Sentences with phrase «about educational inequality»

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I'm a doctoral candidate in educational policy — but consider myself an educational sociologist — and spend my days thinking about how personal lives, opportunities, and choices are often constrained by inequalities and cultural forces.

The governor's offensive began with a Sunday statement from Budget Director Robert Mujica about a proposal to combat educational inequality not with more funding — as school advocates and Nixon have called for — but by granting the state power to review and veto plans by large districts to distribute it among schools.

The evidence in the research base to date suggests that housing and neighborhoods need to be an important consideration when thinking about solutions to educational inequality.

About the Report This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 Dowell decision, which allowed school districts to declare themselves unitary, end their desegregation plans, and to return to neighborhood school plans that produce intense segregation and inequality clearly visible in educational opportunities and outcomes.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

The plight of these institutions, then, should concern everyone who cares about reducing educational inequality, ending cycles of poverty, and turning around America's inner cities.

Now 15 years old, Teach First is as ambitious as ever about continuing to grow and furthering its mission to end educational inequality.

The takeaway for me is that we want to combine an aggressive effort to combat educational inequality with an epistemological modesty about the likely results of any given policy choice.

With the typical cost of private tutoring about # 24 per hour excluding commission, # 27 per hour in London, the Sutton Trust is concerned that the growing private tuition market is further exacerbating educational inequalities.

Over the last 15 years, TNTP, a national nonprofit committed to ending the injustice of educational inequality, has shared what they have learned about education policy and effective teaching mainly through publications like «The Irreplaceables.»

How it came about, writes development director Stephen Tall, is an interesting case study of how we approach issues of educational inequality and try and tackle them in partnership with others.

But here's the thing: by the closing chapters of his breezy, 478 - page tome, Brill sounds far less like an uncritical fan of charter school expansion, Teach for America (TFA) and unionbusting and far more like, well, a guy who has spent several years immersed in one of the thorniest policy conversations in America, thinking about a problem — educational inequality — that defies finger - pointing and simple solutions.

«There's amnesia about the work that African - Americans have been doing for a century and a half to create [educational] institutions that address inequality that has been systemic for centuries.»

Carmichael argues that the continued oppression of African Americans is rooted in economic and educational inequality, while de Falla's opera serves as a cautionary tale about the polarizing social implications of class distinctions.