Sentences with phrase «american urban system»

While I see glimmers of hope in persistently underperforming cities like Detroit and Cleveland, I don't see the same for Philadelphia, which may now, sadly, have the most distressing American urban system of schools.

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As people start living in more sterile and urban environments their immune systems aren't exposed to microbes and don't know what to do when they encounter allergens or bacteria, making allergies and auto - immune diseases more prevalent, Scientific American's podcast Science Talk explains.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

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The researchers sifted through an extensive amount of data on many urban systems — mostly big American cities, but also European (primarily German) and Chinese urban areas.

With Native American protagonist Conner Kenway at the helm, Assassin's Creed III rushed into 2012 with a revamped offense - oriented combat system (to help quell complaints of the slower, more reactionary system of past games), a large world featuring both woodland and urban environments, the addition of cooperative multiplayer, and a story that featured many iconic American heroes such as Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams, and George Washington.

Ironically, this misguided and shortsighted opposition has ensured that the fight for the future of quality educational access (and the production of future black leaders like Obama) will be between African Americans of one generation who found prosperity working in public education and who possess the lion's share of the political power, and the minority students whose futures are sacrificed on the altar of the nation's ossified urban education systems.

Using a 1995 survey of 4,700 adults (with an over-sample of urban adults), Moe finds that Americans like the public school system but think that private schools are better.

He is the author of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907 — 81, and, with David Angus, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890 — 1995.

[i] David B. Tyack, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974, pp. 59 - 65.

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

This suit attacking the Texas system of financing public education was initiated by Mexican - American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary [p5] schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, Texas.

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American universities are widely considered the best in the world, yet many urban school systems in the United States are failing.

Large urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education system.

The one Best System: A History of American Urban Education.

The Illinois Center for School Improvement (Illinois CSI) is an organization created by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and American Institutes for Research to help district leaders from urban, rural, and suburban schools transform their systems to ultimately drive higher student achievement.

What SUNY is really doing here is setting up charter schools, which primarily operate within urban school systems, to a lot of African American and Hispanic parents not to worry if their children's teachers are highly educated, tested, professionals — training them to focus on test preparation above everything else just isn't that difficult anyway.

Fewer than half of American schoolchildren are white, and the number is much lower in urban school systems like Philadelphia.

As a part of my graduate work at Virginia Tech's Alexandria urban planning program, I asked managers of current and planned North American bike sharing systems what they have done to increase access to bike sharing for low - income communities, and minority groups disproportionately underrepresented in bicycling.

African American youth in urban centers often reside in poorly resourced communities and face structural disadvantage, which can result in higher rates of poor behavioral health factors such as mental health problems, juvenile justice system involvement, substance use, risky sex and lower school engagement.