Sentences with phrase «address opportunity gaps»

To eliminate the educational achievement gap, we must address opportunity gaps that persist for children and youth of diverse backgrounds.

Crater Renaissance Academy (CRA) in Central Point, Ore., also illustrates how a school can address opportunity gaps in both course access and school culture.

The first of these stores is set to open in early 2017 in Baltimore, MD, where Starbucks has been working with local community, civic and business leaders with the collective goal of addressing the opportunity gap facing the city's young men and women.

Faculty interests and experiences encompass ensuring equity of access to quality literacy instruction, especially in urban schools, addressing the opportunity gap, promoting effective data - driven school - wide literacy programs, and developing sustainable school - based professional development.

The perspective of women leaders is critical when focusing on the most direct ways to address the opportunity gap.

At a time when economic, social and educational inequities have contributed to a widening achievement gap across the nation, Community Schools have emerged as a promising strategy for addressing this opportunity gap and promoting success for all students, in school and in life.

To address the opportunity gap, our society must rethink its view of teaching and the work teachers do.

My last three posts have addressed the opportunity gap and student engagement in schools.

And we can finally begin addressing these opportunity gaps.

Addressing the opportunity gap has to become a federal domestic priority.

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The My Brother's Keeper initiative was launched to address persistent opportunity gaps as part of ensuring that all young people can achieve their full potential.

In 2014, Shelton was tasked with setting up My Brother's Keeper, a corporate - and foundation - backed initiative launched by President Obama to address the «opportunity gaps» and «achievement gaps» faced in particular by boys and young men of color.

The inbound strategy continues to evolve and now includes a focus on addressing content gaps, competitive opportunities, and business expansion plans.

As part of its commitment to a build a more diverse workplace and address a gender gap within key sectors of the financial services industry, Fidelity has launched its Summit for Young Women, a day - long event designed to open students» minds to the wide range of career opportunities that exist within financial services, years before they are ready to begin their professional lives.

«There is a tremendous opportunity for financial professionals to bridge this education gap about permanent life insurance, particularly for financial professionals who are just beginning to embrace a holistic planning model that addresses all aspects of their client's financial life,» said Jason Wellmann, senior vice president of Life Insurance Sales for Allianz Life.

This broader time horizon provides greater opportunities to review and assess conditions and their impacts, identify and address knowledge gaps and determine how best to adapt activities to deliver better outcomes.

My Brother's Keeper refers to President Obama's initiative, launched in 2014, to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color.

The Roadmap is a series of initiatives designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH institute could tackle alone, but which the agency as a whole can address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research.

Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that the agency as a whole should address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research.

Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH institute could tackle alone, but that the agency as a whole can address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research.

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

So it's clear to me that to have any chance of addressing the UK's current STEM skills gap, we have to do everything we can to engage young people in that window of opportunity when it's so key to raise their aspirations and make them feel confident about the future.

They should then create a plan to build on strengths and address gaps or opportunities.

However, I have a strong belief that the future to addressing the skills gap is to offer more opportunities for people to enter the industry.

These programs address an urgent challenge or priority — from narrowing achievement gaps and postsecondary success to modeling courageous conversations and leading inclusive schools — and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

My Brother's Keeper is a national initiative that addresses persistent opportunity gaps faced by young men of color.

«We're on the cusp of a movement to address education opportunity gaps.

For all the talk about the achievement gap, lawmakers haven't spent near enough time addressing the «opportunity gap.»

We believe this could be an opportunity for positive change as long as adequacy and equity are central tenets to address the chronic and growing divide between urban / rural, wealthy and poorer school systems and their related student achievement gaps.

The report also describes the need to address «white - washed» teaching of our history of oppression, and the importance of building a common understanding of how we have historically created opportunity gaps.

Turnaround Arts, a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, empowers struggling schools with innovative arts, dance, theater, and music programs, arts integration across subject areas, arts resources, musical instruments, and high - profile artist mentors as a proven strategy to help address broader school challenges and close the opportunity gap.

Mapp, Harris, and Carla Thompson, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's V.P for Program Strategies, all discussed the opportunity gap, inspiring listeners to address equity, social justice, and race openly and honestly in their classrooms.

This issue will explore how educators can address the barriers that create opportunity gaps for students on the basis of their socioeconomic level, race, ethnicity, and gender.

We have a huge opportunity and moral imperative to better serve our most vulnerable students by addressing achievement gaps that fall along lines of race, income and learning abilities.

Among his responsibilities is the development of plans for narrowing opportunity gaps for students of color, and collaborating with district departments to analyze data and address areas of inequity.

«Utah's plan addresses how we are working to close achievement gaps through evidence - based instructional practices and providing equitable opportunities for improved outcomes.

Some have argued, and rightly so, that the persistent opportunity gap between low - income students and their wealthier peers should be addressed by extending learning opportunities to all students in high - poverty schools to ensure that they have access to a well - rounded education.

This framework recognizes that to truly close achievement gaps, our nation must address underlying «opportunity gaps» — the deep disparities that exist in access to quality educational resources, particularly for low - income students and students of color.

The opportunity gap is a major issue that must be addressed if we hope to close the achievement gap.

To address these gaps, a coordinated system of programs and services needs to be crafted so that every child has access to preschool, expanded learning, summer, and work - based opportunities that enrich them as learners and help them build the important skills, networks, and social capital that will serve them in the future.

This certification provides opportunities for additional resources, supports and funding to help schools address gaps in arts learning, build more robust arts programs, and accomplish the goal of every CPS child in every CPS school having access to a high - quality arts education.

Other community school initiatives also have taken up the call of My Brother's Keeper — to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color so all young people can reach their full potential.

In response to what was lacking, I focused on planning strong mini-lessons addressing this gap, and also used the time I met with them in book clubs as an opportunity to strategically follow up on their specific need.

To address the achievement gap, we'll expand afterschool and summer leaming opportunities.

The OTL Network also provides a whole - child framework for understanding the many «opportunity gaps» or disparities that exist in the public education system, from early education to school funding to school discipline, and which must be addressed in order to close persistent achievement gaps between students of different backgrounds.

Applicants should provide evidence that their approaches address environmental circumstances such as local achievement gaps, the brief said, and charter authorizers should factor «equal educational opportunity» concerns into renewal standards.

We will never close the achievement gap until we close the opportunity gap... While giving considerable lip service to the plight of poor children and children of color, we have not backed - up our rhetoric with our actions... The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (of which NCLB and ESSA are the latest versions) has always been intended to address these disparities, but it has never been adequately funded.»

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All things considered, an acquisition would simply be empire building... And with Rasmala trading for a mere 28p on the pound, its own shares are the best value - enhancing acquisition opportunity available... the board needs to live up to its responsibilities here & seek to address such a huge value gap, by exercising the recently approved buyback authorisation as soon as possible & by also proposing another tender offer (the balance sheet clearly has the liquidity to fund it).

Focusing on relationships with similar and dissimilar partners reveals opportunities for Operation Kindness to promote successful ventures and to provide services to address remaining gap.