Sentences with phrase «life as a disadvantaged»

If life as a disadvantaged minority student in an essentially white school was complicated, coming home provided little respite.

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One of the qualities employers most value now is called grit — the fortitude, insight, and ability to adapt on the fly that often comes from overcoming adversity or disadvantage in life, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&ralife, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&raLife Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.»

But if enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer «a gentler capitalism» that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

The three most obvious lessons appear to be: «Live more simply,» «Do as much as you are able for the poor and disadvantaged,» and «Don't let the way you live and talk about the faith make it seem something grim and unattractive.&raLive more simply,» «Do as much as you are able for the poor and disadvantaged,» and «Don't let the way you live and talk about the faith make it seem something grim and unattractive.&ralive and talk about the faith make it seem something grim and unattractive.»

As such a center works its way into the lives and needs of disadvantaged peoples, however, more and more expert persons are brought into the picture in some capacity — health center personnel, social agency workers, persons who can find jobs, vocational training teachers, and many others.

Harmful are these and evil, inasmuch as they form a particular kind of sadness; and the disadvantages of sadness,» he continues, «I have already proved, and shown that we should strive to keep it from our life.

The great interest of the study arises from the fact that, as the years went by, the researchers noticed that many of the children they had identified as «at high risk» (i.e., children subject to four or more serious disadvantages) were able to lead satisfying and socially productive lives as adults.

The fulcrum of the see - saw moves too much between the perspectives of fundamentally capable, competent individuals who take life as it comes and make lemonade out of lemons, and those forever the victim whose ability to sleep at night is dependent upon their ability to blame others for their permanently disadvantaged situation.

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Mark S Kiselica writes in When Boys Become Parents, «For too long our culture has treated boys who become fathers... as detached misfits who are the architects of many of our nation's problems, rather than seeing these youth for who they really are: young men trying to navigate a complex array of difficult life circumstances that place them at a tremendous disadvantage.»

And you may think that's a disadvantage so your breast feeding baby is not waking up as easily but is actually can be life saving for them.

The disadvantage is that video training can not provide the same energy as participating in a live workshop.

As nothing can be perfect in life, there are some minor disadvantages of extended breast feeding.

She says it is «regrettable» that the UK is going to relinquish its membership of the European Medicines Agency, the London - based regulatory authority, and must make sure that the Britain's pharmaceutical and life sciences industry, alongside patients, are not «disadvantaged» as a consequence.

Factors such as the way in which parents bring up their offspring (parenting, diet, cognitive inputs) or experience of social disadvantages seem to have implications for how genes manifest themselves in later life.»

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, he also reaffirmed that compensation for those disadvantaged by the changes would be backdated «as far as is conceivably possible».

«Although there are advantages to living in cities, such as the access to food, they seem to be outweighed by the disadvantages, such as stress — at least in terms of how quickly the cells of the great tits age,» says biologist Pablo Salmón who conducts research in the field of evolutionary ecology at the Faculty of Science, Lund University.

Years of healthy life expectancy and the likelihood of disability in older age vary significantly, and as a result particular groups are going to find it hard to keep working beyond 65 and are more likely to be disadvantaged by a rise in the state pension age, than others.

The disadvantage is that the service life of such an implant is limited, as Fussenegger has found in literature.

Some of your friends were not just paranoids when it comes to online dating as there are indeed some life - threatening disadvantages.

As with Wonder Woman last year, Black Panther is not only is a kick - ass superhero film, it uses the platform to address deeper issues, in this case racism, still - lingering colonial attitudes towards Africa, the role of science and technology in improving the lives of the disadvantaged, and what it means to be a leader.

A Wrinkle in Time does have a disadvantage compared to recent live - action Disney smash hits like The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast, in that it doesn't have the same built - in audiences as those reimaginings of cherished Disney animated features.

As is the case with many things in life eLearning has its many benefits and disadvantages, and a cautious examination...

(8) It brings together two important disciplines, namely, «human rights» and «human development» so as to empower the disadvantaged, socially and economically and to secure «freedom for a life of dignity and to expand people's choices and opportunities».

