Sentences with phrase «to achieve equity»

Given that understanding, it becomes apparent that personalized learning must serve as a critical component of achieving equity in education.

If you are selective, corporate bond investors can often achieve equity - like returns without equity - like risk.

If we want to make real, lasting change in achieving equity for Aboriginal people, we need to look beyond fixing the problems we have now.

Pedro Noguera was a presenter on LPI's inaugural webinar in the series Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, which addressed ways schools and school districts can improve academic achievement, particularly among students who are farthest from opportunity, through engaging students in learning that focuses on meaningful mastery of subjects, critical thinking, problem - solving, collaboration and other skills necessary for college, career, and civic participation in the 21st Century.

The Scottish Attainment Challenge aims to help achieve equity in educational outcomes with a particular focus on closing the poverty - related attainment gap

Our Goal To make a significant and growing contribution towards achieving equity in health outcomes for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across our geographic service area, including the Mount Isa, North West and Lower Gulf regions.

«My life's work has been animated by a fierce commitment to the notion of achieving equity in our society.»

«We must work collectively to break through barriers that limit the success of our youth, so we can truly achieve equity in education.

Other papers cast doubt on the premise that focusing additional material resources on disadvantaged students will raise their academic outcomes; in one paper, Julian Betts and John Roemer estimate that schools would need to spend 8 to 10 times as much money on the education of blacks as whites to achieve equity across racial groups.

First of all, although Finland can show the United States what equal opportunity looks like, Americans can not achieve equity without first implementing fundamental changes in their school system.

We're thrilled to announce Achieving Equity through Leadership: An Aspiring Superintendents Program, developed in partnership with AASA.

As the National Equity Project, we have formally launched an effort to change the national conversation about achieving equity in our schools and communities.

The best approaches to achieving equity include a multi-tiered system that uses PBIS and SEL.

Now that the formula has been fixed, Advance Illinois and its coalition partners are turning their attention to funding the formula so that the system achieves equity.

School integration and its effects on disproportionality: Excerpt from Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity by Edward Fergus.

Hedge funds, in particular, can help companies achieve equity - like returns but with dampened volatility.

So Ithaka again partnered with the Mellon Foundation and AAMD to examine how some art museums have been successful in these areas, hoping that this would allow others to learn from peers and adopt practices that would reduce their own structural barriers not only with respect to staffing but towards achieving equity more broadly.

We created a Lorenz curve to represent the variation of GHG emissions among countries using the CAIT dataset, and calculated the Gini index to measure inequity in GHG emissions among countries, and the Robin hood index to measure how much of the total global emissions would have to be redistributed to achieve equity among countries (see Supplementary Fig.

Divorcing couples typically achieve an equity buyout when the spouse retaining the asset refinances the loan against it for an amount sufficient to satisfy the existing mortgage or loan, plus an additional amount to cover the other spouse's equity interest.

«Reconciliation Australia's vision is for a reconciled, just and equitable Australia and all our key work is aimed at achieving equity, particularly in education, employment and reducing the insidious impact of racism.

Furthermore, AIPA is committed to supporting and formally representing the views of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychologists and students, supporting Indigenous psychologists through undergraduate and post graduate courses, working toward achieving equity within the profession and developing and delivering professional development activities which aim to increase the cultural competence of the mental health workforce, service delivery and the mental health system overall.

It refers to a continuous and ongoing effort to achieve measureable improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, performance, accountability, outcomes, and other indicators of quality in services or processes which achieve equity and improve the health of the community.»

The third webinar in LPI's series, Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, explored how states are using and sharing information on deeper learning assessments.

We can't achieve equity in education without diversity — broadly defined in terms of socioeconomics and race, as well as by cultural and gender identity.

He also hopes to solve the police - parking and bike - lane - blocking problem on Schermerhorn Street, and will continue his efforts to achieve equity in the handling of the city's waste and reform of the carting industry.

The study authors suggest that the current formulas need adjustment to be fair to large, urban hospitals, and offer a formula to achieve this equity.

In this retrospective account of their scholarly work over the past 45 years, «Achieving Equity in Higher Education: The Unfinished Agenda,» Alexander and Helen Astin show how the struggle to achieve greater equity in American higher education is intimately connected to issues of character development, leadership, civic responsibility, and spirituality.

The ratio between what is currently spent by districts in the bottom half and what needs to be spent to achieve equity is the McLoone Index.»

She called reform politics a «dangerous» means to achieve equity and excellence that are ideologically driven and not actually helping.

, Charting reform, achieving equity in a diverse nation, 163 - 189.

, Charting reform, achieving equity in a diverse nation.

Put children at the heart of equitable and sustainable progress — Improving the well - being of all children today is essential for achieving both equity and sustainability

In fact, part of the overarching goal of RIDES and the courses is to provide insight into the journey educators face to achieve equity, and how it can be done in a variety of ways.

«While our recent efforts at education reform have yielded some great successes in certain places, overall, we have failed to achieve equity, we have failed to eliminate persistent achievement and success gaps,» said Professor Paul Reville, founding director of the Education Redesign Lab and former Massachusetts Secretary of Education.

was conceived to achieve equity and excellence for all learners and seeks to do that in two critical ways: one, to catapult the careers of experienced educators, preparing them for system - level leadership, and two, to build a network — forging connections across the sector and across the country — that could be leveraged to increase collective impact.

was conceived to achieve equity and excellence for all learners and seeks to do that in two critical ways: one, to...

AD: Yeah, you know I think what we've found is that data use can be a vehicle for achieving equity.

national impact, achieving equity, and adaptive leadership.

After King's talk, King and Lab Director Professor Paul Reville participated in a Harvard EdCast to discuss King's journey after serving as U.S. Secretary of Education, what he hopes to accomplish in his new role, his vision for achieving equity in education, and examples of successful work from around the country.

Please join the Alliance for Excellent Education for a webinar on the Asia Society's Global Cities Education Network, which works to identify effective strategies in urban school systems in North America and Asia to transform learning and achieve equity.

That advice was shared by several speakers at NSBA's Annual Conference preconference workshop on Friday, «Achieving Equity: Leadership Strategies and Promising Practices for Closing the Opportunity and Achievement Gaps.»