Sentences with phrase «students about inequities»

It's vital we have conversations with our students about the inequities in our society and empower students to take their voices beyond the classroom walls — particularly for those of us who work in schools located in communities of color.

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Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

Once on the ground and in the classroom, the TFA experience opened the eyes of many HGSE students about the drastic inequities among children in the United States.

A 2010 Ball State University report titled «Charter School Funding: Inequity Persists» calculated that Arizona district schools received about $ 9,600 per student in 2006 — 07 compared to $ 7,600 per student in charters.

In the years since people first began talking about the achievement gap, Ferguson has widened his scope of inquiry, developing a broad vision for correcting inequities that centers less on the differences between groups and more on raising the bar for all students.

These are facts I thought a task force charged with exploring the inequities of America's education system would be encouraged by, serving as an indication that the students the NAACP cares about most are being well - educated by the kind of schools the organization is so opposed to — they called for a moratorium on new charters last summer.I waited to speak for three hours before I had to leave.

Ironically, the broad diversity argument in higher education — that it benefits everyone, including white students — has perhaps led to a decline in a focus on racial inequities, says Harvard education professor Natasha Warikoo, and «maybe it's time to rethink this very shallow way we talk about affirmative action.»

Michelle Fine (1987) in her ethnographic essay on Silencing in Public Schools, details how student discourse about race and class inequities in students» lived experiences inside and outside the school were often detoured or outright shut down by teachers who were uncomfortable in discussing how societal inequities manifested themselves in students» everyday lives.

Student choice; learning by doing; discourse about power, inequity, and students» lived experiences; and student activism — all ingredients that make for powerful student agency and preparation for active citizenship in an increasingly diverse and globalStudent choice; learning by doing; discourse about power, inequity, and students» lived experiences; and student activism — all ingredients that make for powerful student agency and preparation for active citizenship in an increasingly diverse and globalstudent activism — all ingredients that make for powerful student agency and preparation for active citizenship in an increasingly diverse and globalstudent agency and preparation for active citizenship in an increasingly diverse and global world.

The study, conducted by CALDER director and University of Washington professor Dan Goldhaber, synthesizes two separate research topics: the influence of teacher quality on student achievement, and the inequities in access Read more about Disadvantaged Kids Need Equal Access to Great Teachers -LSB-...]

While those of us working in the education field may be well aware of the lingering inequities in the education system — and how they are revealed through student performance — the greater public is often misinformed about how and why achievement gaps persist.

Inform parents, communities, lawmakers, business leaders, taxpayers and other stakeholders about inequities in Colorado public schools and the urgent need to improve access to high quality educational opportunities for all Colorado students.

Each of these groups of students are currently accounted for separately in the Colorado frameworks which allows districts, schools, researchers, and advocacy groups to be able to talk about inequity in a precise, action - oriented way.

While there's a lot of energy to move forward, to do something about the glaring racial inequities, this same pressure threatens to produce policy change that could inadvertently hurt other students, teachers, and schools.

How, for instance, did assumptions about the operation of class or racism in schools become encoded in variables and, in turn, shape understandings of student achievement, educational inequity, and the appropriate policy responses?

I have also seen firsthand how difficult being a child in America can be, and how abstract policies affect my kids in very real, sometimes painful, ways: how food insecurity can drive families to our school's monthly food shelf, how incarceration inequity has many of my students writing personal narratives about visiting fathers and uncles in prison, how immigration laws left one of my students trying to hide his tears over his mother's possible deportation.

In a post entitled, «U.S. has the world's most educated workforce — but students face unparalleled levels of poverty, inequity and violence,» Jonathan Kantrowitz has written an extraordinary and profound piece about the real problems that are causing the growing educational achievement gap in the United States.

The students have scheduled a meeting with Vallas to state their concerns about inequities, and they will undoubtedly demand the same privileges that were granted to the Center City small schools.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

While Mr. Mulcher seems alarmed at the recent protests on college campuses, I see these protests as signs that today's students are increasingly aware of the inequities that exist in our society, and are ready to do something about these problems.

With his wryly clever conversational style, best - selling author Walter Mosley charmed a packed Loker Student Union ballroom after stopping by California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Feb. 16 for a reading from his novel «Little Scarlet,» and to share thoughts about writing, racial inequity, and his personal reflections of the Watts Rebellion.

Youth Together's Kids Count campaign met with the education advisor to California Governor Brown and the state board of education executive director about school funding inequities by race — a key factor linked to low - income students of color being pushed out of schools.