Sentences with phrase «by poverty»

It is now clear that most environmental problems are primarily caused by poverty and related lack of concern, not economic progress, but technological progress is often blocked by environmentalists.

You know, when kids are impacted by poverty, when they don't have the resources that they need to learn.

This report is the first time discipline rates were analyzed by poverty level, and results show that race is a more important factor in discipline decisions than poverty.

Why would a teacher want to teach in a school surrounded by poverty and have the cards stacked against them, when they can teach in an affluent school and have immediate success?

The limited [cognitive] bandwidth created by poverty directly impacts the cognitive control and fluid intelligence that we need for all kinds of everyday tasks.

Twenty - six percent of all those asked say jealousy, followed by poverty (19 percent) and the boredom (18 percent).

Figure 4.1 shows the percentage of children overweight, including obese, by poverty duration.

The particular pattern of effects varies by the manner in which the school context was controlled, by poverty status, move status, and location in the conditional achievement distribution.

They continuously seek or create solutions to the challenges posed by poverty and are encouraged to take risks.

Our humanity is destroyed by poverty and therefore it is for the sake of justice to our humanity that we want bread.

While low and slow progress in reading has serious consequences for all children, it is especially critical for children who are already placed at risk by poverty.

All studies have consistently shown the impact of war trauma and how this is mediated further by poverty and deprivation.

So if you worry that your little company is doomed by poverty, don't.

A place where the possibilities of a fully developed life will not be crushed for millions by poverty, disease, injustice, violence, ignorance, and despair?

Child marriage is a difficult issue that is complicated by culture and religion, and especially by poverty.

There's no coherent plan and no real answers to the major problems facing schools: teacher shortages, impending curriculum nightmares, vulnerable learners increasingly affected by poverty.

Political leaders at all levels, in all parties, continually pledge to expand opportunity and close gaps caused by poverty and inequality.

They need to be able to adapt — to what it's like to be in an affluent area, and what it's like to be surrounded by poverty.

What the data reveal is that while overall economic conditions are improving, more families are being impacted by poverty.

Asked to identify the greatest barriers to student academic success, the teachers ranked family stress highest, followed by poverty, and learning and psychological problems.

«They look generally to improve performance for lower performing, or lower ability pupils rather than specifically tackling those that are actually disadvantaged by poverty which is the main aim of the grant.»

When she moved from Greenwich Village to Spanish Harlem in 1938, she turned her attention to the local immigrant community, many of whom lived on the margins of society and were afflicted by the poverty of the Depression years.

Far from freeing people enslaved by poverty, the bedroom tax is entrenching poverty.

The federal Early Head Start program was created to help minimize the disparities caused by poverty by supporting the healthy development of expectant mothers and low - income infants and toddlers in the context of their families and communities.

But the individuals who constitute the church and community are often plagued by poverty and hampered by discrimination, underemployment and racism.

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that academic resources show that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

Hunting has hammered what has managed to hang on in the park but I don't think that it is driven by poverty as much as custom.

Experts have argued that President Maduro's proposed petro coin is unlikely to make any real difference to the millions of Venezuelan citizens crippled by poverty.

He began to wonder what the value of an artistic practice could be to a community ravaged by poverty and brutality, and whether his participation in an art world oriented toward social elites might mean that he was complicit in the oppression of his own people.

Yglesias believes that schools in poor areas should receive funding above those in affluent areas because of the additional education challenges presented by poverty, with education taxes pooled statewide and distributed to where there is the most need.

Having a large number of people threatened by poverty creates a large incentive for these people to change the laws in their favor, even if they profited from them earlier on.

Professor Vostanis added: «The toll on the mental health of these young people tends to be exacerbated by poverty, which is endemic in Gaza.

Segregated minority schools are almost always segregated by poverty as well as race, and sometimes by language as well; they typically have less experienced teachers, less educated and less powerful parents, more untreated student health problems, and many other forms of inequality (Orfield, 2009).

«While the overall trend lines are positive, these persistent and significant gaps are a reminder of the importance of the commonwealth's efforts to improve instruction and raise achievement in schools challenged by poverty and other impediments to learning,» Secretary of Education Anne Holton said.

Granite School District's Voices for Utah's Children conducted a longitudinal study of 4 - year - old students in 11 schools most impacted by poverty in the district.

Figure 1: Percentage of New York City Teachers With Less than 3 Years of Experience, By Poverty Grouping of School's Students, 2000

Despite encountering communities scarred by poverty («homes ranged from a few small, neat and attractive places to huts, shacks and hovels held together by odd pieces of wood, metal and building blocks.

And since that local authority is often missing in places racked by poverty and political unrest, tragic soccer incidents have occurred in places like Lima (320 killed in 1964), Tripoli, Libya (20 dead in» 87) and Lusaka, Zambia (nine dead last June).

We often wonder - what can we do to work toward a world in which children are not orphaned by poverty?

A more likely explanation is that the violence is fuelled not just by poverty, but more importantly by frustrated expectations.

Wills and Huntley represented South Ozone Park and Jamaica, Queens, an area beset by poverty, crime and political corruption.

For those unfamiliar with Mexico City, these two terms refer to the ingenuity of people constrained by poverty to build, destroy and fabricate using adapted, scavenged and recycled materials.

Collins and colleagues have studied the effects of varying mortality rates in the UK, where the lines are drawn more by poverty and class than by race.

Children Not Graduating from High School by Age 19, by Poverty Experience and Reading Proficiency