Sentences with phrase «kids living in poverty»

The fact of the matter is more kids live in poverty in our borough than anywhere else.

My initial approach to serving elementary kids living in poverty was similar to how I'd approached middle school students.

The project was supported by Common Council President and Alderman Michael Murphy, who said of the project, «This is an inter-generational park, serving a large percentage of kids living in poverty.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

More than 12 million US kids live in poverty.

Farr's team works with all network partners to discover how in classrooms all over the world, teachers are making huge strides with kids living in poverty.

01, Ed.D.» 05, vice president for national affairs at the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a nonprofit that gives kids living in poverty a chance to get a high - quality early education.

After his two - year commitment to the organization was up, he continued to teach for five more years at Stevenson Middle School in East Los Angeles, where he worked with Latino kids living in poverty.

«A very high share of non-white kids live in poverty.

Most of these deaths are kids living in poverty because climate change, like so many other scourges, finds the poorest and most vulnerable first.

But like the tens of thousands of kids living in poverty that we see on Children's Health Fund mobile medical clinics across the country, he had a dream and deserved a chance to pursue...

The National Reading Panel commissioned by Congress had concluded, based on an analysis of 52 randomized scientific studies, that effective reading programs, especially for kids living in poverty, require «systematic and explicit» instruction in phonics.

More than 12 million US kids live in poverty.

Nothing shows the compassion of Christ quite like reminding people their problem is simply incomparable to kids living in poverty or someone living with a terminal illness.

I don't think it's acceptable that there are now four million kids living in poverty, and the IFS project that will increase by 50 % by 2020.

If you think about what the Little Rascals were: set against the Great Depression and most of the kids living in poverty, but it wasn't focused on that at all.

So the answer to high international test scores is really quite simple, just make sure no US school has more that 10 % of the kids living in poverty.

But «what we saw was one type of school model that was offered to kids living in poverty and a very different school model offered to kids living in affluence,» he said.

It now considers the number of kids living in poverty, student disabilities and the number for whom English is their second language.

For schools with a lot of kids living in poverty or qualifying as English Language Learners, this funding change is having negative consequences.

Observers are pointing out that with the resurgence of concentrated poverty in the U.S., the portion of our schools where nearly all the kids live in poverty has risen from 12 percent to 20 percent over the last 15 years.

It's a true story about a schoolteacher on the island of Maui in Hawaii, who, in 1937 challenged a group of kids living in poverty to train to go to the Olympics.

We must do more to improve reading proficiency among all kids while focusing attention on children in lower - income families who face additional hurdles of attending schools that have high concentrations of kids living in poverty.»