Sentences with phrase «by race and class»

Even something as seemingly neutral as breathing is actually mediated by race and class.

But as we celebrate all those things on Earth Day, we can also ask, is the movement getting its priorities right and is it inadvertently segregated by race and class?

But the 1920's HISD school board worked closely with the city's planning commission, which believed that separating neighborhoods by race and class would protect real estate investments.

From a variety of perspectives, our panelists will examine the state of segregation by race and class in America's schools, and the promising initiatives and practices that are emerging in the renewed movement to integrate America's schools.

Her dissertation, publications, and presentations capture how family involvement often leads to an uneven playing field for students in higher education and how that process varies by race and class.

We intend to actively fight against resegregation of schools by race and class in North Carolina.

While it is absolutely true that educational opportunity, like economic opportunity, is unequally distributed by race and class, the solutions for that are not going to be found by rigging cut scores but rather by substantially addressing something education reformers today generally discount: inequitable and inadequate school funding.

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation's public schools is getting worse, not better.

Shanker believed having separate schools by race and class was inherently undemocratic, and he and some other early charter school backers saw charters as a way of breaking down segregation.

The Obama administration's initiative to tighten oversight of public - school disciplinary practices by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, based on racially disparate effects of standard penalties (such as suspensions) as well as hard - to - assess accusations that minority students are being treated more harshly for similar infractions, has put additional pressure on integrated schools to equalize rates of disciplinary sanctions by race and class.

Describing the school from a self - consciously progressive point of view, the authors toggle between accusations that the school's disparities by race and class are delusory figments of distorted thinking, or that, although objectively real, they are the products of structural racism, class privilege, parental selfishness, and discrimination.

Over a decade after the Court's ruling, Hartford - area schools remain divided by race and class.

They're among a small but growing number of young adults who think it's nothing less than bizarre to live in an incredibly diverse city — yet see many of their children's schools almost entirely segregated by race and class.

There are two ways to integrate schools: through public school choice that overcomes neighborhood segregation by race and class; and through housing integration that makes neighborhood schools integrated institutions.

This usually occurs through a variety of loopholes (some schools maintaining neighborhood, sibling, or other preferential treatment), lack of equal access in the stratification by race and class in terms of access to higher performing schools.»

Oakland and Emeryville showed very strong gains in student achievement, especially in elementary schools, but there was still a long way to go to achieve equity and remove the predictability of student outcomes by race and class.

From late night segments to trending podcasts, the media have given renewed attention to the fact that America's schools are still deeply segregated by race and class.

To further strengthen democracy as well as promote equity and overall achievement, government and education systems should be accountable for promoting, expanding and strengthening schooling that is integrated by race and class.

Policies that promote school integration by race and class took a significant hit last week when the U.S. Department of Education announced that it was killing a small but important federal program to support local diversity efforts.

The challenge is to rebuild the city in a way that overcomes the old barriers posed by race and class.

I grew up in Baltimore, which is a city that is as divided as any I know by race and class.

I would want to address the growing segregation of public schools by race and class.

By and large, the state - level testing not only failed to report results disaggregated by race and class but often wasn't even administered to low performing students.

If you want to improve the schools, I mean, this is something we know since Brown v. Board of Education — where you have desegregation by race and class.

«We must desegregate our schools by race and class and provide every student access to a gifted - quality education.»

With higher rents for higher - income residents, these projects will be self - sustaining and contribute to desegregating New York's metropolitan areas, which are among the most segregated cities in the nation by race and class,» Hawkins said.

New York's metropolitan areas are among the nation's most segregated cities by race and class.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

«Real education reform requires broader social reform to end poverty concentrated in disadvantaged communities by race and class segregation,» Hawkins said.

The most important single thing Syracuse city government can do to reduce poverty is to enact policies that de-concentrate poverty by desegregating our community by race and class in schooling, residence, and employment.

«The roots of low achievement for some schools and students lie in concentrated poverty, segregation by race and class, and underfunding,» Hawkins said.

We have the most segregation by both race and class in housing and schools.

«The result has been a steadily growing increase in segregation of housing and schools by both race and class since the 1960s in New York.

Moreover, housing segregation in New York's metropolitan regions is among the highest in the nation by race and class.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

Something similar might again be possible in the U.S. if those who are divided by race and class begin to talk about their problems in concrete terms at the local level.

Words like rigor, choice, ability, diversity and intelligence are exposed as codes that legitimate «more invidious ways of sorting by race and class.»

We both wept that the church continues to be sharply divided by race and class, political party and wedge issues, and not united by the blood of Jesus.

What kind of witness could we be to our communities, as fragmented as they are by race and class and economics and politics, if the very makeup of our congregations signaled the «manifold wisdom of God» (Eph.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

Not exact matches

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

Its proponents claim that the tradition is dominated by patriarchy and exclusion, the product of oppressive forces linked to geographical location, social class, race, and gender.

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

Since its origins, many white feminists have taken seriously the critiques of race and class initially raised by womanist theologians.

It is a commitment of men and women to the supremely worshipful reality called God, as this reality is believed to disclose itself to us, but it is not an individualistic commitment, since it demands full participation, to a greater or lesser degree, in a corporate experience conveyed through the ages by a community of men and women drawn from the most varied backgrounds and races, classes, nations, and cultures.

How has it been influenced by the media and how does it reflect our view of social relationships (race, gender, class)?

Courtois argued that in addition to the sheer numbers of dead — and the death toll of those killed by Communists far exceeds those murdered by the Nazis — a similarity exists between the «class genocide» preached by Lenin and Stalin and the «race genocide» of Hitler.

At the Lord's Table people of all classes and races are welcome — surely a model of coexistence that is by no means common in the human city.