Sentences with phrase «urban youth from»

The student population at the heart of this book is composed of urban youth from impoverished neighborhoods, many of whom are African American or Latino.

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Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?
It doesn't look all that different from any other grouping of youth ball fields, but, true to Haley's original vision, the park serves as an urban oasis for young athletes.
Mr. Rotimi Ogunleye from Commerce and Industry to Physical Planning and Urban Development; Mr. Steve Ayorinde from Ministry of Information and Strategy to Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan from Communities and Communication to Ministry of Information and Strategy; Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi Etti from Ministry of Wealth Creation to Ministry of the Environment; Mrs. Uzamat Akinbile - Yusuf from Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Ministry of Wealth Creation; Mr. Agboola Dabiri from Central Business District to Ministry of Youth and Social Development.
«From the Unemployment Strikeforce to the Urban Youth Jobs program, we are making smart investments to tackle unemployment in communities where it is most pervasive, and connect tomorrow's workers with the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace,» said Cuomo at a bill signing ceremony held at Hostos Community College.
Our youth and elderly in Hudson Valley urban areas already suffer disproportionately from asthma and other respiratory illnesses which will worsen during the summer months ahead.
In advance of Wednesday's budget release, Cuomo's staff released the highlights of an anti-poverty plan that includes increasing the minimum wage from $ 8.75 an hour to $ 10.50 an hour, more funding for an urban youth jobs program and investing millions in housing, homelessness services and emergency food.
In the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, Mao Zedong sent urban youth to the countryside to learn from farmers.
Researchers at Western University (London, Canada) have found youth living in rural areas are more likely to sustain concussions from injuries involving motorized vehicles such as all - terrain vehicles and dirt bikes, whereas youth living in urban areas suffer concussions mostly as a result of sports.
Two youths from the Brooklyn projects attempt to fend for themselves on the streets after their parents are arrested in this urban drama from director George Tillman, Jr. (Notorious, Faster).
Today's youth hostels are helping school children from all backgrounds to participate in a range of different activities in rural and urban areas across the country.
I switched my academic major at the University of Wisconsin from pre-medicine and nutritional sciences to urban education and spent the next decade working with city youth.
Hasköy youth, who are not considered a part of normal Turkey, who are excluded both from the labor market and the imaginary urban culture, return to the middle class spaces they are cast out from like boomerangs to scare off the middle class.
From 1994 to 2003, Price served as president of the National Urban League, where he launched a national campaign to raise the academic achievement of black youth.
Affirming Rogers» earlier point, the Globe article noted, «Middle schools were conceived in the 1970s and»80s as a nurturing bridge from early elementary grades to high school, but critics say they now more often resemble a swamp, where urban youth sink into educational failure.»
The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»
«Unfortunately, too many bureaucrats refuse to free urban minority youth from the prison of these failing schools,» Holtz said.
This issue includes pieces from organizers like Kesi Foster (Urban Youth Collaborative) and Maisie Chin (CADRE), philanthropic leaders like Allison Brown (Open Society Foundations) and Kavitha Mediratta (The Atlantic Philanthropies), along with teachers, administrators and community leaders from across the country.
Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low - Income Urban Youth (September 2016).
Particularly where summer learning is concerned, regular attendance and engagement are critical, according to the 2016 Rand Corporation study «Learning From Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low - Income Urban Youth
PACK emerged from the lessons learned from the foundation's long - standing support of family literacy, urban parks, libraries, museums, youth development and afterschool programs.
This enticing car from the car maker will be a low - emission urban car that will surely delight the domestic youth.
Rhythm Factory's location in the city's popular Bangladeshi quarter — on Whitechapel Road, just around the corner from the East End's well - known Brick Lane — has historically been home to successive waves of immigrants and forms an eclectic urban melting pot with a flourishing youth culture and infectiousvibe.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 12, 2011: Celebrating ten years as an innovative environmental education leader working with urban youth and families, Crissy Field Center is proud to release a comprehensive report summarizing its most significant impacts and outcomes from the past decade.
Several students, faculty, and an alumna from Pratt Institute's Urban Placemaking and Management program in the School of Architecture appeared on a panel titled «The Social Inclusion of Cities» at the United Nations 2018 Winter Youth Assembly in New York City on February 16.
