Sentences with phrase «as urban challenges»

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Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

And as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our society find themselves alone, deprived of a functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.

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On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

But mothers in urban, poor and minority areas often face unique challenges as well: the sheer logistics of finding time to breastfeed, perhaps while juggling single motherhood and working a service job where it's difficult to find a private, clean place to use a breastpump, for example.

Particularly in urban areas, a more culturally diverse population may act as drivers of challenges to old ways of doing things and lead to a more pro-active political culture that seeks to express its own ambitions and agendas and thus challenge — even resist — conventional top - down flows of power, both institutionally and discursively.

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

For her opponents to use her time as a National Urban Fellow, an honor for women and people of color in public service, as a warped rationale to challenge her civic engagement and right to serve in public office is shameful.»

Accra is seeking assistance from London to solve its poor urban planning challenges which have been identified as the cause of the capital's perennial flood and become a headache for governments.

Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately.

Martin Schreibman, a biologist at Brooklyn College in New York City and an advocate for urban aquaculture, concedes that aquaponics poses myriad challenges but, like Rakocy, he sees the tank as half full.

Moreover, their results challenge the long - standing, but poorly substantiated view that Yersinia pestis must have had a permanent wildlife reservoir in Europe, such as the urban black rat.

Engineers can build autonomous vehicles capable of cruising city streets without the aid of a human driver, as demonstrated two years ago in the DARPA Urban Challenge.

The Mobilities & Urban Studies programme enables graduates to examine, integrate and design new solutions related to technological, environmental and urban planning challenges, as well as economic, organizational, political, and social strategies - all related to the field of mobiliUrban Studies programme enables graduates to examine, integrate and design new solutions related to technological, environmental and urban planning challenges, as well as economic, organizational, political, and social strategies - all related to the field of mobiliurban planning challenges, as well as economic, organizational, political, and social strategies - all related to the field of mobilities.

As Sonnenblume explains, this is not your typical, «Rah - rah, look how sustainable we are» story, but it is full of lessons for those interested in using urban farming to address current environmental and social challenges.

As PCOS is reaching epidemic proportions for many young women in urban cities and 70 % of women with PCOS are still undiagnosed, it is vital that we stand together with non-profit organizations like PCOS Challenge and PCOS Awareness Association (PCOSAA) to find ways to collaborate and find answers before more generations go through decades of not knowing what is wrong.

It recognizes the importance of ports as liminal places where marine and urban spaces converge, producing a unique site of socio - cultural exchange that reinforced and challenged identities, perceptions and boundaries.

It recognizes the importance of ports as liminal places where marine and urban spaces converge, producing a unique site of socio - cultural exchange that reinforced and challenged identities, perceptions and boundaries.

Her organization's recent report about the state's nearly 500,000 rural children suggests that many are dealing with challenges as difficult as those of kids in urban areas.

As with many other public schools in urban districts, Wildwood has been up against some tough resource challenges:

You know as well as anyone the challenges of being an urban superintendent.

People talk about urban schools all the time as if they are all challenging places filled with black and brown faces.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Based in Houston, the nonprofit in which McDonald serves as national director of strategic initiatives places low - income, urban high school seniors into challenging work environments such as Continental Airlines, Exxon, and NASA.

To run an effective afterschool program for adolescent urban youth, for example, teachers and mentors need to understand the specific challenges of adolescent development as well as cultural variations in child - adult relationships.

Although the faculty sympathized with Guggenheim as a filmmaker and understood that it can be challenging to produce and fund a popular film focused on education, West expressed fears that the film reinforces the misconception that education problems exist solely in urban districts.

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

The image of today's public schools as violence - ridden creates a big challenge for public - relations professionals, top communications specialists from two urban districts say.

With a background that includes teaching in independent schools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as executive director of Bay Area for New Leaders, a division of New Leaders for New Schools — jumped at the challenge.

Thus gap - closers approach the challenge not as educators but as social engineers, determined to see schools fix the problems that job - training initiatives, urban redevelopment, income supports, and a slew of other well - intentioned government welfare programs have failed to address.

But the challenge is steep: The typical rural district pays almost two - and - a-half times as much for bandwidth as its urban and suburban counterparts, according to a new analysis by the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway.

As noted earlier, they must endure at least a year, and usually two, of intensive seminars, workshops, and courses - all while most are teaching for the first time in highly challenging urban schools.

As a guest speaker in Merseth's course — one of the first education classes offered by Harvard College — he candidly shared stories with undergraduates about the challenge of educating students in urban communities, and about what is needed for one to succeed at working in education.

Ashton said her experience teaching found the challenges to urban education more about the adults than the children, and she saw charter schools as a viable alternative to traditional public schools.

«Rural schools face many of the same challenges as their urban counterparts — high poverty and inadequate resources among them,» said Patte Barth, Director of the Center for Public Education.

Although the series is now over a decade old, many of the recommendations made by the task forces are still relevant today, such as providing effective professional development for teachers and principals, professionalizing teaching, political and policy challenges like bipartisanship, and dispelling myths about the challenges of leading urban districts.

Especially in urban and rural school districts, low salaries and poor working conditions often contribute to the difficulties of recruiting and keeping teachers, as can the challenges of the work itself.

As a product of the urban, local public school system in Atlanta, Georgia, Artesius has first hand experience with the academic disparities and challenges that affect our youth.

The Boston Public Schools (BPS) face the same challenges as other urban districts in the United States.

plus years of experience teaching and leading as a principal, Mr. Reid was ready for any challenge that Mays, a tough urban school with inner city problems, could send his way.

March / April 2018: Urban, Suburban, Rural, and Frontier — This issue will shine a light on various types of school communities, providing strategies for universal challenges such as parent engagement, afterschool and summer learning, technology and broadband connectivity, teacher recruiting and retention, poverty, and wrap - around services.

We appreciate that Dr. Repollet brings to the position the perspective of a hands - on practitioner who understands the challenges of urban education, as well as what is required for all students to succeed in college and career.

Against a backdrop of the opportunities provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the challenges for education posed by the new federal administration, the Annenberg Institute for School Report has released an issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) and an online supplement that proposes performance assessment as a personalized and rigorous alternative Read more about Performance Assessment: Fostering the Learning of Teachers and Students (update)-LSB-...]

Inner - city youth have to combat many negative influences such as pervasive substance abuse and gang rivalries, but the greatest obstacle that challenges urban students is often the «street mentality.»

«The voices across rural America are so scattered that it's hard to elevate [them] above the din,» Williams explains, particularly as the education debate has long been preoccupied with the challenges and interests of urban, and to a lesser extent suburban, schools.

It's a challenge that many schools identified as «urban, Title I or inner city» have.

In spring 2013, the EdD Urban Education Leadership candidate received one more challenge: ready her school to increase its population by 50 percent as students from the closing Yale Elementary school prepared to join Harvard in fall 2013.

While the preservice teachers in this study taught in a variety of settings (urban, suburban, and rural), as well as a variety of grade levels and subjects, they faced a consistent challenge in using technology as a tool for learning: lack of access to adequate technology in the K - 12 schools.

If the events in Newtown are of any indication (especially against backdrop of the challenges of our urban districts and our failure to close the racial achievement gap), «more effective communication» is at the heart of what we need as a nation to bring about and sustain more transformative learning communities.