Sentences with phrase «in educational disparity»

In a recent New York Times article, Stanford University's Sean Reardon summarized his research demonstrating that income inequality is the prime factor in educational disparities.

Not exact matches

«Much of the volunteer work of Jewish young adults is comprised of local efforts to ameliorate disparities in economic resources and educational opportunity and often entails activities such as collecting, sorting, and distributing goods,» the polling analysis said.

e are committed to an equitable educational system without disparities in access to affordable, culturally appropriate, and acceptable maternity care provider education for all communities.

«Providing 50 new charters for New York City will go a long way to equalize the educational disparity that robs families of opportunity,» Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz said in a statement.

Yet there is still a huge disparity in educational achievement between disadvantaged students and their more affluent peers.

Weir said that her findings indicate that eliminating educational disparities in lower SES areas could help decrease colorectal cancer deaths and stem the productivity lost from those deaths.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

«Our study is the first to show that culturally tailored, health literature educational materials can decrease these racial disparities in stroke preparedness outcomes.»

The study demonstrates how differences in wealth, family background, postsecondary educational differences and parental contributions to college, may explain this disparity in student loan debt between blacks and whites.

As a race - based educational achievement gap in American schools persists, a corresponding assortment of race - based health disparities follow proportionately, according to multiple studies cited by Anderson.

Disparities in access to critical resources, including preventive or therapeutic drugs, can be due to financial, educational, sociocultural, geographical or environmental barriers.

Disparities in educational resources — even if not intentionally discriminatory — would lead to a friendly investigation by OCR, it made clear.

There are large disparities in educational outcomes across different regions in the UK, according to research from the Social Market Foundation (SMF).

A year after a police shooting set off racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., the school system and its new superintendent are looking to correct educational disparities and «give kids a voice» in determining their future.

Federal courts should insist that states design their education systems to accomplish the aims of the right to education — be they ending inequitable disparities in educational opportunity, preparing students to be competent voters and civic participants, or ensuring that students are equal citizens.

It could find that the equal protection clause prohibits wide within - state disparities in educational opportunity that disadvantage some students because they live in a property - poor district, as Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in his Rodriguez dissent.

Kamras was inspired to become a teacher in part by the disparities he saw between educational opportunities for children from low - income and those from upper - income families.

Finally, we are deeply committed to preparing the next generation of educational leaders, many of whom will have HGSE degrees and all of whom should be knowledgeable about the underlying science of learning, the causal mechanisms of disparities in achievement, and the policy environment in which education priorities are determined.

Persistent disparities in educational achievement and lifelong health as a result of significant adversity early in life impose enormous burdens on individuals, communities, and societies.

The recent national debate on school reform has made us keenly aware of the gross and systematic disparities that exist in educational opportunity across the United States.

Pollock, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, argues in her new book, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School (Princeton University Press, May 2004), that both clumsy race talk and an insistence on avoiding race labels in schools have actually fueled racial disparities in educational opportunity and attainment.

This disparity foreshadows a large difference in actual educational attainment: 49 percent of white students ultimately graduate from college, compared to 29 percent of black students.

She's referring to what's known as the achievement gap in the United States — the persistent disparity in educational, and hence economic, success of its disadvantaged, and disproportionately nonwhite, children.

While greater local control certainly has some benefits, it risks exacerbating the massive disparities in educational performance across states that already exists.

The disparities in educational opportunity before kindergarten are dramatic and easily explain many of the achievement gaps seen later on.

«With today's concerns about growing educational disparities, we carry an even greater responsibility as educators to make decisions and take actions that contribute to more equitable educational opportunities for children and families in and out of school.»

Finally, early childhood teachers describe themselves as alienated from and lacking the supports available in K — 12 This is a fragile and vulnerable system that is increasingly being asked to ameliorate social, economic, and educational disparities.

When we look at disparities in educational outcomes by income, for example, we know that some of that stems from what's happening outside of the classroom.

Despite America's long and sordid history of extreme inequity in schooling and in spite of dramatic continuing disparities in educational quality, states» rights advocates assert the federal government isn't needed to monitor or assure educational quality and equity.

Disparities in educational attainment persist, however, with a marked gap between rural Americans» level of education and that of non-rural Americans.

But in the words of the research center behind the database, «Racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in academic performance and educational attainment are stubborn features of the U.S. educational system.

The letter stated that OCR was writing to «call your attention to disparities that persist in access to educational resources, and to help you address those disparities and comply with the legal obligation to provide students with equal access to these resources without regard to race, color, or national origin.»

The five - judge court ruled unanimously Oct. 8 that the state's contributions for teacher pay produce such wide disparities in salaries that poor, rural districts can not compete for and retain well - qualified teachers, and thus can not provide the equal educational opportunities required by the state constitution.

By contrast, researchers have devoted considerable attention to studying racial disparities in educational opportunities and outcomes — and there is compelling evidence that when students have a teacher of the same race, they tend to learn more at school (see «The Race Connection,» research, Spring 2004).

That document and the N.C.L.R. study both show that Hispanics currently lag far behind whites in both educational attainment and income, and that Hispanic children are especially affected by social disparities.

Remember that under OCR's disparate impact analysis any disparity in resources must be justified by an «important educational goal.»

She has since been committed to improving educational experiences for students, especially in urban contexts where access to quality resources can be highly uneven and disparity often correlates along socioeconomic lines.

Demand for AP classes, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, vastly outpaces the supply of qualified teachers, exacerbating educational disparities.

Today, 50 years after the report was issued, that prediction characterizes most of our large urban areas, where intensifying segregation and concentrated poverty have collided with disparities in school funding to reinforce educational inequality (see Figure 1).

Throughout his time in school, most of his research focused on educational disparities between inner city and suburban students.

If schools are to eliminate the disparities in learning opportunities and achievement from which students of color and students situated in poverty suffer disproportionately, then leadership preparation programs must prepare educational leaders who have the capacity to argue the following claims:

Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), highlights the continued need for greater educational equity, and warns that race and gender disparities in opportunity and academic achievement lead to high dropout rates, limited job opportunities, and increased risk of poverty for African American females.

Even with these multiple elements, the Consortium's program is relatively inexpensive and readily scalable, and can provide a template for schools elsewhere in Mississippi and beyond that seek to mitigate educational disparities.

Given persistent disparities in educational achievement and high school retention, there is an urgent need to understand processes that promote high school success in adolescents at risk for academic failure.

Racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in academic performance and educational attainment are stubborn features of the U.S. educational system.

The Expectations Project was launched by Fellow Nicole Baker Fulgham, who saw the disparities in educational opportunities as a public school student in Detroit.

As a result of his own educational experience, he was drawn to work in education by his desire to close the opportunity disparity between students of color and white students.

Her current, collaborative projects include studies of Head Start children's literacy learning and teacher communities (the EPIC study), family engagement, and parent involvement; young fathers in urban settings; health and educational disparities within low - income communities; children of incarcerated parents; and intergenerational learning within African - American and Latino families.

As a publicly engaged scholar, Glennys» research focuses on health disparities, educational inequalities, food injustice, and social justice issues affecting the Dominican immigrant community in Greater Boston.

With racial and economic disparities still an everyday reality throughout our education system, this brief suggests steps educational leaders can take to authentically and successfully confront the situations in schools that cause inequities.