Sentence examples for minority performance from inspiring English sources

The administration's desire to hold schools accountable, particularly when it comes to minority performance, is exactly the right priority.

Though he has relaxed his opposition to affirmative action, he quibbles with the way it is practiced, recommending instead what he calls developmental affirmative action -- programs intended to improve minority performance while upholding common standards of evaluation.

If minority college students are welcomed into the world of academia, they are less likely to be influenced by the negative stereotypes of poor minority performance on academic tasks.

The seaport has also created special Amistad exhibits, given Amistad tours to thousands of schoolchildren and hosted musical performances by minority performers.

Though the point of the suit was, in part, to force the schools to find ways of improving minority student performance, there is nothing in the settlement agreement that ties the $300 million to better test scores.

"What he did was directly tackle the problem of demand, have the students understand that systems have prevented their access to mathematics, and have them demand algebra from school boards that have denied it to them," said Phillip Uri Treisman, a calculus professor at the University of Texas who is a national leader in efforts to improve minority students' performance in math and science.

For example, in a study investigating ethnic minority students' performance in exams, initial quantitative work describes the proportion of ethnic minority students failing final medical exams and subsequent discursive work then explores how and why this happens.

Cohen warns, however, against viewing the intervention as a silver bullet for improving minority-student performance.

On the contrary, when applying ROS, i.e., maintaining all examples but adding a "weight" to the minority ones, the performance obtained increases when adding a higher number of Maps.

Main outcome measures Proportions of patients using Medicaid and those from ethnic and racial minority groups; hospital performance on patient experience metrics, care processes, risk adjusted 30 day mortality, and readmission rates; costs of care; care payments; and Medicare market share.

Public scrutiny achieved what legislation could not.There have been many other such successes in areas as diverse as restaurant sanitation, car safety, nutrition, home loans for minorities and educational performance, note Archon Fung, Mary Graham and David Weil of the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in their book "Full Disclosure".