Sentence examples for academic poverty from inspiring English sources

Our school is in a typical 99percentt white, rural southern Maine school district, and there are similar correlations between economic and academic poverty.

Usually academics define poverty as those people with incomes below 60% of their country's median.

The work has informed almost all academic research on poverty since.

But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why.

Ofsted wants music centres to use data on grades, both musical and academic, on relative poverty and so on.

And he fails to point out the humour of sabbatical man jet-setting hither and thither to discuss such staples of modern academic life as poverty and inequality.

Many of the program's roughly 30 participants — boys, mostly, with absentee fathers, a history of crime, academic trouble and poverty — come with a ready supply of anger and fists that can fly.

DIANE RAVITCH, PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY If you want to attack the root cause of low academic performance, think poverty.

Not only does the United States serve all children regardless of academic achievement or poverty.

We continue to have significant problems with crime, drug abuse, depression, academic failure, and poverty.

As academics would say, poverty constrains their "cognitive bandwith".