Sentences with phrase «white over minority»

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

Not exact matches

When we talk about affirmative action, federal law allows you to hire a woman or minority candidate over a male or white candidate if both are equally qualified.

Black men were also found to be over three times more likely to be arrested than white men, and in prisons black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) males are almost five times more likely to be housed in high security for public order offences than white men.

M. Kelly is correct... Santa and Jesus are white... it is getting absolutely ridiculous to try and ruin everything because a minority of people are not happy... too bad... that's life... get over it... I am not afraid of these people who try and make me do what they want by saying I am a bigot or whatever... I am just a realist.

Fifty - five percent of public school students are in schools in which over 90 percent of all students are white or minority.

Why is it just fine with you that people of your ilk can debase and debauch my religion but if I speak out about being your feeling the «right» to your racist biggoted views all over because I am the only «minority» being a white Male Christian conservative who can be «hated»?

[51] Michael Millar, writing in The Spectator, was of the opinion that «the Equality Bill before parliament today gives employers the right to choose an ethnic minority candidate or female candidate over a white male, specifically because they are an ethnic minority or female.»

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer on Friday voiced opposition to the White House's immigration proposal aimed at breaking a congressional impasse over a long - term budget deal, prompting President Donald Trump to lash out at him and injecting...

Wade's reference to Corcoran's party loyalty — including free legal work — infuriated Walsh's backers, who launched their insurgent campaign in reaction to what they view as a closed system dominated by old - style machine politics that elevates white men over female and minority candidates.

The candidates seated on either side of him ranged from Robert Carroll, the Democratic Party - backed favorite to succeed Brooklyn Assemblyman James Brennan, to Kent Iverson, a white independent hoping to take over Congressman Charles Rangel «s majority - minority district — to Arthur Schwartz, a Sanders campaign lawyer challenging long - sitting Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah Glick.

We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.

The number of white women (all U.S. citizens) earning doctoral degrees has almost doubled over that span, and ethnic and racial minorities, a group that consists of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, have done even better, nearly tripling their presence.

Minorities Step over White Working - Class Pupils in Englands Failing Schools.

«The most surprising finding from our study is that some white - minority multiracial daters are, in fact, preferred over white daters,» the authors write in a press release.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

Cobb still recalls the day in the fall of 2002 when he looked over the crowd gathered for a Growth Fund meeting in Seattle: nearly all the attendees were white, a sharp contrast to the students in the schools funded by the Growth Fund, who are nearly all minority.

Most faculties are overwhelmingly white, despite efforts by many school districts over the past ten years to actively attract minority teachers, according to the National Education Association (NEA).

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

Over the last decade, the graduation gap grew by 19 % between white students and underrepresented minorities...

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

Gaps in test scores between minority and white students have also narrowed over the past 30 years for some groups, especially Latino students.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

When over 80 % of our children can not read proficiently by the third grade, it is a travesty of enormous proportions, particularly when compared with the TAKS reading test results (even after a significant standard deviation adjustment), their comparison with national norm - referenced test scores, and the wide gap between scores of white and minority children.

Essentially the school community placed greater value on the predominately white, middle class parent as provider over the minority parent, who commonly acted as a protector.

Despite state reforms over the past decades, the gap between minority students and white students across California has narrowed only slightly.

Researchers examined trends in minority teacher recruitment and retention over 25 years and found that the number of Hispanic, black, Asian and Native American teachers has more than doubled since 1987, which is twice the rate of growth for white, non-Hispanic teachers.

The study found that most white students attend schools that are 73 percent white, that the percentage of Black students in mostly minority schools has risen over the last two decades, that Black and Latino students are mostly sharing the same schools, and that the rise in segregation has been most dramatic for Latino students.

Even if minority voters aren't entirely won over, Dowd said, GOP candidates still benefit from talking up school choice: «It gives the message to moderate white suburban voters that they're tolerant, they're expansive — they care.»

Moreover, the balck - white gap appears to have been harmed over the decade by increasing minority concentrations in the schools.

A 13 % increase in the percent of minority students in the district over the past 20 years correlates with White families exercising school choice and the town's overall demographic shift.

At the same time, the distinct encounters of the settlers in Algoa Bay or the Natal colony laid the groundwork for the system of white minority rule — Apartheid — that was codified over a century later.

For someone who is a minority twice over — Thomas is an African American artist who is also a lesbian — such deep - seated prejudice among unapologetic white supremacists is infuriating, but not surprising.

Leaving aside the question of who is included under «visible» minorities, as an example the population of Toronto is just over 50 % white.

A report last week by Color of Change, a racial justice organization, found that over 90 percent of showrunners are white, leading to more roles for minorities as ««cardboard» characters, and at worst, unfair, inaccurate, and dehumanizing portrayals.»

The study included over 1,000 repossessed homes in nine major markets, concluding that the properties in white communities «generally appeared inhabited, well - maintained, and attractive to real estate agents and homebuyers,» whereas the properties in minority communities were «more likely to have overgrown yards littered with trash, unsecured doors, broken windows, and indications of marketing as a distressed sale.»