Sentences with phrase «racing school class»

In 1996 he attended a three - day Skip Barber Racing School class and said from the moment he was buckled in, a light switch went on, and he knew what he wanted to do with his life — race — and he hadn't event started up the engine.

I experienced my first open - wheel, single - seat race car more than three decades ago at a Skip Barber Racing School class in West Virginia.

Not exact matches

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

As high school students mull which classes to take next fall, many are hoping to get a leg up in the college admissions race by choosing «dual enrollment» courses — university - level academics offered at their schools that earn them actual college credit.

Later that day, in the school parking lot, another second - grade class mom raced up to me and complained about how her healthy Halloween spread had been hijacked by a barrel of store - bought frosted cookies («I couldn't resist.

«Only a metropolitan government can overcome existing municipal and school district borderlines that - intentionally or not - enforce race and class segregation in housing, schools, and job and business opportunities.

«The result has been a steadily growing increase in segregation of housing and schools by both race and class since the 1960s in New York.

We have the most segregation by both race and class in housing and schools.

The bill, which prohibits harassment «with respect to certain non-exclusive protected classes, including, but not limited to, the student's actual or perceived «race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex,» requires schools to:

«The roots of low achievement for some schools and students lie in concentrated poverty, segregation by race and class, and underfunding,» Hawkins said.

The most important single thing Syracuse city government can do to reduce poverty is to enact policies that de-concentrate poverty by desegregating our community by race and class in schooling, residence, and employment.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

«We must desegregate our schools by race and class and provide every student access to a gifted - quality education.»

If you want to improve the schools, I mean, this is something we know since Brown v. Board of Education — where you have desegregation by race and class.

They pointed to the experience of Texas, Florida, and California, which have substituted admissions based on high school class rank for race - conscious policies (although the extent of their success has been disputed)(4 - 6), as evidence that there are workable alternatives.

With such rapid progress, the field has likely raced well beyond the high school biology textbook your class used to study alleles, fruit flies and eye color inheritance.

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Even the title of the film seems like a play on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so it can't really be ignored as a coincidence, especially as the story paints the group as a class under fire from those who don't understand them, a strong allusion to the X-Men as an analogue for various persecuted races and classes throughout the history of the 20th century.

Dave (Dennis Christopher) and his working - class friends Cyril (Daniel Stern), Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley) and Mike (Dennis Quaid) spend their post-high school days in Bloomington, Indiana, sparring with snooty students from the local university, chasing girls and — in Dave's case — dreaming of competitive bicycle racing.

He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.)

Currently, the data show that we are in the process of subsidizing an expansion of a substantially separate — by race, class, disability and possibly language [6]-- sector of schools, with little to no evidence suggesting that it provides a systematically better option for families — or that access to these schools of choice is fairly available to all.

Why not focus on integrating schools by class rather than by race?

Program: Ed.M., Human Development Research Areas: Life courses from pregnancy through childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-life; the influence of reproductive transitions on life course trajectories; class, race, and ethnic disparities in education and health and designing interventions to reduce these disparities; prevention efforts targeting parenting, schooling, community, housing, and work - family balance.

Luttrell's research focuses on how schools shape gender, race, class, and sexual identities and self - understandings.

Mason: Students, especially those in middle and high school, might resist teachers» attempts to «teach» texts steeped in popular culture, especially across the boundaries of race, class, language background, and privilege.

For Ryan, that is literally so: the crisis stems from the failure to desegregate public schools after the Supreme Court would not let remedies for reform cross the line between city and suburbs, a fundamental divide of geography, race, and class.

Starting next fall, however, the school's world of crew races, Japanese classes, and study - abroad programs will open up to 18 less - advantaged students who will enroll there thanks to a $ 3.8 million gift from the foundation of Carl C. Icahn, a former chairman of Trans World Airlines Inc..

Recorded over 12 years of the boys» journey from kindergarten through high school graduation, this film explores issues of race, class, and opportunity in America and raises provocative questions.

Except that mixed - ability grouping, more than race or class, is actually the main obstacle to school desegregation.

He admits that some reforms may be well designed and have limited success, «but a careful examination of each claim that a particular school or practice has closed the race or social class achievement gap shows that the claim is unfounded.»

Of course now, as an adult with over 14 years of experience in the education field as a teacher and school leader, Camacho Lewis knows that the problem her teacher had is not unusual; not every educator can artfully and caringly address difficult social problems, especially matters of race and class, in the classroom.

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

We seek to move our work forward in three core areas that, taken together, can substantially reshape the college admissions process for students across race, class and culture, and help young people redefine their priorities, reimagine their high school experiences, and better prepare for ethically engaged and meaningful lives.

For instance, just in the past year, Harvard's Tony Wagner coauthored Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era; Richard Milner of U. Pittsburgh authored Rac (e) ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms; and Columbia University's Tom Bailey copublished Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.

Together, you will explore topics as varied as school reform and design; arts and technology in the classroom; theories of teaching and learning; adult and adolescent development; race, class, and gender dynamics; as well as the history and future of education in America.

The fact is that reforming urban schools is an issue of social justice: there are too many children in cities across the U.S. who are denied the opportunity to have a high - quality education, and these inequities run strongly along lines of race and class.

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

with University of Pittsburgh Professor H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education and director of the Center for Urban Education; editor of Urban Education; and author of Rac (e) ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms.

While the proposals differ in many respects, the debates offer a window into the difficult questions surrounding race, ethnicity, and class that school districts continue to wrestle with.

For example, at Mountlake Terrace High School, some of my calculus students were also enrolled in a technology class in which they designed, built, and raced an electric car against college students, setting speed records as they went.

First, every homeroom has a mixed group of students: the kids are assigned to make sure that every class represents the diversity of the school in terms of achievement level, race, class, etc..

The New York City school system's magnet - schools admissions procedure appears to offer students a choice of schools without leading to increased segregation by race or class, a new study asserts.

The twins» gender, race, and socioeconomic class did not change the results, nor did their schools» quality.

I would want to address the growing segregation of public schools by race and class.

I can afford to be somewhat blithe about my daughter's schools because of the considerable advantages conferred upon her by race, class, and zip code.

According to the Common Good authors, Catholic high schools — and many believe that this applies to elementary schools as well — «manage simultaneously to achieve relatively high levels of student learning, distribute this learning more equitably with regard to race and class than in the public sector, and sustain high levels of teacher commitment and student engagement.»

One of the guiding principles for all these schools is the notion that smaller is better, especially for students who have historically been left behind either because of race, class, or academic abilities.