Sentences with phrase «few neighborhood children»

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The Gold Coast and Lincoln Park neighborhoods are home to at least 13 playlots and playgrounds, according to the Park District, as well as a few «tot lots» for very young children.

Your child may have friends at school or in the neighborhood but do they have a few really solid friendships?

He lives in the Bronx's Edenwald neighborhood, a few blocks south of Baychester, where he grew up the youngest of three children.

«Cohesive neighborhoods, less spanking result in fewer child welfare visits.»

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

There were neighborhoods that are about 60 km large and somewhere in those neighborhoods there were parents trying to save their children a few steps from demolished or burned houses.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

Both in school and the neighborhood, children today have few opportunities to learn about sharing, establishing rules, fairness, and responsibility.

The six schools that have lower boundary participation rates than predicted appear to be in neighborhoods that have proportionally fewer children than average to begin with.

Canada dared because he was fed up with the «superhero» model, a menu of fragmented programs that help a few children in vast, blighted neighborhoods, leaving the blight intact.

Far too predictably, our study reported that children who attended schools in the most severely low - income neighborhoods were likely to hear far fewer explanations, with those explanations offered at lower difficulty levels, than children in middle - and upper - income areas.

Although the neighborhood was more densely populated with children, there were far fewer books available for purchase in stores or for use in libraries and preschools.

Children with vast reservoirs of background experience share space with peers whose world is circumscribed by the few blocks of their neighborhood.

Charter school seats are concentrated near downtown while more impoverished neighborhoods with more school aged children have fewer schools — requiring those seeking choice to travel significant distances in a city of 140 square miles.

Parents from San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood gathered around school cafeteria tables and listened as administrators delivered a hopeful message: Their children, who all attend Charles R. Drew Preparatory Academy, one of the city's few schools serving mostly black students, were already on track to do better on next year's state tests.

The bottom line, however, is that there are far too few seats in high - quality charter schools to serve every disadvantaged child in Washington, and those left behind at neighborhood public schools continue to be shortchanged.

In a million - person - plus metropolitan area with tens of thousands of secondary students, only about 8,000 were unable to exercise their choice and were thus left behind in these schools that tend to serve our relatively few neighborhoods that have exceptional numbers of homeless families, foster children, incarcerated parents and low levels of social capital and relational trust.

Whether here in our very neighborhood, a few states away or around the world, Fields Chrysler Jeep Dodge supports any and all efforts to care for children in need, and that's why we're proud to be a part of a company that puts the needs of Michigan children at the forefront of their philanthropic work.

Just a few hundred feet away from the Crawford plant is the vibrant and diverse community of Little Village, a small but densely populated neighborhood of some 100,000 residents, mostly Latino families and children.

As you can imagine the word around the neighborhood is that those How - To Geek guys know computers and love Minecraft, so we've received more than a few panicked phone calls and knocks on the door from neighborhood parents whose children's elaborate Minecraft creations have gone missing.

Our findings are even more sobering because the prevalence of psychosocial problems among youth seems to be increasing.110, 111 The US Surgeon General reports that the unmet need for services is as high now as it was 20 years ago.112 Even youth who are insured often can not obtain treatment because few child and adolescent psychiatrists practice in poor and minority neighborhoods.113, 114

A few months ago, I picked up this great Pottery Barn Kids children's table and chairs at a garage sale in my in - laws» neighborhood.

The most beautiful, breath - taking part of my week was seeing the smile that can light up a room offered by a child in our neighborhood who was hit by a car a few weeks ago.