Sentences with phrase «educational equality for»

We strongly encourage the General Assembly to take up this idea again in 2016, with an eye toward educational equality for all Kentucky students.

In addition to supporting racial equality in schools, Brown gave rise to numerous social movements seeking educational equality for students across all lines of difference, including gender and sexual orientation, religion, language, physical handicaps, immigration status, and socioeconomic level.

Minow highlights Brown's strength as a beacon in the struggle for educational equality for every type of student, not just in the United States, but also abroad.

Not exact matches

In a field of philanthropies and educational institutions that profess to value inclusion and equality, innovative people and ideas, the data suggest emotional behavior by people who are making decisions to hire only people who look like themselves or whom they've known for a long time.

Local Unit Lead for NAACP in Northern California with a mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race - based discrimination.

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Franke, like «S,» acknowledges that marriage constrains freedom; she, too, questions why the right to marry — versus issues like employment and educational opportunities or political participation — has been seen as the only way to gain equality and dignity for both groups.

A private, non-profit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity, and assure continued citizen support for public education.

I am fighting for true equality for all; for equal pay and fair treatment at work, expanded voting rights, educational equity, criminal justice reform, freedom from gun violence in our schools and on our streets, and health care for all Americans.

Reformers like the eighteenth century Mary Wollstonecraft acted in a period where little progress had been made towards educational equality, and the reality for women who block marriage laws were essentially property rights and everything a woman owned belonged to her husband.

John B. King acknowledges the tremendous progress in racial equality over the last 50 years and further encourages the fight for educational equality.

However, access to educational opportunities remains a significant contributor to gaps in equality and equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as observed in last year's State of Reconciliation in Australia report.

A nonprofit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity and ensure continued citizen support for public education.

He is the author of several acclaimed books on education in which he has persisted as a voice of reason making the case for equality of educational opportunity.

There will be panel discussions on the progress our country has made in achieving equality of educational opportunity in the decades since the publication of the Coleman Report and the options for making greater strides in the future.

The judge ruled that the tenure and other job protection laws for teachers violate the state constitution's guarantee that children receive «basic equality of educational opportunity.»

The 2016 edition by the Education Law Center and Rutgers report that evaluates whether state finance system across the nation provide for equality of educational opportunity, giving Nevada an «F» score in both funding distribution and effort.

Another life - impacting experience was traveling with Secretary Duncan to Birmingham, AL where I absorbed the historic role the city played in the national landscape for educational equality and justice.

We still need NCLB (ESEA), probably in a less punitive form, to ensure educational equality as well as strong federal funding for teacher preparation.

One national initiative was Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, enacted in 1965, which funnels money and resources to low - achieving schools in an effort to produce greater equality across districts and to supplement educational offerings for disadvantaged children.

The mural celebrates Dr. King's dream for educational equality and social justice.

King repeated his assertion that ESSA is based on a civil rights law and his department has an obligation to ensure equality of educational opportunities for all students.

Instead, the struggle for racial integration and educational equality is taking place in the suburbs, where students are learning in increasingly diverse schools.

The 15 - year research synthesis from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), «Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,» suggests that by promoting a positive climate, schools can allow greater equality in educational opportunities, decrease socioeconomic inequalities, and enable more social mobility for students.

The report calls for Connecticut to align state aid with local need and for lawmakers to create an equitable funding system that will help achieve educational equality.

As an advocate for educational equality it was very disheartening going through the process with my family.

Durant grew up in the Boston area, and exposure to an educational culture emphasizing democratic ideals, racial equality, and social justice created the framework for his artistic perspective.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer people.

The language of «principles» as opposed to «policy» or «practice» clearly suggests belief rather than conduct, and the upcoming educational (CPD) requirements, on equality, diversity and «inclusion» (the latter being a term that is undefined in the case law but which has variously been defined by the Working Group (in the report) as «making a better space for everyone» and (on the definitions website) with reference to RBC's corporate policy — which we can celebrate as the first time that a corporation's principles have been incorporated by reference into legal requirements!

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Ludmer, principal of LudmerLaw, spoke this week at the Healthy Fathers = Healthy Families event sponsored by the Canadian Association for Equality, an educational charity working towards a goal of gender equality.