Sentences with phrase «about economic diversity»

Again, this is awesome when we're talking about social diversity, but not when we're talking about economic diversity.

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Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

Indeed, it's one thing to think, rather generically, about the achievement gap between races and socio - economic groups, but as I saw up close and personal in that sixth - grade classroom yesterday and as Mike makes vividly clear in his Ed Next story, our relatively recent headlong rush to celebrate diversity — and integration and «mainstreaming» — has brought with it new achievement gap challenges.

Abstract: In this article the literature on the effects of school size is summarized to describe what is currently known about its relationship to economic efficiency, curricular diversity, academic achievement, and related variables.

He talked with us about innovative ways schools of all kinds can increase economic diversity in their schools and why that's important for children in poverty.

Grant notes that pushing for diversity in public schools is about more than closing achievement gaps: «The goal is to provide more opportunities for people to freely associate across racial, ethnic, and economic lines» (p. 184).

That economic diversity is a core value of the school, Densen told Gambit in December in a broad article about the 4.0 Schools project, as he seeks to create a learning environment inclusive of all income levels that bridges the gap between New Orleans» often rigid segregation between tuition - based private schools and impoverished public schools.

The diversity of economic relations among states and disparate ideas about the preferred modes of investment protection stand in the way of universally acceptable standards.»