Sentences with phrase «more economic diversity»

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Innovation thrives on diversity; by excluding more than half of our population, we are greatly limiting economic growth.

This system of belief and social interpretation generally does not reflect the diversity of social reality there is within the society, but is consistent more with the economic or ideological system which has given it birth and its corporate managers who hold power within the system and benefit from it.

It is this which the contented churchmanship of the eighteenth century seemed to fail to realize — one thinks of such amusing illustrations as Adam Smith's discussion of the ministry in England and Scotland on the basis of its economic status 3 or the even more startling defense of diversity of orders in the Church by Archdeacon Paley on the ground that it «may be considered as the stationing of ministers of religion in the various ranks of civil life.»

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Our program of tuition assistance supports this diversity by making the School more accessible to families of varying economic backgrounds.

The economic tendency of immigrants to work in large urban areas is one of the main reasons that large urban areas have much more religious diversity, and many more residents who are neither WASP nor African - American, than rural areas.

In the week since Election Day, we've seen more than 100 years of social and economic justice advocacy and legislation threatened and the cherished diversity of American society thrown into question.

However, if greater economic dynamism, more powerful incentives for creativity, cultural innovation, greater opportunity for material comfort, greater acceptance of diversity, and greater personal liberty are taken as measures of societal well - being, then the United States might be better.

She compares and contrasts the «no excuses» model of charter schools with sundry «diversity» initiatives — mainly socio - economic mixing à la Rick Kahlenberg — and finds the former possibly more effective and definitely more politically viable.

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.

Education scholars like Kahlenberg, one of the nation's leading advocates for economic integration, note droves of research papers that cite the positive impacts of diversity in K - 12 schooling, including enhanced critical thinking, higher academic achievement, greater civic responsibility, higher college - going rates and more lucrative jobs.

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

Grant notes that pushing for diversity in public schools is about more than closing achievement gaps: «The goal is to provide more opportunities for people to freely associate across racial, ethnic, and economic lines» (p. 184).

Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.24

The other way schools are creating economic diversity is to redraw district boundaries so that more middle class students attend low - income schools.

In terms of their economic, political and social views, Generation X and Millennials are generally more tolerant of racial and ethnic diversity, as well as same - sex marriage, and lean heavily Democratic at the polls.

But compared to areas northward, we are surrounded by a lot more low - income and affordable housing units and co-ops, which hopefully will result in the preservation of the economic and racial diversity that makes the neighborhood typical of the «garden» of New York.

Perhaps the most notable of these at the international level is the Convention on Biological Diversity's Decision XIII / 14 para 6 which notes «that more transdisciplinary research and sharing of knowledge among appropriate institutions is needed in order to better understand the impacts of climate - related geoengineering on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, socio - economic, cultural and ethical issues and regulatory options.»

From Civil Eats: [Straight economic figures] are more difficult to project, partly because the benefits are often measured in terms of what is not happening — like adverse environmental and health impacts — or practices with indirect benefits, such as crop diversity.

Professor Taylor attributes this development to many factors, including the need for lower - tiered schools to maintain revenue by (wittingly or unwittingly) using diversity to help accomplish this goal, as well as elite law schools using the economic downturn as an opportunity to focus more on admitting students with the highest LSAT scores.

Finally, given that corporations are demanding more diversity within law firm ranks, why hasn't that pushed firms — purely for economic motives — to work harder to help women advance?

Moreover, Verrier says he still puts his faith in the global law firm: «There still is a high degree of diversity here; it could turn out that global firms are more insulated from economic downturns.»

National courts in the EU face three kinds of challenge in dealing with competition law: - the factual and often legal complexity of many cases — the need to understand often detailed economic and other evidence is routine in most competition cases; - an official policy of encouraging more claimants to come forward and assert their rights; and - the «astonishing diversity» of procedures across the EU for enforcing competition law claims.

Even more importantly I LOVE the socio economic and cultural diversity that is created with the random lottery process.

Other metros with large amounts of housing distress like Las Vegas and Riverside - San Bernardino lack the economic diversity that Phoenix has, resulting in a far more restrained economic recovery.