Sentences with phrase «issue of class»

The legislation also prohibited collective bargaining on issues of class size and composition.
Second, whatever problems colleges have in enrolling and educating students from disadvantaged backgrounds appear to be driven by issues of class more than by race.
Her paintings continue to garner attention from art historians concerned not only with Canadian art but also with issues of class, gender and race.
As it does, issues of class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are raised.
You just can't talk about sexuality and gender without engaging the complicated issues of race, and you can't talk about race without engaging complicated, under - recognized issues of class.
I hoped this contract would go further in addressing issues of class size, developmentally inappropriate standards, lack of robust curriculum, targeted intervention for students, art instruction, too - large caseloads for counselors, psychologists, and social workers, over emphasis on high stakes testing, the deficit of resources for special needs children, and the continued reliance on flawed test based evaluation.
The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.
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This taut, sophisticated mystery brings issues of class, race, and justice into sharp focus.
Marshall's works simultaneously gestures towards opposite ends of the economic spectrum, thus evoking the same issues of class mobility and its inherent connections to race and representation as in earlier paintings like Great America.
Through her artistic practice and her teaching, both of which are very closely integrated, she rigorously explored complex issues of class, gender, health and the body; combining personal experience, political understanding and critical theory.
In a film of forced ambiguities, the decision to leave Jewel's jailbait status unsubstantiated actually feels organic, age being one of life's red herrings to distract us from issues of class.
Miguel Arteta's «Beatriz at Dinner» is like a short story that was written last week, staring directly at issues of class, race and privilege while leaving an open ending.
in a case concerning novel issues of class construction under the Companies Act.
The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»
Written in 1944 during a lull in the 40 - year - old's World War II service, the story takes place over the previous two decades and considers issues of class, religion, and the heart.
Beyond that, it also speaks to contemporary issues of class struggle, segregation, ghettoization and most key and interesting to much of the conflict, an inter-ideological mingling transferred to black culture.
A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.
The novel traces the wealthy Porters» time on the Point from the 1940s to the late 1990s, revealing issues of class difference, generational tensions, and environmental pressure along the way.
Jules: As I noted in my BookPage review, I do love how the book touches on issues of class without being didactic about it.
While issues of class and cultural differences, exoticization of the «other,» etc., are invoked, these videos also convey a sense of curiosity, humor, and joy that emphasize a common humanity.
Given the often loaded nuances of these words, and considering how vocabularies are enlisted by various professions, we also have to read issues of class, and at times ethnic culture and gender, into the dialogue around craft.»
In turn, the «series explores worldwide issues of class and power as it exists today, has existed in the past, and as it will exist tomorrow.»
Labour's hotly - contested leadership election is underpinned by issues of class and poverty.
Jo Spence's photography deals with issues of class, power and gender, death and dying.
Crystal connects with the long history of glassmaking (as well as issues of class) in Europe, while the mixed materials and the look of these sculptures connect with different kinds of African sculptures.
Para Site is pleased to present Afterwork, a major group exhibition exploring issues of class, race, labour and migration in Hong Kong and the surrounding region.
Landman's Dickensian novel, about an eighteenth - century English teen determined to clear his father's name, tells a taut mystery that brings issues of class, race, and justice into sharp focus.
The paintings raise themes of immigration, while the dualism of the imagery — simultaneously evoking the slave trade and an amusement park «Tunnel of Love» ride — refer to issues of class mobility and ambition central to American life.
Spence held the firm belief that photography has an empowering capacity when applied to complex issues of class, power, gender, health and the body.
The monumentality of her work, and elevation of the status of objects through her unique visual strategy, engages the viewer in a discourse on issues of class, culture, identity and gender.
Warner, on the other hand, essentially elides the issue of class.
The question of the economic life of the Minjung goes beyond the issue of class.
A lot of the responsibility for these defeats falls on the traditional environmental movement, which has a sad history of insensitivity to issues of class and race.
But since then, with Osborne's ill - judged cut in the 50p tax rate always there as evidence, issues of class have combined with questions of competence to make the charge resonate more strongly.
Lummaa and her colleagues are also using the data to explore issues of class, showing that the rich in olden times produced more heirs than the poor.
Perhaps Zeitlin isn't really making an issue of class distinctions.
Issues of class and race resurface here as they tend to do when the Harry Potter series is at its best, and Harry's much - publicized first kiss with love interest Cho (Katie Leung) is resolved fascinatingly with betrayal and unresolved vindication.
Within this story of the Van Peteghems and the Bruforts, the film deals with, among other things, issues of class, wealth, and gender.
With so much activity surrounding the issue of class size, one would think that the American education system were facing an unprecedented crisis of overcrowded classrooms and harried teachers.
As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.
* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.
Then there was the issue of class size.
In her beautifully written memoir of growing up in an upper - class African American family in Chicago in the 1960s and»70s, Jefferson addresses issues of class that complicate the quest for racial unity.
Alternating between flash fiction and longer ruminative stories, Alfian Sa'at adopts the role of compassionate and creative demographer, tracing the inner lives of his fictional characters as they navigate individual and collective nostalgias, religious piety and doubt, and issues of class and race.
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