Sentences with phrase «poverty neighborhoods»

It took a fresh input of resources to level the playing field and to put schools in high poverty neighborhoods on a par with affluent suburban schools.

Hispanic children were 5 percentage points more likely to live in a high - poverty neighborhood in 2010.

The research revealed that more children whose parents were not already poor were living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession.

The report finds that the number of people living in high - poverty neighborhoods across the country has nearly doubled since the year 2000.

The researchers defined a high - poverty neighborhood as one where 40 percent or more of residents live below the poverty line.

The study looked at whether the presence or absence of amenities like schools, community centers and stores could explain why youth in high - poverty neighborhoods spent less time there.

It bothers him deeply that urban public schools in high - poverty neighborhoods don't have that.

However, the data indicate that unacceptable levels of children living in poverty and in high - poverty neighborhoods persist.

Over the past four years, chronic early absence fell from 10 percent to 5 percent among young students living in high poverty neighborhoods.

In high - poverty neighborhoods of Los Angeles, students attending Alliance College - Ready Public Schools have good reason to be hopeful about life after high school.

But less affluent families» choices are too often limited to the schools in the high - poverty neighborhoods where they can afford to live.

Dr. Franklin has been instrumental in turning around schools in high poverty neighborhoods with high levels of English Language Learners.

When in 1967 plans were laid by the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop for the initiative later named the General Convention Special Program, a group of community people from poverty neighborhoods and alienated communities were asked to suggest the priorities for such a program.

And when I got to the end of that book, while I'd learned a lot from my reporting, I still had some big questions about what was happening in childhood — not just in a high - poverty neighborhood like central Harlem, but also in neighborhoods all over the country.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program sought to relocate poor families out of high - poverty neighborhoods by providing housing vouchers.

During Mayor Bloomberg's tenure, the city opened well over 150 new charters, and as they consistently outperformed the traditional public schools, the demand for them in high - poverty neighborhoods went through the roof.

(These findings track with evidence from Raj Chetty and colleagues that MTO children whose families moved to a lower - poverty neighborhood when they were young completed more schooling and earned more as young adults.)

The Obama administration has championed a similar approach with a program known as Promise Neighborhoods, an effort to better coordinate education and services in high - poverty neighborhoods throughout the country.

Since 2000, the number of Latinx and whites living in concentrated poverty neighborhoods has increased by more than 900 and 400 percent, respectively.

This paper uses data from a randomized housing - mobility experiment to study the effects of relocating families from highto low - poverty neighborhoods on juvenile crime.

Yes, schools in high - poverty neighborhoods need more money, not less — especially in states like Illinois, which has the worst school - spending disparity in the nation.

An analysis that looked at children in public housing from 2001 to 2007 in Montgomery County found that achievement levels of children in public housing in low - poverty neighborhoods far exceeded similar students in the county's least - advantaged neighborhoods.

«More children living in high - poverty neighborhoods following Great Recession.»

A shrinking middle class, widening income gap, and deepening racial divide further limits social mobility and middle class opportunity for all people - especially the unemployed, underemployed and those trapped in high poverty neighborhoods in cities and in suburbs.

Stephanie and I have been collaborating since I was at NYU on the Chicago School Readiness Project, which is a socio - emotional intervention implemented in Head Start programs in high - crime, high - poverty neighborhoods of Chicago.

Also, a substantial number of Missouri's children continue to live in high - poverty neighborhoods where they are surrounded by poverty, making it harder at multiple levels to thrive.

Join the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on May 23 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. ET for a summary of Fordham's new study, Charter School Deserts: High - Poverty Neighborhoods with Limited Educational Options.

cial mobility and middle class opportunity for all people - especially the unemployed, underemployed and those trapped in high poverty neighborhoods in cities

Farrington's research background, plus her history as a teacher in high - poverty neighborhoods, helped her think differently about what happens to students when they're at school.

The report by The Century Foundation finds that 65 percent of poor blacks and 62 percent of poor Hispanics in poverty are concentrated in the highest - poverty neighborhoods in the city of Syracuse.

Herrera and others argued the city's failing public schools are concentrated in high poverty neighborhoods, while children in wealthier areas have access to better schools.

In addition, high - poverty neighborhoods are spreading faster than some cities can track them, particularly if local governments are relying on outdated census information to allocate resources.

In 2010 they were 13.2 percentage points more likely to live in moderate - low -, moderate - high - and high - poverty neighborhoods than in 1998.

More children are living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.

Kimbro said she and her fellow authors are uncertain whether this shift is because higher - income families moved into high - poverty neighborhoods due to home foreclosure or other factors, or families within moderate - poverty neighborhoods losing income and becoming poorer (thus increasing the number of poor residents).

«Although post-recession, more white kids were living in higher poverty neighborhoods, minority children are still significantly more likely overall to live in higher poverty neighborhoods,» she said.

In contrast, in 2010 non-Hispanic black children were only 4.1 percentage points more likely to live in a moderate - high - poverty neighborhood.

In 1998, 36 percent of children lived in moderate - low, moderate - high and high - poverty neighborhoods.

When broken down by race, non-Hispanic white children had the largest change in terms of living in high - poverty neighborhoods.

«Regardless of individual family income, there is something about living in a higher poverty neighborhood that negatively affects education outcomes,» she said.

A moderate - high - poverty neighborhood was defined as having poverty rates of 20 - 39.9 percent; moderate - low, 14 - 19.9 percent; and low, 13.9 percent or less.

Higher fear of crime was linked to high - poverty neighborhoods.