Sentences with phrase «meaningful educational opportunities»

Combined with teacher - made measures of authentic student achievement, perhaps we can begin to close the achievement gap and build meaningful educational opportunities and success for students.

Extensive inequities in education funding, by which students with the greatest needs receive the fewest funds, still prevail in many parts of the United States; for that reason, state courts continue to have a critical role in ensuring meaningful educational opportunities for all children.

Michael Rebell: Extensive inequities in education funding, by which students with the greatest needs receive the fewest funds, still prevail in many parts of the United States; for that reason, state courts continue to have a critical role in ensuring meaningful educational opportunities for all children.

He was a member of the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission, which was charged with examining disparities in meaningful educational opportunities that give rise to the achievement gap, and with recommending ways that federal policies could address such disparities.

Absent meaningful educational opportunity, talk of liberty and personal responsibility can ring hollow.

Overwhelmingly, poor and minority students were denied meaningful educational opportunities because of the abysmal quality of schools they attended.

Centennial Elementary, located in Circle Pines, inspires learners to grow academically and socially every day through meaningful educational opportunities.

The chance to work with a talented and dedicated staff as well as a committed board to ensure meaningful educational opportunities for the children of New Orleans was too hard to pass up.

The Commission on Equity and Excellence had a Congressional mandate to provide advice to Secretary Duncan on the disparities in meaningful educational opportunities and to recommend ways in which federal policies can address such disparities.

Rather than short - term gimmicks, our young people need a long - term commitment to proper guidance, meaningful educational opportunities and stable, properly rewarded jobs,» she said in a statement.

In testimony before the Texas School Finance Commission, IDRA called on the commission to ensure equity and meaningful educational opportunity for all students in all communities of the state.