Sentences with phrase «high social barriers»

High social barriers, whether caused by geography, networks, culture, language or distrust, can stifle relationships before they are born.

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• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

Sept 28 — Participation in three of the technologies highest on the Internet's buzz list — blogging, reading RSS feeds, and engaging in social networking — is climbing, but two of the three haven't cracked the 1 - in - 10 barrier.

So it's understandable why government and foundation officials have started giving the higher education system the «reform treatment» that was once reserved for our K — 12 system; if it's blocking opportunities for young people — especially low - income young people, as Susan Dynarski argued last week — then removing those barriers should be a top priority for U.S. social and education policy.

Three big factors will increasingly differentiate student outcomes: (1) development of students» self - motivation (2) effectiveness addressing learning barriers, like time - management, emotional disruptions, and social pressures that affect learning even among advantaged children; and (3) students» higher - order capabilities like analytical, conceptual and creative thinking, especially as applied to solve real problems.»

If the American dream is to mean anything for children from low - income backgrounds, they need access to a public education that helps them overcome economic and social barriers and achieve at high levels.

In addition, Johnson has partnered with organizations across the state representing philanthropy, government, business, nonprofit, K - 12 and higher education sectors to address the social, academic and financial barriers preventing students from pursing postsecondary education.

In that flat world, what will differentiate outcomes is how motivated students are to undertake the work of learning; how well they tackle the inevitable barriers to achievement, including social and emotional challenges; and whether they move beyond the basics and engage in the higher - order learning that's increasingly important for college, careers, and life.

The Everyone Graduates Center at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University seeks to identify the barriers to high school graduation, develop strategic solutions to overcoming these barriers and build local capacity to implement and sustain the solutions so that all students graduate prepared for adult success.

The findings on parental beliefs and values suggested that in spite of social hardships and barriers, which often limit achievement and social advancement, this group of parents must have had high expectations of their children in order to have encouraged them to pursue high levels of education and challenging careers.

Social Security benefits for college tended to target low - income students with high financial barriers to college.

As long as homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictions.

The barriers to entry for making an investment were incredibly high — you couldn't effectively start investing with $ 50 in your hand like you can today through Loyal3, Computershare, Sharebuilder, or what have you — and this made it difficult for someone to achieve significant social mobility without a rapidly increasing salary.

For students interested in careers in social justice, (for example: anti-poverty law, legal aid positions, human rights and immigration), having a high debt burdens is effectively a barrier to employment within that field.

Women who experience IPV may also be more likely to live in communities with higher levels of social disorganization, 36 disadvantage, 37 and violence.38 Several studies have found evidence that familial violence exacerbates the adverse impact of child exposure to community violence.39 Neighborhood safety may serve as a barrier to the ability to exercise and play outdoors.

This finding is supported by this study's assessment of barriers to community services where there is a high rate of reporting of physical barriers to services and in particular, identification of the lack of physical access / transport difficulties for people with psycho - social disability.

Among older patients, whose prevalence rate of depression is very high, these problems were aggravated by concurrent medical illness, social isolation, functional impairment or being home - bound.14 — 20 Overcoming these barriers by providing interventions in patients» own homes may achieve better treatment adherence and thereby greater treatment success than clinic - based or hospital - based interventions.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda and Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Wilson have convened a high level meeting with Indigenous leaders to tackle the barriers to property rights after native title.