Sentences with phrase «schools about diversity»

She has spoken at legal conferences and top law schools about diversity as well as many other cutting - edge issues affecting the legal market.

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For starters, he's keen on boosting the school's diversity — a topic he's written about extensively.

Although there has been some push back on the new sex ed curriculum for public schools, which would see teaching about family diversity that includes LBGT families, anti-homophobia instruction including that being gay is normal, and — at long last!

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.

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

Inspectors failed schools on «diversity» criteria based on young children declining to talk about their «attitudes to homosexuality».

Perhaps on all of those back - to - school nights that we spend looking at their macaroni collages, we could take ten minutes to have a conversation about diversity.

We can talk about the wide diversity of schools and that there are good «fits» for different kids in terms of campus size, academic structure and content, geography, and experiences offered.

That diversity of views and experiences created a particularly stimulating atmosphere and led to many productive discussions about how to improve school food while meeting the needs of school districts.

Educate teachers and school staff about all types of diversity: racial, blended families, adoption and more.

Try to get more detail about what the observation means to your child, says Susan Linn, a psychologist at the Judge Baker Children's Center at Harvard Medical School and coauthor of Talking to Children about Racism, Prejudice and Diversity.

Along with continuing the work of appreciating the beauty of all races, through open dialogue about the importance of diversity in your school and / or neighborhood, it is critical to seek out media that features main characters of color.

Construction Industry Training Board chief executive Sarah Beale added that some schools and careers advisors continue to show an outdated picture of what industry can look like, as opposed to talking about «the plethora of opportunities, brilliant careers and diversity the industry has to offer».

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.

Students in three studies were randomly assigned to see «warm» promotional statements about their school that suggested the university was committed to supporting socioeconomic diversity.

The BRIDGE initiative at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is all about building relationships, increasing diversity, and growing engineers.

Under the leadership of Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, vice dean for diversity and inclusion at the Perelman School, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity converted existing data about salaries into a reportable, anonymous form to shodiversity and inclusion at the Perelman School, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity converted existing data about salaries into a reportable, anonymous form to shoDiversity converted existing data about salaries into a reportable, anonymous form to show trends.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

«High - quality civic learning teaches the importance of community (both within the school and more broadly), respectful dialogue about controversial issues, creative problem solving, collaboration, teamwork, and the importance of diversity,» according to the authors.

What is the link between a project to design a national park using Minecraft, a program for finding rooms on a school campus, and a game teaching children about diversity and tolerance?

For more about the constitutionality of assigning students to schools in order to achieve diversity, see «Affirmative Action Docketed»

As a society and within our educational institutions, discussions about bias, diversity, discrimination, and social justice tend to happen in middle and high schools.

I didn't know anything about open education philosophy, but as soon as I read the school's literature — the emphasis on diversity, student choice, and the development of creativity and a lifelong passion for learning — I knew Piedmont was exactly where I needed to be.

He said: «The diversity of providers gives schools and colleges important choices - choice about what subjects they can offer; choice about content and delivery; and choice about ongoing support and customer service.

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.

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.

For example, Rotterdam School of Management that according to Newsweek is leading within the Sustainability Index in Europe trains young people to think about how to deal with diversity management issues and respect nature.

We talk a lot about achieving diversity — in schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces — in this country.

As a teaching and learning community at the Harvard Ed School, we've tried to push past that recognition and to think concretely about actually how to fulfill the promise of diversity in our schools, our organizations, and our society.

2011 In my third year of directing the School Leadership Program, I brainstormed with students about what they would need to be transformative leaders around equity and diversity.

Considering all the impediments to wholesale high - school reform and the absence of true consensus as to the nature and urgency of the problem, I conclude that diversity and experimentation are a reasonable way to proceed in mid-decade, rather than pressing for elusive agreement about a single national strategy.

We welcome the chance to respond on issues of teacher voice; diversity and achievement; and what Al Shanker might say today about the state of charter schools.

I'm convinced that state tests are highly imprecise, very limited in what they cover, subject to test - prep and manipulation, unable to capture the diversity of school goals and circumstances, and seldom used to make intelligent decisions about improving schools.

I encourage school leaders and educators to read the source material to learn more about the views of parents and guardians on these and other issues, including school choice, diversity, wraparound services, and more.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

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An important new book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, takes a closer look at students» views about diversity, merit, and race on selective college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K. I sat down with the book's author, my colleague Natasha Warikoo, an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for the following iDiversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, takes a closer look at students» views about diversity, merit, and race on selective college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K. I sat down with the book's author, my colleague Natasha Warikoo, an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for the following idiversity, merit, and race on selective college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K. I sat down with the book's author, my colleague Natasha Warikoo, an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for the following interview.

Talking all the time in support of diversity and much less frequently about school choice is unlikely to win over state Republicans.

Communities must ask our districts and charter schools to be transparent about their data and the plans to address the need for more diversity in our schools and classrooms.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

The demographic variables explained about 19 % of the variance in student achievement, with school level and diversity each explaining about 5 % of that variance.

Among the policies needed in New York, Dr. Orfield said, were citywide efforts to educate parents about magnet schools, transportation options to help children get to schools outside their often - segregated neighborhoods and accountability for diversity.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Schools Still Matter?

While critics worry about how money relates to school reform and the entities attracted to participating, they also highlight concerns about democracy and diversity.

How often does a teacher observe a high school student making notations about classroom culture and diversity or asking questions about professional learning networks and how they enhance classroom practice?

ConnCAN Communications Associate Ebony Walmsley talks about diversity in the classroom and how her school experience made her an advocate.

how to use diversity as a valuable resource for instruction by gathering information about students» background knowledge from home, community, and school;

Excelling With a Diverse Student Population Principal Virginia Minshew of Park View High School in Sterling, VA, talks about how her 1,300 - student school has overcome the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state teSchool in Sterling, VA, talks about how her 1,300 - student school has overcome the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state teschool has overcome the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state testing.

Parents may want to find out about special areas of concern, such as whether community diversity is reflected in the faculty, and whether students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds are well integrated into the school culture and activities.