Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore
the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.
Not exact matches
These seven innovators» actions and ideas aren't just improving the ways we do business; they also speak to
broader issues, including national security, gender bias, world
poverty and the state
of the startup community at large.
So the second set features three volumes — Conflict and Crisis, Rights and Justice, and
Poverty and Development — that roughly translate into peace, development and human rights, but that take a
broader view
of what these areas encompass, with
issues such as arms control, humanitarian assistance and transitional justice covered.
A top - down union that fails to address
broader problems rooted in class and racial inequality and whose capitulation on major
issues (as identified in planks 1 - 4
of this document) has had a disproportionately negative effect on communities
of color and those who live in
poverty.
Address the
issue of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) through
broad scale, multi-year programs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Bolivia — countries where the poor health
of women, newborns and children leads to millions
of preventable deaths and exacerbates global
poverty
Therefore the development
of policy mechanisms like REDD will involve thorny
issues like traditional land rights as well as
broader questions on how compensation will be structured and what measures will effectively conserve forests without driving more people into
poverty.
The substantial continuing health and social inequalities faced by Indigenous Australians are increasingly well recognised and documented.1 The
broad sociocultural influence on serious Indigenous health
issues, such as diabetes and rheumatic heart disease, is also well recognised;
poverty, lack
of cultural security and a paucity
of appropriate staff within health services for Indigenous people are evident contributors.2 - 4
At its
broadest, an address to the
issue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victimisation is related to a much
broader response to the systemic
issues that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities — an address to
poverty and overcrowding in communities is required, for example.