Sentences with phrase «along lines of race»

Furthermore, although Delaney was accepted within New York's elite of black and white artists and intellectuals, he continued to feel marginalized along the lines of race, class, and sexuality.

Increased accountability and scrutiny for school districts across the county has put renewed focus on an old problem: the persistent achievement gap dividing students along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

At the Center for Educational Leadership we are dedicated to eliminating the achievement gap that continues to divide our nation's children along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

Part I explores how suspensions flow along the lines of race, gender, and disability status.

In contrast, the incredibly high numbers of students barred from school, often for the most minor infractions, defies common sense and reveals patterns of school exclusion along the lines of race and disability status that must be rejected by all members of the public school community.»

The nonprofit University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) is dedicated to eliminating the achievement gap that continues to divide our nation's children along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

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.

In 2006, Gloria Ladson - Billings, a leading education advocate, addressed the achievement gap at the American Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools).

Where residential and social separation along lines of race and class is tolerated, if not encouraged, our differences tend to spawn division and hostility, based on ignorance, prejudice, and stereotype.

Study Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.»

Yet despite these encouraging trends, substantial graduation - rate gaps along lines of race, income, and gender persist.

Divides along lines of race, class, religion and ideology are rampant and our basic ability to speak with, and to hear, those who differ from us seems to be getting weaker, not stronger.

The fact is that reforming urban schools is an issue of social justice: there are too many children in cities across the U.S. who are denied the opportunity to have a high - quality education, and these inequities run strongly along lines of race and class.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

Another problem the communities face is the challenge of transcending divisions along the lines of race and class.

Not exact matches

The Martin / Zimmerman verdict, which saw strong divisions of opinion mainly along racial lines, was perhaps the best example of why King's conversation about race still has a long way to go.

Although race was not a major category for Wesley, in a society that defined people's place along racial lines, he might well have agreed that those races who were oppressed had better access to the true meaning of scripture that those that oppressed them.

According to Dr. Ledwidge, the concept of «race neutrality» or «colour blindness» is «off the mark — what appears to be neutral is [actually] regressive and harmful because historical injustices have created such an unequal environment that initial material deficits [along racial lines] must be recognized before they are able to be dealt with.»

Along with those two, the DSCC said Sunday it planned to use similar lines of attack in Senate races in Florida, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.

While it might be crass, (and reduce all us voters to mindless drones incapable of formulating an opinion based on issues) if we look at this race through the assumption that people tend to vote along ethnic lines, then the largest voting bloc in Queens i.e.the Rockaways and Jamaica will vote for City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

Kelly has a sky - high approval rating, with 66 percent of those polled stating they like the job he's doing, though there is a clear divide along race lines, with 78 of white voters saying they approve, versus just 51 percent of black voters.

However, the further away we get from 9/11, the more difficult it is to accuse people of opportunism every time they mention the attacks (perhaps the best accusation along those lines came from Joe Biden during the 2008 presidential race... Remember: A noun, and a verb and 9/11?).

He was the main cheerleader of David Miliband, whose loss in the Labour leadership race threatened to split the party along fraternal lines.

The one - term mayor whose administration is marked by reform, revitalization, and controversy, ended Thursday night when upstart candidate Steve Noble took the party line by a wide margin, along with most of his supporters in the ward races.

Endorsements in the race have so far have been split along local and national lines, with Mr. Rangel racking up big - name national figures like former President Bill Clinton and Senator Chuck Schumer, and Mr. Espaillat locking down much of the city's prominent political establishment, including Comptroller Scott Stringer and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

He already has the support of a number of prominent black and Latino political, suggesting the race will not be easily decided along racial lines.

The standard science fiction version of what happens after we take control of our evolution usually runs along eugenic lines, leading toward efforts to build a master race.

Whether along lines of personality, nation, race, culture, gender, the fact of our diversity is the great earthly adventure, and it's what makes each one of us so special and unique!

Some of the common objectives of interracial dating raised by parents go along the lines of: people will look at you differently; I don't understand that race; your children could be treated differently, and so on.

