Sentences with phrase «name of equity»

In the name of equity, don't Muslims too have rights, of self - expression, under the law?

Instead of devoting so much energy to dismissing the standards movement, small - schools founders and advocates would do well to engage the discussion and help refine or redefine state standards and statewide accountability systems in the name of equity.

But these serious problems are completely disregarded as vouchers send funds away from those schools — and in the name of equity!

They believe that we must empower Uncle Sam in the name of equity and that to defer to private, voluntary communities is a way we allow backward, destructive conduct to continue.

Policymakers and educators say they are doing this in the name of equity.

But hurting Success Academies in the name of equity would harm thousands of disadvantaged kids.

These are all far more effective avenues for authorizers to pursue in the name of equity than quotas.

Demographic quotas for charters in the name of equity are the latest policy cudgel of choice pushed by teachers union bosses in states all over the country.

Current trends in school reform have led to the disbanding of honors classes, gifted education programs, and ability grouping, sometimes in the name of equity.

Without such differentiation, a uniform curriculum taught in largely the same way to all students in the name of equity can frustrate both high - achieving students and their classmates who need extra help in mastering academic content and skills.

To modify the criteria or make exceptions to them in the name of equity is unfair because it «waters down the program» and admits students who «don't belong.»

Has giving more money to the parents or the schools of low - achieving students or lowering academic standards in the name of equity or accessibility improved their academic record or social status?

Au contraire, it has led education policy makers to come up with ever - more - costly and damaging changes in educational practices to what is ultimately a non-educational problem — a problem that can not be solved by the schools no matter how much money Congress or state legislatures vote to give local school districts in the name of equity or compensation for the low - income students they happen to enroll.

Looking around the world, the greatest action being taken against climate change is not about altruism or in the name of equity.