Sentences with phrase «at economic mobility»

«A college degree is necessary for any chance at economic mobility and the Excelsior scholarships will help ensure that 200,000 middle and working class kids have a shot at a higher education without the anchor of debt weighing them down,» Lever said.

Not exact matches

Boyd's five decades of strategic counsel and expert advice to corporate decision - makers, the investment and real estate communities, political leaders, economic development professionals and leading media outlets put it at the epi - center of the corporate mobility marketplace.

In fact, a closer look at Smiths career shows that he has made a healthy living off playing characters who battle things that do nt exist including Space Aliens, zombies, space aliens, his own sons acting abilties, iRobots, space aliens again, racism in golf, and the unrealistic expectations of upward economic mobility.

Also at 6:30 p.m., the National Action Network and Spectrum convene a special discussion on technology for economic mobility and social change featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton, state Sen. Brian Benjamin and business leaders, National Action Network's House of Justice, 106 W. 145th St., Manhattan.

At a campaign event in Thornden Park in Syracuse, Kingson promised to focus the election on «the principles of dignity, economic security and mobility, fairness and accountability.»

«Once we consider how important schools are to American ideas about economic opportunity and upward mobility, we can better understand why school settings are revealed in our research as focal points of violent responses to increased unemployment,» said Hagan, who also is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation.

To give every child a real chance at the social freedom and economic mobility promised by the American dream, schools have to partner with their communities.

On the contrary: the industrial age model of education was an unqualified success, generating more (though not equitable) access to upward economic and social mobility for more people in more parts of the globe than at any time in human history.

• Private colleges serve a similar proportion of low - income students as public colleges, and low - income students have higher economic mobility rates at private colleges (although this may be due to their greater selectivity).

The trend has been driven both by «the realization that economic mobility is predicated on some postsecondary credential» and «widespread statistics showing low - income students... not succeeding in postsecondary pathways,» says Mandy Savitz - Romer, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Mass..

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

In 2013, she became the senior writer at Opportunity Nation, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding economic mobility and bridging America's widening opportunity gap.

She will speak at a session on Friday, November 3, at 3:15 pm entitled, Education and Economic Mobility: What Have We Learned?

Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic payoffs.

In fact, more than at any point in American history, economic and social mobility depends upon having higher - order skills.

It comes as the US economy has greater economic inequality than many developing nations (including India, China, and Iran), joblessness is on the rise, and social mobility is nearly at an all - time low.

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The event, «The Road Out of Poverty: A Transportation & Economic Mobility Symposium,» will be held at the Michigan League on Thursday March 15 from 1 - 5 PM.