Sentences with phrase «urban poor who»

For example, government policies encouraging expansion of biofuel production from maize have recently contributed to higher food prices for many, increasing food insecurity for populations already at risk, and threatening the livelihoods of those like the urban poor who are struggling with the inherent risks of poverty.

It is the smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia and the urban poor who spend too much of their wages on food — these are the people who will have less to eat in the near future unless we adapt at a much faster pace,» Robert Zougmoré, CCAFS programme leader for West Africa, said in a statement.

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.

Second, suburbs are becoming home to a new Diaspora that includes new immigrants and refugees, as well as former urban poor who fled the cities.

Not exact matches

Bush says many fellows who come to work in the US from other countries are surprised by the systemic problems they encounter in poor urban areas.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

Sally Gaze, a rural rector who chairs the national Fresh Expressions rural round table, wrote in a recent article: «Rural Christians can sometimes feel that they are the poor relation compared to larger urban and suburban churches.

Our view of Spirit - filled people must include Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, and the 1,300 congregations who join the Spirit's pleading for decent housing for the impoverished urban poor.

Katz cites William Julius Wilson and others who say that the decline of manufacturing has deprived the urban poor of employment.

In fact, these conditions are worse today for the black poor, the one third of us who reside primarily in the urban centers like Chicago and New York.

Often they found the way barred by the elders of the village who claimed that the village was too poor or its land too scarce to support the urban refugees.

Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.

If you have doubts, compare level of life of the poorest people in the an urban ghetto in USA vs. random poor worker or peasant in USSR who lived far from the center in late 1980s or 1960s (when people were not artificially subcidized by selling oil to the west as under Brezhnev).

Moreover, regarding Mr. Cuomo, his father's «abject poor of Essex County» speech in San Francisco (to urban Dems who regard Rural Upstate New Yorkers as backward)... was about her constituents.

Ultimately, this has led to a division in the urban population — with poor residents who can no longer afford to live in tsunami - safe locations on one side, and affluent residents on the other.

In contrast, does a decline in usage mean that teachers found that it wasn't right for their students, who are disproportionately from large, poor, and urban schools?

In each of the major urban centers the story is the same: the better - off white families are moving out of the central cities into the suburbs; the ranks of the poor who remain are being swelled by Negroes from the South.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

If the connective tissue between the urban poor and downwardly mobile working - class whites is lost on pundits and policy makers, the same isn't true of Vance, who describes being deeply struck by William Julius Wilson's book The Truly Disadvantaged.

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 maltreatment.

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

Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schools.

Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

The superintendent said she's aware of the challenges faced in urban districts like Rochester: poor attendance, low graduation rates, and students who can't afford a school lunch, for starters.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

However, Ms. Hoxby's research has shown that «creaming» can't explain the academic success of charter schools given that the typical urban charter student is a poor black or Hispanic kid living in a home with adults who possess below - average education credentials.

This provision is a direct result of the marriage between big money, i.e., Gates Foundation, Broad folks, Walton Family, etc. and TFA who supplies urban and poor districts with inexperienced teachers.

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.

It has always been a project of an uneasy, left - right political alliance: moderate Democrats who feel traditional urban districts are failing poor, minority kids, and conservatives who emphasize the idea that free markets can be counted on more than government and unions to produce results.

Seattle, WA - A groundbreaking new report provides a sobering picture of the state of urban education in America, especially when it comes to educational opportunities for poor students and students of color, who now make up the majority of America's public school students nationwide.

What policymakers are not regularly told is that although poverty level in all urban schools are high (both at charter and at traditional public schools), the students at many of Connecticut's urban charter schools are significantly «less poor» than the students who attend the public schools in those same communities.

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

A study by the National Center for Education Statistics in the mid-1980s indicated growing challenges to educating urban youths who increasingly have problems such as poverty, limited English proficiency, family instability and poor health.

Teachers who work in urban and poorer communities, those that work with students of color, those that work with English language learners and those that teach students with special education needs will be especially punished under the new teacher evaluation system.

teacher6402: «The reason that scores and achievement are so low in urban districts is due to many factors: transient leadership, unqualified administrators, lack of curricula, poverty and transient students, lack of parental and community support, politicians posturing at the expense of poor and urban communities, and yes - ineffective teachers who often get in to urban school districts because they lack the skill set and content knowledge to get in to other districts.»

In some poor, typically urban schools fewer than 10 % are proficient at reading and math by fourth grade, and yet these kids are pushed forward by the demand of a one - size - fits - all educational model to work within a curriculum that was designed for kids who are fully proficient in the learning content and skills that were «covered» in previous school years.

Of course, the reformers don't really care about the education of poor children — they see the lure of school choice and charter schools as the bait for parents frustrated by the systemic defunding of their local public schools, especially in urban centers, and who are desperate for any option that promises a better alternative.

This is exactly what Matthew Desmond, a MacArthur genius who is recognized for his work on the impact of eviction on the urban poor, helps us with so well.

The Chicagoan artist, who made a name for himself with his art - meets - urban regeneration projects in the city, is back in a gallery with work that challenges assumptions about race, class and what it means to be poor

My walking tours call attention to the shortcomings of poor urban planning while telling the stories of the everyday residents who have fought to improve their neighborhoods.

At Galerie Michael Janssen of Berlin, life - sized glass heads are filled with found objects and Theaster Gates, a Chicago performance artist and urban planner who takes a proactive approach to improving poor neighborhoods, is displaying two chalk board works that show his creative thought process at Kavi Gupta gallery.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding access to contraception and related health services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.

The problem here is that for decades those affluent enough to live in nice areas away from environmental problems such as living near a power station, on inside heavily polluted inner - urban areas have simply done so, externalising the visual and environmental costs of their lifestyle on to people who are poorer than themselves.

I saw urban poor kids who were coming to school early and staying late to care for and measure the brown trout fingerlings they were raising in an aquarium in a Brooklyn classroom kept chilled with an improvised cooling system made of an old refrigerator by a custodian.

I've intersected twice with Dan Siegel, a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who's trying to get everyone — poor, rich, young, old, urban, rural — to find a short stretch each day for focusing on not focusing.

On the other, there's that unpleasant paternalistic we - need - the - green - belt - to - protect - the - poor - people - from - urban - sprawl brigade, who forget that it's such legislation which locks people into concentrated developments, and precludes them from building for themselves, where they'd like to.

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.

And, of course, it is these same countries — and the farmers, fisherfolk, urban poor, children and others who make up the vast majority of their populations — that have the least capacity to pay this exorbitant bill.

Like windowfarms, this is definitely a boon for those who have precious little window space to actually grow food or herbs, and a thoughtful design solution for urban gardening in tight and light - poor spaces.