Sentences with phrase «enormous economic gap»

When apartheid ended, Iqbal was disillusioned to see that political equality did not close the nation's enormous economic gap and decided that pursuing a business career was the best way he could contribute to his country's transformation.

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Furthermore, this gap in the teaching, this disregard for concrete realities, poses an enormous problem for those who would like to render themselves useful to economic and social actors.

Studies prove the enormous effect that excellent teachers have on closing achievement gaps, cultivating students» higher - order thinking, improving children's lifelong prospects, and bolstering our national security and economic power.

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

Despite enormous investment in education reform, the achievement gap between poor children and their higher - income peers persists, threatening the economic security of our nation's most vulnerable youth.