Sentences with phrase «from urban poverty»

His research revealed the qualities and characteristics needed for administrators to address children coming from diverse backgrounds, particularly those from urban poverty.

Rural poverty is different from urban poverty: I have friends who struggle to find their monthly rent but who distrust welfare so much that they augment the food they grow with poaching and road kill just to help make ends meet.

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He served in the Canadian Senate as a Conservative from Ontario and was vice-chair of the subcommittee on urban poverty.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

An Urban Institute study from that year estimated that one in six nonelderly (under age 65) Americans lives in a family in which adults work at least half - time but family income falls below twice the federal poverty level.

Hence, many believe it their right to live in isolation from the problems of urban poverty.

Public housing advocates fear that homelessness and poverty will surge across the country if the Trump administration implements budget cuts outlined in a draft leaked from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Brett received his Masters of Public Administration degree from Baruch College, where he studied policies that can have an impact on urban poverty.

«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.

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Garrone, who came to features from documentary, he brings a clear - eyed approach to the film and captures an atmosphere of destruction and waste in a landscape of urban blight and poverty.

Lee's movies have examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues from his perch at «Da World Headquarters of 40 Acres and Mule Filmworks located in the home of his beloved borough of Brooklyn.

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 Sue Duncan Center was attended by kids from elementary to high school age, nearly all of them African Americans struggling with the grind of urban poverty — crime, drugs, gangs, absent parents.

One day, Edward Banfield brought in as guest lecturer to his Urban Problems course a young assistant labor secretary from Washington named Moynihan to talk about LBJ's new War on Poverty — my first glimpse of the man who would become my most important mentor and teacher.

It has also meant making links between formal and informal sectors, urban and rural livelihoods, coastal and forest livelihoods, private and public interventions, social conflicts, economic thinking, agriculture, fisheries, environment, poverty alleviation, and subjective and objective wellbeing analyses in order to approach things from a humanitarian and educative and inclusive dimension that will be relevant to my immediate contexts which is Africa and the rest of the world.

Probably the most convincing argument for the fundamental difference between start - ups and turnarounds comes from those actually running high - performing high - poverty urban schools (see sidebar).

I've taught in three states from urban to rural settings, and from deep poverty to an area of high affluence.

In my years teaching in urban public schools, I saw many students experience extreme stress from living in poverty and also in gang - affiliated neighborhoods.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

We present results from a randomized experiment of a summer mathematics program conducted in a large, high - poverty urban public school district.

Mathematica worked across six different high - poverty areas (ranging from the rural Mississippi Delta to urban Chicago) to randomly assign almost 2,000 students to 100 TFA and non-TFA classrooms.

The success of these programs provides a clue to the root problem of low achievement in so many urban areas: Poverty didn't keep these children from performing better, failing schools did.

The effects of urban poverty on educational outcomes: evidence from a randomized experiment What can we learn about neighborhood effects from the Moving to Opportunity experiment

Understanding that success takes dedication and discipline, Gretchen has worked to advance her professional development across a spectrum of areas — from blended learning to bullying to urban poverty to formative assessments — to name a few.

Teaching students from diverse settings or with specialized needs (urban, rural, ELL, high - poverty, students w / disabilities).

He testified that 22 percent of new teachers in California leave the profession after four years and that the percentage of teachers who transfer out of high - poverty schools is twice that from low - poverty schools, He said 20 percent of new principals in urban school districts leave after just two years and pointed to the Oakland Unified School District as an extreme: There, he said, 44 percent of new principals leave the field after just two - years.

«I have learned more about students in poverty from being a part of this virtual learning community than I did in a semester - long class about urban education,» said Karen Vogelsang, a second - grade teacher at Keystone Elementary in Memphis, Tennessee, and a virtual coach for the «Supporting Students in Poverty&raqupoverty from being a part of this virtual learning community than I did in a semester - long class about urban education,» said Karen Vogelsang, a second - grade teacher at Keystone Elementary in Memphis, Tennessee, and a virtual coach for the «Supporting Students in Poverty&raquPoverty» VLC.

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

Most, not coincidentally, are from urban school districts with high poverty rates and large populations of students of color.

When I graduated from college, I stayed in touch with a graduate professor but did not maintain contact with most other professors, as most had teaching experience in the suburbs, not in an urban, high - poverty school like the one where I secured my first teaching position.

Also, the link is punitive to teachers who work in schools that serve high - poverty communities, and would provoke an exodus of minority and experienced teachers from urban districts.

Some of them argue from a civil rights perspective, noting that parents with financial means are able to seek out school options for their children and propose that opening urban schools to parental choice gives those options to families in poverty.

For the four school years from 2009 to 2013, even as poverty rates increased in the city, Cincinnati remained the state's highest - ranked urban school district (Cincinnati Public Schools, 2014).

Colleges Discover the Rural Student Students from rural areas, where residents are more likely to live in poverty and have lower education levels than those labeled urban, suburban or town, only make up less than 30 percent of college students nationwide.

Place - based scholarship programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, in which all students graduating from specific high - poverty urban school districts qualify for free college tuition, also have been shown to increase high school outcomes and college matriculation (Bartik and Lachowska, 2012; Andrews, DesJardins and Ranchhod, 2010).

From the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problFrom the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problfrom the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problfrom boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problems.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

Three inner - city Bronx teens form an unlikely friendship in this moving urban story: 15 - year - old hearing - impaired Tamika; 16 - year - old illegal alien Fatima, who fled the violence and poverty of her African country; and Jimmy, an 18 - year - old street poet and junkie who has just been discharged from the army.

A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice, he left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006, with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life.

Using systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood, Nari Ward creates dramatic sculptural installations that explore issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

Artists like Nari Ward, who reclaimed discarded refuse from urban settings, and Gabriel Orozco, a Mexican artist who photographed quotidian scenarios gone slightly awry, achieved prominence for their ambiguously interpretable commentaries on poverty and consumer culture.

The original Black Mountain College functioned as an incubator for American artists such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Anni and Josef Albers and many others escaping Hitler in Nazi - occupied Europe, seeking refuge from mainstream educational institutions or the poverty of urban centers.

Her creations reference a wide array of cultural and art historical themes, from Color Field Painting and other formal movements via the exuberantly colored clothing, to latent commentaries on recycling, materialism, and urban poverty.

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

For example, government policies encouraging expansion of biofuel production from maize have recently contributed to higher food prices for many, increasing food insecurity for populations already at risk, and threatening the livelihoods of those like the urban poor who are struggling with the inherent risks of poverty.

From setting up a faith - based urban farming non-profit to their video instructions on how to make biogas with a DIY anaerobic digester, these guys are pushing hard for community - based solutions for hunger, poverty and social exclusion.

Human migration resulting from drought, environmental degradation and economic reasons may spread disease in unexpected ways, and new breeding sites for vectors may arise due to increasing poverty in urban areas and deforestation and environmental degradation in rural areas (Sims and Reid, 2006).

Mellon Research Fellowship, Costa Rico Poverty in Urban Communities (Summer 20XX), Howard Mellon Fellow, U.S. President's Award for Community Service (accompanied by Citation from President Abraham Lincoln for exemplary community service, Citation from Governor Smith, Citation from Mayor Glen Baker for outstanding community service).