Sentences with phrase «widening opportunity gaps»

In 2013, she became the senior writer at Opportunity Nation, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding economic mobility and bridging America's widening opportunity gap.

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Important Note For Energy Investors: The widening gap between WTI and Brent continues to create opportunities for traders.

In the next few months, Narendra Modi grabbed this opportunity to widen the gap between the UAE and Pakistan and signed multi-billion dollars» of trade agreements and formed a deep strategic alliance with the UAE including defense agreements.

As he makes clear during the talk and afterward, Schreibman is decidedly to the left, concerned that Republican policies have widened the gap between Americans of differing economic circumstances and that opportunity isn't knocking for those less fortunate.

This «schooling without learning» is a wasted opportunity, the report argues — widening social gaps for already disadvantaged children, for whom the promise of education was meant to offer much greater access to good jobs, higher wages, better health, and lifelong security.

Over the last two decades, policymakers, compelled by the demands of equal opportunity and aghast at widening achievement gaps — particularly for poor and minority youngsters — have focused resources on the neediest kids.

But he went on to describe how the dream is threatened by rising income inequality and a widening gap in opportunity that «has left too many of our sons and daughters behind.»

As proven by Stanford's Sean Reardon, the widening of the achievement gap results from additional opportunities affluent parents provide their children out of the K - 12 environment: high - quality pre-K, tutoring, and after - school and summer enrichment.

By rationing necessary educational resources to a chosen few while starving the majority of our neediest, Connecticut's leaders widen the state's educational opportunity gap.

And while the degree to which any particular factor gets blame or credit for widening or narrowing the gaps is debatable, the authors in this issue of The State Education Standard agree that differences in educational opportunity play a key role.

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.

While many middle - class families now invest in tutoring and extra learning time, less - privileged children are left on the sidelines, which only widens gaps in achievement and opportunity.

At a time when economic, social and educational inequities have contributed to a widening achievement gap across the nation, Community Schools have emerged as a promising strategy for addressing this opportunity gap and promoting success for all students, in school and in life.

Additionally, education leaders should be concerned about the troubling widening of the rich / poor achievement gap — an outcome at odds with stated policy goals and the fundamental principle of equal opportunity.

Authors are deafened by this same noise, widening the gap between talent and opportunity.

And perhaps the most deleterious aspect of the widening income and wealth gap in so many countries is that it is deepening inequality of opportunity.

The sea - change in opportunities for LPC graduates could begin as early as this year, with the gap widening to as much as 14 per cent (amounting to about 550 places) in 2011 — 12.

While demographic factors in some metros, such as a younger than average population, may be fueling unequal housing outcomes, along with a national trend that has been pointing to a gradually widening gap, there still seems to be plenty of opportunity for changes to local housing policy that could move the needle in a favorable wave for low - income groups.