Sentences with phrase «inner city settings»

Let's face it, public schools are far from perfect, especially in poor inner city settings.

Inner city setting probably justifies some profanity.

So it's kind of an Enter the Dragon-esque, kung fu superhero origin story with an inner city setting.

He shows flexibility and a commitment to working with many different types of children, whether in an inner city setting or a rustic campground location.

Not exact matches

These inner - city workers understand the «victim mentality» and «entitlement mind - set» they encounter in the devastated communities where they live, but they do not let such attitudes go unchallenged, and they expect great things from their neighbors despite those neighbors» disadvantaged circumstances.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

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.

[BY J.L. EUBANKS] When living in Oakland, my lifestyle was set up in such a way that Mission Year, the inner - city missions organization I worked for, took care of all...

When living in Oakland, my lifestyle was set up in such a way that Mission Year, the inner - city missions organization I worked for, took care of all my physical needs so I didn't have to take care of myself.

Kathy has worked as a midwife in a wide variety of settings, including inner city, high - risk hospitals, neighborhood health clinics, and community hospitals.

Setting The trial was conducted in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Boston Medical Center, an inner - city teaching hospital with approximately 2000 births per year.

Did Wells Fargo Bank set up Baltimore's inner city nabes to fail by foreclosure?

We are thankful that a ministry for Zongo and Inner City development has been set up along with the Zongo Development Fund

David Cameron was setting London as his test, and Ken Livingstone had moved into a two - point lead after identifying tube fares, police numbers and living standards as key issues for Londoners, and mobilising the Labour vote from leafy suburbs to the inner - city core.

The inner - city school in Coventry was very challenging but I survived, and really benefitted from spending the last term reflecting upon what had happened to me in the university setting.

The shadow Home Secretary ran into a similar storm of criticism last summer when he compared life in British inner cities to the popular American TV series The Wire, set in Baltimore, where the crime rate is far higher than anywhere in Britain.

In 1994, her daughter, Pamela Corley, set up a nonprofit at the family home called the Parents Information Network «to disseminate information to parents and others regarding the inner workings of the New York City public - school system.»

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner set out Tuesday to kill the biggest Syracuse development in years - the $ 324 million Syracuse Inner Harbor project - after the developer went around the city to negotiate lucrative tax breaks from Onondaga County.

He said that as a Liberal Democrat and as an inner city London MP, he is clear that the current proposals are «not the best set of proposals».

«We promised to pay closer attention to the developmental needs of the Zongos, and for the first time in the history of Ghana, President Nana Akufo - Addo has not only appointed a Minister for Inner City and Zongo Development Affairs, but has set up a Zongo Development Fund and set aside budgetary allocation of Ghs100 million for it.

The prevalence of tuberculosis is highest among those in resource - limited settings and crowded environments such as prisons and inner cities.

I got to check out a new (and gorgeous) jewelry store in Oakley, helped set up / attend a lobster bake benefitting an awesome inner - city youth orchestra, co-hosted an event at Nordstrom and attended the Cincinnati Food + Wine Classic for the first time.

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Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

The show, created by David Simon, was set in Baltimore and examined every facet of the city's war on drugs, from inner city dealers and the cops on their tail to politicians and members of the press.

Set in a blighted, inner - city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman — the mother of a troubled teen son — who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Hoop Dreams (1994) Hoop Dreams tells the story of two inner - city boys from Chicago and their journeys to playing collegiate basketball while setting their sights to become professional players.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Friday, Menace II Society and Set It Off Released in Deluxe DVD & Blu Ray Editions Diehard movie fans fond of urban - oriented fare are apt to enjoy the deluxe DVD & Blu - ray editions of these three inner - city adventures.

A bona fide oddity — set in Chicago, but very clearly shot in the Michigan boonies — the movie prominently features suicide via Chinese takeout, suspiciously suburban - looking inner - city locations, an AMC Gremlin, after - school - special gangbangers named Kriminal and Nefarious, Tim Hortons coffee, and former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth.

The Dublin - set feature follows 14 year - old Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from his parents» strained relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust at the inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

Most importantly he just got back from North Carolina where he was trained as a Young Life educator and is now setting up Young Life chapters in the inner - city schools all over Memphis to do devotionals and mentorships with inner city kids.

If I were pressed to describe the thematic intention of this seemingly random, vulgar comedy, it would be to make the opposite of the «inspirational teacher movie» like Stand and Deliver, Lean On Me, and Dangerous Minds, by setting the film, not in the inner city, but in the suburbs, and making the teacher a morally challenged person rather than one of great character.

Moonlight (R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief violence) Coming - of - age tale, set in Miami, chronicling a young, gay black man's (Ashton Sanders) struggle with his sexuality while growing up in a tough, inner - city «hood.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

First Generation tells the story of four high school students - an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers - who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

For those preparing to work in inner - city settings, it can also mean supplemental workshops in drug education or domestic - violence issues.

Even though Catholic schools set their tuition rates well below per - pupil costs (to remain accessible), a few thousand dollars a year was still prohibitively expensive for many inner - city families.

The sample (Table 1.3.1) included elementary and middle schools, schools in high - and low - SES settings, and schools in inner - city, suburban and rural settings across four states (Texas, Missouri, Oregon, and New Jersey).

She has worked in inner - city schools as well as in suburban and rural settings.

Set up by the social enterprise body Asian Trade Link, and with support from cricketer Imran Khan, the Rainbow School says it aims to turn round educational under achievement in inner - city areas of Bradford.

It's time we set the record straight: Charter schools are doing important work to raise the level of performance for children who need it the most and to close the achievement gap between our inner - city students and those in our more affluent communities.

For the past 27 years, she has been working in the education sector providing leadership in alternative settings, inner - city and affluent communities, always looking to spearhead new initiatives to engage learners.

It's going to be more Little House on the Prairie than Star Trek, village schools on a budget in an inner - city setting.

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

She has gone from working in a preschool setting and the «No Child Left Behind Program» to working with the inner - city at - risk youth and teaching in suburban public schools.

To work against the bias that inner - city students don't care about learning, students set up an intergenerational network of mentoring.

This intimate film proves you don't need an inner city school as the setting for an inspirational tale of a teacher and his students.

Set to make its first public appearance at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January, the new SLC (which is replacing the SLK) won't be going on sale until April, but for those that like ferocious power, wind - in - the - hair motoring but no compromises when it comes to inner - city manoeuvrability or everyday cosseting, it will be worth the wait.