Sentences with phrase «opportunity of an education»

From that store I proposed to make such a selection as any intellectually ambitious American family might use to advantage, even if their early opportunities of education had been scanty.»

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly

Conversely, positive, aspirational, loving parents enable children, especially poorer children, to harness the opportunities of education and move beyond the circumstances of their birth.

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.

The Rodriguez plaintiffs considered their lawsuit a natural extension of Brown: that disparities in school funding prevent America's students from getting that opportunity of an education on «equal terms.»

«In these days,» the court said, «it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

My recovery from war was completed because I had the opportunity of education.

Quality early childhood education is a vehicle for reducing inequality, not by re-distributing wealth, but by pre-distributing the wealth of skills and abilities that helps people seize the opportunities of education, healthcare and employment.