Sentences with phrase «racial inequities»

El - Amin admits she came to Harvard with hopes of building a school model steeped in addressing issues of racial inequity in the curriculum and school culture.

The Leadership Conference Education Fund poll found «an overwhelming sense of racial inequity in school funding,» with lack of funding for students of color seen as the biggest cause of racial disparities in education by both African American and Latino parents and families.

In April, immediately after Ms. Nixon made a case for legalization as a means of reducing racial inequity in the criminal justice system, Mr. Cuomo came forward saying that the situation with marijuana had changed dramatically because so many states near New York had legalized it or were about to and that essentially it was «here anyway.»

These conclusions — that families were most important in student achievement and that school resources did not matter — overshadowed the findings on racial inequity in achievement.

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The team sought to share and understand their own experiences with racial inequity in education, reflect on the perspectives of students of color who experience a lack of diversity within their teacher community, and research a range of factors that contribute to the gap, from teacher recruitment through school climate.

During her seven years as superintendent of the St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota, Valeria Silva led courageous conversations about racial inequities, and ultimately changed the district's practice of isolating special education students, integrating them into general education classrooms.

Preference will be given to proposed designs that embrace the PSCPL Framework, can demonstrate an innovative vision for personalized learning, as well as schools that are committed to decreasing racial inequities and creating systems that ensure opportunity and access for those who historically have been excluded.

For the past seven years, Scott has led Urbana Middle School (IL), reorienting the school to the middle school concept through incorporating true advisory programming, strengthening the team concept, and vigorously addressing issues of racial inequities through implementation of restorative practices / justice.

The Race for Results report was the impetus for much of Voices» work in addressing systemic racial inequities through policy advocacy since its release and led to the creation of our own Index of Race & Opportunity for this year's Kids Count commentary.

On Monday, October 24, CALL artist Henrietta Mantooth sat down with VoCA Program Committee Member Jennifer Hickey to discuss her life, legacy, and recent installations around the themes racial inequity and mass incarceration.

«Axon has a responsibility to ensure that its present and future products, including AI - based products, don't drive unfair or unethical outcomes or amplify racial inequities in policing,» the letter reads.

The goal with this universal distribution approach, and scope of education that Babies Need Boxes provides, will not only help families better access a safe sleep space and essential items, but will ultimately engage the greater Cleveland community in conversations regarding racial inequity in childbirth, and help build the commitment needed to lower our infant mortality rates.

Yet inexplicably he never makes the leap from the problems he eloquently describes to NLCB's intent, or potential, to help ferret out and rectify those same racial inequities.

They believe that tackling deep racial inequities is the measure of one's commitment to educational improvement, and view measures like the DREAM Act and affirmative action as inseparable from elements of that work.

Titled Racial Inequity in Special Education, and edited by Gary Orfield and Daniel Losen of Harvard's...

A group representing African - American children with learning disabilities has launched an effort to curb racial inequities in special education.

That open access is a deliberate and effective assault on racial inequity associated with the segregation era is an irony not lost on reform advocates.

«Racism and racial inequities not only determines the quality of too many of our young people of color's lives but also, as has been brought to wider consciousness recently, determines whether or not they get to live at all.

Northwestern University's Simone Ispa - Landa, an education sociologist, has been named a 2018 William T. Grant Scholar for her work examining racial inequities in school discipline practices.

The report notes that statewide, the use of out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and referrals to law enforcement is trending downward, yet there continue to be substantial racial inequities in discipline in some districts.

We are dedicated to eliminating the severe racial inequities that continue to plague our education system.

In Kentucky's Jefferson County Public Schools, John D. Marshall uses data to unmask racial inequities and demand policy changes and supports for students of color and those who are poor.

What are the ways that we can be allies to teachers who are trying to confront racial inequities?

Under NCLB's accountability system, the public was able, for the first time, to see the socioeconomic and racial inequities within schools and districts.

Although that changes for minority parents who most fear racial inequities, according to a new poll.

While there's a lot of energy to move forward, to do something about the glaring racial inequities, this same pressure threatens to produce policy change that could inadvertently hurt other students, teachers, and schools.

By considering the issue of racial inequity at both microlevels and macrolevels, Milner's insights are likely to be appealing to community advocates and educational practitioners alike.

I started by bringing data that showed racial inequities to the school board and then building a common understanding and language around racial equity.

With test results, we can no longer hide the underlying racial inequity in our schools, and we can not and should not go back and pretend it doesn't exist.

In particular, a number of works in the show address the economics of the cotton trade and its fundamental relationship to slavery in the United States — a violent and abusive history whose legacy has shaped racial inequities that persist today.

Seen within the context of his images of black men, the inclusion in a diptych of a distorted mug shot of convicted white sex offender Brock Turner — the former Stanford University student who was only sentenced to six months in confinement for raping an unconscious young woman — stands as a poignant testimony to ongoing racial inequity.

Xaviera Simmons mined Mayor Mitch Landrieu's infamous 2017 speech for a video about why the Confederate monuments needed to go; during the opening weekend, she gave an impassioned gallery talk in which her frustration over racial inequity in America brought her to the verge of tears.

Michelle is also on the faculty of BUILD's Equity Leader's Action Network working with leaders from across the country acting on specific racial inequities in state early childhood systems — in early learning, health, mental health, nutrition, and family support — and especially at the intersection of these systems.

Domonic Rollins, senior diversity and inclusion officer: Some educators lament that it is hard to teach about racial inequity and inequality, since slavery, the Holocaust, and the Civil Rights era seem like a distant memory to many young people.

Preference will be given to schools that seek to decrease racial inequities and create systems that ensure opportunity and access for those who historically have been underserved or excluded.

As a part of our commitment to addressing the systemic racial inequity that we observed in the data through policy advocacy, we created the Index of Race and Opportunity for Nebraska Children in 2015.

The 2017 Women's Marches were a series of political rallies that took place in cities around the world since January 21, 2017, with the goal of promoting women's rights, immigration reform, and health care reform; to counter Islamophobia, rape culture, and LGBTQ abuse; and to address racial inequities (e.g., Black Lives Matter), workers» issues, and environmental issues.

«The work of school boards is to figure out your method to deal with racial inequity.»

Those few conversations, furthermore, were most often centered on describing the problems of racial inequities on campuses, rather than on how to solve them.

Ironically, the broad diversity argument in higher education — that it benefits everyone, including white students — has perhaps led to a decline in a focus on racial inequities, says Harvard education professor Natasha Warikoo, and «maybe it's time to rethink this very shallow way we talk about affirmative action.»

Their mission is to reduce racial inequities in breastfeeding support for African Americans by building foundational networks of support and strengthening systems to overcome historical, societal and social barriers to breastfeeding success.