Sentences with phrase «with racial composition»

«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.

Last month, for example, the Supreme Court upheld a verdict that two North Carolina districts were drawn with racial composition in mind (see «Battleground state»).

This is the first report based on national data showing that practices at maternity facilities vary with the racial composition of the zip code area in which the facility is located.

In the end, as RAND tells us, students who move into charter schools generally choose schools with racial compositions similar to those of the traditional public schools they exited.

Clearly, the takeaway message from the RAND study — as the authors explicitly state — is that students who transfer into charters in these cities attend schools with racial compositions that are similar to the TPS attended in the prior year.

Not exact matches

Sociologists can speak of the age, sex and racial composition of the U.S. population with some precision, based on government counts.

The findings suggest that the implementation of maternity care practices supportive of breastfeeding vary based on the racial composition of the area, which means women living in areas with higher percentages of blacks might have less access to these services.

The duo analyzed 370 communities throughout Massachusetts and found that hazardous industrial facilities, power plants, municipal solid waste combustors, toxic waste sites, landfills and trash transfer stations were unequally distributed with respect to income and / or racial composition.

In 2004 Anthony Lising Antonio, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, collaborated with five colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions to examine the influence of racial and opinion composition in small group discussions.

However, a RAND study found that, in most states, students tend to transfer between traditional public and charter schools with similar racial compositions.

While they also rate schools with fewer poor students more highly, we found no signs that the grades parents gave their school is influenced by its racial or ethnic composition,» observed Martin West, one of the study's authors.

In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.

Then he compares the current racial and economic composition of the public and private sectors with their hypothetical composition after these parents make their move to private schools.

The basic flaw in the CRP study is that it compares the racial composition of charter schools, which tend to be located in inner cities, with that of traditional public schools, which are located in all different kinds of environments.

2002); Brief for Armor et al. as Amici Curiae, with Rosen, Perhaps Not All Affirmative Action is Created Equal, N. Y. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting»» [w] e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly»» and acknowledging that he» «did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but there's a big state variation»» (emphasis added)-RRB-.

The reason has to do with dramatic changes in the racial / ethnic composition of the U.S. student population during the past few decades.

Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composition.

I sent my kids to the schools I believed would be best for them, with no thought to racial composition.

Those sentiments were captured in another study by Harvard economics professor Caroline M. Hoxby, who compared the math and reading proficiency of almost all the nation's charter school students to the test results of those at their nearest public school with similar racial composition.

«Compared to students in the nearest regular public school with a similar racial composition, charter students are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math.

William Villalongo plays with deeply rooted art historical iconography by redefining racial and sexual politics in his compositions.

According to the Post story, back in the spring, D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz sent back a pool of 70 prospective jurors because the racial composition of the group — 61 whites, eight blacks and one Asian — didn't align with the racial and economic population within the District.

With just a click of the mouse, the racial and ethnic composition of a school is unveiled, and the sites feature a color - coded system for the school rating: green, yellow, and red.