Sentences with phrase «including equity in schools»

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In 2006, he gave $ 10 million to the business school, which has produced many notable names in private equity and venture capital, including Alan Patricof (class of 1957) and Lionel Pincus (class of 1956) of Warburg Pincus, who died last yeaIn 2006, he gave $ 10 million to the business school, which has produced many notable names in private equity and venture capital, including Alan Patricof (class of 1957) and Lionel Pincus (class of 1956) of Warburg Pincus, who died last yeain private equity and venture capital, including Alan Patricof (class of 1957) and Lionel Pincus (class of 1956) of Warburg Pincus, who died last year.

«The state's rapidly improving economic picture means there's a real opportunity for the state to more fully invest in its public schools, including dedicating new money to Foundation Aid as a way of increasing equity and further helping students to thrive,» said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

Her specific areas of expertise include development of informational reading and writing in young children, comprehension development and instruction in early schooling, and issues of equity in literacy education.

Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

He has also served on numerous education boards and commissions, including the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission and the board of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School in Washington, D.C.

NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of efforts in the policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public schools, including desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and school finance and adequacy cases in the states.

BDC is part of Bridgepoint, one of Europe's largest private equity investors which has invested in a range of companies in different sectors over the last 25 years including well - known names such as Cruise.co.uk, Fat Face and Prêt A Manger, Cambridge Education Group and Infinitas Learning, publisher of content and e-learning materials for primary and secondary schools and FE colleges across Europe.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

Given the public conversation about bias and injustice — especially recently — several prominent national education organizations including the NEA, AERA, NCTE and AFT have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

«New approaches in education — including setting higher state standards, measuring students» progress, and requiring schools to improve — haven't fully addressed issues of equity for all students,» that report said.

ELPHD includes 41 faculty, 6 directors / non-faculty, 10 instructors who are active administrators in schools and universities, a post-doc, and a visiting professor all of whom are committed to educational equity and student success.

Her expertise includes development of informational reading and writing in young children, comprehension development and instruction in early schooling, and issues of equity in literacy education.

Coleman found that Catholic schools achieve more educational equity than public schools because they follow a rich and demanding curriculum; provide a structured, orderly environment; offer lots of explicit instruction, including drill and practice; and expect every child to reach minimal goals in each subject by the end of the year.

It also changed because STRIVE embraced the new challenge, part of a broader «equity agenda» that includes other changes in enrollment and school practices.

The National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools Equity Coalition released a joint statement urging the charter sector to commit to strong and fair discipline practices for all students, including students with disabilities, saying:

The Equity Coalition includes representatives from a diverse range of organizations with an interest in students with diverse learning needs, special education programs, charter schools and education reform.

Popular workshop topics include personalized learning plans, student - directed, project - based learning, teacher governance, democratic classrooms, student / teacher advisories, developing student agency, equity, restorative practices, special education in inclusive environments, service and experiential learning and school culture.

Jeremy is a former high school social studies teacher whose interests include school consolidation, school district funding and equity, and technology in education.

The Education Trust — West report, Unlocking Learning II: Math as a Lever for English Learner Equity, highlights school districts — including three in the Greater Los Angeles area — that are getting English learners proficient in math while they are still mastering English proficiency.

School - and community - based teams — including school leaders, teachers, middle and high school students, counselors, parent leaders or coordinators, and nonprofit partners — will practice useful and transferable strategies that strengthen cross-sector school - community leadership and engage in conversations on race, class, and eSchool - and community - based teams — including school leaders, teachers, middle and high school students, counselors, parent leaders or coordinators, and nonprofit partners — will practice useful and transferable strategies that strengthen cross-sector school - community leadership and engage in conversations on race, class, and eschool leaders, teachers, middle and high school students, counselors, parent leaders or coordinators, and nonprofit partners — will practice useful and transferable strategies that strengthen cross-sector school - community leadership and engage in conversations on race, class, and eschool students, counselors, parent leaders or coordinators, and nonprofit partners — will practice useful and transferable strategies that strengthen cross-sector school - community leadership and engage in conversations on race, class, and eschool - community leadership and engage in conversations on race, class, and equity.

Some solutions include ever - increasing support of equity, investment in collaborative leadership development, continue to strengthen our work with schools and workforce systems, and focusing on communities where opportunity gaps are the greatest.

His publications include works on school desegregation, access, success and desegregation in higher education, teacher education and equity issues in assessment.

This includes creating the infrastructure and collaborative processes needed to align community partners towards mutual goals and providing scaffolded curriculum for students and families across agencies to prioritize equity challenges, participate in school governance and decision - making, provide input into site plans, and develop policies that reflect student and family perspectives, needs and solutions.

Over 100,000 Los Angeles students are enrolled in independent charter schools; any effort to achieve educational equity through application and enrollment practices must include efforts to simplify and streamline charter school processes.

