Educational inequality

How Will We Close the Achievement Gap if We Don’t Close the Discipline Gap?

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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
African American, Teens, Parenting, Other Education, Family, Primary, Secondary, Consumer, Education, Articles, Education, Human behavior, Social inequality, Intersession, University of California, Los Angeles, Educational inequality, Suspension

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210713005313/en/
    Students of color and from low-income households are suspended at rates higher than their white peers.
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    A recent report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project raises the question of how we will close the achievement gap if we dont close the discipline gap.
  • Black students lost 103 days per 100 students enrolled, compared to only 21 days their white peers lost due to out-of-school suspensions.
  • Serving more than 47,000 students including full-time and intersession students we help them prepare for a future beyond high school.

Best in Class Education Offers Accelerated Catch-up Programs this Summer to Seattle Students

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Articles, Education, Human activities, Social inequality, Learning, Teaching, Tutoring, Educational inequality, Accelerator

Best in Class Education will use the summer months to offer Seattle students accelerated Math and English programs with the goal of getting students back on track for the 2021-2022 school year.\nHao Lam, Best in Class\'s owner and founder, says he is ready to close the education gaps with the launch of online accelerator programs.

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  • Best in Class Education will use the summer months to offer Seattle students accelerated Math and English programs with the goal of getting students back on track for the 2021-2022 school year.\nHao Lam, Best in Class\'s owner and founder, says he is ready to close the education gaps with the launch of online accelerator programs.
  • "We are committed to being responsive to the needs of the students we serve in Seattle during these unprecedented times in our children\'s education.
  • Always ready for the unexpected, Best in Class Education is prepared to make summer learning highly effective, engaging, and fun.\nFor more information about the Best in Class powered by Adaptively COVID Catch-up Accelerator programs, please visit COVID Catch-up Accelerators .\nAbout Best in Class Education: Best in Class Education Centers specialize in tutoring Mathematics and English for both enrichment and remedial purposes.
  • Since 1995, Best In Class Education Centers have served Washington state students through tailor-made teaching materials and professional guidance to strengthen students\' analytical and reasoning skills for academic success.

Black, Hispanic students less likely to receive special-education services than comparable white students

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Articles, Social issues, Social inequality, Education in the United States, Race and intelligence controversy, Discrimination, Race in the United States, Racial achievement gap in the United States, Educational inequality

Research has consistently found that minority students are identified with disabilities at higher rates than white students, based on straightforward comparisons of classification rates across racial groups.

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  • Research has consistently found that minority students are identified with disabilities at higher rates than white students, based on straightforward comparisons of classification rates across racial groups.
  • Black, Hispanic students less likely to receive special-education services than comparable white students.
  • Hispanic students are 3 percentage points less likely to be identified for special education than similar white studentsa difference of 40 percent.
  • Black and Hispanic students are overrepresented in special education in schools where most students are white, but underrepresented at schools with mostly minority students.

Launch of Celonis Aspire €500,000 Fund Combats Educational Inequality by Removing Barriers to Turn Dreams Into Real Opportunities

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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Other Education, Data management, Technology, Software, Education, Articles, Social issues, Discrimination, Educational inequality, Social inequality, Education

Celonis Aspire combats educational inequality by removing financial barriers and helping turn educational dreams into real opportunities for global youth.

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  • Celonis Aspire combats educational inequality by removing financial barriers and helping turn educational dreams into real opportunities for global youth.
  • Celonis Aspire aims to give back to society, reflecting the support that Celonis founders received as part of their education.
  • Many young people face significant barriers, especially when it comes to secondary education, which is crucial for employment, well-being and citizenship.
  • Employees from Celonis will become sponsors of Celonis Aspire, providing additional non-financial support to help applicants achieve their educational dreams.

The Equitable Education Fund and 60 Educational Reformers Partner to Hold an Interntional Conference on Equity Education: ALL FOR EDUCATION

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Friday, July 3, 2020
Organizations, Articles, UNESCO, Education, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Social inequality, Educational inequality, UIS

The inequity education tends to intensify since children and adolescences over 90% across the globe have to be temporarily out of the education system.

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  • The inequity education tends to intensify since children and adolescences over 90% across the globe have to be temporarily out of the education system.
  • According to data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), there are around 263 million children out of the school system currently.
  • All representatives will participate in the conference in order to seek solutions in educational inequality during COVID-19 crisis together.
  • For those who are interested, please register your online attendance for free at https://bit.ly/EquitableEducationConference2020 or http://afe2020.eef.or.th/

The Equitable Education Fund and 60 Educational Reformers Partner to Hold an Interntional Conference on Equity Education: ALL FOR EDUCATION

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Friday, July 3, 2020
Organizations, Articles, Education, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Social inequality, Educational inequality, UNESCO, UIS

The inequity education tends to intensify since children and adolescences over 90% across the globe have to be temporarily out of the education system.

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Groundbreaking ASIAN AMERICANS Documentary Highlights Historical Fight For Education Equality, Asian American Groups Focus On Similarities To African American Fight For Equitable Education

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Friday, May 8, 2020
Racism in the United States, Social issues, Discrimination, American society, Debt bondage, Jim Crow, Jim Crow laws, Race legislation in the United States, Asian immigration to the United States, Educational inequality

Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, is promoting the documentary as the most comprehensive look at Asian Americans in history and remarks on the similarities in the fight for education equality between communities of color.

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  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, is promoting the documentary as the most comprehensive look at Asian Americans in history and remarks on the similarities in the fight for education equality between communities of color.
  • The television series chronicles the fastest growing racial/ethnic group's history in the United States and examines the role Asian Americans have played in shaping America.
  • More specifically, the Asian American-led series explores the impact Asian Americans have had on the country, from the first wave of 1850s Asian immigrants to modern refugee crises to the fight for desegregation and education equality.
  • Before Brown v. Board of Education, Jim Crow laws barred African Americans from sharing public families such as schools, buses, and bathrooms with white Americans.

Lumina Foundation awards $500,000 grant to Virginia to close gaps in educational attainment

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Regions of the United States, Social inequality, Social issues, Attainment, Lumina Foundation, Educational inequality, Virginia

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Virginia today joins Colorado, Oregon and Tennessee in receiving a Lumina Foundation grant to increase educational attainment for students of color.

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  • INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Virginia today joins Colorado, Oregon and Tennessee in receiving a Lumina Foundation grant to increase educational attainment for students of color.
  • Lumina awards grants to states to help eliminate educational disparities between the overall population and their Black, Latino,and Native American residents.
  • Virginia will use the grant to pursue improvements in four critical areas: leadership culture and values; equity policy and initiatives; communications and outreach; and programming to improve attainment.
  • Through these actions, Virginia intends to increase educational attainment for targeted populations by 5 percentage points over the next four years.

Free SAS educational app generates money for UN sustainability goals while students learn, and is available in App Store

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Contents, Software, Business intelligence, Data warehousing, Computing, 4GL, Numerical software, SAS, Educational inequality, Scandinavian Airlines, Curriculum, SAS Institute

The Global Goals address many critical challenges, including poverty, hunger, gender inequality, lack of water and sanitation, and education inequality.

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  • The Global Goals address many critical challenges, including poverty, hunger, gender inequality, lack of water and sanitation, and education inequality.
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  • For over 20 years, SAS has produced educational K-12 software for schools through a philanthropic division, Curriculum Pathways .
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