Sentences with phrase «between poorer areas»

It noted that there was no real link between poorer areas and low take up of A-levels, citing the London boroughs of Lewisham and Islington as areas with both higher levels of deprivation and equally high levels of young people taking A-levels.

Not exact matches

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

The stubborn resistance of the poor tribal women in the now famous Chipko movement against the Government's decision to turn their habitat into a mining area, has brought to our consciousness the inseparable link between the struggle of the poor and ecological issues.

I realize, of course, that there have always been sharp disparities between schools in affluent areas and poor areas — reflected in the quality of teachers, the availability of materials, the curricula, facilities and more.

The report, published in the British Medical Journal, found that there were 212 deaths before the age of 65 in the poorest 10th of areas for every 100 deaths at that age in the 10th richest areas between 1999 and 2007.

It is also an unbalanced recovery with huge areas of the UK and millions of ordinary people yet to feel the benefits, while the gap between rich and poor gets ever wider.

The authors assess 65 published studies undertaken in 34 countries and they identify 7 areas of mistreatment and abuse: physical (such as slapping); sexual; verbal; stigma and discrimination; a failure to meet professional standards of care; poor rapport between women and providers and health system constraints (such as a lack of resources to provide women with privacy).

They found that although life expectancy is increasing overall and the life expectancies of men and women are converging, any improvements are slower paced in more deprived areas, with the net gap between rich and poor slowly worsening over time.

Mr. McEwan, who was born in 1948 — and is thus a crucial decade younger than Florence and Edward (and a full generation younger than poor Philip Larkin)-- has made a career out of exploring the gray areas between erotic innocence and carnal knowledge.

Sending mixed signals about the distance between possibly rich and technically poor, these shows all ask their viewers to accept and understand the most exquisite kind of West Coast suffering, as experienced by a very certain stripe of creative, nerdy Los Angeles - area residents.

To address this, the report calls for new contracts between teachers and parents, outlining responsibilities around homework, support and contact and «family literacy» classes in poorer areas for primary schools.

Differences in attitudes and experiences between affluent and poorer areas were also highlighted by the findings.

Four council areas also saw none of the poorest 20 per cent achieve this benchmark and East Renfrewshire saw a 31.5 per cent gap between rich and poor.

By contrast, in a handful of areas in London there is almost no gap between poorer and wealthier children.

Milburn highlighted that at the current rates of progression it would take 30 years to halve the educational attainment gap between poorer children and their better - off classmates, and over 50 years before the gap in access to university is closed between the areas with the lowest and highest participation rates.

Four - in - ten children not «school ready» by time they start primary in some areas Some of biggest gaps between poorer and wealthier pupils in affluent areas School readiness gap explains 40 % of

In England Eligibility is determined by a points system that combines the economic deprivation of pupils and the achievement gap between poorer children and their wealthier peers in the area.

If he doesn't see a difference between the schools in our richest areas and the schools in our poorest areas, then Mayor de Blasio is living in a Gracie Mansion fantasy land.

Participants discussed a range of factors that impede student success, including gaps between tribally enrolled students and other Native students; high teacher turnover in remote areas; poor attendance and truancy; low family and community involvement; schools» lack of knowledge about AI / AN culture and history; and fragmentation of services among state, tribal, and local agencies.

The study shows that governors are overwhelmingly likely to be white - 96 % - with little difference between wealthy and poor areas or between urban and rural schools.

On the other hand, it keeps property taxes low and lessens the gap in school quality between rich and poor areas.

A 2010 analysis of Chicago schools by the University of Chicago concluded that after 20 years of reform efforts, which included Mr. Duncan's tenure, the gap between poor and rich areas had widened.

Although successive government reforms in the UK have driven up standards overall in the last 10 years, the gap between the attainment of children from poor and affluent homes has remained roughly the same, in some areas it has widened, and there is a long tail of underachievement.

Even if they open in the most deprived parts of England, it will be difficult to establish catchment areas which do not include wealthier suburbs, especially as some of the poorest areas of the country exist within larger cities and metropolitan regions where deprivation can vary greatly between postcodes.

For example, in 2015 Rutland had the 15th largest gap (out of 150 areas) between poorer and wealthier children when they arrive at school, with just 52 % of poorer children school ready.

largest gap (out of 150 areas) between poorer and wealthier children when they arrive at school, with just 52 % of poorer children school ready.

Do you have stats for a comparison between performances of poor children at comprehensives in fully comprehensive areas, and poor children at «non-selective» schools in areas where there is 11 - plus and grammars, e.g. Kent?

It's hard to tell the difference between the rear - wheel - drive and four - wheel - drive models on the road, so we'd only recommend the latter if you live in a remote area with frequent poor weather.

Signal reception for CDMA was also poor: In an area where another Verizon phone had between one and three signal bars showing, the Incredible had no bars.

«The distinction between compensatory and additive mortality does, however, become increasingly redundant as the number of birds killed in a given area increases: where large numbers of prey are killed, predators would probably be killing a combination of individuals with poor and good long - term survival chances.

One such premise revolved around a cause and effect relationship between urbanization causing difficulties in absorbing poor from rural areas, increased squatter settlements and poor infrastructure, and leading to a hotbed of political activity and a fertile ground for communist organizing.

This appears to be related to a poor representation of the spatial relationships between rainfall variability and zonal wind patterns across southeast Australia in the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ensemble, particularly in the areas where weather systems embedded in the mid-latitude westerlies are the main source of cool - season rainfall.

The interesting thing about the study was the finding that many areas had poor S / N and some had inverse relationships between the proxy signal and the reconstruction.

However, cases that center around poor roadways can be very complex, as road responsibility can vary between the federal government, the state, and county agencies depending on the area.

And finally, a new report released by The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) which looked at the link between social exclusion and the risk of poor health outcomes, found that children living in areas with a higher risk of social exclusion had poorer health than those who lived in other areas.

The relatively low number of Indigenous staff in some services, especially in large urban areas, adds to Indigenous insecurities in using mainstream services; (vi) Legacies of history and unpleasant previous experiences with mainstream services can reduce Indigenous use of facilities; (vii) Some mainstream services are delivered in ways that make Indigenous people feel uncomfortable, that is, services are not culturally appropriate or culturally secure; and (viii) There may be poor links between complementary services, for example between training institutions and employment facilities, or between primary health providers and hospitals or ancillary health services.

And low - trust areas have greater economic disparities between the very rich and the very poor — and the greater the discrepancy between the very rich and the very poor in a country, the more it predicts economic decline in that country.

Between a peak in mid-2006 and October 2010, home prices fell nearly 30 percent, according to the most recent data available from the Standard and Poor's / Case - Shiller Index of home prices in 20 metropolitan areas.