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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"social inequity"”.
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Teachers' perceptions of the relationships between social and emotional learning implementation, their students' engagement, and teaching equity through social and emotional learning: a quantitative study
Childhood mental health and the widening of social inequity are growing concerns in our country. Schools are tasked with meeting students’ needs while also ensure they meet high academic expectation. Social and emotional learning can serve as a vehicle to address these needs while promoting …
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A policy study about equity and college access : the Missouri A+ schools program
… To a degree, the program promotes status quo and social inequity.
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Historical Study of the Highlander Method: Honing Leadership for Social Justice.
<p>Waging war against economic, political and social inequity, Highlander, founded in 1932 in Monteagle, Tennessee, near Chattanooga, served as a community-training center for southern industrial labor and farmers’ unions and as a major gathering place for black and white civil rights activists, …
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Social infrastructure
… have become hound to communities, which endure social hardship and environmental detriment. For too long, the physical form of the city has taken a relaxed position on these endangered and often hazardous urban edges. Considering the social, spatial and environmental conditions. the central …
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Equality of opportunity in travel behavior prediction with deep neural networks and discrete choice models
… ignore the ethical challenges and the adverse social impacts embedded in the machine learning algorithms. This study introduces the important missing dimension - computational fairness - to travel behavioral analysis. It highlights the accuracy-fairness tradeoff instead of the single …
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Air trade : promises -- and pitfalls -- in the coming carbon market
… miscounted emissions to perverse incentives to social inequity. This thesis examines some of the market designs that have been proposed, along with reasons why the carbon market is likely to fail to live up to its greatest promise.
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Tongues Out of Place: Narratives of Hereness and Images of Be(long)ing
… times of gentrification, climate change, and inequity? Using Hall & Massey’s (2010) term conjunctural crisis, or the overlapping of multiple disasters that bleed into each other, I argue that psychologists have a responsibility to combat social inequity and work towards tangible strategies in …
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Stone cold clean & dry : a substance abuse rehab center In Manhattan
… faces" including health care, legal, poverty and social inequity issues. The US is 4% of the world's population but it consumes more than half the world's mood-altering and painkilling pharmaceuticals and two-thirds of the world's illegal drugs. Pharmaceutical industries have been on the brink of …
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“During the pandemic, the sense of Ubuntu was fantastic”: a participatory research study commemorating community mobilisation
… in a commemorative arts-based process for social innovation during a pandemic?'. The research methodology of this study was qualitative participatory research and it was conducted in Cape Town, South Africa, with members of the Woodstock Community Action Network. Data were collected …
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Changing the game: public education and the discourses and practices of privatisation in educational technology policy and intervention
… issues that learners experience in the pervasive social inequity of South Africa. There is a lack of existing research on privatisation practices in public education in the Western Cape, specifically what linguistic strategies are utilized in the official texts promoting it. The Game Changer …
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Host heterogeneity and respiratory disease dynamics: From structural inequity to immune history
… and evolution. However, in human populations, social inequity remains underexplored as a source of heterogeneity despite having long been identified as a threat to global health and infectious disease control. In this work, we draw from established ecological frameworks such as metapopulation …
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Sustainable design education: learning strategies for multidisciplinary education of undergraduates and professionals.
… economic systems and the challenges meted by social inequity were starting to be raised by scientists, economists and even designers as early as the 1960s. These are now finally accepted as real problems for today's students and professionals and for the world as a whole. They now provide …
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Connection to Perinatal Care for the Management of Maternal Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Pregnancy
… these gaps requires a focus on clinical and social determinants of health, but limited data exists on prenatal care utilization, pregnancy outcomes, and inequities affecting access to care for this population. Methods: We performed a population-level retrospective cohort study of pregnant …
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Three Essays on the Implementation of Food Assistance Programs
… states and counties in ways that exacerbate social inequity. I designed a large survey experiment evaluating the efficacy of highlighting the child beneficiaries of SNAP for inducing greater public support for the program. I find that emphasizing its child beneficiaries can increase support …
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Discerning the role of geodesign in landscape architecture: exploring its relations with systems thinking and resilience and its role in Planning Support System (PSS) technologies
… such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, social inequity, and environmental pollution. These challenges are embedded in highly interdependent systems that are complex with many dynamic interactions. In the field of landscape architecture, there is mounting evidence that an emerging …
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Globalización, capitalismo financiero y responsabilidad social empresarial: tensiones estructurales
… globalización han tenido sobre los equilibrios sociales y económicos están estrechamente relacionados con los argumentos conceptuales que, como una llamada de atención, han llegado a las corporaciones y las empresas por la responsabilidad social corporativa. Sin embargo, el modelo construido en …