Sentences with phrase «student body diversity»

«Are Charter Schools Using Recruitment Strategies to Increase Student Body Diversity?»

The brief notes that «research studies continue to show that student body diversity leads to significant educational benefits and prevents the harms of racial isolation.»

AAAS joins the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and nine other organizations in filing an amicus curie (or «friend of the court») brief, noting that «student body diversity leads to significant educational benefits and prevents the harms of social isolation.»

Not exact matches

Should special consideration be given to having a faculty and staff that in some way mirror the ethnic diversity within the student body?

Others argue that the diversity of today's student body brings new strengths.

Also, the presence of women, plus racial diversity, and denominational diversity, makes for a student body that's different from what it was a generation ago.

The mainline schools I know have responded fairly well to the issues thrust upon them: the issues of race, gender, liberation — the new diversity and complexity of the student body.

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

That Chino Hills Valley Unified School District shool had a student body similar in diversity to Fairfax's, but one very different than the L.A. Unified School District school when it comes to proximity.

Qualified child nutrition professionals will provide students with access to a variety of affordable, nutritious, and appealing foods that will meet the health and nutrition needs of students; will accommodate the religious, ethnic and cultural diversity of the student body in meal planning; and will provide clean, safe, allergy aware and pleasant settings with adequate time for students to eat.

The Waldorf School of Garden City values and actively seeks a student body reflecting the ethnic, racial, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity of our Long Island community.

This project will provide in - depth legal resource materials for General Counsels in the AAU (and, we hope, eventually to universities across the country) on effective and legally sustainable approaches to build greater diversity in the faculty, as well as graduate and undergraduate student bodies.

A documentary about the University of California at Berkeley and the administrative efforts to maintain its academic excellence, public role and student - body diversity in the face of drastic budget cuts.

The charter schools in D.C. that serve a highly diverse student body face a challenge in preserving their diversity, Chandler notes, as these schools become increasingly popular with the growing population of gentrifiers.

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Lemann shows how the engineered meritocracy later clashed with the country's expanding recognition of its diversity and the desire of its most selective institutions to represent that diversity in their student bodies.

In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court in 2013 directed a lower court to consider whether the school's use of racial preferences is essential to yield sufficient diversity in its student body.

On one hand, some proponents of fostering racially and ethnically diverse student bodies in higher education facilely proclaim that diversity is crucial, as college is considered a training ground for life in our multicultural society.

The Obama administration has issued new priorities for its charter - school grant program, among them support for schools that «promote diversity in their student bodies, including racial and ethnic diversity, or avoid racial isolation.»

Policymakers and the media use this enrollment information to assess the economic diversity of the student body at individual universities, whether universities are effectively recruiting low - income students, and how access to college has changed over time for students in different income groups.

These pieces, says Sellars, do not reflect the diversity of the student body, nor do they always inspire student engagement.

In addition to refining research into the use of standardized tests in making admissions decisions, we need to understand better the relationship between testing and the diversity of the college student body.

Given challenges to affirmative action, we need to know how the admissions process works, the role of tests in admissions decisions, and the effects of alternative definitions of diversity on the composition of the admitted student body.

Our cohort of fellows is predominately based in Oakland, a city of more than 400,000 people that is known for its racial diversity but also its income inequality; for example, 71 % of the student body in Oakland public schools qualifies for free or reduced - priced lunch.

Check out how one Brooklyn charter school with a diverse student body is working to increase diversity in the classroom.

Many charter leaders also argue that weighted student lotteries, which allocate an admissions preference to certain student groups in order to increase their likelihood of admittance, maintain a balance between low - income and higher - income students in a school population.88 Blackstone Valley Prep, for example, reserves at least half of its seats for low - income students, ensuring its student body reflects the level of income diversity in northern Rhode Island.89

Latino students now comprise 54 percent of the student body, and the Latino diversity gap between teachers and students has grown by 5 percentage points during that period.

A growing body of research suggests that having teachers that mirror the racial and ethnic diversity of their students can have an impact on how well their students do academically.

The results underscore the ongoing challenge that California has in creating a teaching force that mirrors the diversity of its student body.

Diversity is also held in high regard for the school as 25 % of the student body is comprised of international students while over 25 % of domestic students identify themselves as ethnic minorities.

With students of color representing 99 percent of Uncommon Schools» student body, this alumni training program provides an innovative route to increasing teacher diversity.

We celebrate global enrichment through the diversity of our student body which makes us the school we are — a place of learning where students regardless of nationality interact with each other in harmony.

Schools should respect the diversity of their student body and maintain equal treatment for all students regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or disability.

There's little racial diversity at this Minneapolis K - 4 charter school, where the student body is nearly three - quarters black, 14 percent Hispanic and only 3 percent white.

The first program highlighted is taken directly from Table 6 and has received accolades from a number of organizations for its selectivity and commitment to diversity, not just in its student body but also in the coursework it provides to prospective teachers and in its community partnerships.

In Iowa, while the diversity of the overall student body decreased by 2 percent, the percentage of students of color majoring in education increased by 15 percent.

Hawaii, Indiana, and Texas also saw increases in diversity among education majors and the overall student body.

(see Table 4) These changes tracked closely with the increasing diversity of these states» overall undergraduate student bodies; in some cases, the growth in diversity among education majors exceeded the rate of growth in the student body overall.

To educate and empower families and improve students» academic outcomes, schools must recognize the diversity of their student body and the barriers to success that they face.

Two foundational tenets to these experimental schools, the authors maintain, were for teachers to have a stronger voice in determining the management of the school and for the student body to have higher degrees of economic and racial diversity than traditional public schools.

While completing his academic work, Mr. Palmer held many leadership roles at UTC including Vice President of the Student Body and two - time Social Issues, Equity, and Diversity Chairperson for the Student Government Association.

The rich diversity of our staff and student body not only sets us apart from most urban schools, but contributes to the vibrancy of our community.

While there is more work to be done, each year the socioeconomic diversity of our student body better reflects the strengths found in the rich diversity of our community and delivers on the mandate for NC charter schools to provide increased learning opportunities for those most in need.

Hailing from all walks of life, the Lycée community embraces and celebrates the extraordinary diversity of our student body and families.

He has committed the university to sustainability, social embeddedness, and global engagement through initiatives leading to record levels of diversity in the student body.

The district was established in part to serve the longtime families of the neighborhood around the elementary school campus and to add diversity to the Lusher student body, Barron noted.

A recent report on civil rights data found that Pennsylvania provides lower per - student funding to school districts with greater racial diversity compared to economically similar districts with predominantly white student bodies.

The finalists for the CEO position at Lycée Français de la Nouvelle - Orléans were asked as part of the application process to detail their thoughts on critical issues ahead for the school, such as improving diversity within the student body, reaching special - education students while in a full - immersion foreign - language environment, and aligning the French national standards with those set by the state of Louisiana.

Then there are politics: a school in a majority - black city that acts and breathes values of diversity, integration and anti-racism, from its student body to its curriculum to its school community.

Participants will be representative of the characteristics and diversity of student bodies, including those students identified through early warning indicators (e.g., at risk of losing academic progress, becoming disengaged from school, etc.).