Sentences with phrase «of urban decline»

As of late, the city saw a sharp downturn in prosperity, largely owing to the decline of the heavy industry and railroads, on which Reading had been built, and a national trend of urban decline.

Via email, I asked her about the genesis of the exhibition: «As a child, I had wondrous and strange experiences at Coney Island... My family and I still go there and we believe in its never - ending potential for magic... [This is the] first exhibition to look at the site's enduring status as a muse for artists, from its rise in popularity as a seaside resort in the Civil War era through the closing of its space - age amusement park, Astroland, after decades of urban decline.»

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As per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through history.

Urban Outfitters» foray into the food business comes after several quarters of sales declines at its namesake stores.

Bounce Exchange CEO Ryan Urban declined to comment on the specifics of the case, but labelled it a «diversionary tactic [from Yieldify] when faced with a losing lawsuit.»

Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.

«Why put responsibility upon the scientific community for the decline of urban society and public morality in the United States?

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

Katz cites William Julius Wilson and others who say that the decline of manufacturing has deprived the urban poor of employment.

There is a growing concern that the fast expanding and globalized competitive world market is causing decline in grower returns and expansion of urban development and environmental regulations causing production cost increases and challenging the viability and sustainability of producing these crops.

News of the new partnership comes as A-B has launched a «Think Big About Beer» advertising campaign in hopes of positioning the Goose Island as an urban beer brand and turning around double - digit off - premise sales declines of its core products, aside from Goose Island IPA.

The loss of urban factory jobs led to the collapse of the African - American married couple family structure as far fewer men had steady good jobs that allowed them to support a wife and kids economically, (a pattern that less educated whites would follow a couple of decades later), and to the decline of Rust Belt cities across the Midwest and Northeast.

More adapted to urban areas, they benefit from the decline in populations of other mosquito species.

We offer preliminary estimates of the lands unlikely to support new waves of climate refugees due to the residues of war, exhausted natural resources, declining net primary productivity, desertification, urban sprawl, land concentration, «paving the planet» with roads and greenhouse gas storage zones offsetting permafrost melt,» Geisler said.

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

In spite of an economic decline after conquest and incorporation into the Aztec Empire, commoners in both urban and rural settings still enjoyed access to a wide range of imported goods.

«Overall, we found that the probability of worker [bee] survival in laboratory experiments declined three-fold in bees collected from urban environments, as compared to those collected in rural environments,» Frank says.

«The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

The researchers mapped thousands of star clusters in the attractive barred spiral galaxy M83 (shown), 15 million light - years from Earth, finding that the percentage of young stars in clusters declines from the urban core to the suburbs: Four thousand light - years from M83's center, 19 % of young stars belong to clusters, whereas 13,000 light - years out, just 7 % do.

Millions of Americans were able to breathe more easily last year as urban air pollution declined in a number of cities.

Featuring plenty of eye catching tourist attractions surrounded by the urban sprawl of a community on the decline, Dafoe spends his days desperately trying to keep his business as the manager of a rundown motel above water.

The largest declines were among elementary schools in 12 urban dioceses (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston, Newark, Detroit, and Miami), which together have lost almost 20 percent of their students (more than 136,000) in the last five years.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

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Indeed, by removing some of the most talented students and involved parents from P.S. 121, the busing program contributed to the school's severe decline in quality in the ensuing years — a pattern repeated in many urban schools with low - income, minority student populations.

It is not too late to write a new chapter in the history of Catholic education — one of urban renewal rather than decline.

The decline of schools in the urban centers of America continues, and a national call to arms is being sounded.

For years, I worried that I was auditioning to be the Edward Gibbon of urban Catholic schooling, chronicling the decline and fall of an invaluable, sprawling institution.

Despite progress on these issues, student achievement on the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) declined between 2011 and 2015, and remained stubbornly low relative to that of other large cities (Figure 2).

Its large urban districts, referred to as the «Big Eight,» have faced sharply declining enrollment due to both shrinking populations and an influx of charter schools.

Due in large part to the influx of immigrant families from a wide variety of nations, rural education is a rapid - growth industry, even as student numbers in urban and suburban schools are declining.

And while this has helped stem the tide of decline — as well as reinvigorate the church's missionary zeal (the famous line from Cardinal Hickey of Washington, quoted by Kathleen, «we don't education [urban] students because THEY are Catholic, but because WE are»)-- it has also dampened the Church's once - powerful religious belief system.

Then serving as counselor for urban affairs to President Nixon, Moynihan pulled together a panel to study the needs of private K - 12 education, with a focus on the decline of inner - city Catholic schools.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

But far less appealing is the alternative: an acceleration of the tragic decline of urban Catholic schools, and the eventual regret that we did nothing over half a century while one of the nation's greatest educational treasures disappeared.

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs students.

The # 1m maths project, a form of educational urban regeneration, is aimed at attracting bright young maths graduates to a city struggling with industrial decline and academic underachievement.

The three California districts «did consistently better at a time when many urban districts that were tested showed declines,» said Linda Darling Hammond, president of the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto.

In a report drawn from a convening of school district superintendents, charter leaders, school finance experts, and other education experts in Houston earlier this year, CRPE recommends that urban districts and charter schools collaborate to solve the problems associated with declining enrollment so that all students can have access to a high - quality education.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

Rita Schwartz, who serves as the president of the National Association of Catholic Teachers, believes that a shift in demographics has played a role in the decline in enrollment, especially in urban Catholic schools.

Thirty - nine percent of fourth - graders attending urban schools scored Below Basic in 2011, a one point drop from the levels four years ago; while the percentage of rural fourth - graders who were functionally illiterate declined from 31 percent in 2007 to 29 percent in 2011.

And as for declining enrollment in private schools, private school consumption is decreasing, particularly in urban areas where children are being ruined by failing schools, because of economics, not school quality.

The effort, a response to decades of decline in arts education across urban schools, coordinates the work of schools, city agencies, cultural institutions and other groups involved in arts learning.

«MOST of the US's urban districts have see SHARP DECLINES IN ENROLLMENT even w kids returning from choice schools.

The reasons for such decline are many: trade, globalization, technological change, the dominance of agribusiness, energy policy, and the advantages of urban agglomeration.

Here, the project intervenes with urban and metropolitan histories of crisis and renewal, arguing that Chicago's attempts to avoid postindustrial decline subsumed a variety of public initiatives, including reforms in public education.

Amongst the bad news is the spread of invasive species, chemical pollution, global warming, species decline, over-logging and urban sprawl (for example in 15 years Pennsylvania has increased its «urban footprint» by 47 % while its population has increased by only 2.5 %).

Section 223 (e) helps to meet the need for adequate housing for moderate and low income families by insuring lenders against the risk of default on mortgage loans to finance the rehabilitation, purchase, or construction of housing in declining, older, but still viable urban areas where requirements for other mortgage insurance can't be met.