Sentences with phrase «poor children who»

Most low performing schools serve poor children who live in neglected neighborhoods and we pay a price for our communal neglect.

We brought packages of pencils as a donation to the school, and Eddy directed us to hold some in reserve for some poor children who lived up the road.

In one recent example she explored a favorite claim of the education reformers, who are fond of saying that their efforts dramatically improve the number of poor children who attend college.

Meanwhile, the expansion of school choice in DC encouraged more white and middle - class families to send their children to public schools, and provided an escape route to some poor children who would otherwise have attended failing neighborhood schools.

What are the elements of this bogus teacher education program for Memphis's poor children who are locked down in chain gang charters?

Some schools already struggle with how to teach an increasing number of poor children who don't speak English.

While the states primary school funding grant provides 30 percent more money for children from low - income families, experts who testified for the plaintiffs during the trial testified that it costs two to three times as much to educate poor children who often show up for school with major deficiencies.

They point to research that shows that poor children who have affluent classmates perform better academically.

Figure 2: Poor children who were chronic absentees in kindergarten had the lowest performance in reading and math in fifth grade

I wonder what becomes of the poor children who can't cut it?

Yes the poor children who are failing in our schools have allies, and thank God that they do.

The man who launched Sylvan Learning Centers, the for - profit franchises that tutor thousands of students in storefronts and shopping malls across the nation, said the centers have hiked their hourly fees beyond the reach of the middle - class and poor children who really need them.

Poor children who are ready to learn, follow the rules, and work hard deserve resources and opportunities to flourish.

For instance, poor children who attend better - funded schools are more likely to complete high school and have higher earnings and lower poverty rates in adulthood.

The findings suggester poor children who attended after - school clubs developed better social, emotional and behaviour skills, with children from disadvantaged homes participating in the activities equally as much as those from affluent ones.

Education World visited three New York City schools whose students are predominantly poor children who belong to minority groups.

If this were possible, Shriver thought, why couldn't high - quality preschool also improve the IQ scores of poor children who seemed destined to fail in school?

The SAT was first used to open the doors of elite institutions to certain middle - class and poor children who wouldn't have gotten in under the system that favored the old boy network.

The research also found that poor children who attended after - school clubs developed better social, emotional and behavioural skills than those, also from similar social circumstances, who did not.

This same lack of health care access makes poor children who are under - vaccinated potentially more vulnerable to health risks as rates of vaccine - preventable diseases continue to rise.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

The Sunday School was started to provide Christian nurture and knowledge of the Bible for poor children who lacked the advantages of middle - class family life.

Eight hundred of the 1700 poor children who receive District of Columbia vouchers attend Catholic schools.

Of course, free school meals for all infants will be of no help to the poorest children who already qualify for free school meals.

Not exact matches

She grew up poor on New York's Lower East Side, the middle child of a single mother who washed and ironed clothes for money.

Not the actual mascot, not one of those poor shmucks who gets to spend months locked inside a faux - fur costume, striking amusing poses and terrifying small children.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

maybe thats your believers problems — poor parental figures as children so you joined the cult who whorships a make believe father (who killed his son)-- not very bright my unintelligent friend.

These are good women, one who is a child welfare advocate, another who works with poor minority youth.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't you the child who, having been left an orphan by his poor mother and distanced himself from his father, went off to live the life of the kibbutz?

On the one extreme there are poor single parents who work too much to have time for their children, and on the other the affluent parents who are too self «absorbed to take an interest in the life they brought into the world.

Give to the poor women who are with children and are penniless!

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

I met the woman who ran a local shelter for abused women and children, most of them from poor homes.

Those who love the poor, the needy, the suffering, and especially children.

And her comparison between loving Christ and loving eating could not be more evangelical: you stop loving Christ if you make him into an idol so that he is no longer the God exposed in the flesh, born of poor and displaced parents, in a stable amid animals, dung and flies, who hung helpless on a cross and who promised to be among the hungry, the sick, the little ones of all ages, in every street child.

History has shown that religion is not healthy for children, the planet, freedom, innocent civilians, people of other religions, little boys who trust priests, justice for the poor, education, knowledge of the world around us, social health, the arts...

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

At this point Nathan, the trusted prophet, appears on the scene and tells David a story about two men, one a poor man who loves a special ewe — it ate with the man's children and was «unto him as a daughter» — and the other a rich man with many flocks and herds.

Gundry - Volf summarizes several teachings of Jesus that magnify the significance of children and affirm Jesus» preferential option for children, whose social status he identifies with that of the poor, hungry and suffering: «Jesus blesses the children who are brought to him and teaches that the reign of God belongs to them.»

No matter what organization he belongs to, there is no one who feeds more hungry, houses more poor, treats more sick, educates more children than the Catholic church and we've been doing it longer than any one else on the planet.

Half of these children live with single mothers who are themselves poor.

Or a poor family already has four children who can not be cared for properly.

Wasn't Rush the one who said that poor people's children, if they are hungry, should either 1) Check their food cabinets for food, or 2) Go dumpster diving for food?

The entrants of the Kingdom, according to Jesus, were to become like children, who, as Crossan observes, in the Galilean peasant context were understood to be the nobodies.65 The Kingdom belongs to the poor (ptwcoi, Lk.

If I were to imagine to myself a day - laborer and the mightiest emperor that ever lived, and were to imagine that this mighty Emperor took a notion to send for the poor man, who never had dreamed, «neither had it entered into his heart to believe,» that the Emperor knew of his existence, and who therefore would think himself indescribably fortunate if merely he was permitted once to see the Emperor, and would recount it to his children and children's children as the most important event of his life — but suppose the Emperor sent for him and informed him that he wished to have him for his son - in - law... what then?

Poor parents who have been enabled to choose any school for their children are delighted with the results, according to PAVE's annual report which is available free from Family Service America, 11700 West Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224.

Just like we don't hang around with women who are caught in the act of adultery, we don't hang around with Samaritans, we don't hang around with powerless children, we don't hang around with women who have a bad reputation, we don't hang around with beggars or the poor or the oppressed or the criminal or the possessed or the socially marginalized or the ones who aren't allowed to come to temple with the good religious people, good gracious!