Sentences with phrase «for narrowing opportunity»

Among his responsibilities is the development of plans for narrowing opportunity gaps for students of color, and collaborating with district departments to analyze data and address areas of inequity.

Critical literacy and its implications for teaching and learning and for narrowing the opportunity gap

Not exact matches

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

But VMware's decision to narrow the focus of vCloud Air from what was once characterized as a full - on competitor to Amazon Web Services to a more niche offering is what opened up this opportunity for IBM and other cloud players.

Given the relatively low - rate environment and narrow credit spreads, we continue to expect few opportunities for mispriced risk in credit markets.

The chart of the German benchmark shows a possible swing high that could be a good entry point for shorts with a narrow stop loss opportunity.

In addition, the narrow focus of Canada's equities markets in three sectors — financials, energy and materials — further reduces opportunities for diversification.

The value is fluctuating daily buy it upwards trajectory; hence the window of opportunity for those wanting to trade it a reasonable price is narrowing down.

I promise my franchise ownership course will teach you how to separate fact from fiction, help you narrow down your search for the right franchise, show you how to find money - making franchise opportunities, teach you super-powerful research techniques, and get you to the finish line.

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

It involves narrowing the opportunities we have for seeking and doing good so that we can respond more fully to a specific good.

We often try to exclude the contrast that makes for wider vision, (Today such exclusiveness may take the form of a refusal to encounter the challenging plurality of religions, thus narrowing our understanding of revelation and forfeiting opportunities for a widening of our notion of the mystery of God.)

Final Thoughts: Like biting into the perfect BLT, for most of us there is only a narrow window of opportunity each year to enjoy truly great gazpacho.

«It will once again give people the opportunity to reject the Tories» narrow, divisive agenda, as well as reinforcing the democratic mandate which already exists for giving the people of Scotland a choice on their future.

The fairness case for levying VAT on private school fees is this: whenever # 10,000 is spent on private school fees, # 2000 would go towards narrowing the gaps in opportunity and mobility.

This means there is a narrowing window of opportunity to leverage the region's resources for the benefit of the people.

I struggle to see how Brexit will widen opportunities for young Brits in the UK or those already in Europe and can see only how it will narrow them, which presumably is why it is almost universally opposed by them.

«This will, therefore, continue to be used to narrow the curriculum, reducing opportunities for children and young people, and to force schools into being taken over by predatory private providers.

William Hague MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, and Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, urge the international community to not squander the narrow window of opportunity that Mugabe's exit will create.

WISE 0855 is too faint for conventional spectroscopy at optical or near - infrared wavelengths, but thermal emission from the deep atmosphere at wavelengths in a narrow window around 5 microns offered an opportunity where spectroscopy would be «challenging but not impossible,» he said.

The Croatian Academy has also criticized the pyramidal system as «radically narrowing opportunities for young researchers and practically enticing brain drain from the public universities, institutes and Croatia.»

«Since there is this high climatic zonation in the tropics and narrow thermal tolerances, there are more opportunities for populations to become divergent and isolated, which is what you need for speciation to happen,» Gill explained.

Age 10 to 14 years, a time when both girls and boys are constructing their own identities and are typically open to new ideas and influences, provides a unique narrow window of opportunity for parents, teachers, healthcare providers and others to facilitate transition into healthy teenage and adulthood years according to researchers from Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health who note the lack worldwide of programs to help children of this age navigate passage from childhood to adulthood.

NCCIH issues specific funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) for narrow areas of high priority.

When we added a few preferences from the many categories, (height, weight, education level, ethnicity, and career type, etc) our options for potential matches narrowed significantly, but offered the opportunity to fine - tune matches according to specifications.

Or if you want to narrow down your search and meet likeminded over 40s, then check out MatureFreeAndSingle.com for even more opportunities to find that special someone who can light up your love life.

Internet opportunities can expand the pool of possibilities, narrow your search and provide an excellent platform for mature hookup.

The site must be able to narrow down your desirable search for your special someone as well as give you an opportunity and help you in the best possible way.

This pattern of results provides some support for our hypothesis that individuals» opportunities for meeting potential romantic partners narrow with age (H4) and thus for our assumption that, as they age, individuals may be more likely to seek nonconventional means of accessing dates such as are available through the Internet and print personals.

«It can also reduce your options and can make dating more difficult, because you're narrowing your field of opportunities and decreasing the ability for the laws of average to work for you.»

Possibly the biggest danger leading to the incident is the most banal: the bottlenecks and «traffic jams» caused by having dozens of climbers competing for a narrow window of opportunity on the mountain at one time.

The baroque intricacies of life among the rich and gossipy is ripe for satire, but the film plays it mostly straight, focusing on Kaguya's dwindling opportunities for quiet rebellion, as well as her father's and Lady Sagami's narrow - minded conceptions of female happiness.

Our goal with this measure is to ensure that schools do not excessively narrow the curriculum at the cost of non-tested subjects and opportunities for enrichment.

Indeed the Prime Minister David Cameron and Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education both see this new approach as a key means of narrowing the achievement gap and giving young people access to a curriculum that leads directly to employment opportunities.

These programs address an urgent challenge or priority — from narrowing achievement gaps and postsecondary success to modeling courageous conversations and leading inclusive schools — and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

You could also advocate for «Enrichment Savings Accounts» to help narrow the extracurricular - opportunities gap.

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

But for this reviewer, the deeper issue lies elsewhere: the authors» narrow range of «reform» opportunities.

We need more visionary thinking than the current narrow focus on educator effectiveness, without overlooking the importance of profession ready teachers and principals,» said coalition co-chair Joseph Bishop, who is the executive director of Opportunity Action and policy director for the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign.

These approaches will narrow the curriculum and promote teaching to the test, which will rob children of the opportunity for a good education.

They claim unnecessary legislation and policies limit schools» ability to innovate, both in operations and in classrooms, narrowing the options and opportunities for school improvement.

«However, the report fails to grasp that the real reason for the loss of these activities is the high stakes accountability based on pupils» outcomes in tests and examinations which is narrowing the curriculum and the opportunities available to children and young people, and which teachers and school leaders have long been warning is a serious problem.

Undergraduate students preparing for careers as elementary educators who care deeply about the education of children and who are dedicated to narrowing the opportunity gap to ensure that children from all walks of life reach their true potential.

American Indian and Alaska Native students often have unique needs that call for alternative approaches to narrowing opportunity and achievement gaps.

And while the degree to which any particular factor gets blame or credit for widening or narrowing the gaps is debatable, the authors in this issue of The State Education Standard agree that differences in educational opportunity play a key role.

I want us, together, to narrow the gap for the places left behind and provide better opportunities for the children who have the hardest start in life.

I have spent my career working to narrow the opportunity gap that creates the sub-standard conditions for teaching and learning that so dramatically impact the achievement gap.

The rubrics are aligned to the research based practices documented by Drs. Patricia Gandara and María Estela Zárate in their recent publication titled «Seizing the Opportunity to Narrow the Achievement Gap for English Learners: Research - based Recommendations for the Use of LCFF Funds» from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

Further, particular aspects of teachers» professional community — a shared sense of intellectual purpose and a sense of collective responsibility for student learning — were associated with a narrowing of achievement gaps in math and science among low - and middle - income students.14 Strong professional learning communities require leadership that establishes a vision, creates opportunities and expectations for joint work, and finds the resources needed to support the work, including expertise and time to meet.15 Collaborative teacher teams can improve practice together by: 16