Sentences with phrase «ensuring educational equity»

I am called to a career in education because of my commitment to ensuring educational equity for all children.

Connect grassroots organizations, advocates, educators, parents, and the business community, who may have different interests but share the common agenda of ensuring educational equity.

Ensuring that students in all schools across the nation have access to and are enrolled in rigorous coursework is also a critical component to ensuring educational equity.

Every student deserves a high - quality education, and states are uniquely positioned to lead the way in ensuring educational equity for all students.

AASA Executive Director Daniel A. Domenech added, «The public school superintendents we represent are committed to implementing ESSA as intended, including the key element of stakeholder engagement, and to ensuring educational equity and opportunity are the reality for all our nation's public schools and the students they serve.»

E4E - Minnesota member Luke Winspur argues that the state will take a huge step back in ensuring educational equity by scaling back funding and access to the ACT...

In a classroom where students are doing the majority of the talking, where they are engaged with each other in rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educational equity.

«Summer learning is an essential element to closing the achievement gap and ensuring educational equity across our city and state,» said Principal Jason Wagner, Pelham Lab High School.

One proposed regulation in the Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) is for states to analyze the performance of student subgroups separately in order to show how states are leveling the playing field over time to ensure educational equity.

The Council of Chief State School Officers, the Aspen Institute Education & Society Program and America's Promise Alliance released a new report «showing promising practices in states to ensure educational equity for all students.»

OVNV works to build the capacity of Latino parents in the greater New Orleans area as advocates to ensure educational equity for all students.

Basically, we are calling for a return to state assessment systems with the role of the federal government to provide funding to ensure educational equity for our children.

Learn how select cities are using out of school time to address challenges and ensure educational equity.

Here are three key reasons why teacher pensions should be thought of as a key part of the push to ensure educational equity:

It helps ensure educational equity and opportunity for all students by:

Not exact matches

Today more than 9,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two - year teaching commitments in 43 regions across the country, reaching over 600,000 students, and nearly 24,000 alumni are working inside and outside the field of education to continue the effort to ensure educational excellence and equity.

-- Paul Saffo, Futurist In 1996, President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union address challenged the nation to ensure — as a matter of educational equity and opportunity — that every classroom be connected to the Internet and equipped with computers, good software, and -LSB-...]

Voucher proponents such as Jay would do well to think hard about reasonable equity regulations that ensure that decentralized choice markets offer good educational opportunities to all students.

Each such educational firm, or edfirm for short, functions like an independent contractor within the school district (with some requirements, to ensure much greater equity than is typical in public schools today) and is not controlled by the district office.

To extend the metaphor in this picture, the educational equity orientation reframes the policy discussion and orients it around ensuring that schools help all students to achieve, even if that means distributing resources «unequally.»

One of the keys of achieving educational equity is ensuring these gaps in resources are, at least in part, covered up by resources provided by schools.

The Equity Assistance Center helps public schools and their communities incorporate educational equity into policies, procedures, and classroom practices to ensure that all students receive what they need to succeed academiEquity Assistance Center helps public schools and their communities incorporate educational equity into policies, procedures, and classroom practices to ensure that all students receive what they need to succeed academiequity into policies, procedures, and classroom practices to ensure that all students receive what they need to succeed academically.

As a nonpartisan education association, ASCD continues to advocate for policies and practices that ensure each child has access to educational excellence and equity.

Therefore, during the contextual analysis, IDRA assesses teachers» science self - efficacy for diverse students using the equity lens to ensure that all teachers are prepared in attitudes, knowledge and practice so that «no learner is denied the fair and equitable benefit of a quality, sound educational experience afforded to all other students regardless of race, gender, national origin, economic level and handicap» (Scott, 2009).

A modernized teacher workforce is critical when it comes to improving academic achievement, moving toward educational equity, and ensuring the health of the national economy.

All policy initiatives must ensure equity and access to high - quality educational opportunities.

We bring people together to realize the most effective solutions to ensure educational excellence and equity for Oakland students.

Leading for Equity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteEquity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteequity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational potential.

While we appreciate CDE's proposal to disaggregate student subgroup data in achievement (not just growth, as was the case in previous frameworks), as well as the Department's commitment to ensuring transparency of subgroup performance data in reporting, we strongly encourage CDE to reconsider the adoption of a combined subgroup for accountability purposes, which would have significant implications for educational equity.

Our Board plays a vital role in ensuring that we meet ambitious goals and make steady progress toward our mission of achieving educational excellence and equity for all students.

The Department of Education must ensure that all state plans and waiver requests advance educational equity and serve the interests of all children.

Community Conversation: School Equity In February 2016, The Mind Trust and UNCF hosted a «community conversation» on the topic of «School Equity,» during which community stakeholders discussed ways to ensure that every child in Indianapolis has equitable educational opportunities and experiences.

We are helping to build a diverse movement for educational equity led by and with communities, one that will hold decision - makers accountable and ensure that every child in every community across the nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

As part of our organizations» commitment to educational equity, we seek to ensure that every child has equal access to high - quality schools, principals, and teachers.

In testimony before the Texas School Finance Commission, IDRA called on the commission to ensure equity and meaningful educational opportunity for all students in all communities of the state.

«As white people, our actions and beliefs have tangible impact on the movement for educational equity, and we must assess our own behaviors and hold ourselves accountable to ensuring our most vulnerable students receive the education they deserve.»

We are helping to build a diverse movement for educational equity led by and with communities, one that will hold decision - makers accountable and ensure that every child has the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Courageous educational leaders move districts and schools toward creating and implementing systems that will ensure educational and racial equity for every student, in every classroom, every day.

Madeline Pérez echoes this comment in her dissertation proclaiming a school will only «fulfill its espoused theory of ensuring choice and equity when educational administrators cease to operate a process that serves a majority of low - income people of color based solely on white middle - class assumptions and redesign appropriately.»