Sentences with phrase «toughest neighborhoods of our cities»

Mastering sound teaching techniques «will be far more productive than being firm of convictions, committed to a strategy, and, in the end, beaten by the reality of what lies inside the classroom door in the toughest neighborhoods of our cities and towns,» says Lemov.

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That side springs from his being from the «neighborhoods,» from the row houses of the tough, well - integrated Oakland district of inner - city Pittsburgh.

St. Bonaventure School is in the Fairhill section of the city, a tough neighborhood where parents have worked together in the past to drive away drug dealers and prostitutes from nearby streets.

The school sits in the midst of one of New York City's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, the same neighborhood where former principal Patrick F. Daly was killed in the crossfire of a drug - related gun battle in 1992.

In one of the city's toughest neighborhoods, where nine in 10 students are poor enough for subsidized meals, Harrity was among the city's lowest performing.