Sentences with phrase «facing challenges of poverty»

Teach For America works in partnership with communities to expand educational opportunity for children facing the challenges of poverty.

It's important that we learn from those who have extensive experience dealing with government and non-government agencies, and it is absolutely vital that we learn from those who are actually facing the challenges of poverty themselves.

First, those families would have an easier time facing the challenges of poverty.

Center researchers often design formative assessment techniques, as well as new teaching and learning approaches for and study innovations in settings where students face challenges of poverty and other inequities.

Not exact matches

Pope Francis seeks to encourage families with practical guidance amid the myriad of challenges they face around the world, including unemployment, migration, poverty, gambling, alcoholism, polygamy and societal pressures that ignore the longstanding Catholic teaching of marriage.

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

«Several of our organizations operate or support ministries in Central America, and our colleagues there are deeply concerned about the impact of a withdrawal of TPS on the country as a whole, which is facing serious challenges of violence and poverty.»

To meet the world's growing food security needs and face the parallel challenges of improving nutrition and reducing poverty under a changing global climate, a second — science - based — Green Revolution in agriculture is already under way.

The aim of the Cocoa For Good project is to address key challenges facing the industry, namely poverty, labour abuses and deforestation in cocoa - growing communities.

According to Turnaround's research, many of the behavior - management challenges that educators in high - poverty schools face are due to the combustible combination, in the classroom, of two cohorts of students.

Find out more about the energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.

Shadow chief secretary to the treasury, Phil Hammond, said: «This shows the scale of the challenge that the Government faces in attempting to meet its target of halving child poverty by 2010 - and it exposes the fundamental failings of Gordon Brown's approach, which has been to tackle the symptoms of poverty instead of its causes.»

Relations with the EU We agree that the British Government will be a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners, with the goal of ensuring that all the nations of Europe are equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century: global competitiveness, global warming and global poverty.

We agree that the British Government will be a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners, with the goal of ensuring that all the nations of Europe are equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century: global competitiveness, global warming and global poverty.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

With the exception of a few highly affluent states in the Persian Gulf, these dryland countries face severe and intensifying challenges, including frequent and deadly droughts, encroaching deserts, burgeoning populations and extreme poverty.

Enabling the poor to be resilient in the face of challenges like climate change may require a fundamental rethinking of the methods used to address both poverty and global warming.

These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high - poverty districts face greater challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's poverty rate.

Regardless of whether Title I remains in its traditional form or is converted in some part to vouchers, districts will face major challenges allocating resources based on individual student economic status as community eligibility for free lunch eliminates the incentive for individual students to report their poverty status.

These folks are saying that there's basically nothing schools can do in the face of America's growing poverty and that schools are doing the best they can, given their challenges.

Before stepping down as secretary, she told Virginia's General Assembly that the «trifecta» of challenges facing Virginia public education are rising poverty rates, higher achievement expectations, and decreased levels of funding.

According to a new report, these teachers — while remarkably motivated by the challenge at hand — need and want school - wide, institutionalized supports in order to succeed in the face of the uncertainties that poverty brings.

«My students face daily the challenges of poverty, of immigration, of language barriers, of an oppressive and racist society,» says Stocklin, «and yet they still consistently outperform the global mean on every type of essay on the AP English Language exam.

«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.

Yet such efforts seldom take full account of the intellectual challenges that graduates face in college courses and in jobs that can keep families out of poverty.

CPS faces the challenges of high student poverty and dismal test scores — though its selective - enrollment schools have posted some of the highest test scores in Illinois — and the district believes it needs more money to help its low - income population.

«Rural schools face many of the same challenges as their urban counterparts — high poverty and inadequate resources among them,» said Patte Barth, Director of the Center for Public Education.

When Ms. Reed took the reins of the school system in 2005 after earning her doctorate, one of the first actions she took was to give teachers and principals training on the effects of poverty on children so that they could better understand some of the challenges their students face in learning.

The school psychologist and social worker chose a book about a youngster who demonstrated resilience in the face of such challenges as poverty, foster care, or disability.

Faced with the challenge of successfully serving students living in high poverty, LaVergne High School (LHS) sought out best practices from across the nation and molded them to create highly effective schoolwide programs.

She began as a teacher at the ground level of one of the country's most economically and demographically challenging inner city populations, the North Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she faced what so many teachers face: high class numbers, and needing to support learning, emotional and physical needs of a multilingual population of students in poverty while achieving state and district test score goals.

«When you consider the changing face of America and all the challenges we have, poverty and other issues, yet we are educating more students to a higher level than ever.

«Many of our students are facing family challenges both from generational oppression and poverty that affect behavior in a way that a traditional classroom can not address alone.»

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.

I believe Congress and the state of California need to take a hard look at the challenges that high poverty districts like Oakland face, because our District is hardly unique.

For Bloomfield, New London and Windham, three towns whose children face some of the greatest educational challenges, including poverty and language barriers, the decision was simply to stop teaching and keep testing from March till the end of the year.

Some see high - poverty schools as more difficult because many students come to school already behind academically and facing serious challenges in their lives, many of which are beyond a teacher's control.

According to the Education Commission of the States, urban, rural, high - poverty, high - minority, and low - achieving schools face the most persistent staffing challenges.

The challenges facing rural schools are staggering — concentrated poverty, inadequate access to health care services, early childhood education and after - school programs, ballooning class size, high transportation costs, teacher shortages, and lack of broadband access.

Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]

High - poverty and high - minority schools do not seem to face greater challenges than other kinds of schools.

Removing ineffective teachers without developing an expanded pool of effective teachers to replace them is unlikely to deliver desired improvements in education, particularly in high poverty schools which already face staffing challenges.

For us, poverty is not an «excuse,» but part of an honest assessment of the challenges our schools face.

Nowhere, including here in Connecticut, do they talk about tackling the terrible growth of child poverty that is destroying our society or the challenges faced by children who require special education services or need help with their English language capabilities.

The School Improvement Grant program attempts to accomplish what previous reform efforts have failed to do: make a real difference for children facing the dire challenges of poverty, such as unstable housing, neighborhood violence and parents with limited education.

Low - income students of color make up the majority of classrooms in American public schools, and research shows that the challenges they face — poverty, homelessness, or hunger — have directly influenced their level of academic success.

The truth is that the real barriers to educational achievement are primarily due to poverty, language barriers and unmet special education needs and a look at the tables below reveal just how the charter schools are able to corrupt their test results by refusing to take their fair share of the students who face the greatest challenges.

This clinic will highlight the challenges high poverty schools are facing as they try to meet the needs of special education students as well as provide attendees with key strategies for meeting the needs of these students.

At the ASPCA, we call it Cruelty Intervention Advocacy (CIA), a holistic intervention approach that takes into account how the societal challenges pet owners often face — including poverty, housing restrictions, lack of transportation, and limited resources — profoundly affect the animals under their care.

Many of the challenges that we face (hunger, severe poverty, energy, food, carbon emissions) are seemingly intractable.