Sentences with phrase «greater education equality»

Despite loud demands for greater education equality, access to first - rate college preparatory programs for large numbers of minority students remains an unrealized goal.

Not exact matches

Over half of this is due to girls having had access to higher levels of education and achieving greater equality in the number of years spent in education between men and women.

The trend is directly tied to increasing gender equality, as women gain greater access to resources and opportunities in business, politics and education.

During a speech at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, King offered education reforms such as the Common Core standards and teacher evaluations as vehicles of greater equality in schools.

Using the greatest hits blueprint, one would think any big - time film treatment about Thurgood Marshall, an American hero for racial equality, has to include Brown vs. Board of Education and his ascension to become the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Concerns about this disparity eventually led to the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 — a law that took the equality agenda of the Great Society and projected it onto America's K - 12 schools.

Maria Miller, chair of the women and equalities committee, who argued earlier in the debate that the bill «must make sex and relationships education compulsory» if it is to achieve its aim of promoting welfare for children, tweeted that Timpson's response was «great news».

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.

Generally speaking the left presumes we're all equal and the great divider is education, whereas the right presumes we're equal only to the extent of legal protection and we choose to believe or not (the notion of equality as viewed by the left and right isn't always the same thing.)

«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»