Not exact matches
Speaking just a few days after he
moved from the Midwest to begin the fall semester, Diamond outlined the pressing educational and sociological
issues he hopes to tackle in his new post.Among them: the K — 12
racial achievement gap.
This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students
move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the
issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and
racial sorting.
The main
issue before the Supreme Court, and the nation's citizens, is whether we will continue to accept these inequities or
move forward in fulfilling the promise of Brown and the moral and educational imperatives of
racial integration.
He points out immigration was a very hot
issue in the presidential debates, and «some of the
racial and ethnic divides became part of the narrative so I think that's playing into the anxiety of many in terms of what their place might be in the United States
moving forward and then they look to Canada as a potential solution.»
It is now 2018 and we have not
moved the dial as much as I thought we would have by now on the
issue of
racial equality.
Do you find it hard to
move on due to divorce, separation, death of loved one, illness, or gender /
racial issues?