Sentences with phrase «poor urban areas»

To evaluate what is the best way to improve living standards in poorer urban areas of low income countries.
In poor urban areas, limited access to land for the production of food is another challenge.
Malloy said that right now the teacher system is rigged against poor urban areas.
«Bad» schools from a safety perspective are considerably more likely to be located in poor urban areas with high levels of crime outside the school (with schools generally being safe relative to the outside world in these neighborhoods), and safety tends to be a concern only in the worst schools (perhaps the bottom 10 %).
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).
This is pretty much how schools operate in poor urban areas in the United States.
Bush says many fellows who come to work in the US from other countries are surprised by the systemic problems they encounter in poor urban areas.
i live just outside a big, poor urban area.
Envision a child born in a poor urban area.
Kapikian and his colleagues decided to set up their own vaccine trial in a poor urban area near Caracas, Venezuela, with a 10-fold stronger dose of the vaccine.
It also favors Asian tiger mosquitos, which thrive in pool - rich, insectivore - poor urban areas, and also are carried by American robins and crows.
State officials have begun auditing 25 districts, most of which are in poor urban areas.
Although this resource is based within the slum or shanty settlements of Brazil, the content within it is just as applicable to any poorer urban area of low income countries.
While there were more than 6,700 charter schools in the country enrolling approximately 3 million students (about 6 % of all students), the charter school industry's saturation rate is much higher in a group of poorer urban areas.
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