Sentences with phrase «of rural kids»

According to the 2007 National Survey of Childrens Health, conducted by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, 16.5 % of rural kids are obese, compared with 14.4 % of urban children.

A third or more of rural kids, he says, don't complete junior high.

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But thanks to Ellis, the film is not at all cynical about love, while remaining truthful about today's rural South as a world of broken families and kids left more than they should be to their own devices.

but it does happens mostly in rural area areas or at very poor communities where girls have no education but just work at their homes or farm fields or when families are poor and needed the marriage money to support the rest of kids they have..

Jensen has been baking since she was a kid, spending her days with her mom in the kitchen of a house at the end of a dirt road in rural Maine.

I grew up in one of those half - rural half - suburban towns where everyone in the neighborhood is friendly and you may have a pack of at least five neighborhood kids descend upon your house at any given moment.

He and grandma were the primary care - givers of this kid out in a rural area.

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

Dr. Karen Sokal - Gutierrez, a pediatrician I know who teaches in the UCSF - Berkeley Joint Medical Program, is involved in a health program in El Salvador that among other things focuses on the dental health of urban and rural kids.

Maloney and Florke, a real estate and design executive in New York City for The Rural Connection, Inc., got engaged this past Christmas Day at the urging of their kids — in fact, their youngest daughter had specifically asked Santa Claus to let her fathers get married.

A lot of kids in the school going ages are often out of school moving aimlessly round both rural and urban communities in search of food to eat on a daily basis.

Compared with peers in the cities, rural kids have higher rates of malnutrition, uncorrected vision problems, and intestinal parasites.

Six percent of children in rural areas had a food allergy, compared with 10 percent of kids in urban centers.

For those of you who are new here, I'm Amy and I live in a small, rural community on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona with my husband, two kids, and our family pets.

The script, credited to Bertino and Ben Katai, resets the action in a deserted trailer park, essentially a series of tin cans surrounded by rural nothingness, and increases the besieged cast to a family of four: Mom (Christina Hendricks), Dad (Martin Henderson), and their two teenage kids, sullen Kinsey (Bailee Madison) and jockish Luke (Lewis Pullman).

The only personal touch would seem to be Green's goofy sanctimoniousness and lyrical feel for derelict rural landscapes, although it's a bit uncanny that his first movie, the 2000 indie production George Washington, would have as its hero a silent, self - contained black kid with a justified sense of destiny, nicknamed for the first president of the United States and thus a corrective of sorts for Rufus Jones.

The star of the show is Mark Strong as retired British intelligence agent Max Easton, dragged out of a decade - long retirement in picturesque rural France with his wife and kids for that familiar «one last mission».

The story follows Louis Creed, his wife Rachel Creed and their kids Gage and Ellie, who move from Chicago to rural Ludlow, Maine, after Louis accepts a position as a doctor at the University of Maine.

Adam Sandler returns as Lenny, a Hollywood player who since the first film has moved his family to his rural hometown, where the kids can bike to school and Dad gets plenty of Guy Time with pals Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), and Marcus (David Spade).

JULY 6 THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE Starring: Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Directed by: Rob Reiner In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair - bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids.

The Magic of Belle Isle is a dramedy about a «wheelchair - bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.»

Figuring that the kids in the rural town of some 45,000 souls would be easy to handle, he could not have been more wrong.

Even with parental determination to be involved while their children are in school, «I think the primary challenge rural kids face is a lack of preparation for school,» Rearick told Education World.

Her organization's recent report about the state's nearly 500,000 rural children suggests that many are dealing with challenges as difficult as those of kids in urban areas.

During two years of doing research, Chenoweth identified 15 schools representing a mixture of grade levels and urban, rural, and suburban settings where students were excelling despite poverty and other obstacles — and where kids were not spending endless hours on reading and math drills.

As part of the larger TFA model, each region believes that one day all kids can receive a great education, but how to reach that is specific to each region, especially given its unique local context, whether in a large urban area or small rural area.

• Contrary to public perception, only 56 percent of charter kids live in urban areas; the rest are in suburbia, rural areas, and small towns.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

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

We picked rural districts — which are almost 575 out of our 600 - and we looked for a local institution or organisation in each district, which could be a college, an NGO, a university, a women's group — any organised group that actually was interested in thinking about their kids.

«Across the board, from rural to urban schools, from the East Coast to the Midwest to the West Coast, teachers think that their kids are not ready for PBL because of its focus on group work.

In the Rio Grande Valley of rural Texas, where half the students at Edcouch - Elsa High School are children of migrant farm laborers, kids are reclaiming their heritage through oral histories, compiling a local business directory, and producing a monthly civic - affairs newsletter in Spanish and English.

Keeping Kids Cosy will target both rural and urban areas of higher deprivation across the two counties where the latest government statistics show fuel poverty levels as high as 22.9 %, or over one in five house holds.

Afterschool programs come in all shapes and sizes, offer students a host of enriching activities, and serve a diverse group of students — keeping kids safe, inspiring learning, and supporting working families from communities like rural Parma, Idaho to Baltimore, Maryland.

And many GOP legislators represent suburban and rural districts that want no part of them or the kids apt to attend them.

And though these states also bring the problems of rural education to the forefront, there are plenty of black and brown kids in cities who need our help as badly as any kid in Bed - Stuy, Brooklyn, does.

«It's heart - wrenching,» said Bridget Laird, chief executive of Wings for Kids, which serves 1,600 children in Atlanta; Charlotte; Charleston, S.C.; and rural Lake City, S.C..

And this is as true for children in our suburban schools — where one out of every four fourth - graders are functionally illiterate — as it is for our poorest and minority kids in urban and rural communities.

However, they're usually only ever attached to schools or educational programmes in particularly affluent areas — and are hardly ever spoken about when thinking of kids in extremely rural locations where kids might not even go to school.

I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.

Twenty - five percent of rural children live in poverty, and parents of some 3 million kids say they wish they could afford or get to after school programs — that's before the cuts he proposes.

Twenty - five percent of rural children live in poverty, and parents of some 3 million kids

It's hard to distinguish the very top Chinese candidates from each other (high SAT scores, perfect GPAs, president of student council and general secretary of Model United Nations, summers teaching disadvantaged kids in rural China).

There is a strong case for making sure that the first tranche are in urban or rural areas with high levels of deprivation and low educational standards, both to create a ladder of opportunity for bright kids from the council estate or the rural backwater, and to have a beacon of educational excellence in those schools.

(Later on, with kids of my own, I was very glad to leave NYC and raise my family in a small town rural setting.)

But I'm also enjoying the books for nonliterary reasons: Knausgaard was born the same year I was, and even though he grew up in rural Norway and I grew up in London, he listened to the same music as a kid, and something about the texture of childhood in the»70s and»80s as he describes it feels deeply familiar.

(This is not a home insurance claim, but I couldn't resist) A few years ago, a UK resident was driving his kids to preschool in his rural neighbourhood when, out of nowhere, a 10 - point buck leapt out of the bushes and smashed into the car.

When she lets 1 - year - old Zorro and three other dogs out of the large kennel they share with several others behind her rural home near Sams Valley, they romp around like big kids.

While living in her native Michigan in the rural town of Buchanan (population: 4,455), she purchased a small farm with a host of cows, pigs, goats and sheep along with a pony for the kids.

A guide in rural Uganda even mentioned kids would drop out of school because they got more money begging from tourists than local jobs.