Sentences with phrase «about inequities in»

While I have read of accounts by skeptical scientists of how they are selectively funneled out of the funding process, the level of coordination it would take to virtually eliminate any funding for good research scientists who might reach findings that diverge with what we are calling «consensus» here seems far too complicated logistically to be doable — particularly when you consider those very same scientists are frequently characterized by the the folks who make such claims about inequities in research funding as being so incompetent they are unable to see «obvious» flaws in their scientific reasoning.

Prodded by the courts over concerns about inequities in the local funding capacity of school districts, the 1985 Quality Basic Education Act resulted from 18 months of study by a 41 - member commission appointed by then Gov. Joe Frank Harris.

Inform parents, communities, lawmakers, business leaders, taxpayers and other stakeholders about inequities in Colorado public schools and the urgent need to improve access to high quality educational opportunities for all Colorado students.

It's vital we have conversations with our students about the inequities in our society and empower students to take their voices beyond the classroom walls — particularly for those of us who work in schools located in communities of color.

Second, I want to raise awareness about the inequities in our public education system, and the unconscionable achievement gap between children from low - income and high - income communities that has developed as a result of these inequities.

FASEB is concerned about inequities in postdoc benefits within and among institutions.

Still, he said the governor had raised an important issue about the inequity in existing bridge tolls — something he has long believed needed to be addressed.

Each of these groups of students are currently accounted for separately in the Colorado frameworks which allows districts, schools, researchers, and advocacy groups to be able to talk about inequity in a precise, action - oriented way.

It occurred to me that while everyone talks about inequity in the art world, I hadn't actually seen data on it since the Guerilla Girls» work in the 1980s.

Artist Andrea Fraser, known for her piece Untitled where she had sex with a collector in order to speak about inequity in the art world, is involved, only in absentia, since she refuses to exhibit in NYC until the city adopts resale rights.

Not exact matches

Along the way, they've helped thousands of female technologists find a voice in a male - dominated industry and opened the conversation about inequities, large and small, woven into the fabric of the tech industry.

We need to do something about the racial inequities in our health care system.

While there are inequities in just about every other aspect in life, time will never be one of them.

Flaws and inequities in the program become national news, and Nuttall goes on to write over 40 stories about it.

(Note: I realize that inequity in the Church extends to many groups besides women, and that's important to talk about as well, but for efficiency and clarity, next week's focus will be on women in the Church.

The fact of the matter is that the Church should spend more time protesting the higher costs of insurance, the higher costs of higher education, the inequities in K - 12 education, demand that physical and mental abuses stop, and let GOD be the judge of a woman's right to care for her own body... On a theological note... where in the Apostle's Creed (summary of catholic doctrine) does it mention anything about contraception anyway?

This «flawed humanism,» as Sennett and Cobb call it, provides a perverse justification of the inequities of the class system, and confirms those on the bottom or middle or even uppermost rungs in their anxiety about their lives.

From 7 am to 11 pm, six days in a row, I was surrounded by people speaking different languages, talking about the big picture, and having open and honest conversations about inequities based on race and gender identity / expression.

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

«I'm very concerned about hydrofracking and about climate change and social inequity, and he seems to be the candidate who is most directly addressing that and proposing solutions that are in line with what I'd like to see,» Hoffman said.

«The subsidy we complain about lies at the heart of inequities in various school buildings that fuel the opposition to co-location.

«The GOP budget is not about debt reduction, it's about increasing the dangerous inequities in our economy and society,» he said.

James Arbuthnot, now chairman of the Commons defence select committee, was «concerned about the appearance of inequity in the treatment of Mr Ashcroft in comparison with other non-domiciled working peers», the senior civil servant Sir Hayden Phillips wrote on 29 June 2000.

«These findings add to knowledge about health disparities among sexual minority women by revealing inequities in use of reproductive technology,» said Patterson.

The regional authorities that manage East Coast fishing under U.S. law made tweaks in their summer flounder plans this year in an attempt to address concerns about inequity and allow more flexibility for recreational anglers.

You could say that Megamind is a tad resentful about good vs. evil inequities — «Good receives all the praise and adulation, while evil spends quiet time in the corner» — and he's especially miffed when he learns that Metro City is erecting a giant statue and museum in honor of Metro Man, who is one dumb hero.

