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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Disadvantaged neighborhoods"”.
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Spatial and Cultural Dimensions of Social Service Access in Majority Black Neighborhoods
… organizations, however, are often not located in disadvantaged neighborhoods, particularly those with a high proportion of Black residents. This dissertation explores the implications of these spatial disparities in social service access through a comparative study of two majority Black …
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An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Hiring Practices Within High Poverty, Urban Districts
… critical interview steps that can be taken for disadvantaged schools. The recommendations are aimed at ensuring that students who may struggle academically in our disadvantaged neighborhoods have qualified teachers to lead instruction to close the learning gap.</p>
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An Analysis For Change Regarding Teacher Hiring Practices Of Urban Districts
… school districts go about hiring teachers in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The concern about why schools are unable to consistently staff schools rests primarily on the basis that teachers leave challenging schools because of higher class sizes, compensation and student behavioral concerns. …
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Parenting, neighborhood characteristics, and disruptive child behavior in low-income African American families
… child disruptive behavior. Specifically, within disadvantaged neighborhoods, parenting behaviors were a stronger predictor of child disruptive behavior compared to more advantaged neighborhoods. Few studies have examined this complex relationship between neighborhood, parenting, and child …
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FOOD JUSTICE IN POST-INDUSTRIAL US CITIES: THE ROLE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
… to (i) assess and identify post-industrial urban neighborhoods with food-insecure and vulnerable populations, and (ii) explore and analyze the role of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in addressing place-based food insecurity. The study used mixed-methods, including qualitative GIS, statistical …
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Re-imagining a child-centric spatial environment that promotes quality of life for children in Altantis (Witsand)
… the neighborhood of Witsand. When dealing with disadvantaged neighborhoods like Witsand, it will be vital to observe urban design theories such as tactical urbanism to ensure interventions are realistic and impactfulon communities
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Choosing success? Inequalities and opportunities in access to school choice in nine United States districts
… should be paid to locating choice schools nearby disadvantaged neighborhoods served by underperforming schools, and monitoring and supporting existing and newly created schools of choice to ensure that the surprisingly high number of failing charter and magnet schools can be reduced. Local and …
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The Quest to Humanize Policy Interventions: Exploring the Relationship between Neighborhood Revitalization Programs and Subjective Well-being of Low-Income Communities in the United States
… subjective well-being (SWB) in distressed neighborhoods across multiple low-income communities. The use of state aid, such as tax credits for neighborhood revitalization programs has become a popular strategy for U.S. federal, state, and local governments seeking to revitalize disadvantaged …
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Examining the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) in people’s exposure to mobility-dependent environmental factors: A spatiotemporal modeling approach
… environments, ethnic exposures, and deprived/disadvantaged neighborhoods. Systematic investigations of the NEAP have been urgently needed to advance and enrich our fundamental understanding of the role of human daily mobility in studies on neighborhood effects. To fill these significant gaps, …
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Understanding people’s perceptions and attitudes toward community garden landscape in Roanoke, Virginia
… agriculture system, especially in food insecure disadvantaged neighborhoods. Although community gardens have numerous economic, environmental, and social benefits, they have faced considerable degradation in some of the neighborhoods. Also, many of them have been lost to other land uses due to …
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In pursuit of adulthood : the urban choices and trade-offs of young mothers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… choose to stay in or return to high-poverty, disadvantaged neighborhoods? As they transition to adulthood, young people begin to make decisions regarding residential choice, household economics, and their interpersonal and social obligations. Understanding the complexity behind these decisions …
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The effect of violence on educational outcomes
… cash flow and opportunities for crime in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Using the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, two-stage least squares estimates show that exposure to violent crimes lowers educational attainment. These results provide evidence that non-educational policies can …
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Out of home placement location and juvenile delinquency: the investigation of neighborhood impact on child welfare population's juvenile justice involvement
… the knowledge base by investigating whether the neighborhoods associated with foster care placement affect the risk of delinquent offending for adolescents in the child welfare system. This study tests the hypothesis whether the association between neighborhood sociodemographic factors and …
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Dynamics of school playground use in low-income neighborhoods : Four case studies from Newark, New Jersey
… children in the United States from economically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods often lack access to quality open space. In response to insufficient outdoor play options for children in Newark, New Jersey, several existing inner-city elementary school playgrounds have been rebuilt through …
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Low-income homeownership for intergenerational mobility - the role of intermediaries in risk mitigation
… and higher-income households in better-quality neighborhoods do. Low-income households require deep subsidies, engaged support, and intermediation not just in accessing and sustaining homeownership but also in negotiating the broader aspects of urban living, such as sustaining through daily …