Sentences with phrase «not urban children»

A lot of state money, under the Sheff agreement, goes to magnet schools and a fair amount of the money thus gets spent on children from the suburbs, not urban children, because not all city children are in magnet schools.

Not exact matches

the christians were bad during the crusades, stirred up by Pope Urban II into going and taking land the ROMAN EMPIRE, not christianity, had lost, and these same «holy crusaders», upon taking Jerusalem, massacred men, women, children, muslims, jews, christians, everyone just because they were different.

The ethos of dependency requires direct attention of the kind given by the Urban League and the Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not children they can not support.

The Urban Child Institute is a not for profit organization that provides information, resources, and intervention programs for children from conception to age three in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee.

This isn't necessary at all as the all - around Thule Urban Sport Glide Stroller will help you to transport your loveliest child safely, easily and in style no matter whatever the season and wherever you want to go.

We live in a town that we (mostly) love but are looking to move for better schools for our children or, if those areas with better schools don't pan out, for a more urban area with more support for homeschooling.

Per Chicco, they do not make a child snack tray for the Urban stroller

Orphanages are located in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.

In a subsequent interview, Gehl said he thought the absence of children on London's streets was not only surprising, but worrying, as it evinced a narrowing of the urban «public».

So, overall, Cuomo and his cronies come off as petulant children who can't handle dissent without calling it an attack, don't care about the opinions of local representatives or urban democrats, and aren't doing anything to develop leadership among their base.

The political leaders are extolling and highlighting your examples, the urban dwellers are chanting your praises, the rural dwellers can not stop talking about your messianic interventions in their lives, the civil servants can not thank you enough, nor can mothers, children, traditional rulers and indeed every group or stratum of the state.

«We don't need hindsight to see that moving this facility, to the same campus as adult psychiatric patients, downtown in a busy urban environment, will be a colossal mistake and detrimental to the health and well being of children seeking these valuable services,» Kearns said in a statement.

The team conducted a randomized controlled feasibility trial among adults attending newborn well - child visits at an urban Philadelphia pediatric primary care clinic who were not previously vaccinated with Tdap.

Even when allowed two children, couples prefer one child, with my research showing that this attitude has been reinforced by the urban conditions that families are forced to adjust to and policies that are not family - friendly.

Batra isn't ambitious with the visuals, but he creates an effective, unfussy sense of urban space, both indoor (cramped apartments, crowded buses) and outdoor (even leafy residential streets seem to be swarming with playing children).

The 50 - year - old actress thanked her children - Isabella, 25, and Conor, 22, with ex-husband Tom Cruise, and Sunday, nine, and six - year - old Faith with spouse Keith Urban - in her speech, after previously coming under fire for not acknowledging her older kids in other awards acceptances.

The star made sure to include «all» her children - Isabella, 25, and Conor, 22, with ex-husband Tom Cruise, and Sunday, nine, and six - year - old Faith with spouse Keith Urban - in her speech, after previously coming under fire for not acknowledging her two older kids in other awards acceptances.

I like the definition that Elena Aguilar uses in «Deeper Learning Means Educational Equity in Urban Schools»: Equity means that «every child gets what they needs in our schools — every child regardless of where they come from, what they look like, who their parents are, what their temperament is, or what they show up knowing or not knowing.»

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

«Our school is in an urban area, and many of our children won't have the opportunity to visit parks, or woods, or get up close to nature.

Parents of students enrolled in urban schools believe their children's schools are safe, according to a poll released last week, even though more than 60 percent think students fight a lot or aren't sure about the level of fighting.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

It ought not be unduly surprising that such efforts may look quite different from those to transform troubled urban systems struggling to educate children mired in poverty.

But if we don't ask these questions and explore the root causes of the stress that urban children live in we'll never really transform our schools.

As the tuition grant proposal was aimed primarily at improving education for poor black children, the black - led coalition could not avoid being accused of promoting urban black interests at the expense of rural and suburban areas.

Asked about the difference between urban and suburban charter parents, Patterson replied, «In the inner city, parents first want a school that's safe, where their children won't get hurt or shot and hopefully will be around adults who care about them.

While rural and urban schools share certain challenges, including the devastating effects of poverty on school children, there are myriad other problems specific to rural schools, which is why applying an urban model and urban solutions to rural schools simply doesn't work.

Few would argue with the need, as Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League, says, to «know whether or not children are learning, and whether they're performing on grade level or better or way below.»

Buying a home in Greenwich or Grosse Point or Chevy Chase so your child can attend a great public school certainly involves a hefty means test — and if you don't agree, ask the low - income folks in the urban centers down the road.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

Despite the best intentions of philanthropists and politicians, big money and big data will not save urban education, as long as reform efforts are undemocratic and overlook the realities of poor children's lives.

While Noguera's initiative bore a strong resemblance to the Harlem Children's Zone, in its holistic philosophy toward urban education as well as in its name, it differed in one salient aspect: Global Village worked in district schools, not charters.

Mathews concludes, «Urban children ready to learn should not be forced to suffer from standards lowered for others, but what to do with the bottom group is a tough call.

«This isn't to disparage what's going on in the district, but the results show that charters are a viable option for children in our urban centers.»

Two weeks ago, American children in large urban school districts did not produce the higher test...

Thus, while we are not naïve enough to think that all parents would enroll their children in racially diverse schools if given the option, we do know — and we speak from personal experience as urban parents — that many would.

Many highly gifted children attend small schools with few specialized staff members, live in communities which are often resistant to chance, and are not necessarily acculturated according to urban standards (Spicker, Southern & Davis, 1987).

The success of these programs provides a clue to the root problem of low achievement in so many urban areas: Poverty didn't keep these children from performing better, failing schools did.

As readers know by now, one of Kline's main goals as chairman of the House panel is to eviscerate No Child altogether, and not just its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions which have spurred a decade of successful systemic reform as well as revealed the low quality of teaching and curricula in urban and suburban districts.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education is committed to that end and we will not rest until that goal is realized for every child.»

The nation simply can not afford to allow the potential of millions of urban children to go unmet, no matter how great the obstacles to learning that confront these students.

However, it is not yet known how school and out - of - school time (OST) experiences can be strengthened, aligned and delivered in real - world, urban settings to help children develop these skills.

For years, the funding formula for schools has been based off of this dynamic so we shouldn't be shocked as to why inner city, urban and rural school Districts struggle with making sure that children in America outside the bubble of privilege receive adequate educational resources.

That is not a quality education when you talk about civil rights for children in urban neighborhoods.»

«Millions of children attend our urban schools and while much has been done, their future requires that we not let up for a moment.»

Just because our children attend an «urban» school doesn't mean that our children should be treated differently!!

Mike Petrilli of the Fordham Institute said that teachers are told they have to deal with bad behavior and are branded racist if they don't want to, adding that children in urban schools deserve the disruption - free classrooms their affluent counterparts enjoy.

Racial gap, special education gap, the Common Core, high stakes testing — I've seen children get the short end of the stick daily in many school districts wealthy or not, though it is far worse for urban students.

It's a particularly worrying stance since Moskowitz doesn't treat Success Academy as a bespoke option for a handful of children, but rather sees such schools as the future of urban education.

The amended platform language encourages parents to opt out of standardized tests, something black and brown urban families rarely choose to do and overwhelmingly oppose, precisely because they want real data about whether or not their children are learning.