Sentences with phrase «social class gap»

He told Radio 4's PM programme it could close what he called the «obscene social class gap» that he said had dogged Britain's higher education system for 50 years.

«All the things we're doing in education, from Sure Start to higher education and through to adult skills, is about closing the social class gap,» he told the magazine.

Current explanations of social class gaps in children's early academic skills tend to focus on non-cognitive skills that more advantaged children acquire in the family.

Not exact matches

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

Of course, that was before far left «christians» began supporting enabling social welfare programs that required no responsibility from the recipients rather than empowering programs that closed the socioeconomicl advantage gap between the poor and the middle class.

It will put all public bodies under a new legal duty to consider the gap between social classes when they implement policies and allocate resources.

Recent research by Professor Mike Savage of the LSE uncovered evidence of a social class pay gap comparable to the gender pay gap.

«The results could also be highlighting a mechanism of how the modern era might facilitate a closing of the inequality gap, as those from lower social classes take advantage of platforms like Facebook to increase their social capital beyond national borders,» he said.

At first, we noticed that many age - gap couples do not only differ in age, also in the social class, financial and income status.

One of the most unique aspects about this way of dating is that it brings people from all «classes» and backgrounds together in mutually beneficial relationships; and as social stratification grows wider in these economic times, could this be a way of bridging the gap?

Set in an African slum, an ambitious market girl meets and falls in love with a boy from the other side of town and tries to cross the class divide, but the social gap is over powering and starts a chain of event that neither of them is prepared for.

Nobody who followed Richard Rothstein's columns in the New York Times or his earlier work on education will be surprised that his new book ascribes most of the black - white achievement gap to social class and economics.

He admits that some reforms may be well designed and have limited success, «but a careful examination of each claim that a particular school or practice has closed the race or social class achievement gap shows that the claim is unfounded.»

Checked: Charles Murray, «Intelligence in the Classroom,» Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2007; Richard Rothstein, Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap (Economic Policy Institute, 2004)

«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based on anecdotal observations from class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in Iowa, USA.

In this case, though, social class obviously does not explain the turnout gap.

Research indicates that a gap in language, gesturing, and other developmental markers begins to open by age 2, Ferguson says — even though there are virtually no racial or social class differences in the mental abilities of infants before age 1.

EW: You write that homework is the great social class discriminator and that it hurts poor, disadvantaged kids and widens the achievement gap between the poor and the privileged.

The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind?

As a result, disadvantaged children prosper academically in Catholic schools, and the schools narrow the gaps among races and social classes.

«If the social class distribution of the United States were similar to that of top - scoring countries [Korea, Finland and Canada], the average test score gap between the United States and these top - scoring countries would be cut in half in reading and by one - third in math,» they announce.

• The 2004 Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press published Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap.

``... there is a social class achievement gap in every country, and it is of roughly similar size, even in countries which purportedly have much superior school systems.

«Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap.»

Not only does it help us to understand the world that we live in, education helps promote equality by closing the gap between genders and social classes, helps people to become an important and contributing part of society, and is essential to perform jobs effectively and safely.

From the brightness of the financial district to the the darkness under one bridge next to Poplar, it is interesting to see the gap between social classes disappear, as the tape becomes the thing that brings different people from different backgrounds together.»

Her ideas explore contemporary social, economic or political concerns of today such as, the widening gap between social classes, gentrification, feminism, and human rights.

More than a decade ago, Hart and Risley documented how children from different social classes achieve dramatically different trajectories of vocabulary development as a result of what has become known as the 30 million word gap.38 The current study demonstrates similarly dramatic gradients in cognitive function using a national sample of children.

The marriage gap by social class is a source of anxiety, since it contributes to inequality — and to inequality of opportunity, too.