Sentences with phrase «widening social gaps»

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.

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The research firm has also projected that the gap between Tumblr and its social media competitors will only widen into the future.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

The move underscores the widening gap between the two social networking pioneers, which went public within seven months of each other and have been intimately tied.

However, the gap begins to widen when you begin assessing paid social ad usage on LinkedIn.

(Margaret Mead, Culture and commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970) Lightning - fast social changes have widened the communication and value gap between the generations to an unprecedented degrGap, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970) Lightning - fast social changes have widened the communication and value gap between the generations to an unprecedented degrgap between the generations to an unprecedented degree.

You can not legislate social justice, the rich will find a way to hide their money, the politicians will sell out, the poor will be left to fend for themselves, the gap will widen.

In the eighth century BC., a young dresser of sycamores named Amos from the southern kingdom of Judah experienced a calling to journey to the northern kingdom of Israel in order to protest the social injustice, especially the widening gap between the rich and the poor, that had become prevalent there.

It could raise # 1.5 billion per year for the pupil premium — and would also help to stop the funding gap between state and private schools widening sharply, and setting social mobility back.

We will support progressive social liberal measures, wherever they come from — and continue to oppose all measures that would widen the gap between rich and poor.

And how has social media and varying sources of information widened the gap?

The last few months have opened my eyes to this widening gap between educators who are connected through social media and those who aren't.

EW: You write that homework is the great social class discriminator and that it hurts poor, disadvantaged kids and widens the achievement gap between the poor and the privileged.

The first book, Steady Gains and Stalled Progress, edited by Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, includes chapters by social scientists who are intent on figuring out why the black - white test score gap narrowed sharply during the 1970s and 1980s, but then stayed constant, or even widened.

«Waiting for «Superman»» doesn't explore the deeper changes in American society that have led to this crisis: the widening gap between rich and poor, the loosening of the social contract, the coarsening of the culture and the despair of the underclass.

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.

Remaining at a relatively basic level, standardized tests identify gaps in educational achievement between different social groups at the beginning of schooling and trace the widening of those gaps thereafter.

Compounding this problem, children from low - income families, on average, begin kindergarten approximately a year behind their peers in preliteracy and language skills.106 This fluency gap widens as students continue in school and has a significant impact on economic success later in life.107 As a result, gains from high - quality preschool programs — including improved health, better social - emotional skills, and better cognitive outcomes — are particularly beneficial for children from low - income families.108

Her ideas explore contemporary social, economic or political concerns of today such as, the widening gap between social classes, gentrification, feminism, and human rights.

Specifically for pre-trial detention, it shouldn't be used as a substitute for mental health, social or child welfare needs and I think that's still something courts struggle with which could account for any widening in the gap that you see from time to time.»