Sentences with phrase «which nonwhite»

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

One is the world - wide revolutionary situation, in which subject peoples of Asia and Africa are rising to claim their independence and their right to a fair share in the opportunities of life, and in which nonwhite peoples are challenging the exclusive privilege and world dominance of the white man.

Not exact matches

Declines in homeownership among lower - income, nonwhite and young adults were especially dramatic following the housing crisis, as subprime lending, which many homeowners had previously relied on, all but dried up.

But this is a goal of which the postmodern system of punitive policing and imprisoning of large segments of the nonwhite population seems to have despaired.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

The first thing was the alleged coming of the «emerging Democratic majority,» which was supposed to be brought about by demographic change and a larger nonwhite share of the electorate.

I do not know which Promise Keepers rallies those 16 percent nonwhite men attended, but it wasn't Oakland.

Now Papwa can play only in the nonwhite tournaments, which he generally wins, but the first prize is rarely more than $ 100, and he has a wife and five children to support.

In the present study, although we did not have data on whole - grain intake per se, we discovered a 50 % risk reduction for women with the highest consumption of bread or cereals, which was mainly driven by nonwhite bread (data not shown) and was only marginally explained by the dietary GI.

Better still, though I'm not sure if the numbers bear this out, 2017 felt like a year in which strides were made in the representation of nonwhite and non-male characters.

Research into «stereotype anxiety,» which some scholars posit may hinder the academic performance of some nonwhite students.

Largely because of broken families, he wrote, 56 percent of nonwhite children received means - tested public assistance at some time in their lives under the nation's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, which mainly assisted female - headed families.

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Segregation is by far the most serious in the central cities of the largest metropolitan areas, but it is also severe in central cities of all sizes and suburbs of the largest metro areas, which are now half nonwhite.

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

The groups did not differ on residential stability as measured by mean number of years living in Seattle by age 12 years and by the mean number of residences in which participants lived from age 5 to 14 years; socioeconomic status, as measured by years of parental education or proportion eligible for the school lunch program; proportion from single - parent families; proportion of boys; or proportion of whites or nonwhites.

About 20 percent of home buyers nationwide are nonwhite, which makes a place like CityCenter a model for new diverse urban communities.