The team sought to share and understand their own experiences
with racial inequity in education, reflect on the perspectives of students of color who experience a lack of diversity within their teacher community, and research a range of factors that contribute to the gap, from teacher recruitment through school climate.
Not exact matches
The goal
with this universal distribution approach, and scope of education that Babies Need Boxes provides, will not only help families better access a safe sleep space and essential items, but will ultimately engage the greater Cleveland community in conversations regarding
racial inequity in childbirth, and help build the commitment needed to lower our infant mortality rates.
But the evidence that they present makes obvious that the solution to educational
inequity is not to be found in continuing to mask it
with racial admissions preferences that harm students.
El - Amin admits she came to Harvard
with hopes of building a school model steeped in addressing issues of
racial inequity in the curriculum and school culture.
Our ultimate aim is to catalyze substantially greater impacts on the lives of young children whose needs are not addressed adequately by existing programs,
with a strong emphasis on those who face the cumulative burdens of economic hardship, limited parent education,
racial or ethnic discrimination, and other sources of structural
inequity.
That open access is a deliberate and effective assault on
racial inequity associated
with the segregation era is an irony not lost on reform advocates.
The Leadership Conference Education Fund poll found «an overwhelming sense of
racial inequity in school funding,»
with lack of funding for students of color seen as the biggest cause of
racial disparities in education by both African American and Latino parents and families.
There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled
with Nashville's painful history of segregation and
racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated
inequities among its students for decades.
Though El - Amin came to Harvard
with hopes of developing a school model for students of color that helps them respond to issues of
racial inequity, she realized...
Schools should operate
with awareness of
racial inequities and work to dismantle systems that impact student growth.
With racial and economic disparities still an everyday reality throughout our education system, this brief suggests steps educational leaders can take to authentically and successfully confront the situations in schools that cause
inequities.
Blackstone Valley Prep is committed to the academic success, social and emotional growth, and health and wellness of 100 % of scholars in an intentionally diverse school that celebrates the
racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and sexual - orientation differences of our scholars, staff, and families by actively engaging in courageous conversations about the value of peoples» differences; raising awareness of self and society's structural
inequities; and empowering all people to engage in an open and honest dialogue
with an active voice.
The CCRR's special projects, on the School - to - Prison Pipeline and
Racial Inequity in Special Eduction, are supported
with funding from Atlantic Philanthropies and carried out under the auspices of the Civil Rights Project and in collaboration
with several partner organizations.
With North Carolina's increasingly diverse student population, intentionally and systemically promoting
racial equity will be essential if the state hopes to dismantle historical
racial and structural
inequities to better serve its most vulnerable students.
Special projects on the School - to - Prison Pipeline and
Racial Inequity in Special Education are supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and The California Endowment and carried out in collaboration
with several partner organizations.
With test results, we can no longer hide the underlying
racial inequity in our schools, and we can not and should not go back and pretend it doesn't exist.
This excellent photo - biography portrays Wells as an outspoken journalist who never compromised and who attacked blacks and whites
with equal fervor at any sign of accommodation to
racial inequity.
With his wryly clever conversational style, best - selling author Walter Mosley charmed a packed Loker Student Union ballroom after stopping by California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Feb. 16 for a reading from his novel «Little Scarlet,» and to share thoughts about writing,
racial inequity, and his personal reflections of the Watts Rebellion.
On Monday, October 24, CALL artist Henrietta Mantooth sat down
with VoCA Program Committee Member Jennifer Hickey to discuss her life, legacy, and recent installations around the themes
racial inequity and mass incarceration.
NEW YORK - The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife
with racial tensions, economic
inequities, and polarizing politics.
The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife
with racial tensions, economic
inequities, and polarizing politics.
«This biennial arrives at a time rife
with racial tensions, economic
inequities and polarizing politics,» they write in the introductory statement, «inviting us to pause and pose questions in a tumultuous world.»
March 17 — June 11, 2017 The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife
with racial tensions, economic
inequities, and polarizing politics.
What matters most is adjusting the human population size and patterns of consumption to the requirements of Earth's life support systems, and doing so in a way that does away
with gross economic,
racial, gender and other
inequities.
Michelle is also on the faculty of BUILD's Equity Leader's Action Network working
with leaders from across the country acting on specific
racial inequities in state early childhood systems — in early learning, health, mental health, nutrition, and family support — and especially at the intersection of these systems.
To create a just and equitable society for the infants and toddlers
with whom its members work, the infant mental health field must intentionally address some of the
racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and other
inequities embedded in society.