Sentences with phrase «use of race in»

Hank Willis Thomas, a conceptual artist whose work addresses the construction and use of race in America, also resists this categorization.

If the Supreme Court decides against the use of race in college admissions, it will erase many years of progress for campuses trying to be more diverse and inclusive.

The footnote had originally represented the city's understanding of a Supreme Court decision precluding the use of race in school admissions decisions.

The state of the law regarding the use of race in student assignment has been somewhat up in the air since the Supreme Court's confusing 2007 ruling in a case involving the Seattle school system and a DOE «guidance» issued the following year.

After the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, which limited the voluntary use of race in school assignment plans, 33 the number of schools and districts using socioeconomic integration policies grew rapidly.

The Fall 2017 issue of Education Next includes an article by Ryan analyzing arguments made in court rulings on the use of race in college admissions by the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.

In essence, the court must decide whether racial diversity in schools is a compelling interest — one that justifies the government's use of race in selecting students for admission to public high schools.

Parents Involved commenced this suit in the Western District of Washington, alleging that Seattle's use of race in assignments violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 4 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,5 and the Washington Civil Rights Act.6 Id., at 28a - 35a.

But the case groaned back to life in 2006 when a group organized as the Greenville Parents Association filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights objecting to the district's use of race in student assignments.

In 2001 only the federal appeals court covering the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont had upheld the use of race in student assignment or magnet school admissions in school districts not already under court order; it did so on the grounds that the state had a compelling interest in racial diversity.

Highlights this fall include a conversation with Claude Steele, social psychologist, executive vice chancellor and provost for University of California, and author of Whistling Vivaldi, about how stereotypes can impact education; a discussion about the use of race in college admissions with Economic Policy Institute Research Associate Richard Rothstein and Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin; and a forum about education leadership.

But his education cases — particularly those relating to the use of race in student - assignment and admissions policies in K — 12 and higher education — paint a different picture.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision limiting the use of race in school assignments will likely result in a period of upheaval as school districts drop race - conscious policies and consider whether to try alternative means to keep schools integrated, experts say.

«Any university that has an affirmative action policy could be subject to a similar lawsuit regarding whether it's meeting the compelling standards for governmental use of race in education policy.

The recent Supreme Court decision, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, ruled unconstitutional the Seattle and Louisville school districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school choice.

The debate over the use of race in admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade - off among three worthwhile goals: race - blindness, academic selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.

Such concerns notwithstanding, a majority of the court found the public benefits generated by race - conscious policies sufficiently compelling to allow continued use of race in admissions.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the use of race in college admissions is constitutional, so long as explicit «quotas» aren't used.

Business Insider: There's a fight heating up in the education world over the use of race in college admissions.

Not exact matches

He recalled that another student in his class shattered the record, in part by racing down the slide for life head - first, instead of the slower, safer method that everyone else used.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

Race cars were already using Manco's tape, so last May Manco invested $ 150,000 in an official sponsorship, merchandising tie - ins, and a customer write - in contest for most creative use of the tape.

Does gay porn make use of the class, race, and power tropes found in heterosexual pornography, and if so, how?»

As a result, many entrepreneurs find themselves in a race to the bottom, as they begin to focus on using revenues to keep up with expenses, instead of produce profits.

A key theme in this year's presidential race is competitiveness of American industry, though candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders tend to use more colorful language when describing their belief that the United States has lost its economic edge.

The winner, who receives newly - minted Bitcoin as their reward, wins the race by providing the answer to a mathematical problem that is deliberately designed to use up a lot of computing power, in order to maintain stability in the speed at which these blocks are «found.»

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

A main point of contention in the race was the state's stance on the «bathroom bill» which denies transgender people the right to use the bathroom of their choice.

«I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country's development... you have failed to contain Russia,» Putin said, later adding that «any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies... any kind of attack... will be regarded as a nuclear attack against Russia and in response we will take action instantaneously no matter what the consequences are.

President Obama has used the bully pulpit of the White House to drive a clear and consistent message to his Cabinet, Congress, state and industry leaders, and the world: America will be a global leader in the clean - energy race.

In fact, over a decade ago, I was told by my peers of the exact same scam, described by neuro - linguistic programming expert Derren Brown of a fool - proof system that could predict the winner of every horse race around the world, used by Wall Street financial consultants on unsuspecting prospects to successfully gather millions of dollars of AUM.

Using the argument of neutrality is too dismissive to the more pertinent fact at hand — likely about $ 300k was deployed to control $ 1.6 m, to be used in any way shape or form when it is all said and done... retiring abroad, funding their kids college, starting their tube meat meat truck business after they get tired of the lawyering rat race, etc etc..

CNN: My Take: When it comes to «God» in our political platforms, less is more Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» discusses how the Republican and Democratic parties have used God as a ««prop» of our politics» during the 2012 presidential race.

weak and divisive.He also helped undo decades of improvements in race relations by using it every chance he gets.As for bin Laden getting a formal Islamic burial at sea..

This is from an excerpt of literature from one program: «Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion.We are not interested in what or how much you used or who your connections were, what you have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help.

Thus Rich Demont, who won the 400 - meter freestyle swim race, was disqualified when it was discovered that he had traces of a drug used for asthma in his system.

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

The principal value of the scientific study of race is to render the concept more exact than it is in common use and to demonstrate its severe limitations as a classification device.

He is the Saviour because he is God reaching out to a broken human race desperately in need of transformation which can come only by us using our freedom to allow him to change us.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

When the novelist William Styron used his imagination to write The Confessions of Nat Turner, many voices were raised not only in disparagement of his novel but also against his even attempting to make the leap of races and conditions.

Its used as a mask so that others wil think that somehow theft, murder, biggotry and the extintion of other races are somehow noble acts when done in the name of a god or an ideal.

No more religion - in politics, schools, or work, It needs to go - Its time to use all of the wasted resources that is being using on Christianity and Islam for something that actually benefits the human race and doesn't cause continuous strife.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

(College courses that used to have this term in their title are now commonly titled «Inequality»» or, of course, «Race, Class, and Gender.»)

Trigster: the Book of Mormon was written by dark skinned people, who probably knew nothing of the white supremacy you accuse them of... it does use ancient language, but they were not racist in our terms, the Nephites and Lamanites of the Book of Mormon viewed themselves as «brothers,» they were all one race.

Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and value - conflicts in which that faith is used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.

The war had to be interpreted in light of how God would use it to bring about progress for both the human race and religion.

The radio spectrum is legally the property of the human race and the regulation of its use rests on the proposition that the conditions on which individuals or groups may use it must be consistent with the interest of all other possible users in its use.

Although Paul uses other figures to describe this saving work of Christ (as, for example, his having become a new Adam, a new representative man, thus restoring in the race the image of God which sin had marred), this is his most characteristic interpretation of the meaning of the man Jesus and his work.