The Common Core movement does nothing to protect children from the effects ofpoverty. Instead of investing in food programs, health care, and libraries, we will bespending unbelievable amounts of money on tests required by the Common Core. Even though research tells us that more testing does ...
Through an analysis of the relationship between the digital economy and poverty reduction, it is possible to understand the phenomena and problems arising in the process of the rapid economic growth, the mechanism of the role of the digital economy. It is also possible to judge the functional ...
One of the vital parts of “Countdown to 2030” aims to support the monitoring and measurement of children’s health [9]. Currently, children still face unhealthy diets and poverty [10,11,12]. Under these circumstances, additional attention should be given to the disease burden and health ...
What is being left unsaid about ‘vulnerability’, and what are the effects produced by thinking of ‘vulnerability’ in this particular way? Who stands to gain and who to lose by such an understanding of ‘vulnerability’, and how was such an understanding produced, disseminated, and defended...
China-Africa agricultural cooperation has boosted agricultural productivity, food security, and poverty reduction in Africa.15 BRI industrial and infrastructure projects have enhanced economic potentials in BRI countries, benefiting their peoples as their economies grow. By September 2019, Chinese companies ...
Ay vai! So there she is, a young teenager in the poverty-stricken remoteness of Upstate New York. Her poverty-stricken farmer grandparents — the paternal set — glommed her [WHAT IS THE WORD?] mostly because they lived in upstate New York and the (far more affluent, far better educated...
and even translating. My parents’ voices wavered when speaking English; through every attempt to communicate with their customers, a language barrier forged a palpable presence in eachtransaction. My parents’ spirits faltered as customers grew impatient. A life of poverty awaited us in Vietnam ...
This era of economic growth must be based on policies that sustain and expand the environmental resource base. Such growth is absolutely essential to relieving the great poverty that is intensifying in much of the developing world. The report suggests a pathway by which the peoples of the world...
For four years, I have been searching for a way to defeat the scourge of child marriage, a leading cause of poverty in rural India. I discovered a formula in which girls’ education successfully defeats child marriage as part of my capstone project through the Academy of Global Studies (AGS...
There was limited evidence that did not overall suggest a clear significant effect of deprivation on dropout from contemporary individual CMD interventions. However, more contemporary research is needed, as effects may vary according to clinical and methodological factors, and for dropout versus non-...