Sentences with phrase «as 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.

He served in the Canadian Senate as a Conservative from Ontario and was vice-chair of the subcommittee on urban poverty.

The Social Gospel rose out of the excesses of the Gilded Age in the 1880s, when urban poverty spread across America as immigrants crammed into filthy slums to work long hours in unsafe conditions.

As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and familieAs the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and familieas well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and familieas rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and families.

As the high - tech industry takes off in the Capital Region's suburbs, the area's Regional Economic Development Council is focusing in part on something different as it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequalitAs the high - tech industry takes off in the Capital Region's suburbs, the area's Regional Economic Development Council is focusing in part on something different as it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequalitas it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequality.

When Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said that poverty was to a «large extent» only «a state of mind,» he was right, of course, just as pain is only a state of mind.

SYEP was administered through Buffalo Urban League and provided services for 724 participating youths across Erie County, 563 of whom were categorized as having family incomes under 125 percent of the Federal Poverty Level.

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

Poverty atlases that map the extent of privation have existed for decades as a means to alert urban leaders to areas lacking basic services, such as water, electricity and sanitation.

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.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

Mark Martin: Build UP stands for Build Urban Prosperity, a comprehensive, multi-sector solution to issues affecting the economically disadvantaged, such as poverty and urban blUrban Prosperity, a comprehensive, multi-sector solution to issues affecting the economically disadvantaged, such as poverty and urban blurban blight.

Keeping Kids Cosy will target both rural and urban areas of higher deprivation across the two counties where the latest government statistics show fuel poverty levels as high as 22.9 %, or over one in five house holds.

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.»

Really it is certain types of public schools are failing such as high poverty rural and urban schools.

The study also compared charter performance to average statewide performance — admittedly, a higher bar, as schools statewide had significantly lower levels of poverty than the charters (and their urban districts).

In the two previous years, 46 and 39 percent of urban schools were rated D or F. To be sure, fewer high - poverty schools will flunk under value - added as under a proficiency measure.

Perhaps even more common (particularly for White teachers in poorer, often urban areas) is treating our students as inspiration or poverty porn when talking to other White people.

«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.

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.

They wrestle with the hardest topics in urban education, such as poverty and discipline policies.

Looking down the 2012 - 13 list of America's most charter - school - heavy districts, the top five look familiar — high - poverty urban districts such as New Orleans, Detroit, the District of Columbia, Flint, Michigan and Kansas City, Missouri.

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.

Nationally, the results in most urban districts still lag behind those of the country as a whole, in part because of their higher poverty rates.

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.

He testified that 22 percent of new teachers in California leave the profession after four years and that the percentage of teachers who transfer out of high - poverty schools is twice that from low - poverty schools, He said 20 percent of new principals in urban school districts leave after just two years and pointed to the Oakland Unified School District as an extreme: There, he said, 44 percent of new principals leave the field after just two - years.

Preferred candidates will have demonstrated experience working with culturally diverse populations as well as experience working with urban high poverty and Title One schools; the preferred candidate should also have a background in and willingness to assume a leadership role at the local, state, and / or national / international levels.

It's also seen evolving attitudes toward discipline, with tactics such as restorative justice starting to replace zero - tolerance approaches, including in high - poverty urban districts.

For Martin Blank, director of the Coalition for Community Schools in Washington, D.C., the ideas behind the center are laudable; they have long been cherished in urban planning circles as good for high - poverty communities.

Currently, there is a lot of media attention to actual and projected teacher shortages in particular fields, such as special education, and in particular geographical locations, such as rural and urban schools, serving students living in poverty.

When I graduated from college, I stayed in touch with a graduate professor but did not maintain contact with most other professors, as most had teaching experience in the suburbs, not in an urban, high - poverty school like the one where I secured my first teaching position.

For the four school years from 2009 to 2013, even as poverty rates increased in the city, Cincinnati remained the state's highest - ranked urban school district (Cincinnati Public Schools, 2014).

Boushall is a high poverty urban middle school that serves as almost entirely African American and Latino students.

Place - based scholarship programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, in which all students graduating from specific high - poverty urban school districts qualify for free college tuition, also have been shown to increase high school outcomes and college matriculation (Bartik and Lachowska, 2012; Andrews, DesJardins and Ranchhod, 2010).

Pruitt said while she does not offer that as an excuse for Gary schools or any urban school, she said those facts underscore the urgency to alleviate the effects of poverty on children, and help them receive a full range of educational and family services that complement one another to help students reach their potential.

A study by the National Center for Education Statistics in the mid-1980s indicated growing challenges to educating urban youths who increasingly have problems such as poverty, limited English proficiency, family instability and poor health.

However, as you are fully aware, the major issue underlying the disparity of performance of students between urban and suburban districts is POVERTY rather than the lack of competence, dedication or qualification of teachers.

Students in traditional urban public schools tend to live in more intense poverty than those in charters (as measured by the % of students receiving free lunch - the commonly cited, and somewhat misleading, indicator of poverty is the undifferentiated free / reduced %).

While most agencies rely on the federal poverty line, it is not as precise as income limits published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Indeed, in our time of instant communication, «problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience of those with power: thus the problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.»

Further on, Gregory Crewdson's alluring, large - scale ink jet Untitled (Cement Canal)(2007) conjures a mysterious world of post-industrial decay and moral isolation, while across the gallery, Doug Rickard's # 82.948842, Detroit, MI, 2009 (2010) appropriates a Google Street View image in an implicit exposé of urban poverty that serves, equally, as an indictment of societal indifference.

The original Black Mountain College functioned as an incubator for American artists such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Anni and Josef Albers and many others escaping Hitler in Nazi - occupied Europe, seeking refuge from mainstream educational institutions or the poverty of urban centers.

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...

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.

This paper assesses the socio - economic impacts of urban agriculture on income generation, poverty alleviation, urban food supply, livelihoods, as well as indirect costs and benefits for society including environmental externalities.

Next to food security, urban agriculture contributes to local economic development, poverty alleviation and social inclusion of the urban poor and women in particular, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of urban wastes (see below for further explanations and examples).

However, growing urban poverty and food insecurity, high costs of green open space and solid waste management, the need for recreational opportunities in the urban and peri-urban area, tend to modify thinking of planners and authorities and a more «agricultural» approach (farmers as povery reduction strategy; farmers as waste reusers; farmers as landscape managers and providers of recreational services, etcetera).

This also has a knock - on effect: As food security declines and poverty increases, these people will end up migrating to urban areas in search of work — further stressing areas already trying to adapt to changing climate and building enough infrastructure to accommodate these newcomers.

Raised highways are often condemned as urban blights that lead to localized social and economic poverty.