Sentences with phrase «urban poor most»

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Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

He goes on to describe recent debates about the homeless and the underclass, meaning the most disordered of the urban poor.

In wealthier urban and suburban areas, most voters will be online and a majority will have broadband access, but even in far - flung rural areas or poorer parts of cities email at least is usually available.

It is the fourth poorest region in the country despite its agriculture, fishing and the high level of brisk business which goes on in one of its towns, which is arguably the most expanding urban area in West Africa, Kasoa.

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.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

Students in urban schools where most of the children are poor fare worst of all.

Most of the 12 municipalities and school districts that last month filed a lawsuit challenging the Ocean State's school finance system are neither among the state's poorest nor its most urMost of the 12 municipalities and school districts that last month filed a lawsuit challenging the Ocean State's school finance system are neither among the state's poorest nor its most urmost urban.

State officials have begun auditing 25 districts, most of which are in poor urban areas.

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.»

The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most of the cases to the relevant years in which the court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial decreases in later years; and their use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the court orders covered only a subset of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.

Since most parents in urban districts are poor, we need a plentiful supply of well - funded vouchers, education tax credits, and tuition - free charter schools.

Most urban Catholic schools were originally built to educate the children of European immigrants; today, they mostly serve poor African American and Latino students.

What is annoying, to say the least, is that despite these difficult economic times, and while we're making a special effort to invest in our poorest, most challenged urban school districts, we've got school administrators like Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski who begin by hiring consultants and laying off the very Connecticut residents who have been working so hard to make a difference.

Among the texts most often assigned were Jonathan Kozol's «Savage Inequalities,» an indictment of schooling in poor urban neighborhoods, and writings by Paulo Freire, who advocates education to achieve political liberation.

But the Sutton Trust said it was concerned that this would have «little impact on the country's most prestigious universities outside the country's major urban areas», because of the low numbers of the poorest students attending them.

In addition, urban districts with students most likely to benefit from class integration serve predominantly poor and minority students, with middle - and upper - class families in short supply or opting for private education.

Its 40 or so schools, scattered across north - eastern cities such as Boston and New York, serve the urban poor, which means, for the most part, African - Americans.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is a new annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

In the report, the researchers point out that most of the schools that are failing in terms of achievement are public schools that serve poor and racial minority students in urban areas.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1, 2011 — The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today a new annual award to honor the public charter management organization that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement among the country's largest urban charter management organizations in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

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 position of black middle class families is often lost when discussing the intersections between race and class; most of the discourse surrounding socioeconomic statuses is based on the dichotomy between rich and poor, suburban and urban, and black and white.

Most compact EVs are weighted toward urban operation, but the Smart's ultra compact design and low range make it especially poor for highway hauls, but well - suited for the city.

The first and most obvious is the hideous, grungy urban art direction the game has going on, with poor quality textures, models and level details all - round.

Differences between the temperature anomaly products is related to: different selections of input data, different methods for assessing urban heating effects, and (most important) different methodologies for estimating temperatures in data - poor regions like the Arctic.

The countervailing forces are the ideas of telecommuting, the constrained nature of urban cores and that effect on housing costs and the problematic concerns of crime and poor schools in most urban areas.

The most affected populations are the urban poor — i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries — who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.

«The city is dominated by fossil fuel - powered cars.The elite still gets around, but most urban dwellers face poor transport infrastructure.»

«However it would be beneficial for similar programs to be offered to more people in those communities most at risk — such as families, elders and clinicians and then rolled out to other urban and regional areas where we also see a high prevalence of poor mental health in the Aboriginal population.

From a total of 19 schools, the three or four most similar schools were identified within each of the five urban areas and randomly assigned to one of three conditions were 1) GBG, 2) the Mastery Learning (ML) program (designed to improve poor reading achievement), and 3) an external control condition with no experimental intervention.