Sentences with phrase «different urban systems»

The city plans generally lack strong fact - based assessments revealing the interdependencies among different urban systems.

Not exact matches

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

In fact, informal urban navigation can offer a richer, more complexly layered experience of the city; these sorts of unaddressed places, located not by numbers and grids but by human conversations, can have an altogether different quality precisely by existing outside of a city's official system.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

It ought not be unduly surprising that such efforts may look quite different from those to transform troubled urban systems struggling to educate children mired in poverty.

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

Educators, parents, and students who feel oppressed by the system or are not satisfied with their present situation; people who are in danger of losing a school to consolidation; or small school movements in urban areas will want to read this book and discover a different outlook on what learning is, how learning takes place, and how to keep young people interested and excited about learning.

Engines are mounted transversely and drive the front wheels on the urban versions and all four wheels on the rugged Trailhawk 4 × 4 versions with two all wheel drive systems borrowed from the new Cherokee using Jeep's Selec - Terrain system with a selection of modes for different terrain.

First Frights is being developed by Torus Games (Monster Jam: Urban Assault) for the Wii, PS2 and DS, promising that each game to take full advantage of the different controls for each system.

Next to the provision of fresh food and animal feed, urban agriculture may play other functions in the city system, and combine different functions in one area of land (multi-functionality).

This is due to a number of factors, including: the different thermal properties of urban surfaces (paved surfaces and buildings release some of the heat they absorb during the day into the surrounding environment during the evening); the presence of artificial heat sources; and the rapid removal of surface moisture via drainage systems.

The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual levels, and to therefore identify culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and safe systems of care; the significance of cultural diversity between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health services to remote communities in often harsh environments.

As a supplement to APT Validation Study II, the research aims for Validation Study III are to (1) generate master scores for video clips of youth program observations without cultural bias, (2) create more tailored and targeted online training and anchor systems, and (3) eliminate significant differences in certification passing rates between groups with different cultural vantage points (i.e., Black vs. White raters, urban vs. non-urban program experiences).

«A combination of factors, including demographics, competition from home healthcare and telehealth, and reforms to the healthcare system may translate into different impacts on occupancy trends in rural and urban settings,» said Beth Burnham Mace, chief economist for NIC.