Sentences with phrase «where poorer children»

That's particularly important in areas where poorer children are starting behind.

There is a community centre in Katwe that is headed up by a local missionary, Robert Katende (David Oyelowo) where the poor children are fed bowls of porridge.

Our primary task is to do a better job preparing the kids at the bottom to succeed in school, and close the gap between where poor children are now and where they ought to be.

How do we allow a system to exist where poor children in the fourth grade are already performing three grade levels behind children in wealthier neighborhoods?

«The only thing these grades tell us is where our poor children go to school and where our rich children go to school,» said Lynn Shoemaker, a 23 - year veteran public school teacher representing the advocacy group Public Schools First NC at a press conference held by Senate Democrats after the launch of the A-F school grades.

Not exact matches

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

The younger Graham stopped by CNN's Washington bureau this week en route to New York, where he was checking in on Samaritan Purse's Superstorm Sandy relief and promoting a Christmas campaign collecting gifts for poor children.

Ironically this same finance pastor was busy preparing a «Church Event» of outreach to poor children in the community where they came to the church for free health and dental checkups, and haircuts.

You said: «Until the day that universities do not cater to the rich so to implement and further a two class society, where the rich can have their children educated for the better paying jobs in society and the poor are stopped at the door....

Until the day that universities do not cater to the rich so to implement and further a two class society, where the rich can have their children educated for the better paying jobs in society and the poor are stopped at the door....

But I would rather be here in this imperfect place than outside where I see Grace disappearing, where most have lost faith in the world that pushes it's children into employment where money, power and influence is the only road to happiness, where dog eat dog is the Tag Line which tries to conceal avarice by saying The Wealth creators help the poor as it eventually trickles down.

We want to help the poorest of the poor, but how much of each dollar we give will ever get to that boy in Brazil sleeping on a ragged sofa in the open air (from «Where Children Sleep»)?

We analysed religion, here is a religion, where the idols are washed in milk and there is no milk for the children to drink, the rich being overfed and the poor starving and yet the religious leaders have no feelings, why are these big temples empty, why can not poor people take shelter in these temples.

I can remember as a child my father taking my to see Stoke City who always out sang the away teams and the passion flowed through to their players, what's happend to Arsenal, what was the quote from Roy Keane Our club is in a downfall last nights Ossian average Gibbs - plays like a winger bel - looked out of his depth Mert NOT GOOD ENOUGH Kos can't play both Cb on his own Le coq found wanting in possession Welbeck 4th choice Utd plays ever week for us, says it all Sanchez poor last night tries to do too much Santii - felt sorry for him, tried, kept getting pulled back and no movement in front of him Ozil 1/2 things either he doesn't suit the premier or doesn't suit wenger approach GIroud not good enough no where near stevie wonder could see that And finally wenger 10 years ago ahead of his time, now NO PASSION, NO TACTICS, NO FEAR FACTOR, = no job

• Where mothers had been depressed AND the fathers had worked long hours (particularly at weekends) in the first two years of their baby's life, this predicted poor developmental outcomes for their child through to age 10, especially among boys (Letourneau et al, 2009).

• The father - child relationship is especially important in disadvantaged families where children suffer more from a poor relationship with their father and benefit more when this is good (Dunn, 2004).

Among older children, daughters may be particularly resistant, particularly where their relationship with their mother was previously close: in such cases, greater harmony in the new marriage is associated with the daughters» poorer adjustment (for discussion, see Hetherington & Henderson, 1997).

... where a mother is at liberty to look after her child as she sees fit, the baby cries very little and when he does it pains her and she feels compassion («Poor little thing, what's the matter?»).

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

Other parents take walkie talkies on camping or other outdoor trips — where cell phone service may be poor or nonexistent — allowing older children and teens the freedom to do their own thing while remaining in touch with their parents.

Where my wife gave birth to our older children in Europe (a poor country not doing well on the charts above), there is no pain treatment during pregnancy, at all, period, unless you are rich.

Where I used to live, we DID see «BF Police» Usually Earth - Mama types (if anyone reading this is an E-M, no offense meant) who would glare at the offender, and then go over to the poor mother / father bottle - feeding the child, berating the.

I think that this could be true for other parents of post-institutionalized children, ones where their infancies of poor nutrition, neglect and possibly abuse all combine to affect how their brains are actually formed.

