Sentences with phrase «predominantly urban one»

A standard interview was conducted with 47 pediatricians who work in primary care settings in a predominantly urban setting in North Carolina.

But in Hardline «s predominantly urban jungles, non-violent resolutions are an option just as frequently.

The AG found Uber to be predominantly an urban transportation company not a platform or app.

The stations used are predominantly urban and affected by the urban heat island effect (UHIE), this means the temperatures from the two regions are higher in summer and winter.

All high - income nations are predominantly urban and increasing urbanization levels are strongly associated with economic growth.

Termed an outsider artist, a vernacular artist, and a folk artist, among other labels, Dial, who was African American, was one of just a few self - taught artists who, over the past century, began making art well beyond the borders of the predominantly urban, white mainstream art world but who would eventually find a form of success within it.

Approximately 575 of the country's school districts are considered to be predominantly urban.

This is probably one of my favorite kinds of outfits to wear as it fuses a bit of luxe (the bracelet and shoes) with a look that's predominantly urban and casual.

The program serves the city of London and Middlesex County, a predominantly urban catchment area of approximately 390,000.

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

CLA Midlands regional director Caroline Bedell added; «This should be a «must read» for all candidates, both urban and rural, because it will help them ensure that the countryside is not disadvantaged by predominantly urban - based legislation and that it will remain a dynamic, thriving place for those who come to visit and for those who live and to work there.

And if you're predominantly an urban walker, check out strollers with a tight enough turning radius to navigate crowded sidewalks or the subway.

The prospects for real breakthroughs in religious unity seemed excellent at the very time that America was becoming a predominantly urban nation.

Coupled with the industrialization of production in factories, this brought a radical shift in people's lives, from a predominantly rural existence to a predominantly urban one, first in Europe and later elsewhere.

In Pakistan, respondents were predominantly urban and the sampling error was 3 percentage points.

It would appear the administration may have conceived of a methodology meant to create angst for immigrants and, ultimately, result in an undercount of their numbers, adversely impacting predominantly urban areas within the United States.

Not exact matches

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

The fact that Tunisia is quite urban relative to many other predominantly Muslim countries may also be a factor as it is economically harder to maintain a larger family in an urban environment.

The Tamale Metro Assembly has two big constituencies, the Tamale Central which is urban and the Tamale South Constituency which is predominantly rural.

The Commission found that these missing voters are predominantly young and from lower income groups, and are mainly to be found in urban (and predominantly Labour) areas.

He said a 75 - block urban core of the city, deeply impoverished and predominantly black, accounts for a majority of crimes in the entire county.

He says that the «key point is that the urban pollution cloud comprises predominantly small acidic particles... which penetrate indoors and persist for long periods in air, whereas industrial dust clouds consist mainly of much larger particles».

During our tests we found the profiles coming predominantly from Rural areas despite we being in an Urban area.

The rest of «Freedomland» deals with what happens when the urban housing projects of Dempsy, N.J. — the town in which the alleged crime took place — are sealed off by the police of the neighboring, predominantly white town, Gannon, as a way of smoking out the perpetrator.

Into the 1970s, urban education reform focused predominantly on making sure that African American students had the opportunity to attend school with their white peers.

A demographic shift in urban areas away from predominantly Catholic immigrant populations has affected demand.

As is common for large urban school districts, the student body of Baltimore city's schools is predominantly minority and poor.

These CMOs operate exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serving predominantly low - income, high - need students (see Figure 1).

Dubbed «charter school deserts,» these areas are predominantly located in urban and rural settings and represent populations of students in most need of alternative school options.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

The schools in the study were located in or near large urban areas with predominantly low - income minority student populations.

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

And even if urban Catholic schools were to overhaul their personnel and organizational structures and re-invigorate their advocacy apparatus, they would still need to address the same questions that have dogged them for the last two generations: How can schools with increasing costs survive when they serve predominantly low - income students, and when they rely exclusively on tuition and private contributions for income?

While there have always been examples of highly successful vocational programs and schools in both urban and rural America, there have also been notorious examples of vocational schools serving predominantly disadvantaged young people that led only to dead - end jobs.

They show the contrasts we would expect between a high school in an urban and predominantly black school district, and one in a suburban, predominantly white, and middle - class county.

To help fill this gap, we studied five urban schools in the northeast that serve predominantly black student bodies and include critical consciousness development in their mission.

Marcey Sorensen, EdD Urban Education Leadership» 14, works with teachers at Roberto Clemente High School to create college immersion experiences for the school's predominantly Latino, first - generation college prospective students.

Once predominantly white and affluent suburban school systems, for example, are increasingly confronted with a host of demographic issues formerly associated primarily with urban districts.

[A majority of low - achieving students] attend... academically diverse classes in large, urban public schools attended predominantly by students in poverty.

Fact 6: While charter schools are predominantly located in urban areas, charter schools, on average, are more racially / ethnically diverse * than their traditional district school counterparts (comparative districts).

The four partner school districts included a small district on an Indian reservation 120 miles from the University, a small district just off another Indian reservation 150 miles from the University, a medium - sized district serving predominantly Hispanic students 190 miles from the University, and a large urban district 325 miles from the University.

The author, a high school language arts teacher, describes her move to a high - needs urban school after 13 years teaching in predominantly middle - class suburban schools.

Muhammed Akil, Parent Coalition for Excellent Education (PC2E) Executive Director added: «Today's so - called protest held by supporters of the troubled educational status quo was yet another example critics from predominantly suburban communities with excellent educational options for their children trying to limit high quality choices for parents in urban communities whose districts have too often failed to provide them adequate options.

In addition, urban districts with students most likely to benefit from class integration serve predominantly poor and minority students, with middle - and upper - class families in short supply or opting for private education.

So, KIPP's high - intensity approach won't work for most students, but that doesn't change the fact that the students who apply and remain are predominantly from lower - income families living in urban areas.»

«What's truly noteworthy about Santa Ana students» math proficiency is that we're seeing remarkable results at the scale of a large urban district — not just one high - achieving class or school — where the predominantly Hispanic student body has closed the achievement gap,» said Andrew R. Coulson, President of the MIND Education Division in a written statement.

Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low - income, minority youth in MassachuUrban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low - income, minority youth in Massachuurban charter schools serving predominantly low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts

The children were from predominantly low to middle income urban families with at least 60 % of them eligible for free and reduced lunch.