While a number of states have implemented policies and programs aimed at reducing inequities between traditional district schools and charter public schools, more can be done. (bluum.org)
Jessica Yeh, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the General Internal Medicine Divisionand core faculty member at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, has been selected to join the American Diabetes Association's National Health Disparities Committee, which serves as an advisory and steering committee for the association's work on reducing inequities facing populations disparately affected by diabetes. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
Examples of strategies associated with this approach, beyond those described to this point, include: heightening the awareness of school community members to unjust situations which they may encounter and how such situations affect students» lives; providing members of the school community the capacities needed to avoid situations that generate inequities; and providing opportunities to become involved in political action aimed at reducing inequities (Ryan, 1998). (wallacefoundation.org)