Sentences with phrase «at urban poverty»

Lots of money gets thrown at urban poverty - we get none.»

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«What Ramsey and Pam [Khalidi's wife] are doing is not only a model for historic preservation but also for urban renewal and poverty reduction,» says Albert George, founder of the Georgia Green Economy Summit, which honored Khalidi at a recent event.

An Urban Institute study from that year estimated that one in six nonelderly (under age 65) Americans lives in a family in which adults work at least half - time but family income falls below twice the federal poverty level.

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.

Help fight poverty by eating delicious soup at Urban Ministries of Wake County's annual Stone Soup Supper, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12.

Committee Chair Rev. Kinzer Pointer and other committee members are joining us here this afternoon, and I thank them for the work the Committee is doing in urban, suburban and rural settings to fully engage individuals in poverty or at - risk of being in poverty.

The Poverty Committee is comrpised of Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer (Committee Chair) of Agape Fellowship Baptist Church; Frank Cerny, PhD., Executive Director of the Rural Outreach Center; Anna Falicov, Esq., City of Buffalo; Dr. Myron Glick of the Jericho Road Community Health Center; Yvonne S. Minor - Ragan, PhD., YMRagan Consulting, LLC; Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, PhD., Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center.

At a rally on the steps of Syracuse City Hall, Rev. Nebraska Carter, a vice president of the Urban Jobs Task Force, compared poverty to a cavity in a tooth.

Economic opportunity has always been a big part of the allure of urban life, yet most cities are at least pockmarked by areas of extreme poverty.

Lee's movies have examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues from his perch at «Da World Headquarters of 40 Acres and Mule Filmworks located in the home of his beloved borough of Brooklyn.

«An ideal situation in five years may be in a leadership role at a large urban school district, charter school network, or nonprofit organization that serves underrepresented students, especially those living in poverty,» she says.

By 2005 Pisces was the biggest single supporter of Teach for America, a nonprofit that has, improbably, made teaching in poverty - ridden urban schools one of the most popular career choices of students at Ivy League colleges.

After a month or so of being here at HGSE, I want to begin examining the external factors — poverty, unemployment, and crime — that impact urban neighborhoods.

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.

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.

A research team led by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Susan Moore Johnson at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban district.

Author Bio: William Julius Wilson is professor of sociology at Harvard University and director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.

«Urban schools are faced with huge challenges, some of which are simply related to concentrated poverty, and so many kids are coming to school with unmet needs,» said Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University.

Cover directs the Urban Revitalization Program at Seton Hall University's Center for Social Justice, teaching law students how to alleviate poverty through the legal system.

Since its founding in 1985, the Bradley Foundation has been at the epicenter of reactionary policies, including welfare reform, opposition to affirmative action, and claims that «moral poverty,» rather than structural inequity, is the source of social ills in poor urban communities.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learurban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learning.

For fifty years, the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learurban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learning.

Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, and Spencer Foundation, and she has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Children and Poverty, Education and Urban Society, Journal of Latinos and Education, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of At - Risk Issues, and Bilingual Research Journal.

A March 2012 report found that chronic early absenteeism is widespread in Kent County's urban areas, where the percentage of the population living at or below the poverty line is high, and is especially prevalent among African - American and Hispanic youth.

According to a new report, most teachers in urban, high - poverty schools are remarkably motivated to meet the challenges at hand, but they need and want schoolwide, principal - led supports in order to succeed in the face of the uncertainties that economic privation brings.

In a high - poverty, urban middle school in Mississippi, the principal has partnered with local businesses to develop a community garden that students work in to grow fresh vegetables they can take home — and good deeds can earn them credit for supplies at the school store.

Diverse student teachings experiences including at least two of the following: rural setting, urban setting, ELL students, schools with high - poverty, students with disabilities, instruction on social and emotional learning practices.

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.

«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.

What policymakers are not regularly told is that although poverty level in all urban schools are high (both at charter and at traditional public schools), the students at many of Connecticut's urban charter schools are significantly «less poor» than the students who attend the public schools in those same communities.

He was also a post-doctoral fellow in the NSF urban poverty program at Northwestern University.

Writing at The Atlantic, Paul Barnwell says that, on average, high - poverty public schools, especially those in urban areas, lose up to a fifth of their faculty annually.

teacher6402: «The reason that scores and achievement are so low in urban districts is due to many factors: transient leadership, unqualified administrators, lack of curricula, poverty and transient students, lack of parental and community support, politicians posturing at the expense of poor and urban communities, and yes - ineffective teachers who often get in to urban school districts because they lack the skill set and content knowledge to get in to other districts.»

While it remains most acute in urban core neighborhoods with intergenerational poverty, 31 hunger is increasing in suburban locales and is most prevalent in rural Southern locales.32 Since wages have been stagnant or eroding in many industries, two - thirds of families experiencing food insecurity have at least one working adult, and many might initially appear to be maintaining a middle - class lifestyle.33

In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.&rurban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.&rUrban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»

Pratt Center was founded in 1963, when graduate planning students and faculty at Pratt Institute partnered with community organizations to address urban poverty by empowering local residents to participate in the official planning processes that affected their communities.

Los Angeles Poverty Department 1985 - 2014 at the Queens Museum, which called the collective «an uncompromising force in performance and urban advocacy for almost 30 years.»

If he gets to speak in Tacloban, I hope Francis recognizes how the scope of the social calamity in that coastal city was far more the result of deep poverty and poorly governed urban growth than any shift in typhoon patterns — which really haven't changed at all in that region in recent decades.

Although this was not a specific objective of the RUAF - CFF programme, the programme also yielded important results at the national level: in 13 countries, facilitated by RUAF - CFF, initiatives have been taken to integrate urban agriculture into existing policies (agriculture, poverty alleviation) or to formulate a special policy or national programme on urban agriculture.

For example, government policies encouraging expansion of biofuel production from maize have recently contributed to higher food prices for many, increasing food insecurity for populations already at risk, and threatening the livelihoods of those like the urban poor who are struggling with the inherent risks of poverty.

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

Due to effects of multigenerational poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, high levels of drug use and trade, and pervasive community violence, urban youth in Baltimore and many US cities are at increased risk for exposure to a variety of stresses, including early life stress, recurrent and chronic stress, and exposure to significant and / or recurrent traumas.

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African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.

At the heart of the issue was the phenomenon of people turning tenement housing into penny - rent «hotels» that promoted urban blight and extreme poverty.