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for starring in The Blind Side, a 2009 film ostensibly about a black football player overcoming social inequity and bigotry.

«The last thing we need, right in the middle of all this talk about sexual harassment and gender inequity in Hollywood, is someone like that as an Oscar nominee.»

Timothée Chalamet, who appears in three critically acclaimed awards contenders this season in «Lady Bird,» «Hostiles» and «Call Me by Your Name,» has certainly been on enough red carpets to have answered dozens of questions about representation, Hollywood inequities, sexual misconduct and more.

Alas, there's a plot (something about the kidnapping of two elephants, one of which is turned into a gaudy tchotcke in an evil dragon lady's den of inequity), too, told through a lot of howlingly incompetent narrative chunks you could seemingly rearrange in any order with no tangible disruption of sense.

This backdrop of inequities and economic hardship is a vivid backdrop to what might otherwise be a simple B - movie about an alien invasion hiding in plain sight, indistinguishable from the humans beside them but for one thing: they are the 1 %.

Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

In the words of Dwight Schrute [from TV's The Office], I can change one thing about education today, and I will work to change the historical inequities that are played out in our educational systeIn the words of Dwight Schrute [from TV's The Office], I can change one thing about education today, and I will work to change the historical inequities that are played out in our educational systein our educational system.

It is vital in sustainability education to give space for learners to develop their own visions for a sustainable future whilst reminding participants about the issues underpinning the need for change — climate change, peak oil, global inequity and the financial cost of fossil fuels.

Further, districts often compound these inequities by distributing a smaller share of unrestricted funds to the same schools that are shortchanged in salary dollars.What we don't yet know about school funding inequalities is whether and how these discrepancies have changed in recent years.

Once on the ground and in the classroom, the TFA experience opened the eyes of many HGSE students about the drastic inequities among children in the United States.

In some quarters, there is doubt about value added, so the fact that we see inequity based on other measures as well should convince readers that our value - added findings are accurate.

I think it suggests that if we are to make a real dent in achievement gaps, we need to be better about addressing inequity that exists early on, or become far more aggressive in interventions between 3rd grade and 8th grade.

A 2010 Ball State University report titled «Charter School Funding: Inequity Persists» calculated that Arizona district schools received about $ 9,600 per student in 2006 — 07 compared to $ 7,600 per student in charters.

Concerns about potential inequities in the availability of different schools to different families, based in large part on geography, are plausible but have not been subject to systematic empirical analysis.

So when he writes about parents who don't like the reform agenda around achievement gaps and addressing inequities in the distribution of teacher effectiveness, I'm not sure we're talking about the same parents.

In the years since people first began talking about the achievement gap, Ferguson has widened his scope of inquiry, developing a broad vision for correcting inequities that centers less on the differences between groups and more on raising the bar for all students.

As they look for strategies to address inequities in schools, communities, and society as whole, books about social justice and ally behavior provide models, stories, and inspiration.

A year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an 18 - year - old black man, by a white police officer touched off protests that echoed nationwide, Davis spoke with Education Week Staff Writer Denisa R. Superville about his still - developing plans to address inequity and bias in the district.

Ironically, the broad diversity argument in higher education — that it benefits everyone, including white students — has perhaps led to a decline in a focus on racial inequities, says Harvard education professor Natasha Warikoo, and «maybe it's time to rethink this very shallow way we talk about affirmative action.»

I'm talking about race and gender inequities in enrollments and course selections.

Through active participation at my child's school, I learned about the inequities between charter and district schools in New York.

Michelle Fine (1987) in her ethnographic essay on Silencing in Public Schools, details how student discourse about race and class inequities in students» lived experiences inside and outside the school were often detoured or outright shut down by teachers who were uncomfortable in discussing how societal inequities manifested themselves in students» everyday lives.

Education Week, To Fight Inequity, Empower the Families It Harms Most At RISE Colorado, an education nonprofit founded in 2012, we've created a model in which we train school leaders and teachers to educate families about the opportunity gap and their role in overcoming it.

Student choice; learning by doing; discourse about power, inequity, and students» lived experiences; and student activism — all ingredients that make for powerful student agency and preparation for active citizenship in an increasingly diverse and global world.