Sentences with phrase «racial inequity»

We need to use that approach to resolve other barriers to child well - being, such as the racial inequity across many indicators, particularly economic well - being.»

Key New Jersey trends include gains in health insurance but worsened poverty and racial inequity The 2016 Data Book, which focuses on key trends in child well - being in the post-recession years, measures child well - being in four domains: economic well - being, education, health, and family and community.

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.

For millions of Americans, climate change is indissolubly linked to racial inequity and economic exclusion.

Yet for tens of millions of Americans, and especially for people of color, climate problems are indissolubly linked to problems of racial inequity and economic exclusion.

They've always been about social inequity and racial inequity and stereotypes of black men.

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.

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.

Our current programs focus on parks as a tool for preventive healthcare, a classroom for climate education, and a resource for critical urban issues like homelessness, income and racial inequity, and rapid development.

With his wryly clever conversational style, best - selling author Walter Mosley charmed a packed Loker Student Union ballroom after stopping by California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Feb. 16 for a reading from his novel «Little Scarlet,» and to share thoughts about writing, racial inequity, and his personal reflections of the Watts Rebellion.

This excellent photo - biography portrays Wells as an outspoken journalist who never compromised and who attacked blacks and whites with equal fervor at any sign of accommodation to racial inequity.

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.

Losen has done pioneering work on issues of unequal treatment within schools, including the widely cited book, Racial Inequity in Special Education (Losen & Orfield, 2002), and on dropouts.

Special projects on the School - to - Prison Pipeline and Racial Inequity in Special Education are supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and The California Endowment and carried out in collaboration with several partner organizations.

For some students, these problems are compounded by structural racism — policies, practices, and other systemic norms that perpetuate racial inequity.

Hayes - Greene used these observations to liken racial inequity to «groundwater» contamination that spreads and pollutes the land and nearby bodies of water.

SBHCs meet a critical need for students, and are considered to be a preventive approach to addressing the disproportionate barriers to academic success our students face; the byproduct of much larger societal issues rooted in racial inequity.

This perpetuates class and racial inequity and arises in part from a failed system of local school financing.

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.

The CCRR's special projects, on the School - to - Prison Pipeline and Racial Inequity in Special Eduction, are supported with funding from Atlantic Philanthropies and carried out under the auspices of the Civil Rights Project and in collaboration with several partner organizations.

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.

Though El - Amin came to Harvard with hopes of developing a school model for students of color that helps them respond to issues of racial inequity, she realized...

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.

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.

13, Ed.D.» 15: Addressing Racial Inequity in Curriculum and School Culture Freedom Advocate: Ed.D..

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

There is racial inequity: less of the overall resources are ending up in predominantly black neighborhoods, which leads to compounding issues in many areas, be it health, law, education... you get the idea.

You mentioned the racial inequity in the application of the death penalty.

Can't find a job, racial inequity, people doing heinous things.

We need to do something about the racial inequities in our health care system.

Its mission is to reduce racial inequities in breastfeeding support for black families.

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

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.

For 9 years, Black Mothers» Breastfeeding Association ® (BMBFA) has celebrated the joys of breastfeeding families and continues to work daily to reduce racial inequities in...

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.

«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.

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.»

Some view an analysis like ours and conclude that poverty and racial inequities are conditions that public school systems can't overcome.

In a second study, Supovitz and Brennan (1997) found that gender, socioeconomic, and racial inequities existed when portfolio performance was compared to standardized test performance, although the Rochester portfolios closed the gaps between blacks and whites and widened the gaps between boys and girls.

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 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.

The Puget Sound Center for Personalized Learning (PSCPL) is committed to supporting the transformation of schools to ensure the elimination of racial inequities and the success of each student.

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.

Schools should operate with awareness of racial inequities and work to dismantle systems that impact student growth.