Sentences with phrase «impoverished children by»

Advocate for impoverished children by speaking up about which students are tracked into general courses versus gifted programs or advanced classes.

A new study to appear in the Journal of Econometrics and reported by Science Daily has found that participation in the National School Lunch Program («NSLP») reduces food insecurity among impoverished children by 3.8 percent and reduces poor general health by 29 percent.

Not exact matches

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News In remote and impoverished areas of the world, teaching children science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM skills can involve a lot of expensive resources.

November 2011 — The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity.

But I am not against education for women; societies in third world countries where women and girls marry young are the most impoverished, uneducated, countries, with children that are cared for by nobody.

Women are impoverished by being culturally scripted to overdevelop their nurturing Parent (and thus to exist for the purpose of taking care of and pleasing «their man» and their children) and to feel powerless because they have not developed their potential Adult competencies.

A native of New Orleans» impoverished lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, Luter was the third of five children raised by a divorced mother who worked as a seamstress and a surgical scrub assistant, according to Thom Rainier, president and CEO of the Nashville, Tennessee - based LifeWay Christian Resources and a friend of Luter's.

Celtic Football and Athletic Club was established in the impoverished Victorian East End of Glasgow by Brother Walfrid, a member of the teaching institute of Marist Brothers, with the main object of providing food for «needy children in the missions of St. Mary's, Sacred Heart and St. Michael's.»

But it is exponentially cheaper than infant formula, and impoverished mothers who have become convinced that their breastmilk is not good enough for their child (hospital staff are frequently influenced by infant formula companies) often end up buying powdered milk instead of formula for their baby because it is all they can afford.

If we made progress on these root problems, we'd see much larger savings to the social security budget than can be achieved by salami - slicing entitlement levels and further impoverishing children and families.

What we are really seeing is impoverished, sick families, desperately fleeing one conflict only to walk straight into another: homes burnt out, women attacked by armed police, young children tear - gassed.

Other examples he discusses include the toxic solvents and child labour used to make fashionable Nike sportswear in the 1990s, and the 60 - year battle of the impoverished Ogoni people in Nigeria against Royal Dutch Shell, whose shareholders made billions as the Ogoni forests were poisoned by oil.

I even knew some of my classmates at school were Catholic, but that still had no connection to my life as a child growing up in a relatively impoverished village where most of the families I knew were struggling to get by from day to day.

Despereaux, Roscuro and Mig are challenged by the limitations of being, respectively, a mouse, a rat and an impoverished child.

To further consider JUPITER»S MOON, in which refugees are being chased and shot down by Hungarian police Holocaust - style, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, where hidden homelessness eats away the American dream for children born in impoverished households, and LOVELESS, a cautionary tale that sheds light on issues of abandonment and toxic selfishness seen in: no wonder everybody just wants to die in HAPPY END?

WHAT: The rise of James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) from an impoverished child who was abandoned by his parents, to a young man in trouble with the law, to one of the most influential musicians in history.

Spurred by the extreme inequities of the Gilded Age when industrial barons like the Carnegies and Rockefellers amassed huge fortunes while the majority of the country suffered in impoverished conditions, the Progressive Movement began to address issues such as child labor and fair wages.

A nonprofit organization helps children in the Mumbai slums and other impoverished areas improve their futures by training them to use computers.

Brain researcher Maryanne Wolf (2007) has discussed «word poverty,» noting that «by kindergarten a gap of 32 million words already separates some children in linguistically - impoverished homes from their more stimulated peers» (p. 20).

In at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice — or a vote — in their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeovers.

This show draws its tone and its title from Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay, which proposes that impoverished families in Ireland lessen their loads by selling their children as food.

Similar in kind to the makeshift soccer balls used by destitute children across the world, the objects are emblematic of the myriad conflicts, diseases, and conditions that threaten the lives and futures of the young and impoverished.

Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.

Only five out of 88 respondents who studied for the Legal Practice Course (LPC) had their studies paid for by a firm; two had support from the Law Society through a diversity access scheme for students from disadvantaged backgrounds; seven had scholarships; and one had a grant from a charity for the education of impoverished children.

We exist to love and care for orphans and impoverished children, by meeting their physical, spiritual, educational, social and emotional needs that they might overcome their life circumstances and break free from the cycle of generational poverty.

We must develop a thorough understanding of what adversity means for impoverished children, by soliciting the input of individuals growing up in these communities.

Based on research spanning 10 years and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Child Health and Development, and a number of foundations, the KITS Program has been shown to positively affect the school readiness skills of children in foster care, those with developmental disabilities and delays, and children from impoverished backgrounds.

All children (not just children from impoverished homes) need to be analyzed by a team of educators.

Children's cognitive and emotional competencies are observed to be influenced by living in impoverished socio - economic environments [69, 70].

For children living in poverty, although parenting has been shown to be a consistent predictor of later child functioning, other factors in the child's social environment have been found to contribute independent variance to children's adjustment, effects that are not accounted for by parenting.15 Such factors include parental age, well - being, history of antisocial behaviour, social support within and outside the family, and beginning around age three to four in Canada's most impoverished communities, neighbourhood quality.16