Sentences with phrase «of inner city kids»

Here's where the feds could play a significant role in improving the life chances of so many of our inner city kids.

The film opens in a crime - ridden hood in South London with a group of inner city kids mugging a young nurse named Sam (Jodie Whittaker) on her way home from work.

Twenty years later, researchers found no difference in job advancement or income level between the two groups (with the exception of inner city kids).

Not exact matches

Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

A vast majority of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income kids, because their public schools tend to have the most problems.»

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

Newsweek ran a cover story (June 1) on the inner - city ministry of Eugene Rivers in Boston and asked, «Can religion fight crime and save kids?»

The emphasis on «differentness» in inner - city kids has been a part of sociology as long as inner cities have existed, I suppose.

I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore.

The survey was conducted to gain understanding of why so many inner city kids are experiencing severe allergic reactions following diagnosis.

We take 25 kids a year and we had bought two hotels in Houston and partnered with the University of Houston and hotel managers and we take inner city kids there and mentor them for a year through hospitality.

Charitable Work: Jason is most proud of his work with charity youth programs including the RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), the Challenger Baseball Program and others serving as both an instructor and motivational speaker for kids.

Hollywood producers and magazine editors love tales of inner - city kids defeating private - school students in chess tournaments, but often, when you look a little more closely at the triumphs, they aren't quite as inspiring as they originally seemed.

but to the bureaucrats who make these regulations, you're just some whiny rich fool who wants to have everything Their Own Special Way, who hates the thought of their Precious Angel having to eat the same food as those dirty inner - city kids.

Now, we want to tell you about an ambitious program that its founders hope will end, once and for all, the cycle of underachievement and failure plaguing so many poor inner - city kids.

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«This really emanated from an idea that I had... that access to college should be available to everyone regardless of whether a middle class kid able to drive or an inner city kid without transportation,» said Hein of the new satellite campus.

They succeeded, with the help of a team of local inner - city kids, in bringing eagles back to the city after a 50 - year absence.

I grew up an inner city kid in the Bronx borough, right outside of NYC.

His vision of inner - city Los Angeles is pretty beat, with street kids running drugs and packing heat, white cops busting their chops for no good reason, and smug crack dealers pontificating about how they're the real businessmen of the «hood.

Advertised as «Inner City vs Outer Space,» Attack the Block features a group of South London kids kicking some alien butt.

Documentary chronicling the story of two ordinary inner - city kids who chase the dream of professional basketball glory.

SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14 - year - old boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents» relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

(In Hungarian with subtitles) Thunder Soul (PG for smoking and mild epithets) Musical documentary chronicling the 35th reunion of members of Houston's history - making, Kashmere High School Band with 92 year - old Conrad «Prof» Johnson, the legendary coach who led the ensemble of African - American, inner - city kids to a number of championship titles in nationwide competitions during the Seventies.

4:00 pm — TCM — Blackboard Jungle Glenn Ford is the teacher who takes on rowdy inner - city kids in one of the earlier «heroic teacher» films.

John Boyega shows up in the little known sci - fi movie Attack the Block where a group of inner city street kids take on an invasion of aliens.

Attack the Block follows a gang of tough inner - city kids who rob Sam (Jodie Whittaker) as she is walking home in a scary South London tower block.

Steve James's chronicle of two inner - city Chicago kids obsessed with basketball balances a microscopic look at their lives with a macro-examination of the social forces around them.

While he concedes that kids who go to the new crop of academically rigorous inner - city schools, like the KIPP Academy, may do better on tests than his kids, he is confident that Hyde students will be likelier to stay in college and succeed in life.

The only film that I remember capturing kids and educators in the inner city as effectively was season four of the great TV series The Wire, which focused on a middle school.

And whether I'm wearing my bureaucrat hat or my think - tank hat, I make sure to devote some of my energy to trying to preserve inner - city faith - based schools serving low - income kids.

«I had all kinds of assumptions about inner city kids, being from the rural Midwest — «Oh, big cities, their parents might not care.»

«A lot of kids are inner - city, but not hard - core inner - city.

No arguments could overcome the hostility, though I explained how not all kids would be bused to the inner - city; how magnet schools would be used (the mid-1980s version of choice); and how extra resources could be provided.

But in inner - city schools, «principals tell me not to dangle SPAN in front of their kids if we can't provide funding,» Russell said.

«Proficiency for us, will be getting at least three entire districts — 50 to 200 schools each — into the high or very - high category of proficiency with inner - city kids.

Often the work - study employers of these children act as future employers or help these inner - city kids find and keep jobs after college and beyond.

I like to use the phrase, «from the barrio to the boardroom» precisely because the Cristo Rey schools have helped so many urban, low socioeconomic kids turn their lives around and my goal is to provide nothing less to the inner - city children of Houston.

He simply lacked the requisite education, hadn't taken the plenitude of pedagogic courses, expensive college credits in such vital subjects as: Methods of Teaching Science for Dummies; Educational Technology for Idiots; Band Aids & First Aid; Tae Kwan Do for the Inner City; Teaching & Testing the Test Takers; Touchy - Feely 101, 201 & 301; Understanding Special Kids, Gifted Kids, Not - so Gifted Kids, Kids with Attitude, and Kids with ADD; Curriculum Simulacrum; EL / Cross-Cultural AC / DC Current; Self - Esteem for the Worthless; and, last but not least: Foundations of Education: Sarcasm & Humiliation for Fun & Profit.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Syscity high school in the Oklahoma City Public School SysCity Public School System.

Further, the dramatic success of some charter schools working outside union work rules in educating inner - city kids shows that these kids can learn.

So if I were a parent of child in surrounding town of Hartford, I;d be hesitant about sending my kid into the inner city even if it was the best school around, charter or not.

A trio of private, religious schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been closing the academic achievement gap for inner - city kids who attend the school largely using vouchers.

Except the ACLU - Public Counsel - Morrison & Foerster settlement won on behalf of inner - city kids gives that language oomph.

«We know that quality options exist, yet every year Connecticut prevents thousands of inner - city kids from getting a quality education.

Washington High secured the historic address from the President by illustrating how it overcame a history of disciplinary problems and high dropout rates by implementing reforms and turning the school into a sanctuary for troubled kids in inner city Memphis.

CHAT is a non-profit group that works with kids in the Church Hill neighborhood of inner - city Richmond, Virginia.

Ralph Baker, author of Shock Exchange: How Inner - City Kids From Brooklyn Predicted the Great Recession and the Pain Ahead

His dissections of the dumbing down of food TV, the sellouts by big - name chefs who will endorse anything, and his reduction of Alice Waters from an icon to a clueless and naïve crusader for locally produced, organically grown lunches for inner - city kids are still as hilarious, as scatological and as spot - on as ever.