The Center for Collaborative Education believes the path that leads students to the «golden door of freedom», George Washington Carver spoke of, includes schools in which equity is intentionally embedded throughout the system.

He believes that this cultural shift goes a long way to fixing the problem, symbolized by the equity policy he helped get passed in Fairfax County Public Schools to ensure equity for every service enacted, including health care.

According to Politico Pro, Murray and Scott agree with certain provisions, like the «requirement that states come up with concrete evaluations or scores for schools,» but want to see changes like «including the timeline for states to get their new accountability systems up and running, transportation for students in foster care, calculating graduation rates, n - sizes, resource equity and more.»

Recent developments have galvanized people anew to address the racial achievement gap, from a jarring 2013 report called» Race to Equity» that showed the gulf in quality of life between whites and blacks is wider here than nationally, to the current «Black Lives Matter» movement, which has called out racial inequities in numerous public institutions, including schools.

The plan to expand arts access for students across LA Unified and restore nearly $ 16 million in arts funding will include data gathered in a new Arts Equity Index, a tool to identify schools in greatest need of arts instruction.

He urged school board members to include racial equity policies in their strategic plans and to engage parents and the community in the work of systemic transformation of schools.

Education Northwest's work across several research areas, including support for English language learners, college and career readiness, school improvement and equity in public education, will be...

Topeka Public Schools has engaged in equity work since 2011, when elements of the Equity Institute were established including the district's Equity Coequity work since 2011, when elements of the Equity Institute were established including the district's Equity CoEquity Institute were established including the district's Equity CoEquity Council.

The authors examine a variety of activities, analyzing both challenges and successes in many areas of social justice in school reform, including race, class, and gender equity.

Overview This opportunity for learning and dialogue, developed in partnership with the Campaign for High School Equity, will include a small group of national education and youth - serving organizations representing the broad range of actors in the civil rights and education

In 2013, the Equity and Excellence Commission appointed by then - Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, called for including school integration as part of federal or state systems of school accountability.

Pumpian has authored and coauthored numerous journal articles and books, including How to Create a Culture of Achievement in Your School and Classroom and Building Equity: Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners.

Measures the percentage of juniors and seniors in high school who complete broad and challenging coursework — including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and honors courses — in order to incentivize participation in rigorous coursework and to reduce equity gaps among student subgroups enrolled in advanced courses.

Schools: Schools in our network are guided by commitments of the CES Common Principles, which include putting students at the center, assess student performance authentically, offering multidisciplinary curriculum, governing democratically, emphasizing inquiry, committing to equity, ensuring that school community members know each other well, and employing pedagogies that support students to become lifelong learners.

A few examples of responsibilities include middle and high school reform, smaller learning communities, continuation high schools, court and community schools, independent study, Partnership Academies, Regional Occupational Centers and Programs, gender equity compliance, business and industry partnerships, and oversight of state and federal programs totaling over $ 1 billion in annual revenues.

However, the law requires districts to include certain practices, such as relying on multiple objective measures in placement decisions, using student performance data to ensure equity and efficacy, and ensuring the consistency of placement policies between elementary and high school districts.

The IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity provides technical assistance and training in many forms to serve public schools in its service region, including charter and magnet schools.

The SIOP Model was included in Tiffany Park's school improvement plan as an instructional approach for improving the reading and mathematics achievement of all students, and also as an equity and access strategy for low - income students and English learners.

In Oklahoma, her equity center work has recently included teacher assistance for student engagement and achievement at a majority African American elementary school and technical assistance to a school district as it reviewed and redesigned its services district - wide for ELs.

«We encourage our legislators to take even stronger steps in ensuring equity for the many diverse delivery models including public schools, magnet schools, charter public schools and others.»

The study offers several recommendations for restoring equity provisions and integration in charter schools, including establishing new guidance and reporting requirements by the Federal government; federal funding opportunities for magnet schools, which have a documented legacy of reducing racial isolation and improving student outcomes; and incorporating some features of magnet schools into charter schools.

In states where less than half of schools have enough information to generate an Equity Rating rating, we will display the Equity Rating where possible but will not include it in the Summary Rating calculatioIn states where less than half of schools have enough information to generate an Equity Rating rating, we will display the Equity Rating where possible but will not include it in the Summary Rating calculatioin the Summary Rating calculation.

Bradley talks about the role of the nation's 10 equity assistance centers, including the IDRA - directed South Central Collaborative for Equity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all leaequity assistance centers, including the IDRA - directed South Central Collaborative for Equity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all leaEquity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all learners.

PAA was hopeful that the Committee would include provisions in H.R. 2218 that would effectively address our major concerns about the lack of equity, quality, parental rights, and accountability of many charter schools.

At a Wallace Foundation conference in 2009, Jerry Weast, then - superintendent of Montgomery County, Md., schools, alluded to the stiff opposition he had faced when he took steps including «differentiated funding» to promote greater equity for the district's disadvantaged students.