Sentences with phrase «with nonwhite»

Some 70 percent of black students who attend charter schools attend «intensely segregated» schools — that is, schools with a nonwhite population greater than 90 percent.

Cooperative learning is especially effective with nonwhite, low - income students; students with limited English proficiency; and students with disabilities.

Not exact matches

It sent buyers to eight dealerships in eastern Virginia and found that white borrowers with weaker credit profiles got less expensive financing options and more favorable treatment than their nonwhite counterparts who were more financially qualified.

The media - strategy component is that many nonwhite and younger voters, based on their media consumption patterns, never even hear about when they do agree with conservatives.

What I already knew notionally I saw with my own eyes: that up to half of the young nonwhite men in the area surrounding the jail would at some point pass through this correctional institution, mostly for minor offenses, with the upper limit a 30 - month sentence.

She thinks that for Korean Americans to be the progressive force in evangelicalism that they have the potential to be, they must not simply step outside their comfort zone into heterogeneous churches but must identify (and worship) with other nonwhites, especially with African Americans.

In 1977, the life expectancy for white females was 77.7, compared with 69.9 for white males; nonwhite females have an expectancy of 73.8 and nonwhite males 65.0.

When combined with the strong Democratic leanings of Hispanic and other nonwhite Catholics, these trends explain the widely touted Democratic «revival» among Catholics.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

By the 1970s it bad appeared throughout the country, especially in rural areas of the West and South — such as the Ozarks and mountain areas of the Pacific Northwest - with small numbers of Jews and nonwhites.

The thinking seems to be that since Republicans are having trouble with the growing, nonwhite fraction of the electorate, they should nominate Rubio because he is the «The Latino Republican version of Obama / Kennedy — he inspires, he's handsome, and what's not to like?»

Compared with those included in the analysis, mothers of excluded participants were less educated, had lower annual household income, were more likely to be of nonwhite race / ethnicity, and breastfed for a shorter duration.

Angering unions and activist groups closely aligned with the mayor, Uber has also run television ads highlighting the number of nonwhites the company employs as drivers.

The NBC4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist Poll found opposition to an extra impost on carryout sacks across all incomes, religious affiliations and ethnicities, with strongest opposition among nonwhites and those earning less than $ 50,000 a year.

Like Alcantara, Hamilton represents a largely nonwhite district with a significant stock of rent - regulated apartments.

As Albany hurtles toward the Friday state budget deadline, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has launched a last - minute push to get language into the spending plan that would furnish the city with new tools and resources to hire firms belonging to women and nonwhites, the Observer has learned.

Supporters of these changes have long maintained that the NYPD disproportionately arrests and charges nonwhites for such infractions, often leaving young black and Latino men with damaging criminal records.

Voicing exasperation with what he called the homogeneous hue of the financial sector, Mr. Stringer demanded that investment funds hire more women and nonwhite employees, starting with the city's youths.

Mr. Heastie, who would be the first nonwhite and Bronxite to be elected speaker, is jockeying with Assemblyman Joseph Morelle, the majority leader, and potentially Assemblymen Keith Wright and Joseph Lentol.

Even before reaching his current perch, O'Neill was charged with designing and implementing de Blasio's «neighborhood policing» program, aimed at healing the rifts between the department and many nonwhite communities.

In contrast, nonwhite gun owners who have faced or may be coping with financially difficult times do not place as much importance on the gun, researchers found.

Nonwhite patients reported more perceived barriers, such as transportation issues and more concern over side effects, compared with white patients, but their expectations concerning the therapies» benefits were similar.

In contrast, Rank said, the risk of poverty for an individual between the ages of 25 - 29, who is nonwhite, not married, and with an education of high school or less, is «a whopping 72 percent.»

Mothers who are nonwhite, unmarried, or lack a college education are more likely to have children with health and developmental problems.

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.

Even on a strong morning for nonwhite nominees, Damien Chazelle's musical emerged with what could well be unstoppable momentum

With her stabilizing presence, this rude comedy shows us that people who are «different» — the retarded, the disabled, nonwhites, gays — can also be funny, and we are given permission to laugh — loudly.

With her stabilizing presence, this rude comedy shows us that people who are «different» — the disabled, nonwhites, gays — can also be funny, and we are given permission to laugh — loudly.

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.

The typical school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating was large and had a majority nonwhite population, with many students who had previously failed an 8th - grade exam.

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

Although much of the development of student rights originally emerged from concern about nonwhite students in urban areas, educators in those settings had only a 41 percent probability of contact with a legal challenge.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

As Meredith recounts with both humor and horror, some of the nonwhite families in the school responded to the lunchroom volunteer proposal with, «How do we know who is coming into the school?

It was easier to do in schools with a diverse nonwhite population, and in neighborhoods that were further along in the gentrification process, where the battle over who it belongs to isn't as raw.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

«Many of those ethnic groups assimilated into the dominant group with groups like Italians going from being considered nonwhite to white in a span of decades.»

Nonwhites, those without college degrees, those with lower incomes, and adults younger than 50 are more likely than their counterparts to support giving the power to the governor, with the largest gap by income.

«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.

A total of 48 studies were excluded from the database because they combined all minority children into a nebulous «nonwhite» category, failed to include a comparison group consisting of white children, or did not perform separate analyses with children disaggregated from adults.

Compared with a decade ago, more black students — especially in the South and some Mid-Atlantic states — are attending majority - nonwhite schools, the report by the university's Civil Rights...

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

Other states with large percentages of nonwhite students also fare poorly in the analysis.

Research shows that the reliance on punitive school discipline like suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests — «school pushout» — deprives students of learning time and takes the greatest toll on nonwhite students, students with disabilities, LGBT youth and other vulnerable student groups.

In spite of the dramatic suburbanization of nonwhite families, 80 % of Latino students and 74 % of black students attend majority nonwhite schools (50 - 100 % minority), and 43 % of Latinos and 38 % of blacks attend intensely segregated schools (those with only 0 - 10 % of whites students) across the nation.

The data reveals a cultural divide among three regions in the U.S.: cities and suburbs, rural areas, and the extended Black Belt, an area extending from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard and up to Washington as well as locations with large nonwhite populations.

Differences in views between whites and nonwhites are less pronounced on drug crime sentencing guidelines compared with their views of the criminal justice system's handling of crime more generally.

Quiz Ref IDMost children were male (62 %), and 29 % were of nonwhite race and / or Hispanic ethnicity (compared with 24 % and 36 % in Massachusetts and the United States, respectively).39 Participants were primarily mothers (96 %) and married (70 %), with a median age of 34 years.

Survey results indicate the gap between nonwhites and whites is present even among respondents with similar earnings.

For example, consistent with the falling numbers of loan applications from blacks and Hispanics, 55 % of nonwhite renters say that one major reason they are currently renting is that they don't think they can qualify for a loan, compared with 25 % of whites who say the same.