Sentences with phrase «of systemic disadvantage»

It linked the symptoms of Indigenous distress, such as the high rate of encounters with the criminal justice system, with the underlying cause of systemic disadvantage suffered by Indigenous Australians.

When identifying another student pushes a district over a risk ratio threshold, the district faces a clear incentive to under identify — that is, to withhold services from — children who already face a broad array of systemic disadvantages.

Not exact matches

I believe we're moving towards a world of technological haves and have - nots, where businesses that fail to adopt technology will have a significant and systemic disadvantage in the marketplace going forward.

Oppression Claimed to be systemic and part of group consciousness, as well as individual acts, that disadvantage certain social groups.

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

Rashawn Ray, a social psychologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, noted a «systemic and numerical disadvantage of women in higher education,» especially women of color.

As a principal of an elementary school with steadily increasing numbers of economically disadvantaged students, I have seen a shift in focus on academic as well as systemic strategies in our approach to student success.

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.

These requirements may appear to relieve educators of the pressures to achieve proficiency, but they also provide the opportunity for systemic exclusion which would further marginalize the needs of these historically disadvantaged student populations.

Fulfillment Fund (CA): Helps promising, yet educationally underserved and economically disadvantaged students achieve high school graduation and access to and completion of higher education through programs that also produce systemic change.

As Youth United for Change (YUC) Executive Director and Organizer Andi Perez explains to the new recruits, they have a chance to get involved in a campaign to remedy the systemic inequalities in the Philadelphia public schools — inequalities that place them, as students of color in a rough area of the city, at a disadvantage.

Like a coin, a system of oppression has two sides: systemic advantage and systemic disadvantage.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

Considering these factors together — the personal, the cultural, and the systemic — led us to conceive of an archetypal disadvantaged student.

c) the problem to identify and design adequate policy frameworks for supportingmitigation and adaptation in agriculture, i.e. such that do not put systemic approaches at a disadvantage due to difficulties in the quantification of emissions, and in their allocation to single products;

(See for example, this article by Kendyl Sebesta, where a lawyer from Trinidad claimed systemic disadvantages in the legal profession barred him from a meaningful articling experience and eventually led him to hire a law clerk who involved him with a series of fraudulent mortgage transactions).

Of particular note in this context is the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licenseeOf particular note in this context is the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licenseeof Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licensees.

«Systemic [racism] can be described as patterns of behaviour, policies or practices that are part of the structures of an organization, and which create or perpetuate disadvantage for racialized persons.»

The same student opined that the reputation of the Law Society would suffer «when a disproportionate number of LPP students are found to be minorities, racialized groups, etc.» The LPP will perpetuate the systemic disadvantages that already face students from equity seeking groups.

It reduces Indigenous disadvantage to an individual level, implying that there is a lack of responsibility on the part of Indigenous people who are on welfare, while failing to recognise the broader, systemic nature of Indigenous disadvantage in this country.

[106] The McClure Report is accordingly limited in its approach to Indigenous - specific issues, especially given the systemic nature of Indigenous disadvantage, its basis in «historical exclusion, marginalisation, and now welfare dependency», [107] and diverse circumstances of Indigenous people.

There are references to various systemic therapies, including in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it».

These NICE Pathways have been published at http://pathways.nice.org.uk There are references to various systemic therapies, including in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it».

The systemic and grossly disproportionate rate of disadvantage faced by Indigenous people requires that Australia take special measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of Indigenous people, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The current criminal justice system has a deleterious effect on Indigenous communities through over-representation of Indigenous people in custody, in large part due to historically derived disadvantage and ongoing systemic discrimination.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?

There is a body of evidence that suggests systemic discrimination and disempowerment and economic and social disadvantage are contributing to this situation.

Indigenous disadvantage is the result of systemic discrimination; - the appropriate benchmark by which to measure progress is one of equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians;