Sentences with phrase «of systemic poverty»

Perhaps testing is not the lever to pull to improve student learning, considering that low student achievement rates are more emblematic of systemic poverty, racism, and opportunity gaps than the aptitude of a student.

The approach makes a fundamental break from a greater ethical consideration of representation by abandoning a focus on the factors that contribute to the creation of systemic poverty.

Those two things are simply the byproducts of a much deeper crisis: the crisis of systemic poverty.

Not exact matches

Systemic financial exclusion results in expanded poverty, shorter lifespans and an erosion of societal equality.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

Ehrenreich writes that the appropriate emotional response to systemic poverty «is shame — shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others.

Most poignantly, in her report on her firsthand experience with systemic poverty, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich makes us see «poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift.

3) The fundamental systemic motive infusing the spirit of capitalism is the imperative to liberate the world's poor from the premodern ubiquity of grinding poverty.

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.

Its great systemic purpose is to break the immemorial chains of poverty which had held the human race in serfdom for millennia.

While favoring both safety nets and trampolines, I would focus more on systemic changes in the economy that would reduce the creation of poverty

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of it.

Blaming the cycle of poverty and systemic racism is a red herring.

In response to DP94 suggesting people assist the police in dealing with criminals in their communities, you respond that Mrs Pof3 can't turn in her drug dealing husband because it's their only income followed by yet another reference to the cycle of poverty (and systemic rasism), thereby implying that these communities would be more helpful if only it didn't mean choosing between helping the police and letting their kids starve.

I'm not trying to say the cycle of poverty isn't real or that there aren't systemic issues, but there comes a point that you have to take responsibility for the choices you make.

This month's spotlight is on Parenting Journey, an organization that recognizes that systemic stressors such as poverty, substance use, trauma, domestic violence, and immigration impact the mental wellness and the care provided to children, on top of the everyday stressors of parenting.

We believe that hunger is a symptom of the deeper problem of poverty, and that food is our chosen tool for changing individual lives while addressing systemic failures.

JS: How do you respond to people who say these kinds of interventions are not enough to combat systemic problems of poverty and that we shouldn't be putting our focus on parents or teachers?

«A key component of neighborhood revitalization is for the Mayor to create an environment within our city that promotes jobs and educational opportunities for our families, to end the systemic problems of poverty,» he said.

«Therefore our believe is that this initiative will target the systemic reduction of poverty, improvement of livelihood and human capital development to spur economic growth in the country», he added.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

«We have a systemic problem of poverty, half our children in the city of Syracuse are in poverty, what we need is economic development and what we need are jobs,» Chris Ryan, a Onondaga County legislator, said.

I won't pretend to be knowledgeable enough on the subject to debate the blanket assertions, but he's overlooking some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.»

«They can be challenging, but when you consider the ecosystem around them — dense poverty, lack of access to resources, gentrification, failing schools, subpar housing — in essence, generations of racism and systemic inequality that surrounds them, I came to understand the «how» and «why» behind it all.»

Further, the systemic problems indicated by this study require immediate solutions to address systemic issues of student poverty, truancy, and increasing inequity in school funding.

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

Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity.

Maintain a climate of scapegoating and witch hunting for «bad teachers,» who are posited as the cause of poverty and student failure, doing everything possible to keep debate from addressing systemic inequities

Success becomes more and more unobtainable due to disparate educational opportunities, systemic neglect and abuse, and the difficulty of breaking the cycle of poverty, which unfortunately often results in future incarceration.

The Lab's goal is to create systemic, silo - breaking approaches to addressing the comprehensive needs of children, especially those living in poverty, by developing personalized systems of support and opportunity both within and outside of school.

But we know that the challenges of poverty, racial isolation, and trauma are huge hurdles that require broad, systemic action.

I - 1240 can not solve systemic problems such as lack of parental involvement or poverty.

We have to address the underlying systemic issues that keep pet owners from accessing medical and other care for their pets — poverty, economic injustice and lack of infrastructure such as veterinary clinics and pet - welcoming rental housing.

Grassroots leaders of Baltimore's Human Rights Organization, the United Workers, are calling for dialogue and reconciliation with neighbors and city policy makers to address the systemic racism and poverty that has plagued the City for 40 years and get below the surface of this evolving and troubling crisis in our city.

Our mission is to protect and enhance the civil legal rights of, and promote systemic change for, Montanans living in poverty.

Richardson also works on a regional and statewide basis to address systemic poverty and inequality issues, and is a former Board member of the Legal Aid Association of California.

Sure, it's important to help out individuals in need, but that kind of ad hoc action doesn't cure the larger, systemic causes of poverty.

Since originally being founded in 1900 as the Boston Legal Aid Society, GBLS's mission has been to provide high - quality legal representation in civil (noncriminal) matters to low - income individuals and families in the Greater Boston area and to advocate for systemic change to alleviate the conditions of poverty.

Women, especially Indigenous women, deal with ongoing systemic racism, poverty, discrimination, homelessness or at risk of being homeless, mental health, addiction, and stereotyping.

Since originally being founded in 1900 as the Boston Legal Aid Society, GBLS's mission has been to provide high - quality legal representation to low - income individuals and families in the Greater Boston area and to advocate for systemic change to alleviate the conditions of poverty.

The result has been generalized and systemic criminalization of poverty, mental illness and addiction.

Access to justice is a complicated issue with multiple systemic factors including poverty, racial profiling, lack of basic legal and practical education, inadequate social services, inadequate government funding, lawyers not wanting to work for little money, etc..

Young Indigenous people continue to pay the price of systemic racism and poverty, and to suffer the effects of colonialism.

Due to systemic barriers — like discrimination and harassment in accessing health care, which 28 percent of transgender people say they have experienced — LGBTQ people are more likely than non-LGBTQ people to be living in poverty and to be uninsured.

Systemic Family Therapy also facilitates the family's understanding of any local factors that may impact on their difficulties, for example, issues associated with areas of deprivation such as poverty and drugs.

The poverty and inequality that we experience is a contemporary reflection of our historic treatment as peoples, and an indication of the persistence of systemic discrimination.

«From an Aboriginal perspective, the experience of family violence must be understood in the historical context of white settlement and colonisation and their resulting (and continuing) impacts: cultural dispossession, breakdown of community kinship systems and Aboriginal law, systemic racism and vilification, social and economic exclusion, entrenched poverty, problematic substance use, inherited grief and trauma, and loss of traditional roles and status (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria 2008).»

At its broadest, an address to the issue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victimisation is related to a much broader response to the systemic issues that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities — an address to poverty and overcrowding in communities is required, for example.