Sentences with phrase «on their segregation from»

In this sense, one could argue that the key to ensuring the success of pregnant teens isn't so much dependent on their segregation from a regular student body as it is the school's ability to provide them with a network of support that is sufficient enough to allow them to focus on school, rather than having to navigate the difficulties of pregnancy alone.

Not exact matches

He was from Mississippi, and Jennings was outspoken in her opposition to racial segregation: «Pete told me once that he would never take me to Biloxi because I was so outspoken in my views on discrimination that I'd be killed.»

For example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority or calls for exclusion or segregation — on people from protected groups.

They are compelled to live in segregation from the «upper» castes and to use different water sources on account of their «polluting» influence; their educational and career opportunities are often greatly limited by their caste.

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

There are plenty of rude comments from atheists on here, but none surpass those of the Christian dimwit on here advocating segregation of gays.

The Southern Baptist branch was based on segregation when it formed, splitting from its parent Baptist Church which apparently could not in theory subjugate individuals to being less than human based on skin, eye, and hair color and features.

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

«For Judaism to insist rigorously on aloofness, on segregation, on maintaining itself as a self - enclosed community, is to withhold its witness from the general community, proclaimed an editorial of December 20, 1939.

Yet I also believe there was a fourth iconic moment in America's journey from a land fouled by segregation to the most racially egalitarian nation on the planet.

The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.

Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.

Speaking in support of the amendment, Baroness Massey said that «my chief concern is the fostering of segregation in schools on the basis of religion... I believe that all schools should include and educate all pupils together so that they can learn from each other instead of being segregated on religious and other grounds.»

On its website the Alliance party describes its aims as being «to build a Northern Irish society devoid of segregation, sectarianism and prejudice where everyone - Catholic or Protestant, black or white, local or immigrant, rich or poor, young or old - can live their live the way they want, free from fear».

However, evidence from a range of sources released in recent months has been overwhelming in its condemnation of the move, revealing that removing the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection would not only lead to increased levels of segregation in schools and communities, but also damage social mobility and reduce the access of parents to their local schools.

This release is based on the findings from the report «Black Africans in Britain: Integration or segregation?»

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

We demand that inmates who have been assaultive and have been re-arrested to be immediately removed from whatever facility on Rikers that they are in and sent to a different jail system where punitive segregation exists.

Using student application data from 2014, Frankenberg also compared the segregation of students under the existing policy, along with several other common methods of assigning students that are not necessarily focused on diversity.

I had a chance to see work from one of my favorite artist, Jean - Michel Basquiat, he was an American artist who became known for his graffiti work in the Lower East Side of NYC, a high school drop out; he gained fame and Basquiat's art focused on «suggestive dichotomies», such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience.

Although all these strands are intermittently interesting, particularly the latter which emerges from witches suppressing their power (Rowling's social commentary on segregation no doubt), each one isn't given enough time to be adequately explored.

The rigor and relevance of his work — on subjects ranging from the long - term benefits of the Head Start program, the value of degrees from for - profit colleges, and the effects of racial segregation on academic achievement and life outcomes — make his findings absolutely essential reading for academics and policymakers alike,» said Dean James Ryan.

A new policy brief from a civil rights group is calling on the federal government to do more to counter racial segregation in the nation's growing population of charter schools.

We study the long - term impact of increased school segregation on crime by matching students» enrollment records from CMS to their arrest and incarceration records from 1998 to 2010.

This analysis reflects the fact that the federal Constitution protects us from certain kinds of governmental action — such as state - imposed segregation, prohibitions on free speech, or invasions of personal privacy — but does not create expansive positive rights or guarantee governmental assistance.

Findings from a 1999 study on segregation, conducted by the Civil Rights Project, can be found on Harvard Graduate School of Education's website.

On the other hand, it is far from clear that the original supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that it prohibited school segregation.

Education Justine Greening made a statement on the consultation in the House of Common's and faced criticism from Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner, who said that the proposals promoted «segregation, segregation, segregation» and quoted former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's comments that it would be «delusional» to think that expanding grammars is a «good idea».

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

Seven of the eight previous studies using similar definitions of segregation found that, on average, students move from more segregated to less segregated schools as a result of school choice.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

Based on a review of existing literature, it argues that the best way to address rising school segregation is to decouple school assignment from neighborhoods through universal school choice.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

White flight from public schools to segregation academies in Alabama had devastating effects on districts» abilities to raise funds.

Based on our research and our own understanding as New York City public school parents, we encourage the DOE to shift its focus away from highly competitive, market - based school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentality.

The national report compiles results from rigorous empirical studies that examine the academic outcomes of school choice students, the academic effect of competition on public schools, the fiscal impact of school choice on taxpayers and government, racial segregation in schools and the effect of school choice on civic values and practices.

This collection of briefs from the National Education Policy Center examines important policy issues (including the impacts of school choice and housing policy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified problems.

researchers from the Civil Rights Project asked in a paper on «severe segregation» of Latino students published last September.

The case, which stemmed from the arrest of Irene Morgan, a Baltimore woman who had just gotten over a miscarriage, by Hayes Store, Va., police in 1944 for refusing to hand her seat on a Greyhound bus to white riders, would be one of the first blows against Jim Crow segregation.

On the one hand critics of charter schools say that far from advancing integration, they are a source of segregation.

The findings about segregation from «A Win - Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice» are not ambiguous.

The money from that — call it a tax on segregation — can go to making beautiful schools in the cities.

These practices are: 1) inclusive education is not a separate initiative from general education, 2) students receiving special education services are general education students first, 3) decisions about student services are based on individual student needs, 4) the district must raise its expectations for students with disabilities and end their social and physical segregation, and 5) the success of every student is the collective responsibility of all district educators.

«We are calling for a moratorium on the expansion of the charter schools at least until such time as: (1) Charter schools are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools; (2) public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school systems; (3) charter schools cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate and; (4) cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.»

On the other hand, there is growing evidence that they are tending to lead to increased segregation that further disadvantage some learners, particularly those from economically poorer and minority backgrounds.

Decided on May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan., was a combination of five lawsuits challenging segregation from South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Kansas.

However, SEI as implemented in Arizona carries serious negative consequences for EL students stemming from the excessive amount of time dedicated to it, the de-emphasis on grade level academic curriculum, the discrete skills approach it employs, and the segregation of EL students from mainstream peers.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

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.»

Although that movement often deploys the rhetoric of equity and diversity to rationalize itself and enlists compelling, community - based representatives to promote its agenda, that agenda has typically worked against community interests and exacerbated inequities — draining resources from struggling districts, deepening segregation, diverting attention from systemic change to individual choice, and so on.