This exhibition of new photographs signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which the artist is well known.
(2004), which additionally brought youth together across urban and rural environments through Tauqsiijiit, an onsite residence and youth media lab located at the heart of the exhibition with participants from: Igloolik Isuma Productions, Qaggiq Theatre, Siqiniq Productions, Daybi, Tungasuvvingat Inuit Youth Drop In Centre (Ottawa), 7th Generation Image Makers (Native Child and Family Services of Toronto), Debajehmujig Theatre Group (Wikwemikong) and Qaggiq Theatre (Iqalyouth together across urban and rural environments through Tauqsiijiit, an onsite residence and youth media lab located at the heart of the exhibition with participants from: Igloolik Isuma Productions, Qaggiq Theatre, Siqiniq Productions, Daybi, Tungasuvvingat Inuit Youth Drop In Centre (Ottawa), 7th Generation Image Makers (Native Child and Family Services of Toronto), Debajehmujig Theatre Group (Wikwemikong) and Qaggiq Theatre (Iqalyouth media lab located at the heart of the exhibition with participants from: Igloolik Isuma Productions, Qaggiq Theatre, Siqiniq Productions, Daybi, Tungasuvvingat Inuit Youth Drop In Centre (Ottawa), 7th Generation Image Makers (Native Child and Family Services of Toronto), Debajehmujig Theatre Group (Wikwemikong) and Qaggiq Theatre (IqalYouth Drop In Centre (Ottawa), 7th Generation Image Makers (Native Child and Family Services of Toronto), Debajehmujig Theatre Group (Wikwemikong) and Qaggiq Theatre (Iqaluit).
Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).
Service Award for outstanding service by an adult individual for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of Scouting opportunities for youth from rural or low - income urban backgrounds.
Thirdly, past representative bodies have also been plagued by tensions arising from the need to represent a diversity of Indigenous interests, including interests of both urban and rural / remote communities as well as interests of specific members of the community including, Indigenous women and youth.
Our findings, drawn from only one site, may pertain only to youth in urban detention centers with similar demographic composition.
One, the primary source in this review, is the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), which offers data on parents of children born in urban hospitals in twenty large cities between 1998 and 2000.7 A second is the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (especially the 1979 panel, NLSY79), which now provides data from 1979 to 2006 on the cohort of individuals aged fourteen to twenty - one in 1979.
Social Emotional Learning in High School: How Three Urban High Schools Engage, Educate, and Empower Youth — Full Series is from Stanford.
Limitations of the study include the self - report nature of assessing the youths» drug use and family problems, as well as the questionable generalizability of the sample, which was low - income, urban, and consisted primarily of males from ethnic minorities.
From identification to transportation, from early childhood through high school graduation, learn how three large urban school districts have implemented the McKinney - Vento Act to help children and youth find educational succFrom identification to transportation, from early childhood through high school graduation, learn how three large urban school districts have implemented the McKinney - Vento Act to help children and youth find educational succfrom early childhood through high school graduation, learn how three large urban school districts have implemented the McKinney - Vento Act to help children and youth find educational success.
One book cited by Hill in support of the relationship between crime and single parent homes described gang members as having a «stronger need than other urban inner - city youths to distance themselves from inept or uncaring home environments.»
However, small differences were observed in the frequency of bullying others (χ29 = 19.13, P =.03): 2 % to 3 % fewer suburban youth reported participation in moderate bullying, and 3 % to 5 % more rural youth reported ever bullying than youth from town, suburban, and urban areas (data not shown).
However, because the participating schools were mainly situated in urban areas, we were concerned with an overrepresentation of children living in the city at the expense of youth from more rural areas.
No significant differences in the frequency of being bullied were observed among youth from urban, suburban, town, and rural areas (χ29 = 11.72, P =.24).
History demonstrates that Government policies removing people from their land has resulted in the gradual disintegration of cultural standards and governance; it has resulted in fringe communities in urban areas, in alcoholism and youth suicides, and in disempowerment.
Latent profile analyses of data from 574 urban youth revealed three risk classes.
Principles from ecological theory and knowledge derived from studies of risk and protection among children and youths are used to examine individual -, peer -, school -, and family - level factors associated with the likelihood of victimization among 150 low - income, urban, Hispanic female eighth - grade students.
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