Sentences with phrase «correcting inequities»

In the years since people first began talking about the achievement gap, Ferguson has widened his scope of inquiry, developing a broad vision for correcting inequities that centers less on the differences between groups and more on raising the bar for all students.

«As the percentage of the elderly grows, I fear the pressure will grow to create even more of these sorts of discounts, making it more and more difficult to correct this inequity.»

«This is not a financial issue, it is a very clear issue of right and wrong and failing to correct this inequity for officers is morally wrong.»

It's the million - dollar question in schools across the country: What are the most effective ways to correct inequities that persist in our schools?

In the lead up to this hard fought for progress, Planned Parenthood worked with women's health and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer supporters in Congress and across the country to support the Peace Corps Equity Act, a bill that would correct this inequity and ensure fair treatment for Peace Corps Volunteers.

Instead, MFTs are simply trying to correct an inequity that restricts beneficiaries» access to a particular type of qualified mental health provider.

I suggest organized real estate (I mean CREA, which takes our money for dues every year) make a change and correct this inequity.

Not exact matches

A final consideration is that the imbalances and inequities which are a characteristic of the global economy can not be corrected by unilateral actions but requires a concerted effort.

You have a desire, no, a need, to help banish this inequity and will strive to correct this situation.

Under current law, however, students at proprietary colleges aren't eligible for Enhanced Tuition Awards, a clear inequity that needs to be corrected,» Pichardo said.

«The governor believes that his reform package is a balanced approach that would correct real and perceived inequities that exist within the system and he is intent on passing them in the remaining weeks of the legislative session,» Cuomo counsel Alphonso David said, following the governor's meeting with the families in his second floor office in the Capitol.

The state's Business Council praises parts of the bill, saying the lowering of the corporate tax rate «corrects years of inequity» and puts the nation on a «more equal footing» with the rest of the world.

Correcting the problems and inequities that bedevil postdocs will require «changing the culture» of labs and universities across the country

NSF Workshop on the Postdoc Experience Calls for «Culture Change» 3 December 2004 Correcting the problems and inequities that bedevil postdocs will require «changing the culture» of labs and universities across the country.

The methods used to correct market failure include: • Indirect Taxation • Subsidies • Government expenditure / state provision • Buffer stock control • Price controls • Legislation and regulation • Information provision • Competition policy • Public - private partnerships • Tradeable pollution permits These methods are used to correct the following types of market failure: • Negative consumption externalities • Positive consumption externalities • Negative production externalities • Positive production externalities • Merit goods • Demerit goods • Public goods • Information failure • Inequity

To be truly effective, efforts to ensure equity in IDEA by Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and education scholars require a correct empirical understanding of the types of inequities currently being experienced by minority schoolchildren.

Join John B. Diamond, author of the 2015 book Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools, and Ari Gerzon - Kessler, principal of Monaco Elementary in Colorado, who is using data to identify and correct longterm inequities in his school.

«A major reason why I'm running for state school superintendent is to correct some of these policies of inequity that I've seen — and continue to see — in the highest poverty neighborhoods that just don't make sense.»

Many of these skills are hard to teach: Great principals need excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to lead staff in identifying inequities and the root cause beneath them, then developing and implementing strategies to correct them.

These inequities must be corrected so that pupils generate the same level of funding regardless of the public school they attend.