Collectively, these contributions will provide a window into the scope and depth of American climate action, and help determine
where opportunity gaps exist on the local and national level.
Some solutions include ever - increasing support of equity, investment in collaborative leadership development, continue to strengthen our work with schools and workforce systems, and focusing on communities
where opportunity gaps are the greatest.
Ours is a community
where opportunity gaps abound, gentrification threatens families, and a legacy of racism is still unresolved.
Not exact matches
It's running a program for employers, of which about 60 have signed on so far, called 100 % Talent, to help them uncover
gaps in pay and in
opportunity, and to make changes
where necessary.
The first of these stores is set to open in early 2017 in Baltimore, MD,
where Starbucks has been working with local community, civic and business leaders with the collective goal of addressing the
opportunity gap facing the city's young men and women.
To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest
opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and
where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.
These areas are the biggest
opportunities for improvement —
where we observed the biggest
gaps between the «somewhat» and the «extremely / very» committed content marketers.
Arsenal have missed a couple of
opportunities in the last couple of weeks
where they could have opened up a small
gap at the top of the Premier League, but thanks to Jamie Vardy breaking the Premiership record by scoring in 11 games in a row and also to Bastian Schweinsteiger for getting his first goal for Man United, Arsenal now have a valid chance to go top again this weekend.
«We play them both, so those will be the games
where we have the
opportunity to close the
gap.
«This is the year the state should significantly increase the Foundation Formula, eliminate the
Gap Elimination Adjustment and make good on its commitment that, no matter
where students live or go to school, they have the
opportunity for the sound, basic education the New York Constitution requires.»
But anyone that thinks that we're in a serious post-racial period
where we're all equal and everything's the same, needs just look at the education statistics, the economic development statistics, the wider
gap between black and white when it comes to personal net worth, the wider
gap when it comes to
opportunity to complete college.
Fraunhofer IAO's Car2X patent index systematically shows companies
where to find patent
gaps and
opportunities in the Car2X technology field.
«This study opens the door and shows a communication
gap, shows
where there's an
opportunity to help educate people.
There is nowhere on earth
where women have the same
opportunities as men, but the gender
gap is wider for women living in poverty.
Broadening our ideas about
where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic
opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional
opportunities to help close the achievement
gap.
There are exercises to check understanding and translation and
gap - fill exercises for pupils to demonstrate understanding, For creativity and the
opportunity for pupils to expand their vocabulary there is a speaking game
where pupils are posed with dilemmas and they have to say what they would do whilst justifying their opinion.
If we can better gauge
where our
gaps and
opportunities are for compliance learning, we can develop more impactful, engaging and effective solutions.
Start
where you are, but don't stay there: Understanding diversity,
opportunity gaps, and teaching in today's classrooms.
Prior to joining the foundation, Orville was a Senior Research Analyst at the Education Trust - West,
where he conducted research and advocated for policies to boost educational achievement and close
opportunity gaps impacting students of color and students in poverty in California schools.
We work at schools
where there's the greatest need and strive to eliminate the
opportunity gaps that mar public education and harm students» futures.
In places like Albemarle County,
where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education - technology tools meant to narrow
opportunity and achievement
gaps can widen them instead.
It is imperative that we bridge the achievement,
gap, and that all children, regardless of
where they come from, have the same
opportunities to succeed,» said former Assemblymember Lempert, who has remained a leader on children's issues, as head of Children Now.
If early - elementary - age students had more
opportunities to experience success and parity with peers (particularly in areas other than math and reading,
where large performance
gaps between students at this age are common), they would be less likely to give up on school learning.
Where they have the
opportunity to act on expectations, we see instead deteriorating infrastructure, inadequate staffing, disrespect for the teaching profession, highly disparate funding levels for schools, and an unwillingness to even acknowledge the systemic racism that creates and ossifies the
gaps.
WHEREAS, at a time when the nation's K - 12 students are now «majority — minority» and racialized
gaps in student achievement, income, wealth are on the rise, the continued
opportunity gap in schools has created a climate
where communities are restless for alternatives.
Our hope is to identify
where gaps in service may exist to be able to effectively advocate for more funding and resources to support quality expanded learning
opportunities for all youth in Oregon.
He is the author of the award - winning Start
Where You Are But Don't Stay There: Understanding Diversity,
Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in To - day's Classrooms (2010) and Rac (e) ing to class: Confronting poverty and race in schools and classrooms (2015), both from Harvard Education Press.
The greatest gains in reducing
gaps in achievement and
opportunity have been made during periods when concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or
where significant new investments in school funding have occurred.
Teachers from four middle schools and four high schools met for a 3 - day NCTAF facilitated Design Session
where they mapped curricula across their respective disciplines and collaborated with Workforce Partners to create
opportunities for students to bridge the
gap between the classroom and the real - world.
I have increasingly focused my work on finding ways to create high - quality
opportunities at scale and have learned that strategic partnerships across sectors are essential if we are to identify and implement solutions
where significant educational, economic, and social challenges or
gaps exist.
His book, published in 2010 by Harvard Education Press, is: Start
where you are but don't stay there: Understanding diversity,
opportunity gaps, and teaching in today's classrooms http://hepg.org/hep/book/129/StartWhereYouAreButDonTStayThere, which represents years of research and development effort.
These
gaps between price and value get all the more prevalent in years
where the overall market experiences volatility — which is one reason why as value investors, we root for volatility — it provides us with
opportunity.
Anyway, the main
opportunity I found occurs on
Gap - UP days where the gap doesn't get clos
Gap - UP days
where the
gap doesn't get clos
gap doesn't get closed.
In fact, ALLYDVM Founder and COO, Jason Wernli, has spent years consulting directly with large veterinary clinics
where he's seen common
gaps and
opportunities.
I recently had the
opportunity to tour the factory
where Herman Miller, the other licensee, produces the same chair, and shot some video as well; I am not good enough that they could be called «porny» unless one refers to the cheap shaky films with bad sound, but perhaps I fill in some of those
gaps in the process.
Here's
where I see a glaring
gap and potential for a huge increase of hard good sales, which could result in decreased waste generation and costs worldwide: Instead of business as usual with continued global expansion that simultaneously increases profits and global waste, Starbucks has an
opportunity to show social and environmental responsibility, increase profits, save money, and generate less waste by promoting branded reusable cups, straws, and cutlery.
Removing limitations on agile working and actively offering more flexible working
opportunities will have a huge impact on retaining women or encouraging women into more senior roles,
where typically the pay
gap is higher.
I thought it might be helpful to clarify, in her case
where we're talking about legal aid there's a very well defined number and
gap and need, and it's not the same thing that we talk about when we're talking about all the
opportunities to make money by changing the way we package services.
That parent will have a second
opportunity to make their case for the proposed move at trial
where they may well be in a position to adduce evidence establishing that the present circumstances are having a deleterious impact on the child's physical or emotional needs; and having lost their initial chambers application, the moving parent no doubt will come away from the experience as a «dress rehearsal» having learned all the flaws and
gaps in their factual / legal presentation that they can improve upon and fill in for the trial judge.
It also allows the few number of Pixel and Nexus users on Oreo an
opportunity to fill in the
gaps where developers have not yet turned to updating their icons for the new shapes.
This is about your ability to deal with ambiguity / limited resources and an
opportunity to show
where you have used initiative to fill a
gap.
The company is now looking at
opportunities to open new offices, like the King Street West one, in locations
where service
gaps have been identified.