Sentences with phrase «poverty urban settings»

African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.

However, these studies were not conducted with adolescents in high - poverty urban settings, where early sexual initiation is more normative than in lower - poverty settings.20 In a high - risk sample of African American youths aged 9 to 15 years, Romer et al21 found that parental monitoring was related only to very early sexual initiation (aged ≤ 10 years) and not to subsequent initiation of sex or condom use.

The study evaluated Child FIRST as it is typically delivered in Bridgeport, Connecticut (a high - poverty urban setting), thus providing evidence of its effectiveness under real - world implementation conditions.

Not exact matches

Committee Chair Rev. Kinzer Pointer and other committee members are joining us here this afternoon, and I thank them for the work the Committee is doing in urban, suburban and rural settings to fully engage individuals in poverty or at - risk of being in poverty.

People struggle to prioritise such risks when set against everyday concerns that are much more real and pressing, like poverty, hunger, air and water pollution, and urban congestion.

Two childhood friends growing up in poverty in south Boston come under the influence of a local crime boss, only to strike out on their own when he is caught and imprisoned by the F.B.I. Despite the marketing that features explosions and SWAT teams galore (neither of which actually appear in the film) What Doesn't Kill You is a character - driven drama set in the world of petty urban crime.

During two years of doing research, Chenoweth identified 15 schools representing a mixture of grade levels and urban, rural, and suburban settings where students were excelling despite poverty and other obstacles — and where kids were not spending endless hours on reading and math drills.

I've taught in three states from urban to rural settings, and from deep poverty to an area of high affluence.

The figures quoted above about the availability of computers in schools do not provide details about the types and quality of computer technology available to students and teachers in high - poverty urban school settings as opposed to those in more affluent suburban schools.

While many whole - school reform models geared to urban and high - poverty contexts provide excellent professional development for teachers, few provide anything that directly address the needs and experiences for principals in high poverty settings.

Observation of K - 12 academic instruction in a variety of settings (urban, rural, ELL, high - poverty, students w / disabilities),

Teaching students from diverse settings or with specialized needs (urban, rural, ELL, high - poverty, students w / disabilities).

Diverse student teachings experiences including at least two of the following: rural setting, urban setting, ELL students, schools with high - poverty, students with disabilities, instruction on social and emotional learning practices.

Likewise, «there are certainly some teachers in urban, high - poverty settings that are not that good, and we ought to be figuring out ways to either help them get better or get them out of the classroom.

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.»

Artists like Nari Ward, who reclaimed discarded refuse from urban settings, and Gabriel Orozco, a Mexican artist who photographed quotidian scenarios gone slightly awry, achieved prominence for their ambiguously interpretable commentaries on poverty and consumer culture.

From setting up a faith - based urban farming non-profit to their video instructions on how to make biogas with a DIY anaerobic digester, these guys are pushing hard for community - based solutions for hunger, poverty and social exclusion.

Ben Carson, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, became the latest person parroting that line this week saying that people in poverty just have «the wrong mind - set.»