Sentences with phrase «about urban poverty»

The volume, The Urban Underclass, also contradicts many liberal and conservative views about urban poverty.

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More pejoratively: The term «tech bro» also refers to a tech company employee who acts entitled, lacks self - awareness and is tone deaf about sensitive issues such as the realities of urban poverty.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

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.

«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.

Shot for a song in the rougher parts of St. Louis (doubling for the Big Apple) with simple but bold model work (some of it created by James Cameron in his Roger Corman days) and striking computer graphics, it's a hoot, yet behind the colorful personalities of the prison yard gang is a sardonic crack about the state of modern urban America lost to poverty, runaway crime, and gangs that rule the inner city.

One day, Edward Banfield brought in as guest lecturer to his Urban Problems course a young assistant labor secretary from Washington named Moynihan to talk about LBJ's new War on Poverty — my first glimpse of the man who would become my most important mentor and teacher.

At the Askwith Forum, «Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality,» on April 29, panelists shared bleak forecasts about whether the country would turn around the downward spiral of poverty and racial inequality in America.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

Working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, they turned their inquiry into a compelling documentary, Bodega Down Bronx, that sparks community discussions about nutrition, poverty, health, and food systems.

The figures quoted above about the availability of computers in schools do not provide details about the types and quality of computer technology available to students and teachers in high - poverty urban school settings as opposed to those in more affluent suburban schools.

We heard similar criticisms about the effectiveness of state support - system interventions for low - performing schools in one of our large, high - poverty, low - performing urban school districts — where (again) the district developed no plan for systematic intervention to ameliorate the problem.

The effects of urban poverty on educational outcomes: evidence from a randomized experiment What can we learn about neighborhood effects from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

After three decades of competition, Milwaukee schools — public district, voucher, and charter collectively — perform about as well as similar high - poverty voucher - free urban districts like Detroit, Memphis and Buffalo.

Much can be said about the lack of access to enrichment opportunities for youth growing up in urban, high - poverty neighborhoods.

«I have learned more about students in poverty from being a part of this virtual learning community than I did in a semester - long class about urban education,» said Karen Vogelsang, a second - grade teacher at Keystone Elementary in Memphis, Tennessee, and a virtual coach for the «Supporting Students in Poverty&raqupoverty from being a part of this virtual learning community than I did in a semester - long class about urban education,» said Karen Vogelsang, a second - grade teacher at Keystone Elementary in Memphis, Tennessee, and a virtual coach for the «Supporting Students in Poverty&raquPoverty» VLC.

Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]

About the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of children living in urban poverty around the world.

We don't have to worry about ameliorating urban poverty or proving adequate resources to urban schools.

Radio show to talk more about an upcoming piece about why teachers leave high - poverty urban schools.

About the artwork shown above Ben Shahn became noted as a social realist during the Depression, painting the realities of poverty, labor strikes and urban...

There have been numerous articles about artists being priced out of urban centres and I'm just one of many figuring out the calculus of poverty vs. creativity.

The poverty rate in this urban zip code is well over twice the state average of 15.7 percent, while the unemployment rate is nearly three times the state average of about 5 percent.

There is a high unemployment rate at about 8 percent, as well as high urban poverty.