Sentences with phrase «across differences in class»

At the core of her practice, she looks to what it means to be human and how we identify with one another across differences in class, race, and circumstance.

Not exact matches

Our best evidence of the effects of laptop policy comes from a separate analysis that compares the exam scores of students assigned to the unrestricted - use and tablet - only classrooms to those of students in classes where laptops were banned, while adjusting for the minor differences in the backgrounds of students across groups and including controls for the instructor, the class hour, and the semester.

«Schools have a very big responsibility to teach their students to think in more sophisticated ways about social and political controversies, to talk across differences of culture, class, and ideology and to engage in conversation with others that might have very different viewpoints,» Bermudez says.

Across all the school - board and bond elections, the median difference in turnout rates between these teachers and ordinary citizens is just 7 percent, which could be simply due to social class.

That said, it seems clear that, as a nation, we have not done nearly enough to teach our children how to look across lines of race and class and see similarities rather than differences — to see themselves and their friends reflected in the faces of others rather than unknown and perhaps unknowable strangers.

They take the courage to step up across differences in race, class, gender, and neighborhood to support each other.

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.

At yesterday's Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation ceremony in Radcliffe Yard, speakers from the HGSE community challenged the graduating class of 2008 to change education and to find people to make a difference in teaching and learning across cities around the world.

Of particular note, is Jay D. Scribner's unique ability to reach across racial, class, and gender differences in his mentorship - nurturing scholars from under - represented backgrounds into a profession largely homogeneous in composition.

While the E-Class Coupe splits the difference in terms of price and exclusivity, engineers aimed higher than its station, bringing the long, muscular coupe closer to its S - Class sibling as it cossets its occupants and charges across continental divides.

Since taking that first Business Class flight I've flown up front a lot more frequently and experienced a wide array of Business Class products across a number of different airlines and I've started to notice a marked difference in my attitude.

Owens has gathered scores from 20 British artists, again from across generations, whose work considers ideas of race, class, difference, marginalisation, multiculturalism and Diaspora in the UK since the 1950s.

We've convened forums, educational events and work days — and brought people together across differences in race, class, language and sub-neighborhood.