Sentences with phrase «poor families in neighborhoods»

We've known for a while that kids born into poor families in neighborhoods like Harlem have big obstacles to overcome in order to succeed.

Not exact matches

Experts have suggested building public housing in low - poverty areas instead of high - poverty areas, which would spur poorer families to move to better neighborhoods and increase their chances of success.

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

Forced relocation and dispersal of poor families into new neighborhoods is being considered in some cities.

Already a national hero, he moved his family into one of Chicago's worst neighborhoods to walk with poor people in their struggle.

He was taking a big chunk of Harlem — twenty - four blocks, back then — and he was planning to address every problem that was holding back poor kids in that neighborhood, from their families to their schools to their community.

And it's a story that you hear every once in awhile, of one kid from a really poor family in a bad neighborhood succeeding.

I was born during the Depression in a poor neighborhood, saw my brothers drafted into World War II, was drafted myself during the Korean War, built businesses, raised a family, and lost a daughter, all in the 70 years before I stepped into the newspaper world.

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researcherIn Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researcherin a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

«If you live in a poor Chicago neighborhood, bad things are more likely to happen to you,» said sociologist Katherine King, a visiting assistant professor of community and family medicine at Duke.

This increase has led to the densification of informal neighborhoods in Colombia, where homes are built and expanded using poor - quality materials, often without professional design or supervision; this leaves families particularly vulnerable to seismic risk.

The Gallagher family is back for the eighth season of this darkly humorous dramedy about a poor but scrappy family trying to get by in a rapidly - gentrifying south side Chicago neighborhood.

Percentage at the Proficient Level in Math Fall 2014 • Accompanies U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests It's not just about kids in poor neighborhoods By Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson

«U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests: It's not just about kids in poor neighborhoods» will be available at http://educationnext.org/us-students-educated-families-lag-international-tests as of 12:01 AM on Tuesday May 13, and will appear in the Fall 2014 issue of Education Next.

This is so senior teachers can choose the schools they believe are the best workplaces — most often schools in nicer neighborhoods with students from higher - income families — while newer teachers with no seniority rights and fewer choices tend to work in more disadvantaged schools serving poorer students.

According to Teach for America spokesperson Takirra Winfield, the program has three major components: discussions on the «history of inequity in the United States»; teaching recruits to view poor children's families and neighborhoods as «assets» to academic achievement, not liabilities (a concept borrowed from African American educational theorists like Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson - Billings); and introducing corps members to classroom management tactics.

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

Empower DC and other opponents of Henderson's plan, including Council Member Yvette Alexander (D - Ward 7), said many families have left DCPS in poor neighborhoods because the city failed to invest enough in improving those schools.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

And Parent Trigger laws can empower poor families to take over and lead the overhaul of failure mills in their own communities (and help them take the next step of taking on other challenges in their own neighborhoods).

The Montgomery County school district encompasses two demographically different communities, one composed almost entirely of white and Asian professional families — residing in neighborhoods that school authorities refer to as the «green zone» — and another composed of mainly poor and minority families, who live in what the school district labels the «red zone.»

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.

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

Although these families live in wealthy black neighborhoods themselves, the school districts as a whole are usually not as wealthy compared to white suburbs because they have a closer proximity to poorer black areas (Lacy, 2007).

In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge.

Though she grew up in middle - class circumstances, her family sent her to a church in a poor neighborhood.

Born to a poor but close - knit Byzantine Catholic family, young Andy Warhol absorbed images of both the saintly icons on the altar of his local church and the glamorous stars he saw in the movies at his neighborhood cinema.

When poor children are more likely to get sick and die than children in wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.

Our previously featured Argentine architect Carlos Levinton has just finished his latest project: a construction and home improvements project to reduce energy consume and improve the life quality of a number of families in a poor neighborhood in

A poor college student in Maryland may live in a neighborhood with a higher crime rate than a middle class family with small children.

The investigators chose schools for this study that serve substantial proportions of children from poor families who live in high - crime neighborhoods.

Jarrett, R.L. Growing up poor: The family experiences of socially mobile youth in low - income African - American neighborhoods.

The narratives in this study show how poor neighborhood social capital is buffered by family cohesion and how poor family can be buffered by the marital relationship.

Children in families with disadvantaged backgrounds and living in poor neighborhoods are known to be at high risk for poor health and less than optimal usage of health care.

We shall report on the characteristics of these families that seem likely to prevent the poor outcomes that so often befall children in these neighborhoods.