Sentences with phrase «school diversity reduces»

Not exact matches

Theological schools are relatively homogeneous, but dispersed smaller cohorts tend to be even more homogeneous, thereby reducing the operative diversity in theological education.

«It is not surprising that increasing school diversity is important to reduce both African American and White students» delinquent behaviors,» said corresponding author Dr. Brittany Darlene Chambers, of the University of California, San Francisco.

Reduced diversity of the intestinal microbiota during infancy is associated with increased risk of allergic disease at school age.

We often get asked, «How can we better integrate our schools, promote a healthy diversity, and reduce racial isolation?

The study «Learn and Serve» evaluated service learning program at 17 middle and high schools in the United States, and found that students who participated in service learning improved acceptance of cultural diversity, service leadership, civic attitudes and volunteer behavior, and reduced engagement in risky behaviors.

The school has diversity of its own to draw on: Including those in the Bilingual Orientation Center, 27 percent of students at Stanford speak English as a second language, 28 percent qualify for free or reduced - cost lunch, and fewer than half the students are white.

Our cohort of fellows is predominately based in Oakland, a city of more than 400,000 people that is known for its racial diversity but also its income inequality; for example, 71 % of the student body in Oakland public schools qualifies for free or reduced - priced lunch.

Addressing a crowded room of magnet school educators and supporters last week, Acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King explained his personal commitment to school diversity and the importance of reducing racial isolation in schools.

Waldrip, whose full article is linked here with many more specifics acknowledges that while magnet schools are still used to improve diversity and reduce segregation, they have rapidly become superior options within the public sector for all students, even in districts of primarily one race.

The new law calls for replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups» and «increase racial integration by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

MSAP prioritizes replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups... by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

How can we better integrate our schools, promote a healthy diversity, and reduce racial isolation?

Colleges should dramatically alter their admissions practices with a new focus on promoting service, reducing academic and extracurricular stresses, and increasing student diversity, argued writers of a report released Wednesday by Graduate School of Education researchers.

When new teachers were asked in a study published by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality how to improve teaching, they cited reducing class size and increasing training to help them deal with the ethnic diversity in schools and classrooms as their top two priorities.

When a first year student's opportunity to learn about equality is reduced to a one - time course, it is not too surprising that values like diversity and equality do not necessarily get transferred from law schools into legal practice.

Creating a school environment that promotes connectedness and acceptance of diversity may really act to reduce some of the barriers to school attendance.

These resources help schools put measures in place to reduce cyber bullying and offline bullying, develop students» social and emotional skills and encourage the whole school community to celebrate difference and diversity.

These resources help schools put measures in place to reduce cyber bullying and offline bullying, develop student's social and emotional skills and encourage the whole school community to celebrate difference and diversity.