Sentences with phrase «on education inequality»

In an Education Sector report released yesterday — The New State Achievement Gap: How Waivers Could Make It Worse - Or Better — Constance Clark and I report the effects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on education inequality, the ill that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was long ago written to cure.

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CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

Byanyima blamed «tax dodging» as a major cause of global inequality and urged leaders to clamp down on tax havens and plough money into education, healthcare and jobs for young people.

Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media http://www.seejane.org/about/ The Institute is uniquely positioned to spotlight gender inequalities at every media and entertainment company through cutting - edge research, education, training, strategic guidance and advocacy programs.

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«We wouldn't play Little League this way,» she said, reflecting on the inequalities of education funding in her state.

«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»

Networking & Dinner 6:30 PM — 7:00 PM Welcome Reception Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM Keynote Address Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences & Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

Cuomo criticized inequalities in education in New York state, and he announced that he's signing an executive order to allow people on parole to vote.

I have discounted the obvious... like not privatise the NHS or entrench inequality in education — plus there has been enough on energy already!

In a statement from his hometown of Peru, New York, Derrick touted his 30 years in the military — which took him from the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea, to the German border and to domestic posts — but said his campaign would focus on issues such as education, agriculture and income inequality.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says this year's event will highlight the hardships of wage inequality and struggling public schools.

Commenting on the launch of a consultation by the Secretary of State for Education on professional development for teachers and calling for expressions of interest in a College of Teaching, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «This Government can establish whatever framework it likes for professional development but unless teachers are given a contractual entitlement to access such development, the current system of inequality and ad hoc arrangements will continue, with access being on the basis of grace and favour and the whims and preferences of individual employers.

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

«Whilst we welcome the intention behind the audit of public services to address racial disparities, the fact is that in education, the Department for Education is already in possession of a wealth of evidence, much of it provided by NASUWT, on racial and other inequalities faced by young people, teachers and the education workforce ineducation, the Department for Education is already in possession of a wealth of evidence, much of it provided by NASUWT, on racial and other inequalities faced by young people, teachers and the education workforce inEducation is already in possession of a wealth of evidence, much of it provided by NASUWT, on racial and other inequalities faced by young people, teachers and the education workforce ineducation workforce in general.

On Friday, Teachout, her voice still hoarse from Tuesday's election, urged voters to now focus on helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communitieOn Friday, Teachout, her voice still hoarse from Tuesday's election, urged voters to now focus on helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communitieon helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communities.

When he broached the income inequality discussion, he framed it not as a matter of the very rich versus the very poor, but the zeroed in on the need to reform public education in the state, casting the teachers unions (generally supported by Democrats) as the villains in this telling.

Record income inequality, misguided policies and a lack of support have inflicted significant damage on our schools and education workforce.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Nixon also called on the governor to increase education funding, and said she would «commit to ending racial and economic inequality in this state.»

On Tuesday, de Blasio will attend a fundraiser in Seattle hosted by venture capitalist and early Amazon.com investor Nick Hanauer and his wife Leslie Hanauer, philanthropists who run a nonprofit foundation dedicated to education and income inequality.

Deming is an economist interested in educational inequality and the impact of education policies on long - term outcomes.

And, he is increasingly focusing on the link between education and rising inequality.

A real impact of civic and intercultural education implies «moving away from a focus on individual (identity) difference / s towards a focus on finding, through principled intercultural discourse, consensus for social action to redress injustice and inequality in the multicultural society» (Ohana & Otten, 2012).

How well children do at school is largely affected by where they live, according to a study from the Commission on Inequality in Education, chaired by Nick Clegg.

UNESCO's 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, released today, warns that disproportionate blame on any one actor for systemic educational problems can have serious negative side effects, widening inequality and damaging learning.

Over 180 students will discuss their work on critical issues in education: mind / brain research, religious pluralism and public education; gender inequality; gay, lesbian, and bisexual learners; and new technologies in education.

