Sentences with phrase «increasing school diversity»

«It is not surprising that increasing school diversity is important to reduce both African American and White students» delinquent behaviors,» said corresponding author Dr. Brittany Darlene Chambers, of the University of California, San Francisco.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan for increasing school diversity, released on June 6, is a much - needed response to segregation in New York City public schools.

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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.

Rena Pacheco - Theard is CEO and co-founder of Prepify (www.prepify.me), a startup offering free, online college guidance and SAT / ACT prep for high school students to increase economic diversity.

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.

Waldorf schools are actively seeking ways to increase the economic and ethnic diversity of their student populations.

Hartsbrook adopted a new Sliding Scale Tuition Model with the goals of increasing diversity, inclusion, and equity at our school, expanding innovative programming, and living the schools» values more deeply.

The Independent Democratic Conference on Wednesday released a platform designed to increase student diversity at specialized high schools in New York City.

At 11:30 a.m., state Sens. Jamaal Bailey and Toby Ann Stavisky announce legislation to increase diversity in specialized high schools, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«I applaud Senator Klein for taking these steps to increase diversity in our specialized high schools.

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Also last night, a Conservative amendment to give local authorities and the secretary of state a new duty to encourage schools to become self - governing trusts - something the party insisted was needed to increase diversity - was rejected by 376 to 169.

The makeup of the powerful education policymaking panel will be drastically different, with increased racial and gender diversity and a greater representation of public school educators.

The Syracuse City School District is making similar efforts to increase diversity among its teachers.

«Rather, we want to make sure our kids are not forced into failing schools as a byproduct of the DOE's push to increase diversity.»

State Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa criticized New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal from June, which outlined ways to increase diversity in New York City schools but failed to mention the word «segregation» or directly address integration.

I think that the U.S. school curriculum could benefit from increased geographical awareness including understanding the socioeconomic diversity of Asia and other regions in the world.

Geographic diversity is affected by quality - of - life ratings, with increases in the percentage of first - year students from out of state for schools on the Happy Students (about 3.7 percent) and Most Beautiful Campus (about 2 percent) lists.

«Diversity initiatives do not increase representation of minorities on medical school faculty.»

I am currently a research and science specialist in the Office for Diversity and Community Partnership (DCP) at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston where we strive to promote increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty at HMS and oversee all diversity activities involving HMS faculty, trainees, students, aDiversity and Community Partnership (DCP) at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston where we strive to promote increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty at HMS and oversee all diversity activities involving HMS faculty, trainees, students, adiversity activities involving HMS faculty, trainees, students, and staff.

They are also more likely than the general population to be from groups underrepresented in science, so increasing the number of veterans in graduate school could be a step toward greater diversity in the academy.

The BRIDGE initiative at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is all about building relationships, increasing diversity, and growing engineers.

The goals of the program include increasing interest in biological sciences and medicine among high school students, helping students to understand how scientific research is performed and increasing diversity of students and researchers in the sciences.

Reduced diversity of the intestinal microbiota during infancy is associated with increased risk of allergic disease at school age.

Top schools like Harvard, seen here in 2000, often offer scholarships and other financial incentives, but they are finding it hard to increase the socioeconomic diversity on campus.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadSchools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

Located in northern Connecticut, the Somers Elementary School serves 750 students in kindergarten through 5th grade in a community that is increasing in economic, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

The increasing diversity of home schoolers and institutional configurations should not obscure the fact that many who home school still choose this option out of frustration with or protest against formal, institution - based schooling and seek to impart an alternative, usually conservative Christian, worldview to their children by teaching them at home.

The findings set the stage for furthering desegregation efforts — in particular, court - ordered busing of students in an attempt to increase the diversity of city schools.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

A rights - based approach increases access to and participation in schooling as it fosters inclusion, diversity, equal opportunities and non-discrimination.

Schools in the South have arguably seen the greatest increase in diversity as the four trend lines come closest to converging.

New PTA President Focuses on Parent Involvement, Diversity Shirley Igo, the new National PTA president, discusses how the organization plans to further its goal of increasing parent involvement in the schools.

What started as a small town school's effort to increase diversity awareness turned into a community - wide project to remember and honor those who died during the Holocaust that has generated international attention.

In one particularly thoughtful moment the principal at Banneker wonders why black children are encouraged to go to predominantly white schools to increase diversity, but white children are seldom encouraged to move to predominantly black schools to achieve the same effect.

Roberts and Smith started the program in 1998 after Whitwell Middle School's principal, Linda Hooper, asked them to develop a program to increase students» sensitivity to diversity.

She said: «I have made it a personal mission to increase the capacity and diversity of the school system so that there is a good school place that caters to the individual needs and abilities of every single child, whatever their background and wherever they live.

As more and more schools look to increase income through their own efforts, we are beginning to see a greater diversity in fundraising methods, from events such as school fetes, fashion shows, raffles, competitions and sponsored activities through to applications to the Lottery and grant - making trusts.

Increasing gender and sexuality diversity equity in schools is important and valuable work.

First, policymakers and school administrators should expand efforts to increase the diversity of the teaching force.

Admissions preference may be given to children in low - performing schools, or to children who will increase diversity in their new school, or, in less - populated states, to those who live closer to an out - of - district school than to one that is in the district.

What it would do is give hard - working Catholic and other private - school parents a break while increasing diversity and excellence in both public and private schools.

The growing lack of civic and moral education and awareness can be explained by several things, including schools» increasing wariness of controversy, apparent partisanship, and ideological (including religious) diversity.

Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network, has called for this cap to be lifted, arguing that it does little to in increase the diversity but is «effectively discriminatory for Roman Catholics», as these limits have discouraged the opening of many Catholic free sSchools Network, has called for this cap to be lifted, arguing that it does little to in increase the diversity but is «effectively discriminatory for Roman Catholics», as these limits have discouraged the opening of many Catholic free schoolsschools.

Citing several factors that make learning more complex — increased diversity in our public school population, the inequity of out - of - school opportunities, and the increased role of technology in our lives — the report argues that many public schools are trying to respond by «overloading an outmoded structure.»

While many of the nation's public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, some charter schools and districts are starting to experiment with using weighted lotteries to increase diversity.

Moreover, under these rules, the diversity of New Orleans schools continues to increase.

The government's trial of the scheme aiming to increase the number of BME headteachers was a success, with 30 schools allocated funding to spend on diversity leadership projects which are set to benefit 1,000 teachers — all of whom are predicted a promotion within 12 months.

And with the increased social and economic diversity, schools are finding they can not get their educational work done without paying more attention to the welfare of their families and communities.