Sentences with phrase «saw urban poor»

I saw urban poor kids who were coming to school early and staying late to care for and measure the brown trout fingerlings they were raising in an aquarium in a Brooklyn classroom kept chilled with an improvised cooling system made of an old refrigerator by a custodian.

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The northern portion (places north of Interstate 287 / Cross Westchester Expressway - also) is seen as rural and wealthy; the southern portion (White Plains and south) is considered urban and poor.

Urban rotely plays a character we've seen a million times, Minka Kelly fails to convince as a detective, and poor Mackenzie Crook, late of the original The Office and some marvelous stage work, is stuck playing yet another nerdy lab geek.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

For more information see: Race Class & Opt Out and Urban Opt Out Statistics in NY State and our videos of the event: A Standardized Test Is A Poor Substitute For Justice

But what we continue to see in DC is that white students score well above both national and urban district averages for their race; black, Hispanic and poor children score well below national averages for their races and classes.

Of course, the reformers don't really care about the education of poor children — they see the lure of school choice and charter schools as the bait for parents frustrated by the systemic defunding of their local public schools, especially in urban centers, and who are desperate for any option that promises a better alternative.

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Many critics see these objects as evocative of the desperation of the poor, Black urban class, but Hammons reportedly saw a sort of sacrosanct or ritualistic power in these materials, which is why he utilized them so extensively.

Timothy Chase writes in 142: Of course contrarians will point out that instruments at poorer sites will have a bias, but as tamino (# 91) points out, this bias is corrected for, and it is quite possible that given the methodology employed, removing the urban sites would actually result in a higher average temperature, and as Hansen points out (see tamino's first reference in # 93), the bias introduced by urban sites is quite negligible.

Here's where I expect to see innovation in the 21st century: among the poor and dispossessed, in urban favelas and rural villages, as they string together low - cost, fault - tolerant DER networks, establish new markets and financial practices, and take some control over their own fate.

Next to food security, urban agriculture contributes to local economic development, poverty alleviation and social inclusion of the urban poor and women in particular, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of urban wastes (see below for further explanations and examples).

It is quite hard to believe that creeping urbanization and poor site locations, as documented for example here, really net to a cooling bias rather than a warming bias (also see Steve McIntyre's recut of the Peterson urban data here).

Whatever the contribution from urban warming and poor station siting, it's quite small compared to the temperature extremes we've been seeing this year.

I was disappointed to see the poor awareness of the insurance ombudsman; just about 6 % of urban households know of it.

Overall, Hordaland county is considered representative of Norway with regards to gender and rural / urban residence distribution, and the median household income is also similar to that of the national average.37 In the period 2005 — 2010, the mean proportion of children characterised as being relative poor (see details below) in Hordaland county was slightly lower (7.3 %) than in the country as a whole (8.9 %).

«However it would be beneficial for similar programs to be offered to more people in those communities most at risk — such as families, elders and clinicians and then rolled out to other urban and regional areas where we also see a high prevalence of poor mental health in the Aboriginal population.