Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic segregation in»

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

He recommends three strategies: devoting more resources to the early grades; providing extended time in school (provided that it's used effectively); and doing more to reduce socioeconomic segregation in school assignment and thus provide more equal access to high - quality teachers, stimulating curriculum and instruction, and adequate school resources.

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U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

It thus committed the government of South Africa to develop and design policies tailored to eradicate segregation in education, health, welfare, transport and employment.11 All socioeconomic policies are all anchored in the RDP.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing enabled affluent districts to spend more per student.

«When I go home, it's one of those moments in which you remember the lived history of segregation, both racial and socioeconomic,» he says, «and you see the legacy of that.»

The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.

As school districts grapple with the intransigent problem of racial and socioeconomic segregation, the EACs must continue to play a critical role in providing direct civil rights support to school districts to ensure equitable practices and outcomes for children.

Despite the growing diversity of the nation's school - aged population, the embrace of school choice policy across the country has coincided with an increase in segregation across race, socioeconomic status, and student ability.

In Connecticut, the choice movement exploded after the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill ruling in 1996, in which the State Supreme Court ruled that the racial and socioeconomic segregation of Hartford's school children violated the Connecticut ConstitutioIn Connecticut, the choice movement exploded after the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill ruling in 1996, in which the State Supreme Court ruled that the racial and socioeconomic segregation of Hartford's school children violated the Connecticut Constitutioin 1996, in which the State Supreme Court ruled that the racial and socioeconomic segregation of Hartford's school children violated the Connecticut Constitutioin which the State Supreme Court ruled that the racial and socioeconomic segregation of Hartford's school children violated the Connecticut Constitution.

In a city with a dark history of racial segregation, we seek to become a system of schools that represents the racial and socioeconomic diversity of New Orleans.

Because socioeconomic and racial segregation so often overlap — even as black and Latino families are more likely to live in persistent, unstable poverty — these strategies are a necessary step toward preventing racial marginalization from persisting in schoolhouses.

The following is an excerpt from the conclusions of a recent empirical analysis of the socioeconomic status school segregation in Chile:

In other work, her projects examine dynamics of racial / ethnic transition and neighborhood socioeconomic ascent, the neighborhood context of charter expansion, and links between school choice and segregation in neighborhoods and schoolIn other work, her projects examine dynamics of racial / ethnic transition and neighborhood socioeconomic ascent, the neighborhood context of charter expansion, and links between school choice and segregation in neighborhoods and schoolin neighborhoods and schools.

A New Wave of School Integration Districts and Charters Pursuing Socioeconomic Diversity shows responses to greater segregation today by race than in 1970s, despite decades of research showing academic, cognitive, and social benefits of integrated schools.

The authors cautiously conclude that if appropriately regulated, the benefits from better credit access (especially for the poor) should outweigh the potential risks of socioeconomic segregation and discrimination in the credit market.