If you think along the lines of the «Weequay» race that are seen in «Return of the Jedi» and then just add the CGI animated «Clone Wars» series characters lead by «Hondo» for an idea of lots of them in a gang.

Some of the isolated moments are very fine: a shot of the horse galloping into view along a distant line of Mediterranean beach; a tilting shot of the struggle for survival in the night waters as the ship (with decorous flames in its portholes) starts to go under in the background; great bursts of energy amid a garbled sense of time and space in the horse race sequence.

That is, the plot can be fitted on a box of matches with room to spare: in the future a car race is held in which the point isn't necessarily to be first at the finishing line, but to kill as many pedestrians as possible along the way.

S - Zero is a racing game along the lines of Wipeout and F - Zero, which allows you to race ghost versions of yourself on tracks in space.

As the recent case of Trayvon Martin divides the U.S. along race lines once again, the film puts audiences squarely in the shoes of a young black man caught between his potential and his past.

The trend of re-segregating schooling along race and class lines saw important reversals, and the over-the-top demonizing of teacher unions also began to be rejected by voters and thoughtful commentators.

School success maps strongly with traditional markers of privilege (by race, income, class, immigrant status, etc.) and school failure maps predictably along lines of poverty.

Even though most schools lack extensive, up - to - date technology, a Catalyst Chicago analysis of data from fall 2015 found that the disparities don't fall along the usual lines of race, class and community often seen in CPS.

But even if separate is not inherently unequal, it quite often results in inequalities, especially where separation occurs along lines of socioeconomic status, race and political power.

These schools were battlegrounds of integration since parents were split along race and class lines as they argue about the rezoning of their respective schools.

To haul the Scarabs from race to race in 1960, Reventlow commissioned a transporter from Bartoletti along the lines of the Fiat - based hauler they'd been building for Ferrari and Maserati.

Although it's unclear whether the Bronco's chops could really match those of the Jeep, a hardcore variant along the lines of the F - 150 Raptor could be developed to help boost its go - anywhere appeal and highlight its roots in off - road racing.

$ 100 Trackside Camping Area (46 spots): The spots are a slice of racing heaven along the No Name Straight trackside fence line, just before the Uphill.

Runners, walkers and dogs then turn around and come back west, turning in towards a finish line along the south edge of the race track.

In F - ZERO, you race at over 400 kilometers per hour along incredibly long straight lines, but we realized that splitting the screen into upper and lower portions for two players to do the same thing was out of the question.

EVERY racer seems to be road oriented (except that average looking one that also was supposed to be a launch title, as it seems to have both race styles), but apart from that half hearted looking attempt, NONE of the systems (Wii - U, PS4 or XBOne) have ANYTHING offroad race themed on the horizon... No ATV games, no bike racing games (dirt or road), no rally games, & no uniquely awesomely fun titles along the lines of what Motorstorm offered PS3 owners who love some redneck style racing....

Imagine six Grand Theft Auto III characters lined up and racing along a bob - sled looking futuristic track (that looks sort of like the tracks found in the PC game Dethkarz).

Blur is along the lines of an HD Mario Kart meets Project Gotham Racing.

Earn Kudos and gain recognition for cornering on two wheels around the Sears Tower in Chicago; power sliding through the ancient streets of Florence, Italy; or maneuvering along the racing line through the slick streets of Edinburgh, Scotland... all while racing some of the most exotic high - performance vehicles available.

We're excited to announce a line - up of four titles coming soon to mobile and tablet devices with Sonic & All - Stars Racing Transformed and a special, re-mastered release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 leading the charge, along with Demon Tribe — a new, unique multiplayer RPG led by renowned producer / director Masayoshi Kikuchi, and mystery solving timed to the beat in Rhythm Thief & the Paris Caper.

The show argues that Lewis used abstraction throughout his career, after initially working along social realist lines, commingling it with the figure to comment on political issues involving race and civil rights, and introducing history and narrative into a style that eschewed such content in favor of medium specificity.