Sentences with phrase «where racial prejudice»

Eighth grader Jordan, who transferred from a school where racial prejudice was a problem she ran into, says she was «shocked when I came here» to see the students working together.

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It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

A native of East Texas herself, Ruby's tale is woven with the heat, racial prejudice and folklore of this part of the world; the novel recreates a terrifying fictional community where the life and innocence of children are nought and where death and perversion reign supreme.

With the very narrow, newly created exception for guilty verdicts in criminal cases reached based upon racial or other kinds of impermissible prejudice rather than the facts of the case (or cases where there is an outside influence on the jury such as a bribe or someone looking up facts or law on the Internet), no one can challenge a jury verdict based upon the reasoning and conclusions actually made by the jurors, even if someone learns that the jury knowingly or accidentally didn't follow the law or was mistaken about the facts.

Article 7 obliges the states parties to undertake measures to combat prejudices which lead to racial discrimination and to promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups and I think that that's where we started with the discussion that the honourable Minister gave us of the reconciliation process and its varied programs that are being put in place, the way in which it is trying to be innovative, et cetera...