Sentences with phrase «concerns about the segregation»

Anderson said she had real concerns about the segregation of those students, and that they would be better served in more integrated settings.

«Sweden, where the free schools idea came from, is expressing real concerns about segregation and divisiveness in the same way that concerns are being expressed about the charter schools in the US,» she said.

The committee suggested, therefore, that we should «be at least as concerned about segregation by income as segregation by race.»

Not exact matches

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would reduce income segregation,» Owens said.

If we are truly concerned about limiting segregation, then this is where we should look to address the problem.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

I contacted Anna and expressed my concerns about these schools, not only taking money from our public schools, but also contributing to segregation.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

The NCES said it conducted the report because of growing concerns about resegregation in the nation's public school system, and it hoped to shed more light on how segregation affects the achievement of minority students.

But ethnic segregation is not the only kind of segregation about which concerns are raised.

They expressed concern about the dearth of evidence proving their effectiveness and deplore the resulting segregation they often produce.

Those complaints included concerns about «inadequate health care and sick inmates being housed in segregation cells while all four of the facility's medical units stood empty.»