Sentences with phrase «of unequal opportunities»

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

«Is the rise of China going to last if you build it around these sorts of unequal opportunities?»

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In our own country millions of people especially American Negroes are subjected to discrimination and unequal treatment in educational opportunities, in employment, wages and conditions of work, in access to professional and business opportunities, in housing, in transportation, in the administration of justice and even in the right to vote.11

People who had unequal opportunities in convincing others in direct democracies to vote for ideas (see the first half of the answer), ALSO have the same exact unequal opportunities in convincing others to vote for their preferred representatives.

A range of across the life course and intergenerational interventions will be needed: today's unequal outcomes are tomorrow's unequal opportunities.

The participation gap: unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youth for full participation in the world of tomorrow.

I'm referring to mutual acknowledgment of the acute problems of weak achievement, unequal opportunity, too many dropout factories, and too few terrific teachers.

In in - depth interviews, the teachers said they contend daily with the obstacles their students face — obstacles caused by previous negative experiences in school, unequal opportunities, and limited services and poor support outside of school.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

This document responds to a history of colonialism and unequal education outcomes by pushing for opportunity for Māori students to succeed as Māori.

Rather, the authors collectively define racism as any act or situation that, even unwittingly, tolerates, accepts, or reinforces racially unequal opportunities for children to learn and thrive; allows racial inequalities in opportunity as if they are normal and acceptable; or treats people of color as less worthy or less complex than «white» people.

NASBE Journal: The State Education Standard by the National Association of State Boards of Education The State Education Standard, focused on state policymakers» role in addressing unequal opportunities in education.

If we want to strengthen our local, state, and national economies, we can no longer remain silent in the face of inadequate and unequal learning conditions and opportunities.

The truth, as researcher Linda Darling - Hammond has stated, is that «the U.S. educational system is one of the most unequal in the industrialized world, and students routinely receive dramatically different learning opportunities based on their social status.

Teachers said they contend daily with the obstacles their students face — obstacles caused by previous negative experiences in school, unequal opportunities, and limited services and poor support outside of school.

«A «state's rights» educational system is structured to be «separate and unequal — 50 states, 3,067 counties, tens of thousands of cities, 15,000 school districts and 85,000 schools — all «separate and unequal,» each with varying degrees of opportunity, funding and quality,» says Sharpton.

Unequal access to opportunities for developing life skills plays a role in the over-representation of those with independent school backgrounds of the UK's top professions.

The new Common Core State Standards in mathematics will address two long - standing problems in U.S. education: the mediocre quality of mathematics learning and unequal opportunity in U.S. schools.

But they know not to talk about substantive education issues that affect these children like the one reported by the Civil Rights Project: «Based on evidence from several important measures of segregation, the Civil Rights Project stands by its strong contention that re-segregation has occurred, and that African - American and Latino students are experiencing more isolation in schools than they were a generation ago — and further, that this segregation is deeply linked to unequal educational opportunities.»

That is what we have been doing for hundreds of years with substantially unequal and separate opportunities in education and the economy.

The Coleman Report, mandated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was commissioned to shine a light on unequal educational opportunity across the country, and to expose differences between schools attended by black and white students, particularly in the South.

Issues in equity and desegregation negatively impact student success in numerous ways to include a lack of access and opportunity to gifted programs and advanced coursework, low expectations, disproportionate student discipline, and unequal resource distribution.

Lack of access to high quality summer learning opportunities has real consequences — more than half of the achievement gap between lower and higher - income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities.

The author highlights numerous obstacles to achieving an equitable education system for all students: poverty, inadequate social supports, limited early childhood opportunities, re-segregation; unequal access to quality and certified teachers; low - quality curricula; differential placements in advanced and college preparatory classes, tracking of students, and dysfunctional teaching and learning environments.

Today, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released data that show the continued result of unequal educational opportunity for marginalized students.

Helping students land career opportunities is a passion of Simply Great Resumes and especially with Spring Graduation around the corner and the current job market, SGR is more determined to bridge the current unequal gap.

Despite these diverse activities and unequal interests in a claim area, often all of these external stakeholders have an equal opportunity to participate in mediating our native title claim.

While demographic factors in some metros, such as a younger than average population, may be fueling unequal housing outcomes, along with a national trend that has been pointing to a gradually widening gap, there still seems to be plenty of opportunity for changes to local housing policy that could move the needle in a favorable wave for low - income groups.