Sentences with phrase «does school diversity»

Does school diversity make a difference in outcomes for students?

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Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

How diverse is that and what tensions does that diversity create in the school's common life?

Pursuing a diversity of mission, however, produces schools that don't believe in anything in particular.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

We do not want low - or moderate - income housing in our town, ethnic diversity in our schools or new expressions of worship in our churches.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

«Studies have shown that simply changing the admissions process would do nothing to address the lack of diversity at our city's most prestigious schools.»

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We will continue to campaign for this information to be published, as while we are not opposed to Free Schools, we do have concerns around the diversity of religious and pseudoscientific Free Schools which are being backed to open by the Government, and believe there therefore needs to be more transparency in the approval process.»

Dromm, a former city school teacher, not only does he represents Jackson Heights and its robust diversity, but he also sits on the City Council's education committee.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

What would you do with neighborhood schools that are struggling in terms of their achievement, diversity and enrollment?

«Diversity initiatives do not increase representation of minorities on medical school faculty.»

Herculano - Houzel and her collaborators — graduate students Débora Messeder and Fernanda Pestana from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Professor Kelly Lambert at Randolph - Macon College; Associate Professor Stephen Noctor at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine; Professors Abdulaziz Alagaili and Osama Mohammad from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia; and Research Professor Paul R. Manger at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa — picked carnivorans to study because of their diversity and large range of brain sizes as well as the fact that they include both domesticated and wild species.

A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admissions.

I didn't know anything about open education philosophy, but as soon as I read the school's literature — the emphasis on diversity, student choice, and the development of creativity and a lifelong passion for learning — I knew Piedmont was exactly where I needed to be.

LGBTQ students can feel «isolated and alone and rejected» when peers and teachers don't accept them, says Tracie Jones, who runs student diversity and inclusion programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

We do not find noteworthy differences between the two sectors with respect to satisfaction with the school building and facilities (4 points) or with ethnic and racial diversity (2 points).

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

What they are not willing to do is go to schools with academic diversity.

All I do know is that another proposal of mine, grouping NYC public school kids by ability, rather than age, would not only solve the perennial shortage of Gifted & Talented seats for all who qualify, it would also help with racial and socioeconomic diversity.

On the other hand, we also know (in part from Fordham research) that some — maybe one in five — do value «diversity» in their kids» schools (provided, of course, that those schools also supply the basics).

But most of these efforts don't address the fundamental challenge urban schools face: The diversity of their student population.

This framing tends to fuel what Warikoo calls «the diversity bargain,» in which white students support affirmative action as long as black and Latino students on campus do not form their own organizations and friend groups, and whites do not feel overlooked through «reverse discrimination» when they apply for fellowships, jobs, and graduate school.

Middle School Project — Fading Footprints: This project is a 12 - week interdisciplinary ecology unit centered on the guiding question, How does diversity strengthen an ecosystem?

In 2001 only the federal appeals court covering the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont had upheld the use of race in student assignment or magnet school admissions in school districts not already under court order; it did so on the grounds that the state had a compelling interest in racial diversity.

But Moe is careful to note that a more «benign» interpretation exists: that inner - city whites who choose private schools simply don't value diversity as much as do whites who see diversity as a strong reason to stay in the public schools.

What it would do is give hard - working Catholic and other private - school parents a break while increasing diversity and excellence in both public and private schools.

For tomorrow's leaders and innovators to reflect America's diversity, today's schools must do far better at cultivating talented children from every kind of background.

This isn't something that just gets done in diverse classrooms, or classrooms that lack diversity, or urban classrooms — or any other special category of school.

Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network, has called for this cap to be lifted, arguing that it does little to in increase the diversity but is «effectively discriminatory for Roman Catholics», as these limits have discouraged the opening of many Catholic free sSchools Network, has called for this cap to be lifted, arguing that it does little to in increase the diversity but is «effectively discriminatory for Roman Catholics», as these limits have discouraged the opening of many Catholic free schoolsschools.

Some critics allege that they force the most - selective public colleges to admit underprepared students from low - performing schools and to deny admission to better - prepared students; others complain that they don't do enough to promote diversity.

When School Isn't Safe LGBTQ students can feel «isolated and alone and rejected» when peers and teachers don't accept them, says Tracie Jones, who runs student diversity and inclusion programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

And with the increased social and economic diversity, schools are finding they can not get their educational work done without paying more attention to the welfare of their families and communities.

A study of test scores in each of the city's public elementary schools finds that diversity does not erase achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Most parents value racial / ethnic and economic diversity in schools - but they don't believe it's worth a longer commute to school.

In each case, we tried to sample from among schools that had the same high, medium, or low poverty and diversity profiles as did the district overall.

In another legislative victory for magnet schools, MSA worked with the National Coalition on School Diversity to also ensure that an outdated anti-busing provision from the 1970s did not prevent current MSAP grantees from using their funding for school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (School Diversity to also ensure that an outdated anti-busing provision from the 1970s did not prevent current MSAP grantees from using their funding for school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

As education experts Richard Kahlenberg and Halley Potter argue, school policies in recruitment, location, and transportation can either mitigate or drive charter school segregation.98 Some charters, for example, may be highly committed to diversity, but do not have much room to diversify because they are located in homogenous neighborhoods.

The evidence is clear, but it is important to note that achieving school - level diversity does not immediately eliminate all disparities that affect students.

Once it has this information for each state, the federal government could both support states in their efforts to diversify their schools and also penalize states that do not make progress toward school diversity.

The Blair Peach Award was set up in March 2010 to recognise members or groups within the NUT who have done exemplary work in schools and Union divisions, on equality and diversity issues.

If 91 school districts and charter networks currently pursue diversity goals, perhaps we will see more doing so with the help of federal initiatives like Stronger Together and ESSA moving forward.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Schools Still Matter?

The Diversity of Opportunity Education Partnership, or DO Partnership, will enable up to 30 students from 13 suburban districts to take part in a number programs at the two city schools, including advanced manufacturing and engineering, digital media, construction, information technology, culinary arts, medical careers and more.

In what ways does ESSA, the reauthorization of a 1965 civil rights law, promote (or fall short in promoting) school diversity in pursuit of educational equity?

It is suddenly normal to hear a City Hall or education official casually praise charter schools, as deputy chancellor Dorita Gibson did earlier this week when she highlighted the work charters have done on diversity at a panel discussion.

How often does a teacher observe a high school student making notations about classroom culture and diversity or asking questions about professional learning networks and how they enhance classroom practice?

Specifically, does the school have conditions necessary for school quality improvement and increasing natural diversity?

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.