Sentences with phrase «social justice issues like»

The questions, although broad, do not necessarily address social justice issues like the social policies that influence graduation requirements, the aspirations of students with special needs, including those diagnosed with mental health and behaviour issues, the needs of ESL students arriving during their teenage years, etc..

Gifted students tend to be concerned early on with macro social justice issues like poverty, world hunger, or the plight of shelter animals.

Not exact matches

I'd like to see more social justice issues covered: we need to be having conversations about modern day slavery and sex trafficking.

Moreover, more than 40 percent of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt with social - justice - related issues like child poverty.

Started in 2007 by Nina Brav, REVO is an organization that connects people who are passionate about social justice issues with charities that aid their favorite cause — like charity matchmaking.

You can check out your favorite stores on BetterWorldShopper.org (they have an app, too, if you want to check it on the go) where they grade companies A-F (just like in school) based upon 5 issues: human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice.

NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic sisters that speaks out on social justice issues in particular, will be hitting states like Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in order to reveal «how federal budget cuts proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, (R - WI), and passed by the House of Representatives will hurt struggling families in these states,» a release by the group reads.

To start with, one must wonder why these two issues» both of which ought to place politically liberal evangelicals in significant conflict with the Democratic party's social platform» are presented as «controversial» matters about which faithful Christians may disagree, while issues like foreign policy, environmentalism, and economics are presented as simple matters of justice.

By Jon Sparkes With terms like «social justice» and «tackling inequality» being used by all main political parties in recent years, and the political rhetoric increasingly shifting to the need for addressing the «root causes» of social issues, one would be inclined to believe that homelessness, one of the most acute forms of poverty, is in decline.

At a recent speaker's candidate forum on criminal and social justice issues, Rev. Al Sharpton said he would like to see a black speaker some day but that he is looking for the best candidate.

While studying both of these subjects, I was exposed to a lot of social justice issues and found myself really interested in why there is such injustice in the world in all forms (lack of basic human rights, sex trafficking, refugee crises) and what causes people like you and I to react to them — psychologically, spiritually, emotionally.

We specifically talk to those who feel like they're islands in their own schools, neighborhoods, or organizations when it comes to social justice issues.

Educators should be able to proactively make social justice and issues of race a part of the school's conversation — long before an incident like Ferguson occurs.

Demand that school leaders invest in really supporting students by providing social and emotional support, like access to school psychologists and restorative justice counselors, and spaces where students can work through problems instead of calling law enforcement to deal with discipline issues.

The myth of the managerial expert is very damaging, because it shifts the education conversation away from important social issues like justice and equality to technocratic concerns like «accountability» and «efficiency.»

Organizations like the Green Belt Movement have addressed deforestation and privatization as an environmental and a social justice issue, connecting the dots between colonization and economic inequalities, between the lack of land rights and social oppression.

This includes the new dome that was just completed in the Sandy - damaged Rockaway Peninsula in Queens; several education programs, including some online and more performative programs staged by the magazine Triple Canopy; two Francis Alÿs videos; and support for EXPO 1: New York, a «festival - as - institution» that tackles issues like environmental protection, social justice, shortages of resources, and population growth.

Her works utilise a wide variety of materials and techniques to convey a number of contemporary social justice issues — like women's reproductive rights — in both Peru and North America.

Gifts from donors like you will directly fund our bold new Performance Series, which will use dance, music, and theatre to address issues such as social justice and equity in our community.

The work of artists including Ed Atkins, Simon Denny, Cécile B. Evans, Isa Genzken, Josh Kline, Hito Steyerl, Hank Willis Thomas, and Anicka Yi addresses issues like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, bioethics, surveillance, social justice, and virtual existence.

Exhibitions like this one add to a growing regard for excellence in Black creative work, especially as an avenue through which to address larger social justice issues facing racialized communities.

Leading environmental figures like Paul Hawken and David Orr have joined students and faculty at NJIT in creating a streamlined resource network of inspiring books and films on issues like climate science, sustainability, social justice, and human nature.

«While it's an issue that affects all of us, like many other social justice issues, it is disproportionately affecting African - Americans, other people of color, low - income people and indigenous communities.»

My exposure to this movement — through case studies and the work of activists like Van Jones and Majora Carter — made me passionate about wanting to spread the word about the connections between environmental and social justice issues.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.