Sentences with phrase «on unequal access»

Public television turns its cameras on education this month, airing specials that focus on unequal access to public education and the nationwide movement to make schooling more relevant to careers and jobs.

Parents would not want to go back to a system built on unequal access to schools, but they don't want to be denied options in the interest of maintaining quotas or forcing all children in a neighborhood to attend the same school whether it meets their needs or not.

Not exact matches

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

Yet that's precisely the chain of events set in motion by OCR's latest (and breathtakingly audacious) «Dear Colleague» letter, this one focused on «unequal access to educational resources.»

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

To realize charter schools» promise of providing educational choice to all, the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates released Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegal Restrict Enrollment, a July 2016 report that sheds light on exclusionary enrollment policies at 253 charter schools.

Knowing what we do about the historical background of housing segregation along with the impact of funding on school quality, it is clear that, across income and racial or ethnic groups, the access to high - scoring schools is severely unequal.

As choice spurs competition among students, the process results in unequal outcomes depending on their access to information which is often correlated with race / ethnicity and socioeconomic status.

With 70 years of experience in more than 90 countries, Oxfam takes on the big issues that keep people poor: inequality, discrimination, and unequal access to resources including food, water, and land.

Jennifer's chapter Getting health policy into shape argues for a sharper focus on addressing the issues which matter most to consumers: out - of - pocket expenses, co-payments, and unequal access to health - care providers.

(See also this previous Croakey story featuring Archie and his physician, that discussed the impact of trauma and racism on health, and the experience of Indigenous peoples in unequal access to and treatment in the health system.)

However, they don't dispute the unequal access Americans had to mortgage lending based on their neighborhoods.