Sentences with phrase «in school diversity»

A Bright Spot in School Diversity Diverse public charter schools are in demand and growing.

According to Kara Finnigan et al (2016), states could invest in school diversity as a «school turnaround» strategy.

CAP's hope is that this report will provide clear data and next steps that support an increase in school diversity and, ultimately, educational equity.

According to the authors» focus group research, most parents believe in school diversity in theory, but they reject policies that limit the educational options for their child.

A citywide committee, born out of this partnership, is developing policy recommendations for how Denver can diversify their neighborhoods and better integrate their schools.73 Denver Public Schools has witnessed marginal improvements in school diversity since implementing these reforms.

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In school, diversity in the classroom means more learning from each other, having creative discussions and building wider networkIn school, diversity in the classroom means more learning from each other, having creative discussions and building wider networkin the classroom means more learning from each other, having creative discussions and building wider networks.

And when it comes to the «real world» after school, study after study has shown that gender diversity within boardrooms leads to better decisions, higher earnings, fewer ethical issues — in short, stronger businesses.

Telfer is also a big presence on the Canadian case competition circuit, playing host to the first annual Diversity and Inclusion MBA contest in 2016 and sending teams to the John Molson School of Business tournament every year.

Last year, Diversity Lab held a Women In Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideaIn Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideain collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideain search of new, scalable inclusion ideas.

Ryerson is also the only school in Canada that requires students to take courses in diversity management and corporate social responsibility.

In an exclusive interview with Fortune, the next dean of Emory's Goizueta Business School Erika Hayes James shares her thoughts on «having it all,» her new gig, and the diversity imbalance plaguing American business schools.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

After all, school administrators seek diversity in their classrooms because when a student of one race or ethnicity «supports» a student of another — intellectually, academically, or otherwise — it's a transfer that transcends whatever words or gestures are shared.

In an interview on stage talking to the McCombs School of Business, he was opinionated on everything from diversity to executive compensation.

I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

This increased diversity of jobs helps lead to significantly higher student engagement in the recruiting process: engagement is up as much as 2x at many schools.

The Conference Board and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, in partnership with The SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, developed a scenario model that companies can use to enhance the gender diversity of their boards.

Among other things, It uses such factors as a school's diversity — in female faculty, staff and board members — to judge the «quality» of a program.

Once diversity is tied to business needs, adds Nancy DiTomaso, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School in New Brunswick and Newark, N.J., it needs to be «sufficiently inclusive to build alliances and bridges, rather than create disruption and discord.»

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González and civil - rights activist and organized - labor icon Dolores Huerta are among those being celebrated at the annual Diversity Honors on Friday, April 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...

Speaking before the event the Archbishop said: «In the midst of these economic, social and political challenges, Church of England schools aim to provide an education that is deeply and authentically Christian, but also inclusive and embracing of diversity.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

How diverse is that and what tensions does that diversity create in the school's common life?

The students, nine men and eight women suggested by the deans of their respective schools, represented not only denominational diversity but a variety of backgrounds and work experiences — reflecting the general increase in the number of older and second - career students currently attending seminary.

Pursuing a diversity of mission, however, produces schools that don't believe in anything in particular.

I will suggest some ways in which to describe very concretely both congregations and schools, what pluralizes them, what goes on in them, and how that is somehow «unified» without denial of their deep diversity.

Theological schools are relatively homogeneous, but dispersed smaller cohorts tend to be even more homogeneous, thereby reducing the operative diversity in theological education.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

I student taught in a rural area of central Illinois - a school with two people who were black (and that was it for the racial diversity) so they created their own minorities thorugh religion.

The great denominational schools of America are among the first to admit this; but few of them are in a position to press their perception of the diversity of the Christian community as systematically, as hourly, as are the great ecumenical seminaries.

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

This is certainly so in Plainfield, Ill., where elementary school principal Sandy Niemiera made a startling announcement: because of diversity concerns, students will no longer be allowed to celebrate any holidays at all.

Conway Morris is part of an increasingly prominent school in the philosophy of biology which offers a refreshingly new stance, one in which the biological universe is not merely an inert petri dish in which purely random genetic diversity andmutation have resulted by Darwinian «survival of the fittest».

Buddhism is, in fact, represented by a diversity of schools with their own temples and monasteries, and their own educational institutions and universities.

The diversity of ways in which the Christian thing is construed makes the world of theological schools irreducibly pluralistic for a second reason.

We do not want low - or moderate - income housing in our town, ethnic diversity in our schools or new expressions of worship in our churches.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

The diversity among theological schools is partly rooted in differences among their deepest theological commitments and it is partly rooted in historical and sociocultural factors.

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She has served in several board leadership positions, and through navigating the private, independent, and charter school experiences of her own five children, has gained valuable insights into the diversity of school policy and practice.

Because of the presence of diversity at my high school, the opportunities to be involved in a variety of unique clubs and organizations seemed endless.

Founded in 1932, Miquon is a Progressive independent school that values racial, ethnic, economic, religious, gender, and social diversity.

Committed to international understanding, diversity, environmental stewardship, adventure, leadership, and service, Hackley prepares students to think and act with care and effectiveness both at school and in their broader communities.

We can talk about the wide diversity of schools and that there are good «fits» for different kids in terms of campus size, academic structure and content, geography, and experiences offered.

Our financial aid and sibling discount programs support this goal, and the families participating in these programs have contributed significantly to the economic diversity of the school as well as to its spiritual and social growth.

The ethos of the school is hugely important to me as well — students are exposed to the reality of spiritual diversity in the human community, not indoctrinated, and an organic type of tolerance, respect, and mutuality grows here.

Members of the Linden community contribute to the life of the school through their involvement in numerous ways, from Diversity & Inclusion, to Fundraising, to the annual Elves Faire, and more.

Thanks to the depth and diversity of content professionals working with children in a variety of capacities — recreation center directors, summer camps, after - school programming and aquatics, among them — have embraced and benefited from earning their CYSA credential.

Taste Washington Day originated as a Washington School Nutrition Association program in celebration of the diversity and abundance of Washington's harvest season, and to share this with school children and school communities across the School Nutrition Association program in celebration of the diversity and abundance of Washington's harvest season, and to share this with school children and school communities across the school children and school communities across the school communities across the state.