First, those families would have an easier time facing
the challenges of poverty.
Children's Outreach continues as a family - service organization specializing in child - abuse prevention and empowering mothers to rise above
the challenges of poverty.
It's important that we learn from those who have extensive experience dealing with government and non-government agencies, and it is absolutely vital that we learn from those who are actually facing
the challenges of poverty themselves.
It is present in the pontificate of Pope Francis as well, providing the theological coherence to his appeal for an authentic environmental ethics, and in his approaches to
the challenges of poverty and economic injustice.
Moreover, Christian contributions to a public consensus about just policies are needed in order to meet
the challenge of poverty and inequality.
Educators across the state are protesting Cuomo's demands, saying they rely too heavily on standardized testing, ignore
the challenges of poverty in some districts and put the brunt of poor student performance too squarely on individual teachers.
The challenges of poverty in rural Ghana are tied to a long and rich history of economic development and globalization, archaeology and oral history reveal
His new film perceptively follows the journeys of three Indianapolis adults trying to obtain their high school diploma while at different stages in life, even as they juggle
the challenges of poverty, crime and low expectations.
Hirsch is sympathetic to
the challenges of poverty, but comes to the same section of the book that Willingham calls attention to and comes to the same conclusion.
As regular readers know, I'm a big proponent of individual - level growth measures because they can largely control for factors that schools can not influence (prior student achievement,
the challenges of poverty, etc.).
We believe, in fact we KNOW, that educating low - income students is incredibly hard work, compounded by
the challenges of poverty, mobility, ELL status, and disability.
Urban reformers have focused intensively on
the challenges of poverty and on «closing» race - and income - based «achievement gaps.»
family struggling with
the challenges of poverty, climate change and disease.
For that reason, the coursework will focus on the promotion of healthier homes, food security,
challenges of poverty, security, access to world knowledge, and sustainable local change.
«My students face daily
the challenges of poverty, of immigration, of language barriers, of an oppressive and racist society,» says Stocklin, «and yet they still consistently outperform the global mean on every type of essay on the AP English Language exam.
«Using one grade to measure a school's progress is limiting, and we wanted it to better reflect student growth from one year to the next and
the challenges of poverty.»
Excelling With a Diverse Student Population Principal Virginia Minshew of Park View High School in Sterling, VA, talks about how her 1,300 - student school has overcome
the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state testing.
It hasn't succeeded because it takes a village to overcome
the challenges of poverty and social disintegration.
A deep belief in the potential of all kids and a commitment to do whatever it takes to expand the opportunities for students, often with a perspective informed by experience in low - income communities and an understanding of the systemic
challenges of poverty and racism
A longtime educator in Pike Township Schools, Carson is wrapping up her final year as principal at Snacks Crossing Elementary, a school that has overcome many of
the challenges of poverty during her five years as boss.
How to overcome
the challenges of poverty is at the center of the debate over education reform, with an increasing focus on effective teaching.
Center researchers often design formative assessment techniques, as well as new teaching and learning approaches for and study innovations in settings where students face
challenges of poverty and other inequities.
Jennifer Alexander, chief executive of Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, an education advocacy group, said the suggestion that schools can not be expected to help students overcome
the challenges of poverty was dispiriting.
These market ‐ based reforms have often been touted as the most promising response to
the challenges of poverty and educational disenfranchisement.
But we know that
the challenges of poverty, racial isolation, and trauma are huge hurdles that require broad, systemic action.
Teach For America works in partnership with communities to expand educational opportunity for children facing
the challenges of poverty.
The School Improvement Grant program attempts to accomplish what previous reform efforts have failed to do: make a real difference for children facing the dire
challenges of poverty, such as unstable housing, neighborhood violence and parents with limited education.
While navigating
the challenges of poverty in rural China in the 1970s, a mute boy named Bronze and an orphan named Sunflower develop a powerful friendship.
Coal mining is also critical contributor to many economies, especially in developing nations where mining's contributions enable them to grow stronger and tackle the dual
challenges of poverty and development.
Not exact matches
The main
challenge of the contemporary world is energy
poverty, according to the director general
of Rosatom.
The necessity and
challenge of paying the bills is great but work that we know is meaningless is another sort
of poverty entirely.
I had thought
of these as the way the developed world intends to bring developing nations out
of poverty and address such international
challenges as food security and conflict resolution.
Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger,
poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord
of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case
Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.
Pope Francis seeks to encourage families with practical guidance amid the myriad
of challenges they face around the world, including unemployment, migration,
poverty, gambling, alcoholism, polygamy and societal pressures that ignore the longstanding Catholic teaching
of marriage.
Diamandis explained to us that it is an ideal example
of how the private sector can tackle some
of the world's greatest
challenges, like the prize's goal
of finding an elegantly simple and cost - effective way
of wiping out illiteracy, a condition that Musk called «the wellspring
of poverty.»
Here's the answer: every one
of these very different companies creates products and services that address one or more
of the most
challenging issues
of our time — such as hunger,
poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — and makes a great profit.
A performing arts program for teens in foster care, service dogs for children with disabilities and a global effort to help children in extreme
poverty are among the 27 charities that will receive a $ 25,000 grant as winners
of the Upstanders
Challenge.
Churches should
challenge cultures
of consumerism, instead
of telling their congregations that «God wants [them] to have the desires
of [their] hearts» while ignoring issues
of poverty and inequity in their very communities.
This solidarity in the end redefines what the church means when it says «poor,» for the prayers
of the church, and the actions that make those intercessions informed prayers,
challenge the isolation that is generally inherent in
poverty.
Ideas about property and equality,
poverty and unemployment, and the whole
challenge to a prevailing view
of what I call «the almost moral self - sufficiency»
of the free - enterprise system are similar in both documents.
It is important to know that in developing nations, where many women are living on less than $ 1 or $ 2 per day, the systemic
challenges of extreme
poverty create obstacles for good health, especially among women and children.
«Mainstream Catholics want leaders who can address the moral
challenges of our day like income inequality, underwater mortgages and
poverty,» Salt continued, «not leaders who perpetuate a never - ending culture war that divides our community.»
This second form
of poverty had to be
challenged by a second Franciscan imperative, the responsibility «to build peace.»
His other
challenge came out
of my major moral claim, that any serious effort to reduce emissions by any significant amount, let alone the 60 - 80 % called for by the European Union and some
of our presidential candidates, would destroy economies all over the world and condemn the poor to perpetual
poverty - which is why China and India will have nothing to do with emissions caps.
We are not called upon to discard completely the important salvation history themes
of the Old Testament, but the church in America may find some other viewpoints more helpful in the
challenges of world
poverty.
As we respond to the crisis, we must also
challenge the biblical and theological assumptions which have allowed the church to participate uncritically in structures that contribute to the root causes
of global hunger and
poverty.
But when we protest this destruction, we are often
challenged to show that there is another way
of responding to global
poverty.
It must fruit in action to
challenge and overcome the evils
of society with its
poverty, ignorance and disease, its wars and destructive conflicts, its prejudice, oppression, chicanery and quest for profit and power, its insensitivity to the deep needs
of persons.
You could say that the list
of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind
of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.
They can be
challenged to work in projects to improve their community through political and social action, to help eradicate sexism, racism, ageism (discrimination against aging persons), and
poverty, all
of which damage marriages and families.