Sentences with phrase «social inequity»

The Melbourne Social Equity Institute is a «virtual» research institute which connects researchers from a range of disciplines with community members, practitioners and policymakers to identify unjust or unfair practices that lead to social inequity and work towards finding ways to ameliorate disadvantage.

Traditionally activists and social change agents have dealt with environmental and social issues separately, but the environmental justice (EJ) movement is working to connect social inequity and environmental degradation while mobilizing to address needs in both areas.

Aside from social inequity, one obvious effect of heavy car use that nobody can deny is the city's sluggish traffic.

Addressing the climate crisis, and the social inequity that is both a cause and a symptom of this great threat, will require deep cuts in climate pollution as well as large troves of money.

Climate change affects faith - based efforts to improve human health, mitigate poverty and address social inequity.

If the People's Summit at Rio +20 felt like a mix and match of messages and intentions, the Arena Socioambiental's idea is very clear: «to show the world successful Brazilian strategies to combat poverty and social inequity in the context of sustainable development.»

For «Hope Hippo,» an installation by the artist pair Allora and Calzadilla, a performer will sit atop a sculpture of a hippopotamus, reading from a newspaper and blowing a whistle each time he or she finds a story about social inequity.

They've always been about social inequity and racial inequity and stereotypes of black men.

Greg Lindquist, a painter and regular Brooklyn Rail contributor, constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

Greg Lindquist constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

«We are already seeing the enormous power of our outdoor green space to help combat our nation's greatest enemies — chronic disease, obesity, mental illness, and social inequity,» says Capt. Sara B. Newman, Director of the Office of Public Health for the National Park Service.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

I also know that the central problem with our schools is social inequity and not teacher quality or a lack of charter schools.

«Educational attainment is the currency of mobility,» she observed, noting that, while the rest of the world is experiencing rapid change in secondary education, the U.S. remains stagnant and complacent, resulting in greater social inequity.

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for starring in The Blind Side, a 2009 film ostensibly about a black football player overcoming social inequity and bigotry.

«I'm very concerned about hydrofracking and about climate change and social inequity, and he seems to be the candidate who is most directly addressing that and proposing solutions that are in line with what I'd like to see,» Hoffman said.

According to utz.com «The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have merged in response to the critical challenges facing humanity: deforestation, climate change, systemic poverty, and social inequity.

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

In a world that is increasingly being crowded together, we ascertain curious evidence that the widening effects of overpopulation and social inequity are creating frightening shapes of self - consciousness.

It doesn't imply that any particular CEO isn't worth the money, and it doesn't imply that any particular board is obligated to do the impossible, namely to «fix» the big problem of social inequity by paying its own CEO less.

Far beyond the pure social inequity — and that would be bad enough, we admit — is a very real dollar - and - cents cost, a doozy of a recurring charge that ripples through the financial markets.

This movement has meant a turning toward political stasis and a certain ruthless acceptance of social inequities as eternally ordained by the Deity.

For a few children the experience can generate resentment at social inequities.

Service toward the poor becomes a means of rectifying social inequities rather than a theological claim as to how the world is ordered.

In the face of social inequities he rests his reform program primarily on his own example (5:10 - 19).

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.

Black - white differences in life expectancy are a longstanding source of public health concern in the United States, and are considered indicative of deeper social inequities in society.

As with many of the previous films made by the prolific Belgian duo, their tenth narrative feature reveals the devastating effects of social inequities, which brutally entangle those who too often remain fundamentally invisible and entirely unknown.

I won't pretend to be knowledgeable enough on the subject to debate the blanket assertions, but he's overlooking some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.»

The film, from co-directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, explores the kinds of social inequities — gender, racial and class bias — they saw unfolding during production in the national conversation as police killings of African American men sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

Not all universities make the leap from classroom behavior to ideology: The «Teacher Education Professional Dispositions and Skills Criteria» at Winthrop University in South Carolina are only basic indicators of professional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is not mentioned.

We must not abandon integration as a goal, but it is utopian to believe that schools alone can close an achievement gap that is the result of deeper economic and social inequities.

As Loveless explains, «critics argue that tracking creates or reinforces social inequities because black, Hispanic, and socioeconomically disadvantaged students are historically underrepresented in accelerated tracks.»

«As a result, some of the social inequities that do exist don't take on the role or meaning that they do here.»

Collins, a distinguished professor at the University of Maryland, examined the dilemmas of changing freedoms and social inequities in her keynote address.

How do social inequities persist in a world with powerful visions of human freedom, massive changes to laws, and extensive media coverage?

As far as how to work on the problems of social inequities and racial injustices, Collins believes in the power of interventions and education that re-examine the relationships and concepts of color, and redefine community.

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.

Address financial and social inequities that affect resources available to high - need schools and students, which can impact student performance.

-- In racially segregated and high - poverty Chicago, schools either reinforce or improve the social inequities that shape students» worlds.

«Poverty and social inequities have far too long stood in the way of progress for all students,» said Van Roekel.

to critique injustice; as a teacher educator, Ladson - Billings had noticed prospective teachers» unwillingness to bring social inequities into the classroom and sought to reverse that trend.

At what point did you begin to become aware of the social inequities in Trinidad?

Despite stereotypes of Brazilian conviviality and tropical playfulness, prevalent social inequities mean that behavior is highly policed in much purportedly public space in Brazil, with classism, racism, and colorism shaping access to commercial and leisure spaces more overtly than in many U.S. settings.

Many artists now use portraits to comment on larger issues, such as individual identity, social inequities, politics, celebrity obsession — and the genre of portraiture itself.

This exhibition of some thirty artists — Renée Greene, Senga Nengudi, Adrian Piper, and Nari Ward among them — explores the ways Conceptualism has been recast to reflect and subvert deep - set social inequities.

«Egalitarian communitarians,» by the same logic, readily embrace the most dire climate - change forecasts because they perceive exactly the same thing but take delight at the prospect of radical limits on commerce, industry, and markets, which in their eyes are the source of myriad social inequities.

Mary Evelyn Tucker, one of the most eloquent voices of the eco-spiritual movement, spoke at the U.N. about the daunting challenges faced by 21st - century humanitarians: widespread environmental degradation, crippling poverty, social inequities and unrestrained militarism.

It is that too many of us fail to build into our work and our organizations a consciousness that the roots of our ecological crisis and the roots of our social inequities and injustices are deeply intertwined.

Differences in academic achievement between demographic groups are frequently caused by social inequities while differences within the same group indicate different abilities.