Sentences with phrase «urban phenomenon»

Through secondary analysis, CPE found that mayoral takeovers are «a rare, and largely urban phenomenon,» and out of more than 13,000 school districts in the U.S., only about 20 have come under formal mayoral control in the last 20 years.

As a case in point, today's rapidly growing evangelical megachurches are almost entirely urban phenomena.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

This process of upper - class gay gentrification and inevitable displacement of lower - income residents became a national urban phenomenon (Lauria and Knopp, 1985).

In addition, gun violence in America is primarily a problem of gangs, which are an urban phenomenon, and therefore is reflected in the politics of gun control.

In an effort to understand why severe leptospirosis is such an urban phenomenon in this part of the world, Joe Vinetz, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues have been studying the disease in and around Iquitos.

In this made - for - TV farce, the urban phenomenon of the traffic jam and the effect it has on the lives of the participants is examined.

Urban Phenomenon But in too many primary schools there is a tendency to think that cyberbullying does not affect their pupil community, especially in rural areas where some explained to the Cybersurvey that they saw «Cyberbullying as an urban phenomenon».

The high - school movement was not just an urban phenomenon.

The curator would like to acknowledge the inspirational exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Sense of the City, which explored the theme of urban phenomena and perceptions that have traditionally been ignored, repressed or maligned.

Douglas Crimp has called Modernism a creation of yet another urban phenomenon, the museum.

Modernism is usually considered an urban phenomenon, but this show focuses on American artists from the 1920s to the 1940s who got out of town and brought a sophisticated sensibility to rural landscapes, people, and the problems of the times.

Sites, scenery, and urban phenomena are the loci at which incidents are recorded and vividly remembered by Handa.

Plus, the Aedes aegypti spread is largely an urban phenomenon.