Sentences with phrase «learn about the inequities»

Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

Through active participation at my child's school, I learned about the inequities between charter and district schools in New York.

Not exact matches

You could say that Megamind is a tad resentful about good vs. evil inequities — «Good receives all the praise and adulation, while evil spends quiet time in the corner» — and he's especially miffed when he learns that Metro City is erecting a giant statue and museum in honor of Metro Man, who is one dumb hero.

Student choice; learning by doing; discourse about power, inequity, and students» lived experiences; and student activism — all ingredients that make for powerful student agency and preparation for active citizenship in an increasingly diverse and global world.

MindShift explores how learning is impacted by technology, discoveries about how the brain works, poverty and inequities, social and emotional practices, assessments, digital games, design thinking and music, among many other topics.

That's what's disheartening about supergroups: Beyond masking inequities in learning opportunities and outcomes, they ignore diversity.

As I learn more about our public school system, I see inequities that prevent all children from reaching their full potential.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.