Sentences with phrase «income urban areas»

Background African American female adolescents living in low - income urban areas are at increased risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

African American female adolescents living in low - income urban areas are at increased risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

Rural areas, Native American reservations, and low - income urban areas often lack low - cost veterinary services.

Our mission is to create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students can grow academically and socially.

Yet finding technology - rich field placements in low - income urban areas can be difficult.

It has low - income urban areas facing myriad challenges and whose families don't have adequate access to great schools.

Previous studies show that in many low - income urban areas, mouse allergens — proteins found primarily in the animals» urine that trigger allergic symptoms — are present in the homes of nearly all children who have asthma, says Matsui.

Hot weather is an often overlooked cause of death worldwide and in the U.S., especially in low - income urban areas where residents might lack air - conditioners.

Ismawati also developed the «decentralised solution initiative,» focusing on village households in a low - income urban area of Bali and other cities in Indonesia.

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Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

Women were defined by sociodemographic criteria in three studies: living in the three most disadvantaged postcode areas and over the age of 16 (Hoddinott 2012), over 18, nulliparous, low income families, who had not yet selected a paediatrician (Serwint 1996), and low - income urban women (Sellen 2013).

Setting: urban, a low - income area of the city of São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Large urban areas have large immigrant populations spanning a range from very low income to very high income professionals and are vital to large urban economies.

The Commission found that these missing voters are predominantly young and from lower income groups, and are mainly to be found in urban (and predominantly Labour) areas.

«Fatal overdoses have occurred this year in urban, suburban, and rural Erie County communities, both in high - income and in lower - income areas.

CHF's poverty map for Sekondi — Takoradi, the country's third - largest urban area, takes into account access to housing; room and housing density levels; solid - waste services; sanitation and water; and income, says Ishmael Adams, acting country director for CHF in Ghana.

«Almost the entire urban area in Washington State was within a 10 - minute drive to a WIC retailer, with 0.9 % of the low income, urban population outside that range.

«Lower income people often do not have a choice as to whether they will live in an area of climate hazard,» said Estrella - Luna, who teaches urban planning at Northeastern University.

The work also showed that although the poorest households are reliant on forests for their daily needs, they also look elsewhere — for example, traveling to urban areas — when drastic action is needed to feed themselves or urgently acquire income.

Individuals in poor rural areas, as well as in low - income urban communities such as Richmond, Calif., suffer disproportionately from childhood asthma, in part because of inadequate housing, deficient medical care and proximity to multiple sources of air pollution.

The report says heat waves are especially harmful to black people, who live in urban areas in higher percentages than whites, and who are also more likely to be low - income than other Americans and already suffer from higher asthma rates than whites.

Global warming will bring increased summer heat waves nationwide that are especially harmful to low - income and minority populations in urban areas and the elderly, according to a new report by environmental and public health groups.

Lucky for those of us in urban and suburban areas who are in middle to upper income brackets, shopping local can be a great option for buying healthier foods.

April 5, 2018 • And the number of sufferers is expected to increase, especially in lower - income countries as people in rural areas move to urban centers and adopt more sedentary lives.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

These models also include controls for the respondent's education, income, race, homeowner status, region, and whether the respondent lives in an urban area.

Problems exist in large urban districts and in low - income rural areas, elites often concede, but they have convinced themselves that at least their own children are receiving an excellent education in their affluent suburban districts.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

Many set up shop in urban areas, serve minority and low - income students, and rely on a strategy and curriculum associated with an education management organization.

The schools in the study were located in or near large urban areas with predominantly low - income minority student populations.

This pattern of test - score effects — showing positive results in urban areas with many low - income students, but neutral or even negative effects elsewhere — also appears in a national study of oversubscribed charter middle schools funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

In general, charter schools that serve low - income and minority students in urban areas are doing a better job than their traditional public - school counterparts in raising student achievement, whereas that is not true of charter schools in suburban areas.

Although this resource is based within the slum or shanty settlements of Brazil, the content within it is just as applicable to any poorer urban area of low income countries.

For example, programs that target low - income families directly or indirectly (by virtue of being based in urban areas) will enroll low - income students.

-LSB-...] big battles over school vouchers in American education have focused on programs serving low - income children who live in urban areas.

As we reflect on this moment in urban Catholic education, the Jubilee closings should not cause us to lose faith in our future; rather, we have an opportunity to work together and identify new ways — from donor relations to cost - sharing collaboration — to maintain and grow our national network of high - quality Catholic schools, especially those that serve lower - income populations in urban areas.

And while some Mountain States boast charter populations that are diverse in ethnicity, income, and location, in the states with the greatest number of charters, the schools are densely concentrated in urban areas and largely serve low - income students of color.

The students who attend these schools, which are concentrated in urban areas, tend to be low - income minorities.

In particular, the income of neighborhood residents and the amenities available near the school both affect teachers» decisions of where to teach, particularly in urban areas with high population - density.

Narrowing the gulf on test scores and graduation rates between low - income students — many of whom are in the state's urban areas — and their more affluent peers has been a daunting obstacle in Connecticut for years.

Results are most positive for charter schools in urban areas, and several student subgroups see particularly strong positive benefits, including black and Hispanic students, students from low - income families, and students receiving special education services (CREDO, 2015).

So, KIPP's high - intensity approach won't work for most students, but that doesn't change the fact that the students who apply and remain are predominantly from lower - income families living in urban areas.»

Although the report says charters, specifically those serving low - income minority students in urban areas, outperform their district counterparts in many cities, the sector hasn't done enough to push the envelope in the nearly 25 years since the first charter law was passed.

Current policies based upon property taxes discriminate against low - income communities and urban areas, which disproportionately affect people of color.

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

Leading Educators» programming is the backbone of an ambitious strategy to significantly increase academic achievement among lower income children who attend the nearly 120 district, charter, and religious schools in the Greater Grand Rapids urban area.

The change in the Residential Income Segregation Index (RISI) is in the double digits for many of our most populated urban areas:

«Large high schools, particularly those serving low - income students in urban areas, have disproportionately lower achievement and higher incidences of violence than smaller schools serving similar student populations,» Dixon read from a resolution passed by the association.

I then offer a comprehensive profile of Massachusetts» approach to charter schools, including an analysis of Massachusetts» charter cap system alongside an examination of various data trends accompanying the policy, including the conclusion that the cap seems to have produced charter schools which appear to be serving Boston's and other urban areas» low - income and minority communities particularly well, although this pattern is not necessarily replicated in non-urban schools.