Hence, many believe it their right to live in isolation from
the problems of urban poverty.
It was a compelling literary attempt to address the more undesirable impacts of industrialism, namely
the problems of urban poverty and widening social inequalities.
Not exact matches
I had always been interested in the issue
of urban poverty — when you live in New York City, it's impossible to ignore — but it looked like one
of those social
problems without a real solution.
«Whatever It Takes is easily the most compelling and potentially the most important book on the
problem of poverty in
urban America in years.
«The funny thing is, particularly in the
urban center, the
problems that are facing Syracuse are the
problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about
poverty — trying to lift families out
of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.
One day, Edward Banfield brought in as guest lecturer to his
Urban Problems course a young assistant labor secretary from Washington named Moynihan to talk about LBJ's new War on
Poverty — my first glimpse
of the man who would become my most important mentor and teacher.
While rural and
urban schools share certain challenges, including the devastating effects
of poverty on school children, there are myriad other
problems specific to rural schools, which is why applying an
urban model and
urban solutions to rural schools simply doesn't work.
In the United States, the
problem is most obvious in high
poverty urban schools, where boys are losing sight
of the girls.
We heard similar criticisms about the effectiveness
of state support - system interventions for low - performing schools in one
of our large, high -
poverty, low - performing
urban school districts — where (again) the district developed no plan for systematic intervention to ameliorate the
problem.
The success
of these programs provides a clue to the root
problem of low achievement in so many
urban areas:
Poverty didn't keep these children from performing better, failing schools did.
Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense
of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies
of scale but are kept open «due to
urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning
problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from
poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.
Even supporters
of Obama can not claim that the
problem of unsafe schools with mayhem in classrooms that characterizes the
poverty public schools in
urban areas is outside the educational arena.
These education reformers really seem to believe that the
problem facing
urban schools is not primarily the level
of poverty, language barriers or the significant number
of students who require special education services, but the «quality»
of the teachers.
Indeed, in our time
of instant communication, «
problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience
of those with power: thus the
problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.
problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian
Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.
Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American
Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.
Problem»; the so - called
Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.
Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth
Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.
Problem» by denizens
of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White
Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.
Problem into its opposite: a Black
Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.
Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation
of our own present state
of affairs as the «Woman
Problem.
Problem.»