Sentences with phrase «neighborhood in a large metropolitan area»

Researchers examined the effects of Readers Theater (performance reading) on the reading achievement and motivation of struggling eight grade students in a low socioeconomic neighborhood in a large metropolitan area in south Texas.

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One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

For example, in the notoriously unaffordable San Francisco metropolitan area, renters in white communities can expect to spend 48.8 percent of their income on rent each month — certainly a very large share of their income, but nevertheless small in comparison to minority neighborhoods.

As he discusses each neighborhood he will weave in personal anecdotes about his personal experience of maturation and learning to live in a large metropolitan area, including past relationship heartbreaks, and narrating the isolation that comes from living in a densely populated region and «getting lost within a crowd.»

It appears from at least one study that most are choosing to live in large metropolitan areas and that they prefer close - in urban neighborhoods.