News tagged with racial groups
Florida's Class-Size Reduction Mandate Did Not Improve Student Achievement: Study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that Florida's 2002 constitutional amendment mandating a reduction in the size of classes in school districts throughout the state had no discernible impact upon student achievement, either ...
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May 14, 2010 |
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Rock, pop, white power: How music influences support for ethnic groups
Just a few minutes of listening to mainstream rock music was enough to influence white college students to favor a student group catering mostly to whites over groups serving other ethnic and racial groups, a new study found.
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Obama changed racial identity of black students
(PhysOrg.com) -- Barack Obama's historic election in 2008 stimulated individual and national reflection on race and changed African-American college students' perceptions of being black, reports a new Cornell study published ...
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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Black-white marriages increased rapidly since 1980, study finds
A new study of interracial marriages in the United States since the 1980s suggests that the racial boundary between blacks and whites continues to break down – but is not yet close to disappearing.
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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In matters of body image, one size doesn't fit all
(PhysOrg.com) -- While female perfection is often portrayed in the media as young, white and thin, body-image issues and eating disorders affect all ethnic groups, says a Northeastern psychologist.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Black History Month's sobering news: MLK dream alive for few, says researcher
In the past 20 years, Martin Luther King's dream of the day when "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls" through school desegregation has not been realized for ...
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Feb 22, 2011 |
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Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, study shows
A new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen (Civil Rights Project at UCLA) and Russell Skiba (Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University) says Middle schools across the country are suspending ...
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Sep 15, 2010 |
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Lack of private insurance contribute to higher deaths among black heart transplant patients
Transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins who have reviewed the medical records of more than 20,000 heart transplant patients say that it is not simply racial differences, but rather flaws in the health care system, along with ...
May 31, 2010 |
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Caucasian teenagers more damaged by family change than African-American peers
A new study from the Journal of Marriage and Family reveals that teenagers who have experienced several family changes are more likely to engage in delinquent behaviour, become sexually active early, or become parents outsid ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Everyone looks the same - when you drink
(PhysOrg.com) -- People are much better at recognising faces of their own racial group than those of different races, but a new study suggests that drinking alcohol almost eliminates that bias.
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Mar 19, 2010 |
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Study finds no relationship between PCR rate and race in women with breast cancer
Locally advanced breast cancer patients who received the same class of neoadjuvant chemotherapy were found to have no evidence of disease at the time of their surgery, or achieved pathological complete response, at the same ...
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Do Americans have an identity crisis when it comes to race and ethnicity?
Say goodbye to Italian-Americans and German-Americans and say hello to Vietnamese-Americans, Salvadoran-Americans and a bunch of other hyphenated Americans.
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Mar 26, 2009 |
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Canadian police agencies suppressing data on race, says criminology study
While only 20 per cent of Canada's police forces have an explicit policy against reporting the race of victims and accused persons, University of Toronto and Nipissing criminologists show that the majority of police departments ...
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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English language ads better reach Latino audience
English language ads have a greater impact in mobilizing Latino voters than Spanish language ads, according to a study recently published in American Political Research, a SAGE journal.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Study: Native Hawaiians at higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke at younger age
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders may be at higher risk for hemorrhagic stroke at a younger age and more likely to have diabetes compared to other ethnicities, according to a study released today that will be presented ...
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Feb 15, 2011 |
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