Sentences with phrase «urban and rural areas suffering»

Teach For America, which Mr. Steffensen cites as an example of society's desire for quick private - sector fixes in lieu of politically and fiscally costly systemic reform, is a new national teacher corps that recruits, trains, places, and supports outstanding individuals who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas suffering from persistent teacher shortages.

Not exact matches

Individuals in poor rural areas, as well as in low - income urban communities such as Richmond, Calif., suffer disproportionately from childhood asthma, in part because of inadequate housing, deficient medical care and proximity to multiple sources of air pollution.

Researchers at Western University (London, Canada) have found youth living in rural areas are more likely to sustain concussions from injuries involving motorized vehicles such as all - terrain vehicles and dirt bikes, whereas youth living in urban areas suffer concussions mostly as a result of sports.

In other words, schools in poor urban and rural areas of the country might not suffer from a shortage of teachers in general, but they lack for the quality teachers that Kopp's organization provides.

Energy poverty is suffered both by those on the periphery of sprawling urban areas and by those in remote rural villages.

The challenges are finding a good enough measure of urbanity, dealing with uncertainty in station locations (a problem in many areas outside the U.S., where lat / lon coordinates aren't always accurate), and ensuring that your method doesn't suffer from spatial coverage biases between urban and rural sets (I tend to prefer station pair comparison methods for that reason).