Sentences with phrase «about kids in poverty»

Taking job creation, workforce development, transportation, healthcare, etc out of the conversation about kids in poverty (these aspects get little attention compared to schooling, even health doesn't come close) because schooling will take care of all that is just playing into the hands of corporate and wealthy interests.

There's nothing inherent about kids in poverty that means that they can't do as well anybody else.

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«Mary Thomas is a woman who lived in poverty but cared enough about her kids to keep them away from dope pushers and gangs....

The daily news can make issues like poverty and the environment seem overwhelming, yet by focusing on issues in ways that make sense to children, parents can raise socially conscious kids who care about the world beyond themselves.

It's about poverty - stricken kids in Philadelphia and the emotional scars inflicted when their parents forgo their own meals to be able to feed them:

High school graduates are half as likely to go into poverty, so when we talk about hunger as an education issue it's really about investing in kids now — investing in this country's future.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.

I agree in principle, but what about communities where the food service staff is failing kids, but the community — because of poverty, lack of education, etc. — doesn't know how to take action?

Geoffrey Canada has an ambitious prescription to help poor urban kids in Harlem, first by ignoring vexing political and social question about the origins of the cycle of poverty.

Here, little orphan Annie is living with a vaguely - abusive stepmother (played awfully by Cameron Diaz) in Harlem, which is portrayed here in a way that sidesteps the real life poverty of many of the real neighbourhoods because, hey, this is a kids film and we don't need to depress them about life.

One of the great beauties of director Sean Baker's (Tangerine) film is that he never loses sight of two things about these kids (and particularly Moonee): 1) they're not being raised right, between the poverty and the fact that, in Moonee's case, her mom encourages her worst impulses and is a terrible example, and 2) they're still just kids.

We are not sure whether we are watching a realist drama about a kid experiencing poverty and hardship or an escapist fantasy in which the young hero is on a fantastical journey.

«If your parents don't teach you — and most kids in poverty are not taught about money by their parents — then there literally is no one who is going to teach you about that.»

And are we talking about kids who are born into poverty, or spend most of their lives in poverty, or are in poverty for just a few years?

There are about twice as many non-Hispanic whites as blacks living below 150 percent of the poverty line in the U.S.. It's a fair bet that their kids aren't doing very well in school — and that they see Donald Trump as «my guy.»

· On average, host districts and state charters educate the same percentage of kids in poverty about - 73.2 %.

Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids» Brains and What Schools Can Do About It

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Are you willing to have your wages frozen, your job stability lost, your chance to teach kids what they might love to learn about highly restricted, your worth determined by a test of children who may be English language learners or in poverty or who may not quite qualify for special education services but are close?

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CNN asks Eric Jensen about the challenges of teaching kids in poverty.

Eric Jensen spoke with CNN about the challenges of teaching kids in poverty and how kids of poverty are continuously moving, have a lack of adult supervision, and are often abused, therefore they are low performers when it comes to education.

TRENTON — After five consecutive years of rising child poverty in New Jersey, the number of children living in low - income families dipped by about 2 percent in 2014, according to the latest Kids Count report released on Monday.