Sentences with phrase «talks about inequity»

It occurred to me that while everyone talks about inequity in the art world, I hadn't actually seen data on it since the Guerilla Girls» work in the 1980s.

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.

Some Indians are appalled talking about the inequity of, for example, electricity consumers in the U.S. not wanting to pay $ 100 - $ 200 a year in higher energy bills under a climate policy.

Not exact matches

(Note: I realize that inequity in the Church extends to many groups besides women, and that's important to talk about as well, but for efficiency and clarity, next week's focus will be on women in the Church.

From 7 am to 11 pm, six days in a row, I was surrounded by people speaking different languages, talking about the big picture, and having open and honest conversations about inequities based on race and gender identity / expression.

«The last thing we need, right in the middle of all this talk about sexual harassment and gender inequity in Hollywood, is someone like that as an Oscar nominee.»

So when he writes about parents who don't like the reform agenda around achievement gaps and addressing inequities in the distribution of teacher effectiveness, I'm not sure we're talking about the same parents.

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.

For all the policy chatter and debate out there about funding inequities (between charters and neighborhood schools is one favorite), you don't hear much talk about just how inequitable the funding gaps can be among the 15,000 or so school districts (or among schools within the same district — don't even get me started).

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.»

And yet, the groupthink consensus that the business of education is «closing achievement gaps» has made it tough to talk honestly about the costs — for fear of being branded a racist or thought unconcerned with inequities.

I'm talking about race and gender inequities in enrollments and course selections.

We'll talk about honoring diversity and building on the strength of communities, deliberately and explicitly challenging all forms of inequity, specifically in regards to race.

... We're talking about an opportunity now for transformational change across Illinois in that principals will have the power to dismiss ineffective teachers, that they'll be able to hire who they want, that they'll no longer be forced to accept teachers they don't want in their buildings, and that when layoffs happen, they'll be able to let people go based on performance, not just seniority — and in Chicago they'll be able to lengthen their day and year which has been just a horrible inequity for decades.

Several members, including those with the pseudonyms «Frida Kahlo» and «Käthe Kollwitz,» talk to The New York Times about the continuing gender inequities in the art world.

We, the elders that Steve Salmony talks about, in our noisy youthful rebellions lifted the veil of normalcy draped over the American Dream and exposed the imperial dreams that underlay it and the injustices, inequities, and environmental harms that ensued.

So the movement we're talking about, the unnamed movement of environmental social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to address the salient issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation of our resource bases, the injustice of pollution itself, in terms of what it does to people's health and their children.

Where are the political candidates who are committed to talking about and doing something about health inequities?

Reid talked about how unconscious bias creates barriers to change and positions culture as a cause of health problems, rather than recognising it as a positive factor in addressing inequity.