Sentences with phrase «deeper social inequities»

Black - white differences in life expectancy are a longstanding source of public health concern in the United States, and are considered indicative of deeper social inequities in society.

Not exact matches

We must not abandon integration as a goal, but it is utopian to believe that schools alone can close an achievement gap that is the result of deeper economic and social inequities.

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.

This exhibition of some thirty artists — Renée Greene, Senga Nengudi, Adrian Piper, and Nari Ward among them — explores the ways Conceptualism has been recast to reflect and subvert deep - set social inequities.

Addressing the climate crisis, and the social inequity that is both a cause and a symptom of this great threat, will require deep cuts in climate pollution as well as large troves of money.