«Our systematic reviews emphasise how important breastfeeding is for all women and children, irrespective of where they live and of whether they are rich or poor.

I am sure there are oodles of other kickbacks going on on Capitol Hill where someone is profiting from pushing the poorest quality food America has to offer to our children via school lunch and breakfast programs.

When children come from homes where there is abuse, domestic violence, an incarcerated parent, or a parent with drug or mental health problems, they don't get that kind of attention and suffer the consequences: higher risks of later - life depression, adolescent pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, and poor academic performance.

In fact, good single moms are 62 percent better at lowering the risk of drug abuse by their kids than two - parent households where the father - child relationship is poor.

Cooking real food for school children shouldn't have to be like the Peace Corps, where one takes a vow of poverty because the spiritual benefits of helping the poor make up for the lack of financial compensation.

The council estate «men deserts» - where children's prospects are so poor — look here to stay.

In the video, Nixon decries income inequality in a state that she says has «incredible wealth and extreme poverty» and the depressed upstate economy where she says half of all children are poor.

But she admitted there is still a large gap in the test scores of children from richer schools, where around two - thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

She said: «The idea that a mother in very poor circumstances, left with young children by the father, may find herself having to seek social benefit from the state, which she may not have sought before, when the father may have money while she has nothing that the state does not provide, and may then have to pay a fee to try to get money for the welfare of her children, particularly where she has no money and the father may have some, is profoundly unfair.»

The senator is opposing a higher minimum wage even though he represents portions of the city of Syracuse, one of the poorest cities in America, a place where 50 percent of the children are living below the federal poverty level.

The audit sampled 12 contracts whose vendors had poor performance scores and found that seven vendors with nine contracts totaling $ 114 million had cases where children under their care were abused by employees or foster parents.

But she admits there's still a large gap in the tests scores of children from richer schools, where around two thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

And now, technology has advanced to the point where even men with extremely poor sperm quality can father children.

Although an intravenous vaccine will be fine for Western travelers or soldiers, giving the injections safely will be a challenge in poor countries where skilled health workers are scarce — especially in small children whose veins are hard to find.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan today the Taliban have created thousands of madrassas, where children from poor families with no access to education can receive food and what passes for learning (but what is in fact quite the opposite).

Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track» students from early youth and in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children with learning disabilities.

NCCP defines a poor household as one where incomes are below the federal poverty threshold (i.e., $ 24,036 for a family of four with two children in 2015).

A Source: Eggs, milk, liver, fish, spinach, carrots, sweet potatoes Effects of deficiency: Weakened immune system, night blindness; hinders embryological development Who's at risk: Alcoholics, infants in poor countries with foods low in beta - carotene; people in Africa and Southeast Asia, where polished rice, which lacks the vitamin, is a staple Fortification options: Milk, oil, margarine Estimated millions of children affected: 140

And so that was yet another sign, another signal, and correlated quite well to a lot of volunteer work I've been doing locally to help feed local poor elementary children, and I've been quite frustrated when I run into weeks where I'm able to make zero progress with that because I'm getting ready for a Spartan race, or I'm podcasting, or replying to emails, or building the fitness empire.

You can't look me in the eye and tell me it's okay for «Wealthy William the 8 year old» to get a shiny new iPad and a computer lab with brand new iMacs when «Poor Patrick the 8 year old» attends a school with computers 10 - 15 + years old and no where near enough technology resources for every child in the school to regularly utilize.

If Juan doesn't belong here, where he's a stranger to all except his children, neither does he belong among the poor villagers whose problems feel so much more significant than his own the one time he attempts, at a local AA meeting, to open himself up to them.

A brilliant climax juxtaposes the real lives of America's poor with the shimmering towers of Disney World, a make - believe land where children are cherished, not neglected and despised.

Fortitude also forms the mortar of her performance in Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe as Nakku Harriet, the Mother Courage of a family of hungry, unschooled children in a teeming, poor, ramshackle township in Uganda where skyscrapers stand in the hazy distance like the Emerald City of Oz.

Services rated poor involved issues where children had too many changes of social worker high caseloads, delays in undertaking visits and failure to see children alone.

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

Joseph, the associate pastor, said that he, too, is sensitive to public education's objections to vouchers, but he believes that poor families deserve the right to choose where their children attend school.