Sentences with phrase «urban children as»

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Whether they're hauling parcels or children, cargo bikes are becoming a familiar sight in German cities as the nippy, clean alternative to cars and delivery vans — and shaking up urban transport in the process.

It's time to quit treating volunteers as spoiled children, and get them out of fancy hotels and into tents and dirt - floored chapels in the countryside and urban barrios.

This isn't necessary at all as the all - around Thule Urban Sport Glide Stroller will help you to transport your loveliest child safely, easily and in style no matter whatever the season and wherever you want to go.

As a side note, I was also fortunate enough to be exposed to a fair amount of diversity as a child (international background, family outside of the U.S., urban schooling for some time), and I've lived abroad for the past 5 yearAs a side note, I was also fortunate enough to be exposed to a fair amount of diversity as a child (international background, family outside of the U.S., urban schooling for some time), and I've lived abroad for the past 5 yearas a child (international background, family outside of the U.S., urban schooling for some time), and I've lived abroad for the past 5 years.

Purchase the Urban Nomad Bassinet ($ 269) for a carrying option for newborns and infants — or the stroller step - up board ($ 89) to transport an older child as well.

These days, Ed tends an «urban farm» in D.C., works as a personal chef for clients with special needs, and teaches «food appreciation» to school children.

Heralded as a major innovation in pediatric medicine, the mission of the hospital ship was to take ill urban children out onto the harbor to experience the healing qualities of fresh sea air and sunshine.

One study of kids living in highly - stressed urban settings found that parents who identified themselves as practitioners of positive discipline were more likely to have children who were stress - resilient (Wyman et al 1991).

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

According to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, there are 23.5 million Americans — including 6.5 million children — who live in rural and urban areas across the country who lack access to convenient and affordable nutritious foods known as «food deserts.»

And as your child outgrows the infant car seat and the carriage, the Urban transforms to a full - feature toddler stroller for children up to 50 lbs.

In a subsequent interview, Gehl said he thought the absence of children on London's streets was not only surprising, but worrying, as it evinced a narrowing of the urban «public».

So, overall, Cuomo and his cronies come off as petulant children who can't handle dissent without calling it an attack, don't care about the opinions of local representatives or urban democrats, and aren't doing anything to develop leadership among their base.

De Blasio, who was a deputy under Cuomo in the Clinton administration's department of Housing and Urban Development, needs the governor to fund many of his agenda items, such as certain Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and his signature political goal of expanding pre-kindergarten to every child by next year.

White sees a military school as an opportunity to open doors that are often closed to children in an urban setting.

«We don't need hindsight to see that moving this facility, to the same campus as adult psychiatric patients, downtown in a busy urban environment, will be a colossal mistake and detrimental to the health and well being of children seeking these valuable services,» Kearns said in a statement.

As our Charlotte Keith first reported, and an audit released last week by Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw subsequently confirmed, the Urban League has been overcharging Erie County for services that include working with families to prevent child abuse.

«With community - based organizations as our partners, AAAS is able to bring Science in the Summer to children in urban, rural, and suburban locations in the greater DC metro area and now across the United States.»

As the DEP's first Environmental Justice Administrator, she discovered that Newark's poor African - American and Hispanic preschool children experienced higher incidents of asthma than those in most other New Jersey urban centers.

Housing problems such as overcrowding, damp and mildew are linked to recurrent gastrointestinal infection in Aboriginal children in urban New South Wales, according to Australian researchers.

The programs at Muddy Boot Prints offer children an opportunity to experience nature within Vancouvers urban environment, learn how to become environmental stewards as well as to learn about becoming socially responsible to our surrounding communities.

Rather, this is a flick designed to be appreciated for its more subtle moments, those evocative interludes shared by the virtually abandoned child and his sensitive au pair as they perambulate the urban exoskeleton of an enchantingly - framed City of Light.

Telling signs are in the small details: the steadily expanding suburbs as the urban CBDs slowly depopulated, the spliff - toting Boomer couple reluctant to discipline their children yet having to cope with new parental responsibilities, the Sony television and so on.

In Ingmar Bergman's feature directing debut, urban beauty - shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen - year - old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her.

What stories or urban myths did you hear as a child that made you afraid?

Comic drama based on a true story and starring Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee, a recently widowed father of two teenage children who decides to make a new start by selling the family home and buying a small urban zoo.

Children of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban InChildren of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Inchildren in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Institute.

Her organization's recent report about the state's nearly 500,000 rural children suggests that many are dealing with challenges as difficult as those of kids in urban areas.

I had such fun teaching this unit, as we delivered it as a whole learning journey, where the children studied graffiti and urban art, too, and we visited the local skate parks, did skating angles etc in maths.

Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

Kamras: I wish people knew — and believed unequivocally — that children in urban schools are just as capable as any other children in this nation.

To run an effective afterschool program for adolescent urban youth, for example, teachers and mentors need to understand the specific challenges of adolescent development as well as cultural variations in child - adult relationships.

They would have been built in a handful of urban communities, where 32,000 children, a majority black and Latino, were sitting on waiting lists of existing charters as they languished in underperforming district schools.

As the tuition grant proposal was aimed primarily at improving education for poor black children, the black - led coalition could not avoid being accused of promoting urban black interests at the expense of rural and suburban areas.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

The CORE Districts are a collaboration of large urban school districts in California that began measuring social - emotional skills, including Growth Mindset, as part of an innovative multiple - measures data system under a No Child Left Behind flexibility request.

Tyack & Cuban: «Reformers expected the kindergarten to be a cure for urban social evils as well as a model of education for young children... When public sponsorship took the place of private, an early casualty was the outreach program that sent kindergarten teachers into the homes of the pupils.»

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

Few would argue with the need, as Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League, says, to «know whether or not children are learning, and whether they're performing on grade level or better or way below.»

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

What is required of urban or suburban school districts to meet the educational, as well as the social - emotional needs, of these children?

Kozol's uniquely passionate take on urban schools and urban schoolchildren has been documented in such books as Death at an Early Age and, more recently, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

The MPCP was established in 1990 as the first urban education reform in the U.S. built around the idea of permitting parents to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing at government expense.

Despite the best intentions of philanthropists and politicians, big money and big data will not save urban education, as long as reform efforts are undemocratic and overlook the realities of poor children's lives.

While Noguera's initiative bore a strong resemblance to the Harlem Children's Zone, in its holistic philosophy toward urban education as well as in its name, it differed in one salient aspect: Global Village worked in district schools, not charters.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwidAs the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwidas the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

As Elaine Maag at the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center puts it, the proposed increase in the Child Tax Credit under the Framework would «provide no additional benefit for very low - income families; roughly replace the Framework's proposal to repeal personal exemptions for most middle - income families; and slightly increase taxes for higher income families.»

To them, whether children received their vaccinations, proper dental care, and a warm, encouraging oasis amid the chaos of urban life seemed just as important.