Sentences with phrase «poor urban settings»

They must operate off the grid, without access to water, electricity or sewage plants, and fit into poor urban settings.

Impact of counselling on exclusive breast - feeding practices in a poor urban setting in Kenya: a randomized controlled trial

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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.

In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to urban, suburban, and rural districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.

And as for identification, a properly trained gifted coordinator would be well versed in using multiple criteria to identify all gifted students in an urban setting, whether minority, poor, under - performing or GTLD (gifted with learning disabilities).

Finally, Dr. Jeff Duncan - Andrade, professor of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University and a high school teacher in East Oakland, California, closed the day with a moving talk on critical pedagogy in urban settings in which he shared his own experiences and strategies for effective teaching in schools serving poor and working - class children.

This report concludes that «six educationally relevant disparities» — vision problems, asthma, teen pregnancy, aggression and violence, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and concentration problems — have negative academic outcomes for minority students in urban settings.

teacher6402: «The reason that scores and achievement are so low in urban districts is due to many factors: transient leadership, unqualified administrators, lack of curricula, poverty and transient students, lack of parental and community support, politicians posturing at the expense of poor and urban communities, and yes - ineffective teachers who often get in to urban school districts because they lack the skill set and content knowledge to get in to other districts.»

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

«The poor... want grid - based power like urban households that can run TV sets at the flick of a switch,» says Lydia Powell, senior fellow and energy expert at the New Delhi - based Observer Research Foundation.

• Risk of food insecurity and the breakdown of food systems linked to warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation variability and extremes, particularly for poorer populations in urban and rural settings.

The xTEND project enabled the establishment of a unique set of mental health - related data from two large community samples across rural and urban regions of New South Wales in which to explore the role of community and interpersonal networks, adversity and depression as potential risk factors for suicide and poor physical and psychological outcomes.

A conjugate pneumococcal vaccination program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in an urban setting initially achieved poor uptake.

The return to New York, where Minuchin's career had started in institutional settings for marginalized children, also renewed his commitment to searching for ways to alleviate the plight of poor urban families caught in the net of well - intended but unwittingly disempowering services.