Sentences with phrase «with urban poverty»

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Pitch: «Orora Global is a for - profit social enterprise with a simple mission to end energy poverty: to provide access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions to rural households and urban slums in developing countries.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

Finally, such a strengthened ecumenical effort would be much more effective and relevant in dealing with the crucial issues of the day — poverty, race, urban decay, etc..

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Rural poverty is different from urban poverty: I have friends who struggle to find their monthly rent but who distrust welfare so much that they augment the food they grow with poaching and road kill just to help make ends meet.

In wake of a national report on urban poverty and segregation in the U.S. reaching all times highs, Insight's Jim Aroune sits down with politic activist and Green Party member Howie Hawkins to discuss poverty and politics.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.

People often associate poverty with urban areas.

Since 2007 nonprofit CHF International has been mapping urban poverty in areas of India and Africa through a program called Slum Communities Achieving Livable Environments with Urban Partners (SCALE - UP)(urban poverty in areas of India and Africa through a program called Slum Communities Achieving Livable Environments with Urban Partners (SCALE - UP)(Urban Partners (SCALE - UP)(pdf).

Hughes» career has ricocheted between academia and the policy world, always with a focus on urban poverty.

The ensuing urban explosion had its own consequences, too — in poverty and crime and even the pressure to leave the continent and go abroad, with papers or without.

Yes, there are opportunities, most with decent pay, good benefits, and superb job security, and mostly in high - poverty urban areas (although rural areas are also underserved).

When you examine the lives of history's most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organize their... Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6000 people every year who struggle with poverty and homelessness.

truTV 5,752,634 views Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6000 people every year who struggle with poverty and homelessness.

Shot for a song in the rougher parts of St. Louis (doubling for the Big Apple) with simple but bold model work (some of it created by James Cameron in his Roger Corman days) and striking computer graphics, it's a hoot, yet behind the colorful personalities of the prison yard gang is a sardonic crack about the state of modern urban America lost to poverty, runaway crime, and gangs that rule the inner city.

April 29: Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality with New York University Associate Professor Patrick Sharkey; Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein, University of California - Berkeley School of Law; and Harvard University Professor William Julius Wilson, director of Harvard Kennedy School Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

The Sue Duncan Center was attended by kids from elementary to high school age, nearly all of them African Americans struggling with the grind of urban poverty — crime, drugs, gangs, absent parents.

with University of Pittsburgh Professor H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education and director of the Center for Urban Education; editor of Urban Education; and author of Rac (e) ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms.

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.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

Working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, they turned their inquiry into a compelling documentary, Bodega Down Bronx, that sparks community discussions about nutrition, poverty, health, and food systems.

The expectation is that the resulting intervention, titled «SECURe for Parents and Children (SECURe PAC)» is feasible to implement within existing school - and community - based services in urban areas with a high concentration of families and children living in poverty.

A high - poverty urban district with 28 percent English language learners and more than 50 home languages spoken throughout the district, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse families.

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.»

«Urban schools are faced with huge challenges, some of which are simply related to concentrated poverty, and so many kids are coming to school with unmet needs,» said Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University.

With increasing teacher - turnover rates in high - poverty and urban districts, school and district leaders need to make sure that the job is satisfying and rewarding — and quality collaboration time can help lower turnover rates.

NCPW: You've painted a complex portrait of reform efforts in urban districts, especially those plagued for years with high poverty and low achievement.

Today, 50 years after the report was issued, that prediction characterizes most of our large urban areas, where intensifying segregation and concentrated poverty have collided with disparities in school funding to reinforce educational inequality (see Figure 1).

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

This report examines the extent to which teachers who are not fully certified are disproportionately assigned to teach in high - poverty schools, schools with high proportions of students of color, English learners, or students with disabilities, and schools located in rural or urban areas.

They wrestle with the hardest topics in urban education, such as poverty and discipline policies.

ASCD believes that to close the achievement gap, all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

In a high - poverty, urban middle school in Mississippi, the principal has partnered with local businesses to develop a community garden that students work in to grow fresh vegetables they can take home — and good deeds can earn them credit for supplies at the school store.

It is also important to note that these challenges are more prevalent in urban, high - poverty schools and among African American and Latino students and students with disabilities.

Teaching students from diverse settings or with specialized needs (urban, rural, ELL, high - poverty, students w / disabilities).

ASCD believes that all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

Diverse student teachings experiences including at least two of the following: rural setting, urban setting, ELL students, schools with high - poverty, students with disabilities, instruction on social and emotional learning practices.

Poverty, crime, lack of support, and an outdated and deteriorating infrastructure are among the dilemmas urban schools share with their host cities.

Preferred candidates will have demonstrated experience working with culturally diverse populations as well as experience working with urban high poverty and Title One schools; the preferred candidate should also have a background in and willingness to assume a leadership role at the local, state, and / or national / international levels.

It's also seen evolving attitudes toward discipline, with tactics such as restorative justice starting to replace zero - tolerance approaches, including in high - poverty urban districts.

In that role, Cameron was chairman of the Budget Committee with responsibility for the development and oversight of the capital city's $ 300,000,000 combined annual budgets; recruited and secured authorization of the largest urban redevelopment project east of the Mississippi River; led the development and implementation of an economic recruitment strategy that netted over $ 1 Billion in new economic investments; and moved 92 % of the city's homeless population into paths out of poverty through a collaborative effort with nearly 100 churches and homeless service providers.

But districts that serve disadvantaged urban areas with high rates of poverty «typically have both high rates and large numbers of chronically absent students.»

Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

Most, not coincidentally, are from urban school districts with high poverty rates and large populations of students of color.

When I graduated from college, I stayed in touch with a graduate professor but did not maintain contact with most other professors, as most had teaching experience in the suburbs, not in an urban, high - poverty school like the one where I secured my first teaching position.

Russakoff ends her book with hope and a word of caution, saying that urban public schools are being asked to overcome the devastating effects of poverty:

Some of them argue from a civil rights perspective, noting that parents with financial means are able to seek out school options for their children and propose that opening urban schools to parental choice gives those options to families in poverty.

Conversely, poor salary was the leading factor for dissatisfaction in low - poverty suburban schools (61.1 percent) with administrative support (30.1) and faculty influence (14.3) proving less significant for suburban teachers than their urban counterparts.