Sentences with phrase «poor urban neighborhoods»

Could that inspiration extend to young people in poor urban neighborhoods looking for economic alternatives to criminal activity?

Among the texts most often assigned were Jonathan Kozol's «Savage Inequalities,» an indictment of schooling in poor urban neighborhoods, and writings by Paulo Freire, who advocates education to achieve political liberation.

White flight does not end when residents move from poor urban neighborhoods to the suburbs.

It also suggests a relatively simple solution to improving the mental health of poor urban neighborhoods: Plant trees and grass.

Crappy food is cheaper (because of corporate welfare, supported by conservative politicians) and more easily available in poor urban neighborhoods; therefore choices are being influenced by corporations.

Not exact matches

What's new is that problems are no longer confined to poor, urban neighborhoods — they're impacting everyone.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

But it can make a huge difference in public health, they noted, particularly as many urban greenhouse gas emitters also pollute the air and are located in poor neighborhoods.

His work expands the conversation about ethnic neighborhoods beyond the Chinatowns and other urban «enclaves,» where poor residents of similar ethnicity have often lived because they lacked other choices.

That children who grew up in his poor, urban neighborhood never graduated, much less went to college, was a given, Mr. Oates said.

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.»

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

We empower urban youth to transform their neighborhoods through intensive community service and to change the world by building schools in some of the economically poorest countries on the planet.

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School is a documentary that shatters the myth that «good» schools located in «nice» neighborhoods are shielded from the education crisis that pervades schools in poor, urban areas.

Because charter schools are concentrated in cities, often in poor neighborhoods, the researchers also compared urban charters to traditional schools in cities.

One is her home in a poor black urban neighborhood; the other is the tony suburban prep school she attends with the white boy she dates there.

Graffiti may still originate as a raw urban expression from poor neighborhoods, but it often ends up in a gallery.

My walking tours call attention to the shortcomings of poor urban planning while telling the stories of the everyday residents who have fought to improve their neighborhoods.

At Galerie Michael Janssen of Berlin, life - sized glass heads are filled with found objects and Theaster Gates, a Chicago performance artist and urban planner who takes a proactive approach to improving poor neighborhoods, is displaying two chalk board works that show his creative thought process at Kavi Gupta gallery.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

It means fraying of the safety net for the poor in rural and urban neighborhoods across our state and the nation.

Growing Home, a Chicago nonprofit, runs several urban farms in the city's poorest neighborhoods, including the Wood Street Urban Farm in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's south urban farms in the city's poorest neighborhoods, including the Wood Street Urban Farm in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's south Urban Farm in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's south side.