Sentences with phrase «societal problems of poverty»

New York Times Magazine editor Tough profiles an ambitious effort to simultaneously address the seemingly eternal societal problems of poverty, class stratification, educational underachievement and racial discrimination.

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And again, while there are other pressing societal problems affecting the country's schools, like child poverty and infrastructure and funding (to say nothing of what or how students are taught), so far much of the debate has focused on these teacher evaluations.

Many societal problems exist, such as violence, drugs, broken homes, poverty, economic crises and a variety of other woes.

It's a societal problem imposed on schools, in effect increasing the likelihood of failure — or at best sporadic success — for most high poverty schools.

We foresee that it may be possible, through a massive investment of effort and energy into this enterprise, and probably not without it, to overcome age - old societal problems including violence, cruelty, war and the threat of war, poverty, and the pervasiveness of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.