Sentences with phrase «urban children by»

Immediately James» mind began to race, and he began wondering how people of faith could do more to serve urban children by providing them with excellent educational opportunities.

Teach Plus aims to improve outcomes for urban children by ensuring that a greater proportion of students have access to effective, experienced teachers.

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the christians were bad during the crusades, stirred up by Pope Urban II into going and taking land the ROMAN EMPIRE, not christianity, had lost, and these same «holy crusaders», upon taking Jerusalem, massacred men, women, children, muslims, jews, christians, everyone just because they were different.

The ethos of dependency requires direct attention of the kind given by the Urban League and the Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not children they can not support.

The urban poor, many of whom are children of tenants and sharecroppers forced off the land by mechanization, should be offered government assistance to purchase land and training to learn how to work it.

The Urban Glide stroller made by Thule provides enough leg room for tall or older children, but also offers storage space underneath the seat, and a large canopy.

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

Newborn baby clothes still tend to be less influenced by urban style than clothing for toddlers and older children.

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.

Unmarried urban fathers are actively involved in taking care of their children, and they may need more support from the health care system, according to a new study by a Northwestern University pediatrician.

The Atma Jaya Medical Faculty research group looked at the treatment and advice given by physicians for children with acute diarrhoea in a poor and densely populated urban area of Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia).

They opened their first NYC store in 2008, confident their concepts would be appreciated by parents with small children in urban areas.

[1] The state orphanage system designed to care for these children is characterized by a rural / urban dichotomy.

The family services offered by the Broome County Urban League are: Information / Referral, Respite Reimbursement, and an Inclusive After School and Summer Day Program for children ages 5 - 21.

We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag and whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look at the same night sky, and dream the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath by the same almighty creator (CONTRAST, RULE OF THREE, EXAGGERATION AND METAPHOR).

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.

The Department of Mental Health also manages the Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Program for Erie County, and administers Federal and State Grants promoting Service Enhancements for Mentally Ill Children, Drug Free Outpatient Services, Juvenile Delinquent Diversion Services, and McKinney Homeless Mentally Ill Supported Housing funded by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).

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.

The Urban league is contracted by the Department of Social Services to provide preventive services that focus on vulnerable children who may be on the verge of heading into the foster care system.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

and «Availability of Car Seats Offered by Taxi Companies in Urban U.S. Cities» at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting in Baltimore on May 1 and May 2 to shed light on how this legal exemption affects whether children are properly restrained while riding in taxis.

Even when allowed two children, couples prefer one child, with my research showing that this attitude has been reinforced by the urban conditions that families are forced to adjust to and policies that are not family - friendly.

«Injuries caused by firearms differ in rural or urban settings: Teens in urban areas more likely to be victims of firearm assault, while children in rural settings are more likely to experience accidental injuries.»

Children in urban areas should «see the lands that they own, that have been bequeathed to them by prior generations,» Roosevelt said.

Using a multistate database called the State Inpatient and Emergency Department Databases, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the researchers looked at 958 hospitals admitting children, which were mostly large or medium - sized, and urban.

According to the 2007 National Survey of Childrens Health, conducted by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, 16.5 % of rural kids are obese, compared with 14.4 % of urban children.

By Denise Mann MONDAY, July 20, 2009 (Health.com)-- There may be a reason why children's asthma rates are so high in urban areas.

Knock once to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead...» So goes a disturbing urban legend involving an abandoned house supposedly inhabited by a vengeful, child - stealing witch.

The organization chosen by the cast include Brave Beginnings (Zoë Saldana), Camp Sunshine (Anton Yelchin), Direct Relief (Zachary Qunito), Heaven Homes (Idris Elba), KidsCan (Karl Urban), Korean Youth & Community Center (John Cho), Make - A-Wish (Chris Pine), Time Is Precious (Simon Pegg) and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Susan Nimoy in honor of Leonard Nimoy).

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.

An adorable animated adaptation of Gabrielle Vincent's popular children's book, «Ernest & Celestine» depicts a world of bears and mice where the two species have a lifelong fear of one another propagated by urban legends and fairy stories.

More New Releases: «Hangman,» about a homicide detective who teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman, starring Al Pacino and Karl Urban; and «Just Getting Started,» about an ex-FBI agent and an ex-mob lawyer in the witness protection program having to put aside their petty rivalry on the golf course to fend off a mob hit, starring Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo, and Joe Pantoliano.

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.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

African American students, students who qualify for free / reduced lunch (i.e. poor students), students living in relatively high - poverty areas, and students attending urban schools are all more likely to be investigated by Child Protective Services for suspected child maltreatChild Protective Services for suspected child maltreatchild maltreatment.

Research by the Urban Institute and others reveals the deep and irreversible harm that parental deportation causes in the lives of their children.

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.

The disconnect between real life and the high school experience and the absence of any real connection to peers and teachers causes many students on the margins to give up: More than 30 percent of U.S. students who enter high school never finish, according to a recent report by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project, the Urban Institute, Advocates for Children of New York, and the Civil Society Institute.

Deporting Parents Hurts Kids New York Times, April 20, 2012 «Research by the Urban Institute and others reveals the deep and irreversible harm that parental deportation causes in the lives of their children.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

«Urban daughters born under China's one - child policy have benefited from the demographic pattern produced by that policy,» Fong writes in her 2002 paper, «China's One - Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters.&rchild policy have benefited from the demographic pattern produced by that policy,» Fong writes in her 2002 paper, «China's One - Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters.&rChild Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters.»

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

But these children will also need great schools led by amazing educators, and urban charter schools are among the most cost - effective way to provide these children the schools that they deserve.

One finds little variation in the degree of satisfaction with charter schools by region: across the country, more than 60 percent of parents in urban, suburban, and rural communities say they are very satisfied with the charter school that their child is attending.

Some urban schools have found that student's grades and engagement increase simply by having the teacher and the principal greet the children, every morning.

While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.

Since many of these parents chose public schools for their children, the number of new suburban Catholic schools fell far short of the number of urban Catholic schools emptied by the exodus.

Inspired by their passion for children and by a shared desire to improve the lives of children living in urban poverty, Michael and Susan Dell established their Austin, Texas - based foundation in 1999.

This suit attacking the Texas system of financing public education was initiated by Mexican - American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary [p5] schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, Texas.