Sentences with phrase «racial inequity in»

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

Recent developments have galvanized people anew to address the racial achievement gap, from a jarring 2013 report called» Race to Equity» that showed the gulf in quality of life between whites and blacks is wider here than nationally, to the current «Black Lives Matter» movement, which has called out racial inequities in numerous public institutions, including schools.

University of Pennsylvania professor and researcher Shaun Harper updated his «Black Male Student Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division I College Sports» — the inaugural release occurred in 2012.

Nearly 60 years after the 1954 landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared public education is «a right which must be made available on equal terms,» racial inequities in school spending persist.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Issues surrounding housing inequities in Buffalo were brought to light during a panel discussion at the WNED WBFO Studios Wednesday night, as part of WBFO's Racial Equity Project.

De Blasio came into power promising to address inequlality in a variety of forms, including income, educational, policing, racial, and opportunity inequities he identified during his 2013 campaign.

When the process began six years ago, the city claimed it was the first in the nation to address racial and economic inequities in residents» environmental health in its general plan.

But the evidence that they present makes obvious that the solution to educational inequity is not to be found in continuing to mask it with racial admissions preferences that harm students.

Visible and Invisible Trends in Black Men's Health: Pitfalls and Promises for Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequities in Health.

The film, from co-directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, explores the kinds of social inequities — gender, racial and class bias — they saw unfolding during production in the national conversation as police killings of African American men sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

On one side of that debate: educators and parents who argue that the no - excuses approach is not only defensible, but the only way to solve racial and class inequities in schools and beyond.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

As far as how to work on the problems of social inequities and racial injustices, Collins believes in the power of interventions and education that re-examine the relationships and concepts of color, and redefine community.

There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.

Join John B. Diamond, author of the 2015 book Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools, and Ari Gerzon - Kessler, principal of Monaco Elementary in Colorado, who is using data to identify and correct longterm inequities in his school.

In this article, the authors examine the question of whether high - stakes tests will mitigate or exacerbate inequities between racial and ethnic minority students and White students, and between female and male stu - dents.

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.»

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.

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.

Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

With racial and economic disparities still an everyday reality throughout our education system, this brief suggests steps educational leaders can take to authentically and successfully confront the situations in schools that cause inequities.

School data continue to confirm inequities in our schools along racial and economic lines.

While government based accountability assessments have raised a variety of concerns that affect students in general, for students of color these assessments further perpetuate racial inequities (Hursh, 2007).

A just - released Center of American Progress report sheds new light on the lingering vestiges of racial inequality in our schools, specifically on inequity in spending on students of color.

Blackstone Valley Prep is committed to the academic success, social and emotional growth, and health and wellness of 100 % of scholars in an intentionally diverse school that celebrates the racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and sexual - orientation differences of our scholars, staff, and families by actively engaging in courageous conversations about the value of peoples» differences; raising awareness of self and society's structural inequities; and empowering all people to engage in an open and honest dialogue with an active voice.

Rosen said Judge Moukawsher's Wednesday ruling in CCJEF v. Rell advances the quest begun in those suits by declaring that beyond regional or racial inequities, all students in the state are constitutionally entitled to an adequate education.

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

In the face of all of this inequity and opposition, the movement for racial and economic justice endures.

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.

The main issue before the Supreme Court, and the nation's citizens, is whether we will continue to accept these inequities or move forward in fulfilling the promise of Brown and the moral and educational imperatives of racial integration.