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Developmental and family milieu correlates of resilience in urban children who have experienced major life stress.Am J Community Psychol.

Koinis - Mitchell is the principal investigator of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health that examines the co-occurrence of sleep quality and academic performance in urban children who have asthma and allergic rhinitis, as well as healthy children.

In «Young and Innocent», Hill combines folk artist's depictions of children as innocents in bucolic settings in a series of portraits of urban children who have embraced modern living influences including materialism, consumerism and drug use.

Not exact matches

A major deterrent to the reformation of the city's economic base is the unwillingness of those who can afford to do otherwise to subject their children to the inadequacy of urban schools.

«Parents could begin with a discussion of current events and the news, reading children's books about important historical figures who have championed social equalities, encouraging children to participate in small acts to conserve water and resources, and visits to urban and rural areas,» she says.

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.

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).

From studies on socio - economically disadvantaged children in large urban areas — kids who are so hungry that they eat paint and dirt, and whose homes are crumbling around them, exposing layers of lead paint.

Inclusion criteria: «all pregnant women aged between 12 to 49 years old, who are residents of community units in Korogocho and Viwandani slums that fall within the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) area, and their respective children (when born)».

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.»

Orphanages are located in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.

No, no, no says Assemblywoman Pat Fahy, a Democrat from Albany, who hopes to bring CMOST to her city's downtown and argues an urban location is best for the widest range of children.

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.

WHO: Senator Jeff Klein; Anthony Ross, Children's Corner; Miguel Calderon, Urban Health Plan; Andy Muniz, Griffin Security Inc.; Tanya Thompson, Employment Specialist; jobs candidates.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is set to reward school children who partake in the assembly's «Me and my tree competition», which forms part of the Kumasi Urban Forestry Project.

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.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

The team conducted a randomized controlled feasibility trial among adults attending newborn well - child visits at an urban Philadelphia pediatric primary care clinic who were not previously vaccinated with Tdap.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who attended eight high - poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.

«Children and adolescents who live in homeless shelters, are victims of abuse or neglect or live in urban or rural areas where access to high - quality food is difficult, are thought to be at increased risk for undernutrition.»

Previous studies show that in many low - income urban areas, mouse allergens — proteins found primarily in the animals» urine that trigger allergic symptoms — are present in the homes of nearly all children who have asthma, says Matsui.

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

«The Hangman» centers on decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Pacino) who partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game... Hangman, while journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives.

Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of the child's game Hangman, while journalist Christi Davies (Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives.

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.

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.

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.

Pacino will portray a decorated homicide detective and Urban will play a criminal profiler who collaborate to catch a serial killer who's terrorizing a city with a macabre version of the children's game Hangman.

I like the definition that Elena Aguilar uses in «Deeper Learning Means Educational Equity in Urban Schools»: Equity means that «every child gets what they needs in our schools — every child regardless of where they come from, what they look like, who their parents are, what their temperament is, or what they show up knowing or not knowing.»

«Arts education enables those children from a financially challenged background to have a more level playing field with children who have had those enrichment experiences,» says Eric Cooper, president and founder of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.

«I am coming back to active leadership because I have missed my passion — the on the ground battle for our children who attend urban public schools.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

People who flee from urban education ills thinking that their children will get a top world - class education in the suburbs may be disappointed.

The fact is that reforming urban schools is an issue of social justice: there are too many children in cities across the U.S. who are denied the opportunity to have a high - quality education, and these inequities run strongly along lines of race and class.

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.

That children who grew up in his poor, urban neighborhood never graduated, much less went to college, was a given, Mr. Oates said.

Asked about the difference between urban and suburban charter parents, Patterson replied, «In the inner city, parents first want a school that's safe, where their children won't get hurt or shot and hopefully will be around adults who care about them.

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.

Similar findings were reported in the Plowden Report in England, which compared children from the informal schools of rural areas with children who attended the more formal schools of urban centers.

In both urban and rural communities, 64 percent of parents say they are «very satisfied» with their child's charter school, compared to 54 percent of urban parents and 56 percent of rural parents who say they are «very satisfied» with their child's assigned - district school.

-LSB-...] big battles over school vouchers in American education have focused on programs serving low - income children who live in urban areas.

More suburban public school parents anticipate that their child will go to a four - year college full time (57 %) than parents who live in urban areas (45 %) or rural areas (38 %).

«We are pleased that our findings about what makes these urban charter schools successful and the challenges that remain have the potential to inform the work of many who seek to improve on educational outcomes for children.»

«NSBA presents the Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award to individuals who demonstrate long - standing commitment to the educational needs of urban school children,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.

For example, IDEA supported local communities that were developing and implementing early childhood programs; schools serving students with low - incidence disabilities, such as children who are blind or deaf or children with autism or traumatic brain injury; and schools in rural or large urban areas, where financial and other resources are often scarce.

«It's more important for us to be an advocate for those things we think are in the best interest long - term for black children than to worry about a relationship [between] two institutions,» said Fair, who became the Urban League's Miami chapter CEO in 1963 at age 24.

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public schools, based on test scores and non-test indicators, in 50 mid - and large - sized cities.

In addition to her work as a legislator who fought tirelessly for the children she now serves, she is also a Broad Fellow and is among an elite group of individuals who lead some of the nation's largest urban districts and charter school networks.