Sentences with phrase «as economic segregation»

Through an examination of the history of Chocolate Cities, and an interrogation of current challenges such as economic segregation and gentrification as a form of cultural castration, this exhibition will open up a discourse on historical legacy as well as methods of sustainability in the face of a rapidly changing cultural and economic landscape.

Not exact matches

He does not ignore political and economic developments, but he pays special attention to social issues, including, as he says in his preface, «the transformation of gender relations, the regeneration of the home, the disciplining of leisure and pleasure, and the establishment of segregation.»

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

«When we talk about economic segregation, we have to get our priorities right as a government here in the city of Albany,» and also as the Democratic Party, he said.

Polls have consistently revealed that the vast majority of the public — as many as 73 % — oppose religious selection of any kind in state - funded schools, and research has found time and time again that religiously selective schools worsen religious, ethnic, and socio - economic segregation in their local areas.

Assuming that racial / ethnic minorities have fewer economic resources than white families, de facto segregation as already exists may become even worse.

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

I also agree with his points about the different normative salience of economic as opposed to racial segregation, the importance of policy with respect to economic (and racial) segregation, and the growth generally (though variably) of both kinds of segregation.

Since economic segregation closely mirrors racial segregation, integrating schools by income will help create racial and ethnic diversity as well, and this form of diversity produces numerous benefits.

In other words, promoting school choice as the solution is a distraction from the basic fact that parent income, along with interrelated racial and economic segregation, remain powerful determinants in the quality of education a child receives.

As test scores correlate best with class status, this intensifies economic segregation.

As the department has stated publicly, «many schools and communities continue to suffer the effects of racial segregation, and that many of our nation's largest school districts remain starkly segregated along racial and economic lines.»

Middle - class schools are 22 times as likely to be high performing as high - poverty schools, in part because disadvantaged students face extra obstacles, but in part because economic segregation has an independent, negative effect on student achievement.

Revise policies that further marginalize students, such as those that result in the under - enrollment of students of color in high - level classes or assign students to schools in ways that result in racial and economic segregation.

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

In his landmark 1966 report «Equality of Educational Opportunity,» sociologist James S. Coleman suggested that socio - economic segregation of schools contributed to variation in learning but that factors such as facilities and spending mattered little.

Yet, as the report goes on to note, these state officials, those with the express obligation to reduce segregation, have consistently chosen to do nothing to prevent charter school segregation and its effects, including exacerbating racial, ethnic and economic imbalance in the host school districts.

After all, even as segregation academies were operating in the South, staffers in Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity were suggesting that voluntary vouchers would be a better tool than forced busing to pursue desegregation.

That economic diversity is a core value of the school, Densen told Gambit in December in a broad article about the 4.0 Schools project, as he seeks to create a learning environment inclusive of all income levels that bridges the gap between New Orleans» often rigid segregation between tuition - based private schools and impoverished public schools.

The conversations were always passionate and touched on subjects as varied as equity, segregation, gentrification, race, economic opportunities, workforce development, and of course, the advantages of bilingualism and dual language education.

The gallery's exhibition presents a selection of images from «Segregation Story,» his evocative series which it describes as «an intimate portrayal of one family's perseverance through racial and economic subjugation.»