Sentences with phrase «children about the inequities»

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Once on the ground and in the classroom, the TFA experience opened the eyes of many HGSE students about the drastic inequities among children in the United States.

Second, I want to raise awareness about the inequities in our public education system, and the unconscionable achievement gap between children from low - income and high - income communities that has developed as a result of these inequities.

Through active participation at my child's school, I learned about the inequities between charter and district schools in New York.

I have also seen firsthand how difficult being a child in America can be, and how abstract policies affect my kids in very real, sometimes painful, ways: how food insecurity can drive families to our school's monthly food shelf, how incarceration inequity has many of my students writing personal narratives about visiting fathers and uncles in prison, how immigration laws left one of my students trying to hide his tears over his mother's possible deportation.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

When families know about educational inequity, they are better equipped to advocate for their children.

Over half of America's school children are now poor; more of our children are members of ethnic and racial minority groups, there is deepening concern about the future of children of color; and inequities in our society are more apparent than ever.

As I learn more about our public school system, I see inequities that prevent all children from reaching their full potential.

So the movement we're talking about, the unnamed movement of environmental social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to address the salient issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation of our resource bases, the injustice of pollution itself, in terms of what it does to people's health and their children.