Sentences with phrase «erect barriers to learning»

Although this strategy is appropriate for students of all backgrounds, many community schools arise in neighborhoods where structural forces linked to racism and poverty shape the experiences of young people and erect barriers to learning and school success.

Although the approach is appropriate for students of all backgrounds, many community schools serve neighborhoods where poverty and racism erect barriers to learning, and where families have few resources to supplement what typical schools provide.

«Although the approach is appropriate for students of all backgrounds, many community schools serve neighborhoods where poverty and racism erect barriers to learning, and where families have few resources to supplement what typical schools provide,» said Jeannie Oakes, who is an LPI scholar in residence and Presidential Professor Emeritus in Educational Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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The Schott Foundation's Opportunity to Learn campaign describes the barriers charter schools erect that exclude students: