Sentences with phrase «among disadvantaged youth»

The consequences — scandalously low achievement levels and high dropout rates among disadvantaged youth — are well known.

As superintendent of Holyoke (Mass.) Public Schools, Paez is striving to eradicate the gap in literacy and low expectations among disadvantaged youth.

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More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

Buffalo Prep (NY): Prepares intellectually bright and motivated students among the economically disadvantaged youth of African American, Hispanic, and Native American communities.