Sentences with phrase «towards educational equity»

As part of a larger movement towards educational equity in California, we need each school, each community, and each organization to help get parents and supporters involved.

Angelia Dickens, the general counsel for Michelle Rhee's group Students First, wrote that «The Vergara case is a logical extension from Brown» v. Board of Education, because it would help «move our country towards educational equity.»

expect transformative progress towards educational equity.

Few people in power genuinely expect transformative progress towards educational equity.

Not exact matches

A reader hoping for an in - depth analysis of inequalities in the American educational system and promising approaches towards school reform would likely be better off picking up a copy of Linda Darling - Hammond's book, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future.

In particular, this history demonstrates that while these data provided only mixed progress towards the stated goal of greater educational equity, they proved «useful» in other ways: providing researchers and policymakers with an array of possible research and policy targets and sustaining the belief that the education system, if properly tweaked and optimized, could ultimately secure educational equity.

For instance, Sweden's catastrophic decline in educational performance on PISA since its introduction of for - profit free schools has taken it away from the high performance of other Nordic countries and towards England and the United States, with declining equity and stagnated student achievement.

From a young age, I was exposed to people working towards social justice and educational equity.