It is hardly surprising that only a minority of
rural children gets into secondary school, and only a small part of that group goes on to higher education.
Not exact matches
«What has worked is copying Coca - Cola's business techniques: create a desirable product, market it like mad, and put the product in a distribution system at a price so that everyone can make a profit,» explains Simon Berry, who started a company to
get medicines treating dehydration to
children in the poorest, most
rural parts of Africa.
So my mother, who had never been out of these little
rural areas, took the nurse's training course, went to Denver, took a room in a crummy section of town, and
got a job as a nurse's aid in
Children's Hospital so she could come in and see me.»
Discover the historical buildings and those men, women and
children who worked in them over a 950 year period as you
get to take a step back in time to learn more about what life was like in
rural West Sussex.
First, we know that in the instruction of world languages, there are not enough teachers, so using technology to give students access to teachers proficient in other areas and other disciplines will be one way we
get at the question, particularly in
rural communities, on how we teach these subjects to all
children.
As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and
rural children were
getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»
Twenty - five percent of
rural children live in poverty, and parents of some 3 million kids say they wish they could afford or
get to after school programs — that's before the cuts he proposes.
«Often we have kids coming to kindergarten who don't know their letters and numbers,» said Cole, explaining that
children in
rural districts who don't have access to pre-K are often cared for by family members and don't always
get the educational supports that are provided by pre-K programs.
After
getting married, they left the city, choosing a
rural, secluded life in which he is a fisherman and trapper, while she tends to their home, which they hope to fill with
children.
Born in a
rural village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a
child, determined to
get an education even though most girls were uneducated.
In
rural Brittany,
children travel by boat, bike or walk through woods to
get to school.
When poor
children are more likely to
get sick and die than
children in wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when
rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.
This is important because it reassures parents that their
children will live in a supervised setting and
get the support they need to adapt to an urban environment that is not always friendly to newcomers from
rural areas.
If parental migration, for such as going to a city or working abroad for employment opportunities is considered as a livelihood strategy that helps
rural workers
get a job and improve their families» living conditions, a potential cost for the psychological well - being of these families»
children due to their separation from parents needs to be taken into account [13].