Sentences with phrase «school diversity by»

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For example, the newspaper measures such things as the diversity of the faculty, staff, board members, and students at each school, «languages,» the «international reach of the EMBA,» as well as the amount of research published by professors from each school.

The students, nine men and eight women suggested by the deans of their respective schools, represented not only denominational diversity but a variety of backgrounds and work experiences — reflecting the general increase in the number of older and second - career students currently attending seminary.

We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

Trying to argue for intellectual diversity and good faith by sticking up for kink is like trying to get high - school students excited about reading Romeo and Juliet by comparing it to Fifty Shades of Grey — it's not just ridiculous, but dishonest.

Conway Morris is part of an increasingly prominent school in the philosophy of biology which offers a refreshingly new stance, one in which the biological universe is not merely an inert petri dish in which purely random genetic diversity andmutation have resulted by Darwinian «survival of the fittest».

Buddhism is, in fact, represented by a diversity of schools with their own temples and monasteries, and their own educational institutions and universities.

Our program of tuition assistance supports this diversity by making the School more accessible to families of varying economic backgrounds.

The NYU School of Law will host U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as part of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging speaker series, cosponsored by the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network, Law Women and the Women of Color Collective.

Or to be more specific: when Balls takes the need to respect diversity away from the curriculum of faith schools, he takes away the freedom of vulnerable, young children to explore their desires without being crippled by the stigma and idiocy which faith will impose on them.

Having partnered with Brian for years when he served in the State Assembly, I know he will a powerful advocate for our community by funding and promoting equity and diversity in our public schools, preserving and expanding affordable housing, and promoting services for seniors and New Yorkers of all ages.»

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We will continue to campaign for this information to be published, as while we are not opposed to Free Schools, we do have concerns around the diversity of religious and pseudoscientific Free Schools which are being backed to open by the Government, and believe there therefore needs to be more transparency in the approval process.»

July 25 — TAPCo Public School of the Arts is hosting a ribbon cutting unveiling a beautiful 4,000 sq. ft. mural highlighting the diversity and challenges faced by the mental health community in the Bronx, 5:30 pm.

In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, have disappointed school diversity advocates by failing to make integration a priority.

Also last night, a Conservative amendment to give local authorities and the secretary of state a new duty to encourage schools to become self - governing trusts - something the party insisted was needed to increase diversity - was rejected by 376 to 169.

Mark - Viverito promised to help lower the rate of school suspensions, backed by a coalition of council members who have been advocating around suspension and school diversity issues.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

He also hopes to foster trust in East Ramapo by pushing for more diversity and transparency on the school board and the town overall.

Geographic diversity is affected by quality - of - life ratings, with increases in the percentage of first - year students from out of state for schools on the Happy Students (about 3.7 percent) and Most Beautiful Campus (about 2 percent) lists.

UBC sociology professor and study co-author Rima Wilkes said the findings highlight a need to show greater diversity of skin tones in teaching tools used by medical schools.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadSchools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

The increasing diversity of home schoolers and institutional configurations should not obscure the fact that many who home school still choose this option out of frustration with or protest against formal, institution - based schooling and seek to impart an alternative, usually conservative Christian, worldview to their children by teaching them at home.

If this comes to pass, we can imagine a charter school sector characterized by both scale and a diversity of entrepreneurial schools, a future in which grassroots charter schools remain the heart of the movement, but in a sustainable fashion.

Through two courses designed and taught by Teitel — Leading for Equity and Diversity in Integrated Schools and the newer Coaching for Equity and Diversity in Schools and Systems — HGSE students partner with K — 12 schools and districts to tackle the intense and complex work of school integSchools and the newer Coaching for Equity and Diversity in Schools and Systems — HGSE students partner with K — 12 schools and districts to tackle the intense and complex work of school integSchools and Systems — HGSE students partner with K — 12 schools and districts to tackle the intense and complex work of school integschools and districts to tackle the intense and complex work of school integration.

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

I respectfully disagree with the view, voiced by some students and others, that the school is not committed to equity, diversity, and social justice as objects of inquiry.

