood of disability due to asthma than white children after adjustment for the potentially confounding effects of these other sociodemographic variables.

In some communities there are 40 times more black children than white children available for adoption.)

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

Schools that serve children of color, who are at much higher risk of childhood obesity than white children, have been conspicuously missing from the debate and experts say the opposition could negatively impact the NSLP in the long run.

«Black children were slightly older at the first admission than white children, which could represent a subtle marker of diminished access to medical care or a delay in disease recognition,» said Dr. Dotson, who explained other studies have shown that the role of biology in health disparities in chronic diseases is often modest, and there are many other factors, such as access to care and health literacy, that contribute to disparities in care.

«Particularly perplexing and worrisome is the confirmation by this new survey that black children have higher HbA1c than white children and that the underlying cause of this persistent racial disparity in HbA1c is unclear,» notes Dr. Chalew.

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.

In Boston and NYC schools, African - American children face school suspension up to six times more often than white children.

All told, these race - specific estimates suggest that a black child who had the same characteristics as the average white child in the sample would score 0.21 standard deviations lower than the white child in math and would be almost exactly even in reading.

However, it turns out that the black children in our sample were less responsive to changes in socioeconomic status than the white children: a one - standard - deviation improvement in socioeconomic status for a black child was associated with a 0.18 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared with 0.32 among white children.

«An African American child is three times more likely to go into the emergency room for an asthma attack than a white child, and twice as likely to die from asthma attacks as a white child.

Alternatively, Hispanic children from two parent families were more likely to be reunified than white children from similar backgrounds.

The report, Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children, says that last year, for the first time, more children of color were born in the United States than white children and that by 2018, children of color will represent a majority of children in this country.

Both African - American and Hispanic children are less likely than white children to be adopted (Courtney & Wong, 1996; Wulczyn, 2000).

Empowering parents is one of the best ways to combat the persistent finding that black children are statistically more likely than white children to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities.

Black children are 7.5 times more likely and Hispanic children 2.5 times more likely than white children to have an incarcerated parent.

But youth of color are disproportionately more likely than white children to be detained and sentenced to the Rhode Island Training School.

Due in part to discriminatory social policies such as redlining, children of color are more likely than white children to live in areas that can not afford the abatement programs necessary to address lead in their communities.