Sentences with phrase «white peers in»

Starting in prekindergarten, black boys and girls were disciplined at school far more than their white peers in 2013 - 2014, according to a government analysis of data that said implicit racial bias was the likely cause of these continuing disparities.

A separate study with Latino students found similar trends, with Latino students reporting declining levels of trust in their schools relative to their White peers in 7th grade.

Certainly this is nearly double the 5.9 percent of white peers in Ferguson deemed special ed cases in the top five categories.

The diversity gap reportedly has had an adverse effect on students, particularly students of color, whose test scores and completion rates continue to lag behind their white peers in California and beyond.

But she, along with Ushomirsky and Williams illustrate that in the case of Florida, where the proficiency levels for black students in A-ranked schools are, on average, four percentage points lower than for white peers in C - ranked schools.

Minority students have been closing gaps with their white peers in recent years, but those gaps remain substantial: In 2013, 86.6 percent of white students graduated on time, compared with 75.2 percent of Hispanic students and 70.7 percent of black students, according to the annual GradNation report.

Bergeson singled out improvements by minority students who outstripped their white peers in terms of the increase in the percentage meeting standards: by Hispanic students in reading and writing in grades four, seven, and ten, and in math in grade four, and by black students in reading in those three grades and in writing in grade ten.

Two years later they were scoring in the 79th percentile, matching or outscoring their white peers in New York City public schools.

Not exact matches

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

«In this system, female employees and employees of color are systematically undervalued compared to their male and white or Asian American peers,» the lawsuit says.

In an exchange with reporters between sessions at the U.S. trade representative's office across from the White House, Freeland said she and her peers are now down to the finest details on auto rules of origin.

His record since his conviction is similarly unblemished, and he continues to be held in high regard by his colleagues and peers,» the White House said in a statement.

In the white paper, it is described as a «free open source peer - to - peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized».

In November 2008, a white paper was posted on the internet under the name Satoshi Nakamoto titled «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System.»

Blockchain technology is the technological basis of Bitcoin, first described by its mysterious author Satoshi Nakamoto in his white paper «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System», published in 2008.

«In this system, female employees and employees of color are systematically undervalued compared to their male and white or Asian American peers,» the lawsuit claims.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

It was shortly after the housing crisis, when in October of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released an academic «White paper», titled, «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System», to a small cryptographic community's web space.

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

Yet, in familiar American fashion, genuine white peer acceptance still seems to escape them.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

They do join gospel choirs and (like their white peers) take part in fundamentalist movements, but these involvements call for action, not for reflection.

Doby wasn't just the second black major leaguer; he was the first in the American League, meaning that, like Robinson, he took the field among all white peers.

The tall se √ ± ora, dressed in slacks and a sport shirt and missing absolutely nothing as she peered through a pair of white - rimmed sunglasses, led the way carefully into a shady glade and up a cliff to the edge of a small natural pool.

Dylan White peers into his crystal football in an attempt to figure out what the future may hold for the Red Devils in seasons to come with their new men at...

Currently crossbench peer Lord Hylton, who sports a long white Santa style beard, is competing at the top of the poll with Labour backbencher Ian Murray who only stopped shaving in the summer.

The small group of attendees, which included a mix of long - time supporters and curious onlookers, spent the evening sipping free glasses of red and white wine — presumably courtesy of Mr. Spitzer — as reporters and tabloid photographers peered in at them through floor - to - ceiling window glass outside.

CM Eric Ulrich of CD 32 in Queens, covering Howard Beach and the western (white) end of the Rockaways, is popular in his district and well - regarded by his peers.

In Syracuse, black and multiracial students slightly outperformed their white peers when it came to graduation rates.

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

Blair's second Queen's speech was dominated by the question of Lords reform, mention of which by the monarch resulted in «an unprecedented ripple of disapproval from peers, calls of «Shame» mingling with «Hear, hears» from assembled MPs», as Michael White reported.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m recorIn the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m recorin the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

Paul White - the Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield - is accused of «dishonestly» submitting claims «for expenses to which he knew he was not entitled» - including overnight stays in London.

Yet the report notes that a longitudinal survey of freshmen finds «underrepresented minorities aspire to major in STEM in college at the same rate as their white and Asian - American peers, and have done so since the last 1980s.»

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

DOE is responding to a February 2013 memo from the White House directing federal research agencies to come up with a plan for allowing free access to taxpayer - funded, peer - reviewed manuscripts within 12 months after the paper appears in a journal.

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A newly published research paper in the peer - reviewed Journal of AOAC International titled «Measurement of β - Glucan in Mushrooms and Mycelial Products», by Dr. Barry McCleary, CEO of Megazyme Ireland International, confirms testing results from the Nammex White Paper by Jeff Chilton, Redefining Medicinal Mushrooms, published in February, 2015.

It's a black - and - white issue for the Veep, who attends the Television Academy's Performers Peer Group celebration of the Emmys in Beverly Hills wearing a simple color - block Narciso Rodriguez sheath.

In an ideal world that would be the case, however, because of social stigma, racist ideologies, and peer and familial pressure, black girls often avoid dating outside their race in general and white men in particulaIn an ideal world that would be the case, however, because of social stigma, racist ideologies, and peer and familial pressure, black girls often avoid dating outside their race in general and white men in particulain general and white men in particulain particular.

Moretz (Kick - Ass 2, Dark Shadows) stars as Carrie White, a teenager who barely registers among her peers until she freaks out in the showers after experiencing her first menstrual cycle, something her fanatically religious mother Margaret (Moore, Don Jon) never deemed to make her aware of.

Though the franchise might be a little more grown - up than its peers (it's certainly more violent, and not in a way that feels false), it still runs on a black and white metric.

Employing a curious cast, James White might prove to be more visually and emotionally more daring than the work of his closest peers in Campos and Durkin.

Now, it appears the Thai government has assigned him his final resting place, as death waits to strike like a cobra at any second; his laughing, maniacal peers in this prison all desiring to take a piece of his white flesh as a souvenir.

But Barry begs to differ; its drama springs from the character's identity crisis — his difficulty in assimilating into either Ivy League academia, where white peers insist he «get over» slavery and campus cops harass him, or New York's black community.