Sentences with phrase «of racial diversity»

The state of racial diversity in the educator workforce.

Last week's column, about the lack of racial diversity among education news organizations, generated a lot of attention and criticism — much of it misguided from my perspective.

What is the level of racial diversity of teachers in traditional public schools?

But on a day - to - day level, Christian leaders are often unsure of how exactly to make the dream of racial diversity a reality.

First, the great triumph of the civil - rights movement was its success in getting whites to support the principle of racial diversity in the schools.

Instead of racial diversity, the goal was diversity of achievement.

A piece of entertainment can only be considered racially diverse when it makes room for the spectrum of racial diversity that we have in the real world.

That experience provided him with a greater understanding of racial diversity that became the foundation of his art for communicating important social issues.

Among the study's limitations were the absence of a placebo group that could pinpoint the sources of side effects, and a lack of racial diversity, with 88 percent white participants.

Although the participants knew the mock jury was a court - sponsored experiment, they did not know that the true purpose of the research was to study the impact of racial diversity on jury decision making.

In 2006 Margaret Neale of Stanford University, Gregory Northcraft of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and I set out to examine the impact of racial diversity on small decision - making groups in an experiment where sharing information was a requirement for success.

The issue of racial diversity in the leadership of CB3 became a hot topic during this past Tuesday night's full board meeting.

And not just African Americans, but the full scope of racial diversity.

Awol Erizku is an Ethiopian - born artist who works in wide range of mediums with the focus on the issue of the lack of racial diversity through the history of art.

The course was to address the relative absence of racial diversity in many of the age groups at Trinity.

Also, I recognize that they mention the value of racial diversity (its exposing individuals to different viewpoints) and how they had tried and failed to achieve it without directly considering race, but if their only genuine motive is to promote diversity of perspectives, then striving for diversity of perspectives rather than diversity of skin color should be massively more effective, as it directly addresses the issue that is being resolved.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The teachers union and state lawmakers are pushing to overhaul admissions at the city's top public high schools, calling the lack of racial diversity at the schools «an embarrassment.»

The debate over the use of race in admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade - off among three worthwhile goals: race - blindness, academic selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.

For example, in 2004 Jennifer A. Richeson, then at Dartmouth College, and her colleagues measured the reaction times on certain psychological tests of about 50 white college students after half of them had been given material that argued for color - blind policies to achieve interracial harmony and the other half received material favoring the deliberate promotion of racial diversity.

And there was a lot of talk about the lack of racial diversity amongst this crop of nominees, stuff that once sounded like rumors were now things Chris Rock was spurting out loudly on stage — calling out Jada Pinkett Smith and by extent William over there, and other actors who were protesting the Oscars for the lack of inclusion of black nominees.

In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007), the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed as compelling government interests both the attainment of racial diversity and the avoidance of segregation in schools (see «Affirmative Action Docketed,» legal beat, Winter 2007).

San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.

I explored the role of racial diversity in the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College.

Rising levels of racial diversity bring many opportunities for integration, but a key challenge will be to ensure that metros and districts that become diverse remain diverse — and do not resegregate.

Effects of racial diversity on complex thinking in college students.

Recently, ballet companies have been denounced for uncritically perpetuating traditions at odds with contemporary society and notions of racial diversity, equality, and social justice.

And that could force the Court to answer a simple but profound question: is the achievement of racial diversity itself in any way «remedial,» and, if it is, what evils does it remedy?»

The Diversity Divide Recent studies show lack of racial diversity among educators in America.

I have always been interested in issues of racial diversity and met a number of «Kuumbabes» in my work with Harvard undergraduates.

Industry watchers say Hollywood needs a stronger infrastructure of support for black filmmakers to sustain this level of racial diversity on and off the screen.

With the aim of drawing attention to the lack of racial diversity through the history of painting, Awol Erizku creates photographs, paintings, sculpture, and video installations that evoke classical artworks whose subjects are replaced with models of color.

Although the participants knew the mock jury was a court - sponsored experiment, they did not know that the true purpose of the research was to study the impact of racial diversity on jury decision making.

A group called Creatives of Colour Network organized a protest beside the red carpet against a lack of racial diversity in show business.

This, of course, would have been a nice opportunity to hire a black model, as there aren't many jobs available for non-white models (as Jezebel pointed out, 82 percent of the models at New York Fashion Week this season were white) and some might argue (I would argue) that the lack of racial diversity in the fashion industry promotes a standard of beauty which verges on (slash is) white supremacist.

His credibility rests in part at least on his irreverence, and online he has appeared unwilling to play it safe, sharing near - the - knuckle gags about the lack of racial diversity in this year's Oscars race with his 13 million Twitter followers.

A few years ago, at a convening of education advocates, one veteran in the reform movement highlighted the lack of racial diversity in the room...

Juan Perales might be part of a solution to a problem plaguing Minnesota school districts — a lack of racial diversity among teachers despite a growing number of students of color.

n Finally, the report noted the lack of racial diversity among teachers.

about What Levels of Racial Diversity can be Achieved with Socioeconomic - Based Affirmative Action?

Awol Erizku's multimedia artistic practice draws attention to the lack of racial diversity and the profusion of cultural appropriation in Western art history.

Although the lack of racial diversity in Canada is so bad that it's described as a «judiciary of whiteness,» commitments to other forms of diversity might only accentuate the problem.