Sentences with phrase «racial diversity at»

There's little racial diversity at this Minneapolis K - 4 charter school, where the student body is nearly three - quarters black, 14 percent Hispanic and only 3 percent white.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The teachers union and state lawmakers are pushing to overhaul admissions at the city's top public high schools, calling the lack of racial diversity at the schools «an embarrassment.»

Not exact matches

The manifesto criticized company initiatives aimed at increasing gender and racial diversity and argued that Google should instead focus on «ideological diversity.»

Let us begin, then, with one cold, hard - numbered truth: For much of corporate America, racial diversity continues to be at best a challenge — and at worst a flat - out fiction — particularly in the executive ranks.

In fact, she said, she'd had a similar experience at Google, despite its very public efforts toward racial diversity and gender equity.

The document said that improving racial and gender diversity is less important than making sure conservatives feel comfortable expressing themselves at work.

Rashad Robinson, executive director of online racial justice organization Color of Change, said in a statement late Tuesday that while he applauded Uber's newfound transparency, «the onus is now on Kalanick and Uber's leadership team to prove that all this public soul - searching isn't just a public relations ploy and to work with advocates and experts to meaningfully increase diversity at the company.»

A few years ago, when I was serving as a preaching pastor at NYC's Redeemer Presbyterian Church, I gave a sermon on racial diversity.

Leaders who * do * affirm gender equality and racial diversity need to stop agreeing to speak at places which major in marginalization and pretend to represent the Body at large.

Four years ago, Duffy, then the mayor of Rochester, was selected to be Cuomo's number two on the ticket, providing geographic balance at the expense of gender and racial diversity.

«As a national model, we must maintain our upward momentum to end gender and racial inequality through public policy that celebrates our diversity,» Council Member Cumbo said at the rally, pointing to other city and state efforts like the municipal identification card program and a higher minimum wage.

Liliana Garces, assistant professor of higher education at Pennsylvania State University, said racial diversity has fallen significantly at schools that are barred from considering race as a factor in admissions.

In a study conducted in 2003, Orlando Richard, a professor of management at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his colleagues surveyed executives at 177 national banks in the U.S., then put together a database comparing financial performance, racial diversity and the emphasis the bank presidents put on innovation.

This, of course, would have been a nice opportunity to hire a black model, as there aren't many jobs available for non-white models (as Jezebel pointed out, 82 percent of the models at New York Fashion Week this season were white) and some might argue (I would argue) that the lack of racial diversity in the fashion industry promotes a standard of beauty which verges on (slash is) white supremacist.

An inclusion rider means that those working on a production can request at 50 percent diversity within a production, meaning that in front of and behind the camera, more women, members of the LGBTQ community and people of different racial or ethnic groups must be hired.

Even if it turns out that LGBTQ and racial and ethnic diversity is limited at the Oscars this year, Robertson notes there is some reason to celebrate.

His credibility rests in part at least on his irreverence, and online he has appeared unwilling to play it safe, sharing near - the - knuckle gags about the lack of racial diversity in this year's Oscars race with his 13 million Twitter followers.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

Let me be clear: I don't mean racial or ethnic diversity, which is a huge plus for everybody — the students, the parents, and society at large.

First look at the demographics, which show it to be a rare model of racial and socio - economic diversity:

In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court in 2013 directed a lower court to consider whether the school's use of racial preferences is essential to yield sufficient diversity in its student body.

The racial diversity among graduate students at for - profit colleges is striking.

To the extent the objective is sufficient diversity so that students see fellow students as individuals rather than solely as members of a racial group, using means that treat students solely as members of a racial group is fundamentally at cross-purposes with that end.

The Hechinger Report has partnered with The Atlantic in several stories that look at the debates over racial diversity and integration at the K - 12 and college levels.

Similarly, while there is no perfect golden ratio for the amount of people from any particular identity group represented at the conference, I think we've been able to draw on a huge diversity of voices across racial and ethnic groups.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

In a recently published article «Public School Choice and Racial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis» I look at this issue by examining how racial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, InRacial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis» I look at this issue by examining how racial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, Inracial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The institute will unite a group of national leaders at colleges and universities across the United States to spotlight and explore innovative efforts for addressing racial / ethnic teacher diversity across five key areas: recruitment and retention, teacher preparation, mentorship, induction and professional development, and advocacy.

Among the 100 attendees at the summit, specific attention was paid to racial diversity with 41 % people of color participating.

A few years ago, at a convening of education advocates, one veteran in the reform movement highlighted the lack of racial diversity in the room...

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

An updated look at racial diversity among education outlets and newsroom teams reveals some progress but stubborn challenges.

Runyan - Shefa thinks a better integration strategy would include looking at how to bring some racial and socioeconomic diversity to the dozens of virtually all - black schools that most New Orleanians attend.

At Teachers College, she is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for eight years Doctoral and Master's students, and scholars in the field of education facilitate informal conversations around issues of race and diversity for the Teachers College community.

At Teachers College, she is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series where for eight years, national scholars, doctoral, and pre-service and in - service Master's students, and young people facilitate informal conversations around race and other issues involving diversity and teacher education for the Teachers College / Columbia University community.

At first glance, the charter school movement might look to be a modern - day model for racial diversity.

This new partnership expands educational opportunities to more students and through its enrollment priorities, empowers Herron High School to increase geographic, racial and socioeconomic diversity at Herron's 16th Street campus and create a new diverse population at Riverside, Herron's newest campus.

At the 2013 Atlanta RWA conference, you saw far more racial diversity walking out of the hotel to the Atlanta downtown streets than within the conference walls.

In terms of their economic, political and social views, Generation X and Millennials are generally more tolerant of racial and ethnic diversity, as well as same - sex marriage, and lean heavily Democratic at the polls.

She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

A 2010 report commissioned by the American Alliance of Museums indicated that the racial composition of contemporary museum audiences has remained at a level of diversity reminiscent of the 1970s while the diversity of the general population has more than tripled during that time.

[10] The diverse spectrum of artists working in the Bronx, where there is a significant Latino population as well as African American, Middle Eastern and West African among others, makes a significant contribution to the overall diversity of the racial, social, and economic landscape of New York's art worlds and the city at large.

Recently, ballet companies have been denounced for uncritically perpetuating traditions at odds with contemporary society and notions of racial diversity, equality, and social justice.

In 1950s Leukerbad (a place with no racial diversity) African identity is kept at a distance, evidenced not only by a bigotry for outsiders, but also paternalistic donations and missionary work in Africa's European colonies.

The organization's mission is to increase racial and ethnic diversity at all levels of the legal professions in the Capital District (Albany, Rensselaer and Schenectady counties and surrounding areas) for the benefit of Black, Hispanic and other attorneys of color and the entire legal profession.

Diverse Teams Especially considering my work at LunaCap Ventures, I was pleased to see the fantastic gender and racial diversity on all of the teams.

«During my years in our Multicultural Garden of Eden,» he wrote, «I have often marveled at the odd strategies that some of the more strident racial factions of the student body employ in their attempts to «heighten consciousness,» «build tolerance,» «promote diversity» and otherwise convince us to partake of that fruit which promises to open our eyes to a PC version of the knowledge of good and evil.

I think firms can step back and really take a hard look at that and say do we feel like we have adequate representation, not only of gender, let's get it all at one time, racial diversity, ethnic diversity, and so on, but really take a hard look at your committees and make sure that you are being representative of your firm in such a way that you can produce policies and procedures that are going to help you retrain that talent that you've worked so hard to recruit.

The biggest concern expressed by judges at the meeting was what merit selection would mean for racial diversity on the bench.