Sentence examples for racial academic from inspiring English sources

In contrast, over 41%% of white students are in the top third in both math and reading within their schools.15 The statistics in Tables 1 and 2 highlight the racial academic achievement gap and the importance of disentangling the potential effects of LE or LA students on black and white native students separately and across the achievement distribution within a school.

That it is launched in the context of reducing the racial academic gap is ironic, farcical and perilous-inasmuch as the white section of Obama's Education Department -- with Obama's blessing and prodding -- has been removing the very academic achievement benchmarks set by the No Child Left Behind Act that were put into place to track disparate educational outcomes.

But critics say there is only a weak link between racial and academic diversity.

Secondly, our data come from a self-selected sample of college students with a wide range of racial and academic backgrounds.

While females are slightly overrepresented and males are underrepresented in this sample, the racial and academic year demographics are quite representative of the campus as a whole.

The private eye Spenser encounters racial, sexual and academic politics when a black professor is implicated in a suicide.

The fight has also added some immediacy to Greenwich's earlier efforts to close the racial gap in academic achievement.

At a series of moments during the 2008 campaign, Marx and his colleagues gave tests of verbal ability to selected black and white students after first priming them to focus on racial stereotypes of academic performance.

What Fish calls "capital-L liberal values" like freedom of speech, religious tolerance, racial nondiscrimination and academic freedom are either self-contradictory (because they can lead to their own negation, as when free speech empowers Nazis who would destroy it) or fraudulent -- a move in the game the principle supposedly umpires.

Thus, our findings do not generally support the notion that banning affirmative action widens racial gaps in academic achievement.

Widening the Gap The [Supreme Court's] decision [on affirmative action] leaves unsolved a racial gap in academic performance that leads to huge disparities in postsecondary education.