Sentences with phrase «years ethnic studies»

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About 33 percent of consumers say they have tried a new global cuisine in the past year and 80 percent eat ethnic food at least once per month, according to a National Restaurant Association study.

Comparison of 2010 ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the EMBES.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

My grades suffered, and it didn't help matters when an advisor told me during my freshman year that «science isn't for everybody» and that it might be better if I tried majoring in Spanish or Ethnic Studies if I wanted to be successful.

«We have long known that men begin to lose their sense of smell some years sooner than women, but this is the first study to point to racial or ethnic differences,» said study author Jayant Pinto, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago.

Perrin PB, Krch D, Sutter M, Snipes DJ, Arango - Lasprilla JC, Kolakowsky - Hayner SA, Wright J, & Lequerica A. Racial / ethnic disparities in mental health over the first two years after traumatic brain injury: A model systems study.

Our call for more studies on racial / ethnic subgroup disparities echoes a recommendation published 15 years ago by the AAP Task Force on Minority Children's Access to Pediatric Care that more attention be paid to the heterogeneity of API populations.24

The district has been piloting the courses for the past few years, and Mr. Carranza said the data collected show that enrollment in ethnic - studies classes leads to better attendance and better grades.

The Ethnic Studies Committee, which LA Unified unceremoniously disbanded last year, has been renewed by the district, and members agreed to meet for up to three more years with a goal toward incorporating ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA UnEthnic Studies Committee, which LA Unified unceremoniously disbanded last year, has been renewed by the district, and members agreed to meet for up to three more years with a goal toward incorporating ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA UStudies Committee, which LA Unified unceremoniously disbanded last year, has been renewed by the district, and members agreed to meet for up to three more years with a goal toward incorporating ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA Unethnic studies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA Ustudies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA Unified.

Since the first study 26 years ago, the racial - ethnic attrition rate gap has widened.

This changed this year with new research that shows ethnic - studies classes boost student attendance, GPAs, and high - school credits for a key student group — a pivotal finding that brings hard evidence to the dispute over adding these courses in public schools.

Finally, the report provides a list of new courses beginning in fall of this year, including Ethnic studies, Kinesiology, Carpentry, and Engineering.

Although study of clinical phenomena in individuals from different ethnic backgrounds has improved over the years, African American and Asian American individuals continue to be underrepresented in

Although the percentage of white students in the country has declined dramatically over the past 50 years, while the percentage of black students has changed very little, the achievement levels of black students compared to white students (and other racial / ethnic groups) has barely narrowed, according to a study by University of Illinois economist Steven Rivkin.

For the past four years, Emilio has taught seventh and eighth grade history and eighth grade language arts at the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, where he also designed a middle school ethnic studies curriculum.

The study compared the credit scores of members of each ethnic group, leading to data that shows Caucasians earning less than $ 25,000 per year were likely to have better credit scores than African - Americans earning between $ 65,000 and $ 75,000 per year.

Self - esteem changes in the middle school years: A study of ethnic and gender groups, Research in Middle Level Education, 29 (6), 1 - 9.

Cape York and the Torres Strait region cover 7.5 % of Queensland, with a population estimate for 2009 of 24 049 — 0.5 % of Queensland's population.8 Extrapolating from 2006 ethnic breakdown data, 9 the region's Indigenous population in 2009 was estimated at 15 904 (39 % Aboriginal, 45 % Torres Strait Islander, and 16 % both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander), of whom 10 217 were aged 15 years and older, and constitute the denominator for the calculation of prevalence rates in this study.

Incidence of schizophrenia among ethnic minorities in the Netherlands: a four - year first - contact study

Home environment and cognitive development in the first three years of life: A collaborative study involving six sites and three ethnic groups in North America.

Cut off scores have been established in the UK (although not among ethnic minority groups) and other populations, for each scale and the total number of difficulties.28, 29 The P3 — 4 (age 3 — 4 years) and P4 — 16 (age 4 — 16 years) versions of the SDQ were completed by parents in this study.

In addition, a study by Mieloo et al. that examined the teacher SDQ in multi-ethnic 5 — 6 year old children in the Netherlands also identified differences in reliability of the subscales between different ethnic groups [27].

Structural equation modeling was used to examine the effects of cultural factors (ethnic identity, perceived discrimination), family relations, and child problem type on mental health service utilization in a community sample of 1,480 adolescent girls (860 African American, 620 European American) between ages 15 and 17 years enrolled in the Pittsburgh Girls Study.