Students who are behind in reading by this grade have less than a 10 percent chance of ever reading catching up to their peers.
What is third grade?
100
According to the Midwest Academy, this is a person with the power to give you what you want who would not otherwise do so.
What is a target?
100
This priority health issue will be discussed in September during a national awareness month the NAACP is leading.
What is childhood obesity?
100
For many children, an initial encounter with law enforcement and the criminal justice system happens when they are involved in discipline incidents here.
What is school?
100
This is defined as a statistical change in the distribution of weather over time.
What is climate change?
200
The number of high schools that produce half the nation's drop-outs; each graduates fewer than 60% of its students.
What is 2000?
200
This type of organizing changes the relationships of power in a community, makes a real difference in people's lives and awakens people to their power.
What is direct action organizing?
200
Including more fruits, vegetables and healthy options in these is a major step toward decreasing childhood obesity.
What are school meals?
200
The United States has just 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of these.
What are prisoners?
200
African Americans on average emit about 6 kilograms per person of this gas that causes global warming, a little over 20 percent less than white Americans and nearly 18 percent less than all Americans. Yet we are one of the most severely impacted groups.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
African-American students are twice as likely to face these harsh discipline penalties as their white counterparts.
What are suspension and expulsion?
300
When choosing one of these, branches should ask whether it is widely and deeply felt in their communities, how it will set the branch up for future activities and if it is winnable.
What is an issue?
300
Faith and community leaders who start honest conversations about this priority health issue can help combat its alarming spread in our communities.
What is HIV/AIDS?
300
Despite comparable rates of usage, African-Americans are arrested for these offenses at 3.5 times the rate of their white counterparts.
What are drug offenses?
300
This disease, which is strongly linked to climate change and air pollution, affects African-Americans at a 36 percent higher rate than White Americans. African-Americans are hospitalized at twice the rate and die at three times the rate of Whites from this same disease.
What is asthma?
400
Students with one of these in the top 25 percent were likely to make four months more progress in a school year than those with one in the bottom 25 percent.
What is a teacher?
400
This is the solution to a problem in our communities. We organize around this, not the problem itself.
What is an issue?
400
Greater prevalence of obesity for Blacks and whites were found in these two geographic regions of the country.
What are the South & Midwest
400
After health care, spending on these institutions saw the second biggest increase in state and local budgets between 1980 and 2006, while spending for higher education, K-12 schooling, and public assistance all declined.
What are prisons?
400
Heat-related deaths among African Americans occur at a 150-200 percent greater rate than for non-Hispanic whites. A study of these types of communities, where African-Americans are more likely to live, found that climate change would increase heat-related deaths there by at least 90 percent.
What are urban areas?
500
About 20 percent of these perform better than regular public schools; around 40 percent perform worse and almost half show no difference in student achievement.
What are charter schools?
500
This form of organizing power is based upon our collective ability to eat into a company's profits with a boycott.
What is consumer power?
500
African-American females born in 2000 have a 49% lifetime risk of being diagnosed with this disease, compared to their while counterparts who have a 31% risk. For males the numbers are 40% and 27% respectively.
What is diabetes?
500
In 2007, 5 states - Vermont, Michigan, Oregon, Connecticut and Delaware – spent as much or more on corrections than they did on this other major facet of a state's responsibility?
What is higher education?
500
African Americans have a higher tendency to live in coastal areas which are disproportionately impacted by two climate change-related effects: increase in severe weather events (storms specifically) and this phenomenon threatening areas such as Thibodaux, La.