A play - within - a-documentary recasts Shakespeare's timeless romantic tragedy as a celebration of life and art for disadvantaged young people coping with the daily threat of gun violence.

It could find that the equal protection clause prohibits wide within - state disparities in educational opportunity that disadvantage some students because they live in a property - poor district, as Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in his Rodriguez dissent.

The researchers also mention the extreme disadvantage that characterized the lives of many of the MTO families as a possible explanation for the differences between what researchers expected (improvements in achievement resulting from moving to better areas) and the actual results.

«As so often happens with the nation's social problems,» observes Haskins in Petrilli's book, «society must fall back on the schools to help young people, especially the disadvantaged ones, make better life choices.»

As is the case with many things in life eLearning has its many benefits and disadvantages, and a cautious examination and analysis becomes important to the future of the company or training program that one is envisaging.

As a result, the advantages of vocational training in smoothing entry into the labor market have to be set against disadvantages later in life, disadvantages that are likely to be more severe as we move more into being a knowledge economAs a result, the advantages of vocational training in smoothing entry into the labor market have to be set against disadvantages later in life, disadvantages that are likely to be more severe as we move more into being a knowledge economas we move more into being a knowledge economy.

The government has also announced that # 22 million will be shared among all 12 Opportunity Areas through a new Essential Life Skills programme, to help disadvantaged young people have access to the same opportunities as those in the top - performing schools.

A. Grassroots community organizing has been long used as a tool for disadvantaged people to gain power to affect the practice of institutions in political and social life.

«As the government reviews the funding system, including the historic extra resources in such areas, it will be important to recognise the impact of «double disadvantage» - the way living in a poor neighbourhood can compound the effects of family disadvantage.»

As the pace of modern life accelerates, workforce skills and knowledge deteriorate, putting Millennials at a particular disadvantage.

Money would then be available to bring needy schools up to 95 per cent of the government's schooling resource standard (SRS), which is calculated by taking a base cost for educating each student and adding money for disadvantage (such as coming from a low socio - economic background, being indigenous, or living in a remote area).

As part of the «War on Poverty,» the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 was designed to direct federal education dollars to the most disadvantaged children living in poverty.

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

The district identifies students as educationally disadvantaged if they qualify for free - or reduced - price lunch, live in public housing, or are English Language Learners.

The Arnold Foundation was established in 2003 to deliver a programme of boarding bursaries to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds as well as to enrich the life and culture of Rugby School.

As Chief Inspector, I have attempted to show how the educational underperformance that blights the lives of disadvantaged pupils in reality beggars us all.

As a report by the National Research Council notes, «compared with Whites of similar social status, Blacks tend to live in systematically disadvantaged neighborhoods, even within suburbs.»

In the United States, students who are fortunate enough to have a great teacher for even one year are more likely to matriculate to college, attend more prestigious colleges, and earn more later in life.40 Unfortunately, though they stand to benefit most from great teaching, 41 disadvantaged students are more likely to be taught by inexperienced or ineffective teachers than nondisadvantaged students.42 As a result, they far too often miss out on these benefits.

A DfE spokesman said: «The academies programme has transformed the lives of millions of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, as this report shows.

«As well as improving the attainment of pupil premium pupils, there are some heartwarming stories of the way in which schools have used pupil premium to turn around the life chances of disadvantaged childreAs well as improving the attainment of pupil premium pupils, there are some heartwarming stories of the way in which schools have used pupil premium to turn around the life chances of disadvantaged childreas improving the attainment of pupil premium pupils, there are some heartwarming stories of the way in which schools have used pupil premium to turn around the life chances of disadvantaged children.

Funding available through federal title programs support and provide equity for: students who are economically disadvantaged (Title I, Part A); students from migrant families (Title I, Part C); students considered at - risk, including neglected and delinquent (Title I, Part D); students learning English as a second language (Title III); students living in rural and remote areas (Title V); and students who are experiencing homelessness (Title VII).

Year after year, our goal is to meet thousands of parents from disadvantaged inner - city neighborhoods as well as those living in the often forgotten rural communities.

In addition to living in poverty, minority children face disadvantages that include living with one parent (as 65 percent of Black children do) and lacking access to preschool (as 53 percent of Hispanic children do).