Sentences with phrase «inner city problems»

plus years of experience teaching and leading as a principal, Mr. Reid was ready for any challenge that Mays, a tough urban school with inner city problems, could send his way.

Roberts believes many parents have the impression that heroin use is an inner city problem and still involves needles.

Not exact matches

Gathering former inner - city gang members, right - wing militants, violent nationalists and «religious extremists» from all over the world together in one place, the event aimed to workshop technological solutions to the problem of «violent extremism.»

Yet such internal efforts, however necessary, can not be a panacea for the problems of the inner city.

Since the most severe problems are in inner - city schools, we should focus our efforts at reform there.

A vast majority of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income kids, because their public schools tend to have the most problems.»

If it were not for white - collar crime and the violence of U.S. militarism overseas, Wallis appears to believe, we would have fewer problems in the inner cities.

Graffiti is a significant problem in most inner city neighborhoods.

Unfortunately it is minuscule in comparison to the problem of inner - city education that it is supposed to address.

However much division there once was between suburbs and inner city, that distinction is rapidly passing as the problems envelop and control both.

The problem is to co-ordinate the life of the church in the suburbs with that of the church in the inner city in order that both together might minister to the total urban setting.

The poverty with which I was dealing every day (let alone in the Third World) was directly related to the increased wealth of the rich, the neglect of the problems of small towns and the inner city, to the growth of the suburbs.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

The county has also stepped up its inspection efforts, but the report noted the problem in Buffalo's inner - city remains serious.

«There are mass shootings taking place in the inner cities every day and [officials] are moving at the pace that this is not a significant problem,» Adams said.

They don't want the social problems in the inner cities to come into their neighborhoods or they're afraid when they come downtown, they might deal with street crime,» he said.

Failing schools in the inner city are a major problem and frankly, I'd quite like someone who had direct experience of the issues in the system developing policy.

«I am waiting to finish making contact with important inner city neighborhood and church leaders to build on my historical understanding of worsening urban problems that will be important issues in this campaign,» Guy said today.

She's been saying for some time that her department could use help in dealing with the problem, which data suggests might be getting worse in Buffalo's inner - city.

Telvock found the program is beset with slipshod methods and puts more effort into testing predominantly white enclaves with few lead poisoning than in the inner - city neighborhoods where the problem is concentrated.

The coalition's response focused heavily on a crackdown on the gang culture problem experienced in many of England's inner cities.

Most Muslims live in deprived inner city conurbation and, as such, they are disproportionately affected by many social diseases such as drugs, criminality and mental health problems.

Cosmetically the areas around Glasgow East have been modernised and many of the large communal housing blocks built in the bleak «Brutalist» architectural style have been demolished, however the area still suffers from all the big problems which plague inner cities — worklessness, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, petty crime.

Glasgow East suffers from these problems on a larger scale compared to other inner city constituencies.

He knew he had a problem with black and Latino city legislators, who were bristling from Cuomo's previous cuts to education and Medicaid, so he included $ 62 million for inner - city jobs programs; he held a much stronger hand with Senate Republicans who might object to tax increases on the wealthy — if they weren't so scared of Cuomo's redistricting them out of their narrow majority.

Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney interviewed The Rev. Darius Pridgen, Ellicott District Council Member, on the problems of the inner - city and city government.

«This points to an often unrecognized problem for the segment of Canada's homeless population that suffers from mental illness,» said Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos, chief of psychiatry at St. Michael's Hospital and a scientist in its Centre for Research on Inner City Health.

«Gamblers Anonymous is one of the most cost - effective and easily accessible resources for individuals living with problem gambling issues,» said Dr. Flora Matheson, lead scientist of the study and medical sociologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

The problems are not just in the South: poor people in the inner cities of the US are dying of tuberculosis because of a lethal mixture of overcrowding, HIV and drug - resistant strains of the TB bacterium.

The problems with schools, people seem to believe, are found somewhere else: Schools are dreadful in the inner city, perhaps, or in other parts of the country, maybe.

A half - dozen years earlier in Washington, D.C., Cardinal Hickey had appointed a commission to study the problems confronting his diocese's inner - city schools.

Coates kicked off the debate in mid-March after Paul Ryan made a speech in which he talked about the problem of men in the inner cities not working.

South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, TX is known as a typical inner - city school, with predictable inner - city school problems, including student violence.

This is one of the problems that the Washington, D.C., nonprofit, Resources for Inner City Children (RICH), is hoping to help ease by providing high - quality educational resources, free of...

Besides challenging seniority - based layoffs, the shortage of experienced math and science teachers in inner - city districts — a problem that single salary schedules make worse — could inspire a lawsuit.

Wire Side Chat: Reporter Reflects on Year as a Teacher «I've come to think that only a radical change can address the deep - seated problems in our poor, inner city schools,» says Christina Asquith, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter who spent a year teaching in a Philadelphia middle school.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

The problem of extending La Crosse as model for the larger problems of inner - city education in America will be obvious to most readers.

A personal note may emphasize the depth of the problem of integrating inner - city and suburban districts.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

By teaching in inner - city schools as soon as they enter the program, the Harvard students learn first - hand about problems faced by urban schools.

-- Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character «Dale Russakoff, one of America's great journalists, illuminates one of the country's great problems — the failure of inner city schools — with on - the - ground reporting that extends from the governor's office and fancy philanthropies down (or up) to the small miracles performed every day by dedicated Newark classroom teachers.

I've encountered these budget problems before when I taught in the inner city of Chicago, but with 6 in group?

The research volume, released by the liberal Brookings Institution here last week, shows that, while many problems commonly associated with inner - city life have grown worse over the past decade, other conditions have improved.

Contrary to the liberal belief that many inner - city problems are...

A decade ago, I became fixated on what I saw as the biggest problem in K — 12 education — that we continued to assign low - income inner - city kids to persistently failing schools.

Isn't that the major problem highlighted by Geoffrey Canada, of Harlem Childrens Zone fame, that parents in the inner city simply do not have the extensive vocabulary necessary to erase the achievement gap?

In an inner city school, an expensive set and costumes were out of the question, but I never felt this to be a problem.