Sentences with phrase «on inner city kids»

Participated in outreach dance programs throughout NY, NY and San Francisco focused on inner city kids and at risk youth 1990 - 1997

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A decade ago, I became fixated on what I saw as the biggest problem in K — 12 education — that we continued to assign low - income inner - city kids to persistently failing schools.

Remarkably, HOPE is on its way to closing the racial achievement gap that has historically plagued inner - city kids.

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

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.

Maleeka Madison feels like a freak in her inner - city middle school, where the kids pick on her mercilessly and she's pushed into even wilder delinquent behavior until she stands up for herself, wins the poetry contest, and likes the skin she's in.

In this moving tale, Gamble, a 10 - year - old inner city kid, shows compassion when he takes on the care of a one - eyed, badly injured alley cat.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

The ride I went on on Sunday June 8, 2008 was a Bike - A-Thon fundraiser for Bikes Not Bombs, a group in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston that collects used bikes and teaches inner - city kids to repair them and ride them safely.

Despite the fact that there's often so many things stacked against kids growing up in the inner - city, there's one young eco-hero that's defying the odds and making an incredible difference while helping to shed a bit of light on how successful students can be at affecting change in their own neighborhoods.

Her son was an inner city kid on scholarship at the prep school, and was known as an outstanding student athlete.

Evans talks about his own early years, of growing up in a public housing estate in inner city Melbourne, one of six kids; his Dad was Welsh Irish mix, his mum Gunditjmara, born and bred on Framingham.