Sentences with phrase «about the inequity of»

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.

EW: A few weeks ago, a New York judge issued a ruling about the inequity of the education - funding system.

Let's hope that by the time the next survey comes out, authors will have wised up about the inequity of traditional publishing.

Recent responses have come from Jerry Saltz, who has ranted in numerous articles about the inequity of women in the arts, artnet News, which has run several stories that have brought gender imbalance in culture into mainstream dialogue, and in March, shortly after launching the lauded Women, Arts and Social Change exhibition, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC) launched # 5womenartists, a month - long invitation to post information about women artists, past and living, in a communal effort to trumpet them across social media; participants included the Guggenheim and the New Museum in New York, and the Los Angeles Country Museum in LA.

Some Indians are appalled talking about the inequity of, for example, electricity consumers in the U.S. not wanting to pay $ 100 - $ 200 a year in higher energy bills under a climate policy.

For instance, the New York Times ran a story on November 16 entitled: Growing Clamor About Inequities of Climate Crisis.

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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.

When employees are armed with data about their pay and the pay of their coworkers, it provides the opportunity to bring inequities to the attention of management.

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

So today I'm thrilled to share a conversation with Nicole Baker Fulgham about Christians and the important issue of education inequity.

Today, we are more critical about the causes of the inequities that we experience.

Finally the assembly agreed on a number of guidelines for a new information order, including: the elimination of the imbalances and inequities brought on by media monopolies; a «better balanced dissemination of information and ideas»; freedom of the press and of information; and respect for each people's cultural identity and its right to inform the world about its «interests, aspirations and social and cultural values.

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.

Count me among the skeptics about that claim, both a skeptic about whether such inequalities reflect real inequities and a skeptic about whether the vast majority of women anguish over this issue.

Clearly then, we need to think about how we might address this issue of inequity: to develop the role of Deputy Prime Minister so that it can be more fulfilling, raising public awareness and recognition of the social utility of what they do, promoting the holder's sense of self - worth, and harnessing their full creative potential...

Only then does Corbyn have a chance to deliver his real message about the impact of changes to tax credits, the impact of austerity measures, the inequity of the housing market and how there is an alternative economic strategy.»

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.

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

Not only is this unfair, but the inequity that comes about because of the division between safe seats and marginal seats also has a corrosive effect on democracy.

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.

It is a systemic problem about the abuse of power that takes place across all industries and has enabled a culture of inequity to persist for far too long.»

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.

«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.

Rather, it's a celebration of childhood, its innocence and unawareness or uncaring about such sociological inequities.

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 %.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

These are facts I thought a task force charged with exploring the inequities of America's education system would be encouraged by, serving as an indication that the students the NAACP cares about most are being well - educated by the kind of schools the organization is so opposed to — they called for a moratorium on new charters last summer.I waited to speak for three hours before I had to leave.

It's become a catch - all phrase to broadly describe educational inequity, a problem which is not simply about academic achievement but also about the development of character strengths and personal identity and access to opportunities and so much more.

And yet, the groupthink consensus that the business of education is «closing achievement gaps» has made it tough to talk honestly about the costs — for fear of being branded a racist or thought unconcerned with inequities.

State policy makers and education agencies need to be more responsive to legitimate district concerns about unforeseen inequities arising from the implementation of well - intended government policies.

As a native of Utah, he spent much time exploring Idaho and is passionate about addressing educational inequity in rural communities in the state.

Mark enjoyed the diversity of backgrounds and experiences from other fellows within Education Pioneers who provided him with critical insight about how different stakeholders view both the challenges and solutions to educational inequity and access.

The study, conducted by CALDER director and University of Washington professor Dan Goldhaber, synthesizes two separate research topics: the influence of teacher quality on student achievement, and the inequities in access Read more about Disadvantaged Kids Need Equal Access to Great Teachers -LSB-...]

Objections range from the basic «it's too long» and «it's too stressful» side of the spectrum to weightier concerns about teachers being forced to teach to the test, racial and socioeconomic inequities, and private corporations taking over schools that, according to test results, are failing.

We believe a meaningful life is one in which people engage in critical reflection about issues of societal importance, especially those related to combatting intolerance, inequity, and injustice in all their forms.

While those of us working in the education field may be well aware of the lingering inequities in the education system — and how they are revealed through student performance — the greater public is often misinformed about how and why achievement gaps persist.

In the 1960s and 1970s, as financial inequities among districts became more pronounced and intolerable, many people began suing states to bring about a fairer system of allocating funds.