Sentences with phrase «facing urban children»

In this volume, Kozol reconnects with some of the children his readers first met in Rachel and Her Children (1988), Amazing Grace (1996), Savage Inequalities (1991) and Shame of the Nation (2006) and his other works documenting the social and educational conditions facing urban children.

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When parents make the transition with their children to the parent facing seat, the urban jungle buggy cover is required.

Urban school children are facing a number of barriers to learning.

Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

Educators in Detroit's public school system face a tough reality: Detroit Public School students are last in the nation among urban students proficient on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and fifty - seven percent of Detroit children under the age of 17 live in poverty.

«This a complete slap in the face of every child and parent involved in a failing public school in urban areas,» Williams argues.

Clients in urban areas who can not connect to legal clinics because they lack transportation, have child care issues, face conflicting work schedules, etc., need a way to be served without having to be at a particular location at a set time.

While little research has examined the housing situation of urban Aboriginal people, qualitative research conducted in Perth, Western Australia37 and in Sydney, Australia38 has documented the major difficulties that many urban Aboriginal people continue to face in obtaining stable, safe housing and the stress and emotional toll that this instability places on children and adults alike.

However, little work has been done to incorporate the voices of youth in understanding the range of adverse experiences that low - income urban children face.

Child Development in the Face of Rural - to - Urban Migration in China.