Sentences with phrase «by high levels of poverty»

The people we draw into teaching are less than our most talented; we give them short or nonexistent training and equip them with little relevant knowledge; we send many of them to schools afflicted by high levels of poverty and segregation; and when they don't deliver the results we seek, we increase external pressure and accountability, hoping that we can do on the back end what we failed to create on the front end.

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An Analysis of the Economic Circumstances of Canadian Seniors, authored by statistician Richard Shillington of Tristat Resources and released by the Broadbent Institute, also shows the Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) guarantee levels are falling behind and trends in income sources for seniors suggest that high poverty rates among seniors will further increase.

«In a country like India, with a high population density and a high level of poverty, virtually every ecological niche is occupied by some occupational or cultural human group for its sustenance.

The high levels of childhood abuse, homelessness, drug use and poverty experienced by those involved strongly suggests that survival is the overriding motivating factor.

A study, commissioned by the depository and conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, determined which areas have the highest levels of poverty and the least access to emergency food.

There has been widespread despondency, brought about by severe hardships, rising cost of living, high levels of youth unemployment, collapsed businesses and increasing poverty which is partly the result of a 4 year old energy crisis.

He described 2015 as «one of the most difficult in our 58 - year history» due to «widespread despondency, brought about by severe hardships, rising cost of living, high levels of youth unemployment, collapsed businesses and increasing poverty which is partly the result of a 4 year old energy crisis.

Our misguided and ill - intentioned centralised government has led to high levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality, the absence of basic healthcare and dysfunctional politics characterised by cut - throat, destructive, expensive and self - serving contests for the almighty federal power every four years!

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries.

Under one plan that has been discussed by members, districts would start off with the same - sized pot, with extra money then going to districts with the highest levels of poverty.

According to the UN High - Level Panel report «every day, poverty condemns 1 out of 7 people on the planet to a struggle to survive;» The UN High - Level Panel reports notes that «continuing on current growth trends, about 5 % of people will be in extreme poverty by 2030, compared with 43.1 % in 1990 and a forecast 16.1 % in 2015» (2013:44).

Central America is integrated by countries in which there is a high level of material poverty and discrimination, and / or food poverty; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and nine Mexican states in the south borderline (Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatan).

Evidence from Arkansas and elsewhere indicates that the discipline disparities found at the district level are often driven by sky - high suspension rates in a handful of high - poverty schools.

The program is a hybrid: it gives formula grants to states, but to receive their share of funds (fixed amounts calculated by a formula tied to the states» levels of need) states had to submit applications specifying in detail how they would set up competitive grant programs for their districts aimed at helping low - performing, high - poverty schools improve reading instruction in grades K — 3.

One of the rallying cries of standards - based education is that all students can achieve at high levels — a point proven by a number of high - performing, high - poverty schools.

In this study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures used in previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.

By contrast, in 13 states, including high cost - of - living ones like California, preschool teachers make less than half what kindergarten teachers make, and in six states preschool teachers salaries were below the poverty level for a family of four.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

In schools with high levels of poverty, that time is whittled away by chronic absence and additional interventions to address the many ways that poverty inhibits learning.

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

The foundation recommends six strategies to help move low - income families onto the path to prosperity and ensure the nation's next generation is able to compete in our global economy, including preserving and strengthening programs that supplement poverty - level wages, offset the high cost of child care, and provide health insurance coverage for parents and children; promoting responsible parenthood and ensuring that mothers - to - be receive prenatal care; ensuring that children are developmentally ready to succeed in school; and promoting reading proficiency by the end of 3rd grade.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

«By implementing school - and teacher - driven character education professional development at high levels over an extended period of time, high - poverty schools can succeed.

Schools with high poverty levels (as determined by free and reduced), and the US has more of those than all but one OECD nation, the scores are very low.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

In the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Title I was designed to help level the playing field by targeting schools with the highest concentrations of poverty to receive federal aid.

The report, «Double Jeopardy: How Poverty & Third - Grade Reading Skills Influence High School Graduation,» breaks down for the first time the likelihood of graduation by different reading skill levels and poverty experPoverty & Third - Grade Reading Skills Influence High School Graduation,» breaks down for the first time the likelihood of graduation by different reading skill levels and poverty experpoverty experiences.

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Infrastructure: $ 8 - 130 billion was assumed here by the UN, but the report points out that this assumes levels of infrastructure investment in Africa and other poor areas of the world insufficient for poverty reduction and avoiding continued high vulnerability to climate change — to account for this, the cost really should probably eight times this.

The majority of the world's people live at what would be considered desperate poverty levels in developed countries, the average per capita material and energy use in developed countries is higher than in developing countries by a factor of 5 to 10 [25], and the developed countries are responsible for over three quarters of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from 1850 to 2000 [85].

The prevalence of maternal depressive symptoms reported by screening this large national sample of indigent mothers interviewed between 1992 and 1993 is similar to the prevalence reported for low - income mothers of young children at a Baltimore pediatric primary care clinic in 1984 (41 % vs 35 %, respectively).8 In addition, the extent of family poverty in this study has a «dose - response» association with maternal depressive symptoms that is similar to that reported in another (smaller) national sample from the 1990s.15 In both studies, as well as this study, mothers with lower incomes reported higher levels of depressive symptoms.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.