Sentences with phrase «rural children gets»

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.

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«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].
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