Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic lines»

They have a natural advantage in creating a diverse student population, in that they can locate themselves strategically (and centrally) and design a program that appeals across socioeconomic lines.

There are more positive reactions to the changes described in this article, with an interesting / troubling analysis of how reactions follow socioeconomic lines.

With the rapid changes in the economic and racial makeup of the nation's public schooling system, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners can no longer afford to sit idly by as the country's schools become increasingly segregated on socioeconomic lines.

It is a Sliding Doors tale of a couple of life events that lifted Vance and propelled him to cross socioeconomic lines that are increasingly harder to pierce in the United States.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

Holland's cry seesaws from yelp to confirmation within tunes of heartache and resilience, her songwriting poetic yet blue - collar and blending that invisible socioeconomic line between genres.

The United States still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels, and other socioeconomic lines, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold between 2001 and 2009.

BVP draws scholars from the two traditionally higher - income communities of Cumberland and Lincoln and the two predominantly lower - income communities of Pawtucket and Central Falls, facilitating connections across both racial and socioeconomic lines of difference.

The research cuts across socioeconomic lines finding, «low income African American children whose families maintain high rates of parent participation in elementary school are more likely to complete high school.»

Test scores are consistently disparate along socioeconomic lines, and it is well established that minority students are more likely than their white counterparts to live in poverty and go to school in poorer districts.

Since minority students tend to come from lower income families, racial integration might be achieved indirectly by giving low - income families their choice of school, whenever that would facilitate integration across socioeconomic lines.

These institutions promote social justice and inclusivity as virtues of good character, and where public school attendance is determined by residence and highly segregated on socioeconomic lines, Catholic schools, especially those that participate in school choice programs, are diverse in terms of race, social class and even religion.

Exceptions to this rule include Shakespeare in Delaware Park, whose founder, Saul Elkin, was on hand to extol what now seems to be the radical idea of a free outdoor theater festival that draws 40,000 people from across all racial and socioeconomic lines to see professional - level theater every summer.

An RBR Writing Program post by Sophia Kaska A sustainable biomedical research enterprise must be diverse along any number of axes, including racial, ethnic, gender and socioeconomic lines.

For Marieme, her choices are limited along racial, sexual and socioeconomic lines, but Sciamma's perceptive film is too honest and understated to feel preachy.

They define equity, disadvantage and student needs along socioeconomic lines; allocate resources to schools at least partially on the basis of students» backgrounds; and design programs and interventions specifically for low socioeconomic and Indigenous students.

This Divide between the «haves» and the «have - nots» runs along socioeconomic lines that essentially have not changed for decades (and maybe centuries).

He found kids fighting in the corridors, poor attendance, seven layers of academic tracking that placed students in classes ranging from college bound to vocational to disregarded — mostly along racial and socioeconomic lines — and a disheartened teaching staff.

In fact, the Century Foundation's Rick Kahlenberg reads Putnam's book as an explicit endorsement of experimenting with various ways of integrating schools along socioeconomic lines.

She has since been committed to improving educational experiences for students, especially in urban contexts where access to quality resources can be highly uneven and disparity often correlates along socioeconomic lines.

Here's how support breaks down along socioeconomic lines:

Helps find creative and practical solutions to challenges of working across socioeconomic lines and building sustainable communities

With growth across racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines, Utah's high school graduation rate rose 3 percent in 2013 to 81 percent.

Just consider the following statistics: by age 4, a child's interaction with his or her family has already produced significant vocabulary differences across socioeconomic lines, differences so dramatic that they represent a 30 million word «catastrophe» (i.e., children from high - income families experience, on average, 30 million more words than children from low - income families).

PCC's efforts are focused on policy and practice solutions to the ongoing crisis of low college completion rates, persistent achievement gaps that exist along racial and socioeconomic lines, and college affordability.

Public schools here in the St. Louis region, as in many other metropolitan areas across the country, have struggled for decades to bridge a wide achievement gap between school districts — a divide that often runs along racial and socioeconomic lines.

And contrary to stereotypes, dogfighters are often the kinds of people we interact with all the time, including lawyers, teachers, high school football coaches, nurses, veterinary technicians and judges, spanning all racial and socioeconomic lines.

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