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EXCLUSIVE: In an unprecedented move in its 71 - year history, the Cannes Film Festival is understood to be signing «concrete, strong commitments» around diversity on Monday.

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Even as Silicon Valley is being exposed for its dark sides — everything from its diversity shortcomings, to its focus on money, to scandals around sexual harassment, ageism and the cost of living — it's provided a playbook for growth and innovation for the rest of the world.

Second, with Slack being a relatively small company at around 370 employees, data on diversity at the company is bound to be volatile as the company grows.

CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

When Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the world, came out as gay on Thursday, it sent a pretty powerful message to business owners around the globe: Openness and inclusion of diversity are key drivers of innovation and productivity.

Consider, then: at a time when most of our peers are struggling, we're a prosperous society luring talent from around the globe and sitting on an unparalleled diversity of natural resources.

That project sees him travel around the world in 90 days in a four - seater plane piloted by his close friend, stopping in 22 countries along the way and making a documentary on global diversity.

Meanwhile, God - Is Rivera, director of inclusion and cultural resonance at VML, delivered a stark warning on diversity and inclusion, saying creatives have helped create a default narrative that revolves around Caucasian families.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.&raquOn wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.&raquon Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

Moving forward, Hornsey says Uber will work with outside diversity and inclusion experts «who have been working on these issues for longer than we've been around — and who are working to make change happen.»

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

That's what the data has shown and we believe having diversity around the table really has an impact on the bottom line.

The Vineyard is particular in that it contains a fair bit of diversity, but we rally around a common set of values (those are readily available on any or our national websites — if you are really interested).

Civilization has moved on to being more progressive and caring — its time this kid's religion and his family do the same Or at least stay out of organized sports and other public events if you can't handle being around diversity.

A California native, Christina grew up in a culture that placed emphasis on dishes created around a diversity of fruits and vegetables with a wide variety of flavors.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Perhaps they don't like the way diversity puts burdens on their worklife in the form of regulations around disability access, harassment, health and safety.

ALBANY — The state Legislature appointed three new members to the Board of Regents on Tuesday, increasing the diversity of the policymaking board, and suggesting tensions around education policy may have eased around the Capitol.

He talks a good game on diversity, but it is not evident by the people he puts around him or the policies he adopts.

RIDE ON Mongolian horses (shown) and other present - day horse breeds have less genetic diversity than domesticated horses did around 2,000 years ago.

Since 2013, exploration and survey of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Mona Island — has revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in darkzone chambers far from cave entrances.

By the beginning of the period, dinosaurs had been around for more than 85 million years, but some researchers have suggested that the spread of flowers sparked a surge in dinosaur diversity, with many new species evolving to feast on the green bounty — or to devour the plant - eaters.

Moving species around the world may increase local diversity, but it doesn't increase the overall number of species on the planet; that number only goes down.

In the Lyme disease system, the researchers got around this confounding factor by looking at diversity in the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE protein.

Exploration and surveys of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Puerto Rico's Mona Island — revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in dark zone chambers far from cave entrances.

Around the same time, Shahid Naeem, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability in New York City, was also looking beyond species numbers to study ecosystem function, zeroing in on the diversity of species at different levels of the food web.

Disclosed emails revealed that a covert coalition lobbying for relaxed regulations around a genetic extinction technology, with help from a well - funded public relations firm, Emerging Ag, was attempting to game the system and manipulate the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

We're hoping to capitalize on the diversity of research and researchers that currently exists around UNLV.

As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»

In the first continent - wide study of the effects of fire on bird and mammal diversity in the African savanna environment, researchers have found that increasing «pyrodiversity» boosts the variety of species of mammals by around 20 percent and of birds by 30 percent in savannas with high rainfall.

Moreover, it contains 10 probiotic strains, which is tied for highest on this list and will give your gut flora some great diversity and create an all - around great intestinal environment.

I think it is more a consequence of very little exposure to ethnic diversity... Black women just aren't on their radar because they aren't any around.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

I do appreciate the diversity on display in this quartet, taking us around the world and illustrating very different styles of genre filmmaking.

Based on both research that examined cultural diversity as well as practitioner experience, the cases are framed around family engagement work in underserved communities.

«Hailing from across the country and around the globe, this cohort brings a spirit of investigation and an intellectual diversity that will resonate strongly with all of us here on Appian Way.»

Through group work, they learn that there's a diversity of valid perspectives, build comfort around using their own voices, and understand the value of accepting and building on the contributions of others.

He started hosting sessions in living rooms around New Orleans, and learned that the two things parents most wanted in a school were socioeconomic and ethnic diversity and a focus on creative thinking.

Teaching Students to «Go Fourth» Peacefully Go Fourth, an anti-bullying program based on classroom discussions and exchanges among children around the globe, recently brought teachers, parents, and fourth grade students from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, school to Shaoguan, Guandong province, China, on a mission to promote respect for cultural diversity.

A recent Wall Street Journal article written by a high school student rejected from her top - choice colleges asked a controversial question that admissions officers have skirted around for years: If college admissions focus so much on diversity, are non-diverse students unfairly shunted to the side?

Also, teachers in higher - diversity schools report that teachers «leadership focused on collective responsibility for student learning is lower than that found in lowdiversity schools, and, again, that teachers in low - diversity schools are less likely to share norms around teaching and instruction.

We are indebted to the 26 members of our advisory panel who infused this process with compelling insights and fresh perspectives based on decades of experience leading organizations and modeling excellent practices around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

If cultivated and nurtured, on the other hand, diversity can be a source of inspiration, understanding, and friendship, as superficial differences like skin color or ethnic background fade in light of stronger bonds forged around similar interests and common hopes for the future.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

The event, sponsored by the National School Boards Association (NSBA), National Council of American Indian / Alaska Native School Board (AIAN), Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE), National Black Council (NBC), and National Hispanic Council (NHC), is focusing on building the capacity, knowledge, and skills of school board members around issues of access, equity, and diversity in public education.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

Most research around teacher diversity has focused on specific populations such as black men or Hispanic teachers or has looked at areas like Texas, California with long traditions of immigration.

Key findings from the sixth edition released in 2017 reveal what parents and kids want in books and characters — including views on diversity in children's books, and reading from birth, kids» attitudes and behaviors around reading for fun, summer reading and kids» favorite books and series.

The Guardian UK recently reported that diversity is a trend in publishing for 2018, so today, I have an interview with Alex Anders on how to write diverse characters without cultural appropriation or stereotyping, as well as boundaries around language and an interesting discussion on gender fluidity.