Sentences with phrase «impoverished children from»

It's time to face the awful truth: Those cheap clothes we can't get enough are probably the handiwork of impoverished children from Bangladesh,...

It's time to face the awful truth: Those cheap clothes we can't get enough are probably the handiwork of impoverished children from Bangladesh, some as young as 6.

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Angelina Jolie has defended herself from claims that she played psychological tricks on impoverished Cambodian children to see who could play the most convincing thief.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

children from culturally impoverished backgrounds

We impoverish children if we separate them from the grandparents.

Said another way, the child adds no new aspects to a rudimentary notion of reality, but rather separates out differentiated aspects like self - movement and feeling from realities recognized as more impoverished.

I, too, wonder about all the parents who pray that there will be enough food for their children, or that they will be safe from harm, especially in impoverished and war - torn countries.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

Proponents of this idea argue that raising the threshold would keep free meals from going to kids who aren't actually economically distressed, while critics charge that doing so would harm children legitimately in need of assistance because the 40 percent threshold doesn't come close to capturing all the impoverished kids in a given population.

High fertility also represents a disaster for the children themselves, who suffer from profound under - investments in education, health and nutrition, and are thereby far more likely to grow up impoverished.

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

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.

As a child in Maoist China, Li Cunxin was plucked from an impoverished home to attend dance school in Beijing.

Baker is a master of making real life look evocative without sapping it of its grime, a trick he once again lands smoothly in his tale of impoverished children living just miles from Walt Disney World in Central Florida.

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.

Direct Instruction began at the University of Illinois in the mid-1960s as a preschool program for children from deeply impoverished homes.

The creative writing schools fund will be delivered to children between eight and 12 and will focus particularly on children from impoverished areas, with the aim of easing the transition from primary to secondary education.

Brownfield sites in impoverished areas became playgrounds for children who built dens and odd structures from junk and waste materials left behind.

The research funded to study long - term benefits of early educational programs was concentrated on children from highly impoverished families or children who already showed delays or disabilities.

Research indicates that early school development of vocabulary and world knowledge is especially critical for children who come from impoverished homes (Snow, 1999).

... black children — particularly those from impoverished families — benefit from having black teachers.

Even fewer people know that poor nutrition is not only a problem for impoverished families — children of all socioeconomic levels can suffer from lower student achievement due to nutritional problems at home.

The Disrupting Poverty Video Series authors William H. Parrett and Kathleen Budge provide solutions for helping children from impoverished backgrounds, in elementary and secondary schools, preform well in and outside of the classroom.

Helping these kids, many of whom are fleeing from violent and impoverished conditions in Latin America, gain the high - quality learning they need to succeed in this country is an opportunity for school reformers to humanely help these kids and transform American public education for all children at the same time.

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).

Of course, some children from impoverished backgrounds will outperform typical children from literate and secure backgrounds, but on average, the extent to which children come to school prepared to take advantage of what school has to offer is a more important predictor than what even the best school can do.

Because high school dropouts earn $ 250,000 less on average over a lifetime less than graduates do (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2006), their children are more likely to be raised in poverty — and students from impoverished households with undereducated parents are themselves more likely to drop out.

It is also possible that a focus on oral language will narrow the gap for children from impoverished communities and those who are learning English as an additional language.

DeVos sought to cut $ 9.2 billion from the department's budget of $ 68.2 billion, eliminating teacher training and college - prep programs for impoverished children while investing heavily to expand school choice through increasing funds for charter schools and possibly offering vouchers for private schools.

Draining more money from impoverished school districts will not improve education for Connecticut's neediest children.

And the breakdown of family culture in impoverished and minority communities has made it less likely that smart children from these communities will end up in the challenging classes they need to thrive.

«A child from an impoverished family lacks the same exposure.

«Children from homes that are considered impoverished with low educational backgrounds tend to have vocabulary and oral language skills significantly less than a child whose family is not living in poverty,» Bailey said.

But Sam Stone was born Sam Finkelstein, a Jewish boy who immigrated from Romania to Pittsburgh, growing up in a loveless, impoverished home where the children spent hours in the attic rolling cigars to help the family make ends meet.

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.

Proceeds from every bottle purchased will go towards the Children's Safe Drinking Water Program, which helps provide clean drinking water to impoverished children around thChildren's Safe Drinking Water Program, which helps provide clean drinking water to impoverished children around thchildren around the world.

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.

«Statistics show that children from impoverished homes start school, on average, 19 months behind fellow students, and few ever catch up,» said Reynolds.

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.

Moreover, these children are predominantly from impoverished backgrounds, a situation that exacerbates the risk factors they experience.

Foster children are also more likely to have growth abnormalities and untreated health problems.38 Despite the trend in these data, some scholars have suggested that the negative health outcomes attributed to foster children are not distinct from those found among children living with their impoverished biological families.

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.

Often these impoverished family and friends carers, mainly grandparents or older siblings, receive no support from the state and are left to deal on their own with traumatised children, putting the placement at risk.

These range from working with victims of domestic violence, including children, to feeding and clothing the impoverished families in the heart of the city, working with Chicago's overnight homeless women's shelters, teaching at - risk high school students in Chicago Public Schools and also working in other elementary school settings.

Research shows that children exposed to violence and impoverished conditions are more vulnerable to aggressive behavior, drug and alcohol abuse, and other psychological problems than children from higher socioeconomic statuses.

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

Finally, impoverished children whose families received PAT and who attended preschool had readiness scores equivalent to those of children from nonimpoverished homes.

Anglicare Victoria exists to protect the vulnerable Victorians in our community — a child suffering from abuse, a homeless young person, a woman escaping domestic violence, an impoverished couple unable to feed their family — people who desperately need help.