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noteworthy) finding/s 10 pts The most noteworthy findings are the following: that the disproportionality metric may be misleading in situations where the group of interest is composed of a small or large proportion of the population. However, the disparity index corrects for this potential bias by comparing the relative rates of the two groups. Therefore, the disproportionality metric and disparity index were useful in this research study due to the reliable data that it gave once the study was…

However, he notes, “truly meeting the needs of low-income students would require fundamental reforms in financial aid.” He alludes to the early days of the Penn Grant, which in the beginning covered 84% of college expenses, making attending college for the poor a real possibility. Today, the Penn Grant covers half that, or only 42% of the costs of college. For many low-income families, sending their kids to college has become a financial impossibility. Many poor students end up going to…

task group in terms of developmental stages? In our task group the evidence from Tuckman’s development model forming, storming, norming, and performing helped us establish where we needed to start. Each one of these steps builds off the previous one and with every new piece of research it helps the process repeat itself. The stage we had come to was the norming stage. In this meeting decisions were made on our topics and members agreed that each role we had was on the right track. Our group…

Institutional racism is defined as racism that is ingrained into the procedures and practices of schools that cause disadvantage and discrimination for ethnic minority groups. There is evidence that there is differential achievement in terms of ethnicity. This is evidenced by 79% of Chinese students achieving 5A*-C GCSE grades (including English and Maths) and 74% of Indian students achieving 5A*-C GCSE grades (including English and Maths). This compares significantly to 60% of Bangladeshi…

aspects of stereotypes, prejudice, or discrimination. One doesn’t take in the time to understand the different aspects that go into a culture and why certain things distinguish us from one another may be held of high value by those pertaining in that group. In this paper I…

Executive summary This report provides an evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and analyzes what impact it has on Magna, global automotive supplier headquartered in Ontario, Canada. Magna through the TPP, a quite controversial agreement, that can harm some industries in Canada, will get a lot of benefits. The company is present in automotive sector, which is an export-based industry (85%). The TPP will increase its presence at previously closed Asia…

competent workforce to meet the needs of the expanding minority population of the United States” (American Psychological Association (APA)). Not only does the current healthcare workforce not reflect the diversity of our country, but also minority groups lack comprehensive and easy access to the same, quality mental health care of those in the white majority (APA). The growing unequal access to…

When we use the word normal to describe someone, some may take it to mean that they are valid while others may take it to mean that they are bland and not special. Depending on the context, it can mean either of those things. Normality cannot exist without its counterpart, abnormality. Abnormality can simply refer to something that is different, something that is uncommon or unconventional but many times there are certain connotations associated with different words synonymous to abnormal. Words…

18 years. That is the average age of a child once they complete their mandatory schooling. Children as young as 5 begin their schooling with Kindergarten and thus begins an era of schooling that lasts a little over a decade. To many minority children, schools and the school experience in general, is a reflection of the impacts that race, class and sexuality have had in their lives. In the book, Rolling the R’s, R. Zamora Linmark uses contradictions in the schooling experience of Edgar and his…

By analyzing the frequency of their discussions it was concluded that no significant ethnic group differences could be found among the three minority groups observed using ANCOVA. However there was more variance reported due to race related phenomenon among parents who had children between the ages of 10 through 17. In addition to using ANCOVA, a series of ordinary least squares…