Sentences with phrase «about segregation in»

People will make movies about that in 20 years time and it will feel as mortifying as it does when we watch movies about segregation in the United States.

At the time there were four other cases about segregation in public schools.

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Sanford J. Schlesinger, cochair of the family - owned - business practice of law firm Kaye Scholer LLP in New York City, urges owners to think about what he terms «asset segregation» to avoid potentially catastrophic personal exposure.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer speaks to celebrated soprano opera singer Jessye Norman, who speaks about her childhood growing up in Augusta, Georgia and her first experience of racial segregation.

As in, «Admittedly, William F. Buckley wasn't always right about everything, segregation for example,» or, «Obviously Aaron Sorkin is a colossal misogynist, but let us set that to one side,» or, «I enjoyed John Derbyshire's book on the Riemann Hypothesis, despite his despicable views on race.»

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it

racial segregation was so widely accepted in the churches and societies throughout the world that few white theologians, did see the injustice, did not regard the issue important enough to even write or talk about it.

Keep in mind that the southern US states are a place where revisionism about the civil war, racial segregation, and the KKK were all a thing.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Union leaders remain fiercely defensive — about corruption in their ranks, allegations of brutality against inmates and about the need for punitive segregation to keep staff safe.

«When we talk about economic segregation, we have to get our priorities right as a government here in the city of Albany,» and also as the Democratic Party, he said.

I'm talking about high quality housing that's mixed income - which will help reduce segregation - that's humanly scaled on scattered sites, not concentrated in high - rises, is built in the suburbs as well as the cities, in all neighborhoods in the cities, and is green.»

«We screened about 6,000 specimens with random mutations in their DNA and then isolated the ones with defective nucleoid segregation.»

Rhinorex is the only complete hadrosaur fossil from the Neslen site, and it helps fill in some gaps about habitat segregation during the Late Cretaceous.

«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would reduce income segregation,» Owens said.

You just premiered White Water, a made - for - TV movie, set in the South in 1963, about color - coded water fountains during the days of Jim Crow segregation.

Released at the height of the African - American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country's awareness of racism while simultaneously serving to shame the South about its disgraceful legacy of lynching, oppression and discrimination.

While we've made considerable progress as a nation in the past century and a half to end the evils of slavery and segregation, we still have a long way to go to ensure that all of our nation's children are afforded the opportunity for an unfettered start and a fair chance that Lincoln talked about.

As a result, this simple correlation tells us nothing about whether charters increase segregation or just tend to locate in areas where the schools are already segregated.

Again, comparing the segregation in charter schools in a state, which are concentrated in heavily minority central cities, to that in traditional public schools throughout the state, reveals nothing about the reality of racial segregation in charter schools.

This week, Paul speaks to Gregorio Caetano and Vikram Maheshri about their paper, «Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation: 1988 - 2014.»

To give you an example, students don't learn about the systematic exclusion of African Americans from first - time homeowner loans, which created residential segregation and poverty in African American communities.

Orfield's ideas made some sense 40 years ago when he began writing about persistent segregation in the South.

Though Tacoma had only about 7,000 blacks — out of a total population of about 160,000 — our minority housing, like that in many cities, was concentrated in one area and served by schools then in violation of our state's de facto segregation rule.

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.

At the K - 12 level, most of the academic — and public — conversation about segregation speaks in terms of costs.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

«Residential mobility has brought about a high degree of racial segregation in education, as well as segregation by income... and it is the disadvantaged who are least able to select a school... that continues to function reasonably well.»

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatioIn recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatioin a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatioin some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatioin her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatioin a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West, associate editor of Education Next, talks with Steven Rivkin, a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about how school segregation has changed since the 1960s.

Congress was not about to outlaw racial segregation in 1954, for example, and plenty of prominent educators declared A Nation at Risk wrong in 1983.

A recent review of media articles about charter schools in just the past year found that: • Charter schools are increasing segregation and excluding children with the greatest need (research studies from NYU, Rutgers, Western Michigan University, media reports from Orlando, L.A., New Orleans).

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Jim Crow Laws Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Jim Crow which were state and locals laws used to enforce racial segregation in the southern states of the country [Southern United States].

Among the highlights was the panel on segregation with Hechinger's Emmanuel Felton, who wrote about school districts seceding in Jefferson County in Birmingham, AL. «We wanted to zoom in on where segregation was getting worse the most rapidly,» said Felton.

Yes, as he says in closing, «parents and policymakers might do a great deal to reverse the intensifying segregation of American public education simply by educating themselves about what test scores do and don't say about school quality... Questioning what they have long accepted, however, they might begin to create something different.»

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not speak about the difference between BAD segregation and OKAY segregation because no segregation should be allowed in the United States of America.

Because school segregation is as much a story of failed public policy as it is one of white / privileged families thwarting it, our hearts - and - minds campaign offers a new model for integration in which this undertaking falls not on the backs of marginalized communities, but on white and / or privileged families who care about equity.

Yesterday, the Center for American Progress and American Federation of Teachers fumbled the ball at their event yesterday attempting to misinform the public about the history of segregation in this country.

New Districts Reignite School Segregation Debate in Alabama wsj.com/articles/schoo… via @WSJ What 5 Michigan teachers said about their meeting with Betsy DeVos s.mlive.com/wgYv8yW From school to jail: How hundreds of -LSB-...]

The NCES said it conducted the report because of growing concerns about resegregation in the nation's public school system, and it hoped to shed more light on how segregation affects the achievement of minority students.

Weingarten's cynical attempt to flip the definition of segregation, which has always referred to systemic efforts to exclude minorities from schools, neighborhoods, and elsewhere, is particularly hypocritical in light of the Wall Street Journal's revelations about UFT Charter School.

But these privatization supporters speak about the virtues of charters while failing to address how they have increased segregation, sometimes cherry - picked students, taken funding away from underfunded traditional systems, and operated in secrecy.

Even cursory research about Chicago and Philadelphia will reveal widening achievement gaps, increased segregation, and other deteriorations either under Vallas» tenure, or under systems he put in place.

Anderson said she had real concerns about the segregation of those students, and that they would be better served in more integrated settings.

This is an argument that needs to be taken seriously — especially by certain leaders of charter schools who seem unconcerned about rising segregation in charters.

«So, everything in terms of the environment and safety and crime and things that are happening in the neighborhoods... thinking about economic development, the fact that we have very high poverty rates, very high segregation rates around race and class and so all of those things play a factor when you're talking about our lowest performing schools,» Driver says.

In earlier years, the vast majority of segregation — about 72 % — occurred between districts in the Richmond - Petersburg metro (e.g., between Richmond City and Henrico and Chesterfield countiesIn earlier years, the vast majority of segregation — about 72 % — occurred between districts in the Richmond - Petersburg metro (e.g., between Richmond City and Henrico and Chesterfield countiesin the Richmond - Petersburg metro (e.g., between Richmond City and Henrico and Chesterfield counties).

«Sweden, where the free schools idea came from, is expressing real concerns about segregation and divisiveness in the same way that concerns are being expressed about the charter schools in the US,» she said.