Sentences with phrase «as deep poverty»

Thus, Renewal Schools not only must improve academic performance, but also tackle external conditions, such as deep poverty, that inhibit student achievement.

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She added that a national minimum wage could benefit Ramaphosa by tackling deep - rooted inequality and poverty as well as giving his African National Congress party an «electoral boost in 2019,» when the country next heads to the polls.

To this end, he argues, rightly, that «Cynicism should be seen as a purely classical phenomenon, with deep roots in many aspects of Greek experience,» interpreting even «Cynic asceticism as a response to the Greek experience of poverty.»

He threw himself into poverty; he devoted himself to it to the deepest extent possible, as into the source of all remissions, of all purity.

As a result, scores of millions of people have been born as U.S. citizens, with all the blessings consequent to that happenstance, who otherwise would have been living in deep poverty, under an exploitative government, subject every day to corrupt (and sometimes brutal) police, with no hope of social or economic bettermenAs a result, scores of millions of people have been born as U.S. citizens, with all the blessings consequent to that happenstance, who otherwise would have been living in deep poverty, under an exploitative government, subject every day to corrupt (and sometimes brutal) police, with no hope of social or economic bettermenas U.S. citizens, with all the blessings consequent to that happenstance, who otherwise would have been living in deep poverty, under an exploitative government, subject every day to corrupt (and sometimes brutal) police, with no hope of social or economic betterment.

I do know, however, that as more and more of our populations sinks deeper and deeper into poverty, what we are doing now is not working.

Many feminists are poverty class including Jacqueline S. Homan who was sold into human trafficking as a child and as never been able to pull herself out of deep poverty because of job discrimination.

Ms. Timoner, who lives in Park Slope with her wife and two sons, is eager to attack what she sees as the pressing issues of the day — poverty, racism, violence, deep inequality — with a kind of communitarian approach to Judaism.

«I work for a billion dollar company and it seems like I get deeper and deeper into poverty,» said Jorel Ware, who works as a cook for McDonald's.

The World Bank estimates that the recent increases could push 100 million people who escaped poverty in the past decade back into it, and push the poor deeper in as the cost of bare survival consumes money that might otherwise have bought extra protein, schooling, farm improvement or medicine.

Taking the same basic premise — a despotic government that keeps its citizens in poverty and reminds them of its power by drafting the young into a modern gladiatorial ring to kill or be killed on TV — this one digs deeper into the idea of power and control and the way media is used as a tool of oppression.

Against the warmth and sunshine of places such as Florida and fun tourist attractions like Disneyland, there is a growing rot swept deep beneath the middle - class where children are expected to become desensitised to poverty and cultural stagnation because they will never experience an alternative lifestyle.

PBL students in moderately achieving to poverty - impacted schools have performed as well as non-PBL students in high - achieving schools in both dimensions of deeper understanding within the discipline (content and reasoning).

When life circumstances are threatening (such as from deep poverty, significant neglect, or repeated exposure to violence) the body's stress response system is activated and heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormone levels go up.

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that significant adversity during childhood (e.g., from abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, deep and persistent poverty, and / or the cumulative burdens of racial or ethnic discrimination) can contribute to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and chronic health impairments such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes cancer, and depression, among many others.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

But speaker after speaker also cited deep problems in the schools and the city as a whole, with one teacher describing what she called the «rushing rapids» that children face every day in acity plagued by high crime and poverty.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

In this galvanizing follow - up to the best - selling Teaching with Poverty in Mind, Eric Jensen digs deeper into engagement as the key factor in the academic success of economically disadvantaged students.

As education reform leaders and unions fight over policies that mandate rigorous teacher evaluations and encourage the growth of charter schools, poor kids are losing out in the most basic of ways — a situation that embeds them deeper in the cycle of poverty.

As young medical students, they witnessed deep poverty across the continent, particularly Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, and their stay at a Peruvian leper colony left a lasting impression on the pair.

When girls in deep poverty have to spend their days toting water or collecting firewood instead of going to school, that's a population problem in the end, as well as a simple, and avoidable, waste of human potential.

One of the persistent questions in this century, as more people shift out of deep poverty, will be gauging some kind of sweet spot, essentially exploring the question, «How much is enough?»

The scope of the human calamity there was as much a result of deep poverty and poorly governed urban growth as the ferocity of Typhoon Haiyan.

Please read the entire article and consider the trend against what has been learned by scholars like Joshua Goldstein and Steven Pinker about death rates from war and violence; declines in deep poverty as shown by Max Roser; and child mortality rates from the World Health Organization.

I asked Rob a question posed in comments here a couple of months ago by Steven Earl Salmony, a psychologist who is an impassioned champion of reining in population growth: Does the concept of the demographic transition, which takes societies from high birth and death rates in deep poverty to aging and stable populations as they advance, have the weight of scientific theory or is it far less established?

Population cluster bombs are in areas where you have persistent high fertility rates and deep poverty, such as many parts of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of south Asia.

National TANF caseloads, especially those receiving cash benefits, have declined by 50 % since 1996, with state caseload reductions varying from 25 % to 80 % despite the steadily increasing numbers of families in poverty and deep poverty.35 The latitude that states have to designate how the funds are used adds to the limitation of TANF as a national safety net program.