Sentences with phrase «academic diversity»

In fact, the challenge of addressing academic diversity in today's complex classrooms is as important and difficult a challenge as we have before us.

What they are not willing to do is go to schools with academic diversity.

Parents are willing to go to schools with racial diversity and socioeconomic diversity, just not academic diversity.

Professor, Chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations and Policy, and Co-director of the Institutes on Academic Diversity at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia.

Harvard University President Lawrence Summers told a gathering of academic diversity experts last January that he wanted to make «some attempts at provocation.»

I attended the conference because I was researching the concept of «intersectionality» as part of a year - long fellowship to study academic diversity.

Still, achievement gaps being what they are, the range of academic diversity does tend to be larger at schools with lots of racial and social diversity.)

She is co-director of the university's Summer Institute on Academic Diversity and Best Practices Institute.

NYC school officials call it «academic diversity,» but a well - meaning plan to equalize access to good schools has sparked an ugly racial debate that pits white, affluent parents against poor blacks and Latinos.

The big challenge is academic diversity: Students are coming into school with vastly different levels of academic preparation.

Today, as Co-Director of the University of Virginia Summer Institute on Academic Diversity, she works with an international community of educators committed to academically responsive classrooms.

James Picton, the pastor of St. Madeleine Sophie wanted to create a school that was open to economic, ethnic, and academic diversity.

The last chapter in the book presents a final challenge for educational leaders as they provide guidance and support for developing a growing number of classrooms capable of addressing the academic diversity that typifies today's schools and will typify schools in the years ahead.

Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, where she is also co-director of the University's Institutes on Academic Diversity.

More recently, she has been a faculty member at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, where she is currently professor of educational leadership, foundations, and policy, and codirector of the university's Summer Institute on Academic Diversity and Best Practices Institutes, and where she was named Outstanding Professor in 2004.

With a background of cultural and academic diversity, Gildo Medina's work is inspired by a variety of artistic influences.