Sentences with phrase «real diversity of schools»

Although we expect a real diversity of schools and schools models in our portfolio, the unifying imperative in all our school creation work is equity.

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I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

Dr Walid Magdy, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, who led the research, said: «The introduction of skin tone choices for emojis has been a success in representing diversity and their extensive use shows that they meet a real demand from users.»

A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admissions.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

Furthermore, positive results were commonplace across studies for motivation, attitude, and viewing of the simulation as a prelab training for real - lab activities, not unlike a diversity simulation with realistic school scenarios as preparation for real - life teaching.

MKR is fun and full of charming old - school vibes that will hit you directly in the nostalgia feels, though the iffy controls and lack of real diversity throughout the levels hamper the game as a whole.

Because of this, organizations as varied as engineering schools, unions, law firms, universities and the tech industry move toward real expertise, programs and systems that weave diversity and inclusion into their organizational DNA.

Mathers, a member of the North Carolina Association of REALTORS ® Equal Opportunity — Cultural Diversity Committee, touted real estate sales careers at a Hispanic high school career convention, which has brought exposure to both the industry and his brokerage.