Sentences with phrase «urban minority children»

To the extent that it persuades people to avoid reforms that change school incentives in favor of ever - increasing school spending, Jonathan Kozol's work is an impediment to the very thing that he claims to desire most: a day when urban minority children receive an acceptable education.

The gap between Catholic - school students and public - school students was largest among urban minority children.

It affects a disproportionally higher percentage of low - income, urban minority children, and is also the most common disease - related reason for children missing school.

«New school - based program helps reduce absentee rate for urban minority children with asthma.»

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Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.

At the same time, schools remain heavily segregated - particularly across district lines - with most minority children heavily concentrated in certain urban districts.

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».

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

A sector densely concentrated in urban areas, where a minority of the voting populace has children in those schools and statewide political reach is limited.

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.»

Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in dysfunctional and failing urban school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»

And this is as true for children in our suburban schools — where one out of every four fourth - graders are functionally illiterate — as it is for our poorest and minority kids in urban and rural communities.

In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to urban, suburban, and rural districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.

In other words, these people are using meaningless data to arrive at huge policy decisions at the expense of the education of our children, particularly urban (minority) children!

* Chronic absenteeism disproportionally affects minority children and children living in poverty, no matter whether in a rural, suburban, or urban district.

Among the characteristics shared by urban schools include large class sizes, social and disciplinary problems, a large percentage of poor and minority children, and little involvement from parents compared to their suburban counterparts.

Shep's groundbreaking longitudinal study of African American children growing up in the Woodlawn area of Chicago was among the first community studies to identify risk factors for negative health and behavioral outcomes in an urban, minority population.

Simplistic «pro- «and «anti- «teacher rhetoric is distracting from efforts to improve teacher quality, especially in schools serving urban, minority children.

a national Minority Sprint BSP Partner will explain their program «One Aircard, One Child, One Dream Program» (O3P) and the role it is playing in helping bridge the Digital Divide for Urban Schools in (11) States.

A minority child in an impoverished urban community may have the choice to go to this or that «academy» in a school choice model, but he / she will still have no choice but to attend a segregated, racialized school.

as long as those policies only apply to children who are attending urban schools that serve our minority and poor students.

With these standards, minority children in urban areas will have to be taught the same thing in the same way as white children in the suburbs.

Rural, suburban, urban, gifted, special education, English language learner, poor, minority — it simply doesn't matter... When we as adults do our job and give them opportunities to succeed, all of our children can be extraordinarily successful.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

The school's primary research interest, however, is urban education, and through research on this topic the School has launched two world - famous programs: KIDS (Kids Integrated Data System), a data collection system to improve educational services of children; and EPIC (Evidence - based Program for the Integration of Curricula), a comprehensive early childhood program for children from underserved, minority urban populations.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

The success of high - quality charter schools serving mostly - minority children in those urban communities (where the schools tend to also be segregated thanks to pernicious zip code education policies) also proves lie to the idea of integration as school reform.

Significant investments may be required to ensure that power generation keeps up with rising demand associated with rising temperatures.38, 39 Finally, vulnerability to heat waves is not evenly distributed throughout urban areas; outdoor versus indoor air temperatures, air quality, baseline health, and access to air conditioning are all dependent on socioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educational attainment).

Measuring adverse experiences is important for urban economically distressed children, who, in addition to experiencing poverty as an adversity, may be subjected to the experiences of abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction, along with a host of other stressors, including community violence, discrimination, and peer victimization.9, 37 The large percentage of racial minorities comprising low - income urban populations makes having an understanding of cultural norms key to conceptualizing adversity in these communities.

Predictors of Treatment Engagement in Ethnically Diverse, Urban Children Receiving Treatment for Trauma Exposure Fraynt, Ross, Baker, Rystad, Lee, & Briggs (2014) Journal of Traumatic Stress View Abstract Presents a study that examined whether racial / ethnic disparities exist in treatment duration and completion in minority children seeking treatment for trauma exposure from a child abuse prevention and treatment agency in southern CalChildren Receiving Treatment for Trauma Exposure Fraynt, Ross, Baker, Rystad, Lee, & Briggs (2014) Journal of Traumatic Stress View Abstract Presents a study that examined whether racial / ethnic disparities exist in treatment duration and completion in minority children seeking treatment for trauma exposure from a child abuse prevention and treatment agency in southern Calchildren seeking treatment for trauma exposure from a child abuse prevention and treatment agency in southern California.

This article describes a 22 - week family intervention program, specifically designed to prevent antisocial behavior in urban, minority children.

Lower levels of family routine may confer risk for ODD symptoms among low - income, urban, ethnic - minority children experiencing higher levels of HI.

To address this gap, we tested whether child - reported family routine moderated the relation between child hyperactivity / impulsivity (HI) and ODD symptoms among a sample of low - income, urban, ethnic - minority children (N = 87, 51 % male).