03, minister of Parliament in Kenya will give the keynote address at the 7th Annual Alumni of Color Conference (AOCC), Crossing Borders: Exploring Local and Global Perspectives on Race, Inequality, and Education, on Friday, March 6, at 5:00 p.m. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Education for Syrian refugees, educational inequality in South Africa, and teacher professionalism reform in Chile were some of the very engaging (and often difficult) topics discussed at the Global Education Conference held at HGSE on January 22.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

«I have redesigned my seminar on education, policy, and inequality in Latin America this semester to include a section that engages the students in doing case studies of leaders who have succeeded at creating educational opportunities for disadvantaged children,» he says.

The UNESCO GEM Report's World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) shows the breakdowns for learning in countries, depending on the language of assessment:

It also helps to tackle inequalities, improve education and impacts positively on local enterprise and sustainability.

Johnson outlined in the Guardian the view that tuition fees allow the Government to reconcile its three policy objectives for undergraduate higher education: to reduce inequality, to fund institutions on a level which facilitates global competitiveness, and also to share the cost «between the individual student benefitting from a graduate earnings premium and taxpayers in general, most of whom will not have attended university.»

Open Educational Resources (OER) are the ideal tool to leverage on the affordances of technology and the insights of online learning to reduce the inequalities in the Sub-Saharan African countries» education systems.

On Saturday, March 1, Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum comes to the Harvard Graduate School of Education as keynote speaker for the 2014 Alumni of Color Conference, «From Dreams to Movements: Education, Inequality, and Justice.»

«The Bill places a strong duty on education authorities and ministers to address inequalities of outcome, it makes explicit the link between those inequalities and socio - economic disadvantage.

«On the current trajectory, the targets that we have set for reducing inequality in the school and higher education system by 2022 will not be achieved.

That marks a significant milestone for education in this country in that we are now utterly focused on there being duties on national and local government to act to reduce the impact of poverty and inequality on children's learning.»

This time, he will go to work on Capitol Hill as part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Fellowship, which provides an opportunity to gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that engender a «school - to - prison pipeline,» and the policy mechanism necessary to address the inequalities that deny some students access to a complete and competitive education, from cradle through career.

C. M. Rubin's Global Education Report The stark problem of inequality from a wide range of theoretical and hands - on perspectives was a...

«Through her work on Black in America, Latino in America, and other journalistic endeavors, Soledad has focused America's attention on the important issue of education inequality,» said Dean Kathleen McCartney.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

They are employing WGBH to create a 10 - 12 minute video that tells the story of the book, including both the disturbing effects of increased family income inequality on the quality of education provided to children from low - income families, and the evidence on strategies to improve educational opportunities for low - income children.

If we're concerned about inequality in education, then we have to be focused on kids reading.

Beth studies education policy, politics, and inequality with a focus on efforts to improve low - performing K - 12 schools and districts.

His professional life has been dedicated to the advancement of empirical methods in the social sciences, with a focus on the economics of education and its implications for inequality and social mobility.

Among the notable authorities on both sides are the following: C. Jencks, Inequality (1972); C. Silberman, Crisis in the Classroom (1970); U.S. Office of Education, Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966)(the Coleman Report); On Equality of Educational Opportunity (F. Mosteller 8 D. Moynihan eds.1972); J. Guthrie, G. Kleindorfer, H. Levin R. Stout, Schools and Inequality (1971); President's Commission on School Finance, supra, n. 85; Swanson, The Cost - Quality Relationship, in The Challenge of Change in School Finance, 10th Naon both sides are the following: C. Jencks, Inequality (1972); C. Silberman, Crisis in the Classroom (1970); U.S. Office of Education, Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966)(the Coleman Report); On Equality of Educational Opportunity (F. Mosteller 8 D. Moynihan eds.1972); J. Guthrie, G. Kleindorfer, H. Levin R. Stout, Schools and Inequality (1971); President's Commission on School Finance, supra, n. 85; Swanson, The Cost - Quality Relationship, in The Challenge of Change in School Finance, 10th NaOn Equality of Educational Opportunity (F. Mosteller 8 D. Moynihan eds.1972); J. Guthrie, G. Kleindorfer, H. Levin R. Stout, Schools and Inequality (1971); President's Commission on School Finance, supra, n. 85; Swanson, The Cost - Quality Relationship, in The Challenge of Change in School Finance, 10th Naon School Finance, supra, n. 85; Swanson, The Cost - Quality Relationship, in The Challenge of Change in School Finance, 10th Nat.