Reacting to the concerns of local school districts, the Alaska State Board of Education has endorsed a concept that will recognize «local diversity» in the implementation of a plan for a statewide school - improvement proposed by the Governor's Task Force on Effective Schooling.

Neither sector has cause to brag about racial diversity, but it seems clear that the CRP report points its lens in the wrong direction by focusing on the failings of charter schools.

Inspired by her own experience as an Indian American student in the 1990s and, later, as a visiting professor at the University of London, Warikoo, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, set out to understand how students of various backgrounds at Brown, Harvard, and Oxford conceive of diversity and merit in the college - admission process.

This reference table is an extract from «Contrasting responses to diversity: school placement trends 2007 - 13 for all local authorities in England» (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/contrasting-responses-to-diversity-11363225), a report which has been researched and written for CSIE by Dr Alison Black and Professor Brahm Norwich, of the University of Exeter.

Nathan Glazer talks with Education Next about whether the policy of assigning students to schools to achieve socioeconomic diversity in Raleigh - Wake County has worked, as argued by Gerald Grant's 2009 book, Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There are No Bad Schools in Rschools to achieve socioeconomic diversity in Raleigh - Wake County has worked, as argued by Gerald Grant's 2009 book, Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There are No Bad Schools in RSchools in Raleigh.

• A review of a book by Richard Kahlenberg and Halley Potter, «Criticizing Charter Schools for Lacking Diversity and Unions Misses the Point, by Nelson Smith.

All I do know is that another proposal of mine, grouping NYC public school kids by ability, rather than age, would not only solve the perennial shortage of Gifted & Talented seats for all who qualify, it would also help with racial and socioeconomic diversity.

Saying they support «diversity by choice,» members of a task force led by three local mayors are urging the Wake County, N.C., school district to abandon a student - assignment plan that aims for economic integration and adopt a neighborhood - schools approach instead.

Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy by Stephen Macedo Asking the schools to mold good citizens — again

Candidates must learn to develop «a classroom and school climate that values diversity... [an awareness] of different teaching and learning styles shaped by cultural influences... dispositions that respect and value differences» and «skills for working in diverse settings.»

Much good has been accomplished by chartering over these twenty - five years, and the ranks of charter schools today include a fair diversity of educational models.

McCartney's welcome speech opened an orientation week designed to provide students opportunities to familiarize themselves with the Ed School campus, Harvard Square, courses, faculty members, and fellow students, including a diversity event, «Engaging in Inclusive Dialogue,» led by Professor Tom Hehir, and master's program meetings.

Other people are troubled by reports of insufficient «diversity» among the youngsters admitted to such schools.

18 — Diversity: «Diversity Is Desirable in the Classroom,» conference, sponsored by the New England League of Middle Schools, for middle school teachers and administrators, to be held in Holyoke, Mass..

The awards, introduced by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan in 2015, celebrate excellence and diversity in character education, recognising that character is already being encouraged, nurtured and developed alongside academic rigour through a variety of programmes inside and outside schools across the country.

When Johnson left TFA and joined Larchmont as its executive director, however, the school was facing a challenge experienced by many diverse charter schools: the annual admissions lottery was being flooded by white, relatively well - off parents, creating the danger that the school would lose the socioeconomic and racial diversity it was created to promote.

The growing lack of civic and moral education and awareness can be explained by several things, including schools» increasing wariness of controversy, apparent partisanship, and ideological (including religious) diversity.

Citing several factors that make learning more complex — increased diversity in our public school population, the inequity of out - of - school opportunities, and the increased role of technology in our lives — the report argues that many public schools are trying to respond by «overloading an outmoded structure.»

Working closely with educators, the designers have created a school environment where «the prototypical factory model with its self - contained classrooms is replaced by an environment that features a diversity of spaces that flow into one another.

Contrasting responses to diversity: school placement trends 2007 - 13 for all local authorities in England has been researched and written for CSIE by Dr Alison Black and Professor Brahm Norwich, of the University of Exeter.

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While many of the nation's public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, some charter schools and districts are starting to experiment with using weighted lotteries to increase diversity.

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By using data from the Illinois State Board of Education Teacher Service Record (now known as the Employment Information System), Bellwether was able to explore patterns in supply and demand, diversity, and staff retention across Illinois schools and within specific districts.