Sentences with phrase «urban poverty showed»

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Keeping Kids Cosy will target both rural and urban areas of higher deprivation across the two counties where the latest government statistics show fuel poverty levels as high as 22.9 %, or over one in five house holds.

On average, respondents estimated that a little more than half — or 52 percent — of all low - income students attend high - poverty schools.67 This estimate is slightly larger than the Urban Institute figure showing that 40 percent of all low - income students attend a high - poverty school.68

Every year, urban school districts across the country release test scores showing dismal student proficiency in math and reading, especially for students in poverty.

Place - based scholarship programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, in which all students graduating from specific high - poverty urban school districts qualify for free college tuition, also have been shown to increase high school outcomes and college matriculation (Bartik and Lachowska, 2012; Andrews, DesJardins and Ranchhod, 2010).

Radio show to talk more about an upcoming piece about why teachers leave high - poverty urban schools.

About the artwork shown above Ben Shahn became noted as a social realist during the Depression, painting the realities of poverty, labor strikes and urban...

This activity report shows how UN-HABITAT is combating fast growing urban poverty, rapid urbanisation, unemployment, disasters and the scourge of climate change.

This study also shows that poor children with fewer siblings, whose parents are more educated, with higher household income, and living in urban areas are more likely to complete secondary education and escape the poverty cycle.