Sentences with phrase «improving black education»

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However, this third step will improve black institutions of theological education only if the love of learning (the condition for theology) prevails there and in the family and the community, where the discipline of learning to love (the work of theology) is regarded as the ultimate joy.

MANHATTAN — Firing former Schools Chancellor Cathie Black hasn't done much to improve Mayor Michael Bloomberg's grades on education.

Earlier in the day, religious leaders and politicians welcomed new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black during the Convent Avenue Baptist Church's annual Martin Luther King Day service, urging her to improve the city's education system.

Heastie said the long string of deaths of black men in shootings by police underscore the need for improving community and police relations, combating poverty and improving education and working «on the issue of guns and those who would use them to steal innocent lives.»

«Improving patient education and creating ways to ensure all healthcare providers know practice guidelines which they are able to implement, will help with this disparity,» Black said.

Among the education topics he discusses are the black - white achievement gap, education reform strategies, improving outcomes for African American students, and affirmative action in higher education.

L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the study of black and Latino family engagement with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve teaching and learning; and how an understanding of social psychology can improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

As the tuition grant proposal was aimed primarily at improving education for poor black children, the black - led coalition could not avoid being accused of promoting urban black interests at the expense of rural and suburban areas.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

And education studies have shown Black and Latino students taught by teachers who share their racial background have improved academic results, benefit from a culture of higher expectations and fewer discipline referrals.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

Instead of pouncing on Mr. Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio might explain to voters why Barack Obama has spent his entire presidency trying to shut down a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that gives poor black and brown children access to private schools and, according to the Education Department's own evaluation, improves their chances of graduating by as much as 21 percentage points.

From the time of desegregation forward, disillusionment with integration and the failure to improve education in many urban communities led to the development of «independent black schools.»

While scores have improved across the board, the gap between the highest achievers and the lowest — notably blacks, Hispanics and special education students — has persisted.

«Any agenda aimed at improving college access and success for Black undergraduate men — one of the most underrepresented populations in U.S. higher education — would be incomplete without the participation of policymakers at all levels,» says Harper.

He's been working to improve the education of the black community in Louisville for more than three decades.

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When we improve instruction and curricula for our students who have been the most ill - served by American public education — including for young black, white and Latino men — we are improving education for our high - performing students as well.

Two longtime, award - winning educators seeking to oversee Wisconsin's schools sparred on Friday over how to improve academic success for black students, whether the state's academic standards are good for schools and how the state should spend its money on education.

A slew of financial notices to improve for academy trusts have been published this afternoon by the Education Funding Agency (EFA), in the sector's own «Black Friday».

Increasing the number of Black male educators in our nation's teacher corps will improve education for all our students, especially African - American boys.

Increasing the number of black male educators in our nation's teacher corps will improve education for all students, especially for African American boys.

What NAACP's leadership doesn't fully seem to understand — despite Jealous» own response last month to the complaints of ivy tower civil rights guru Richard Kahlenberg to the contrary — is that desegregation alone will not address achievement gaps or improve the quality of education for poor black and Latino kids.

BILL BLACK: How to prioritize education reforms There is a lot to like in Avis Glaze's report on improving our school system.

But a number of black Democrats said they mistrusted Republicans» claims of wanting to improve education for black children, a current that flows strongly through their opposition to charter schools.

As a Black woman working in education, Nicole Young's goal is to improve the quality of life for students of color by improving the quality of educational opportunities available to them.

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Instead of using scarce resources on new grammar schools, we should focus on improving early years education and tackling stubborn levels of under - achievement in areas such as the black country, and areas across the midlands and the north.

Education leaders who worked on the state plan call the goals — which would require academic performance of black students to improve about four times as quickly as it is now — ambitious but doable.

Fourteen years — and numerous reports on racial and gender achievement gaps — later, the former Chicago Public Schools Chief of Staff's grassroots efforts have fostered organizations focused on improving education for young black men such as UCLA's Black Male Institute and Success for Black black men such as UCLA's Black Male Institute and Success for Black Black Male Institute and Success for Black Black Boys.

Marie McInerney reported on the symposium in more detail on Croakey with some poignant examples of how children «understand what it means to be black» from a very young age, and shared research that showed tackling racism in schools may improve school attendance and education outcomes.