to Opportunity Program”‚ looks at the long-term effects of children’s education progress in high-poverty neighbourhoods. A randomized mobility experiment in which a subset of low-income minority families living in public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were given vouchers to move to low-poverty neighbourhoods were used to evaluate 1 policy approach for improving children’s educational outcomes. Four hundred twenty-five New York City children were seen 2 1/2 and 5 years following relocation (mean
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Currently‚ NYC is experimenting with an alternative to incarceration called Neighborhood Opportunity Networks (NeON). These centers are part of a new model of community centric corrections programs known as justice reinvestment. Reinvestment programs are intended to reduce recidivism and reroute the money that would have been spent on incarceration to crime prevention programs instead. (Clear‚ et al‚ 2012). The Department of Probation (DOP) has begun placing NeON facilities in communities with the
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ASTD 322 February 23‚ 2009 Cultural Diversity within the Neighborhood Sitting in a dark theatre‚ an audience begins to rustle in their seats with excitement‚ anxiously awaiting the start of the show. The lights dim and the anticipation are diminished as the lights come up‚ the set of a street side unveils‚ and the beat begins. In one instant‚ the audience is transported from a simple theatre to the lively street-side of the neighborhood of Washington Heights‚ New York. This production is the
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2.3 Laura and the low class neighborhood Laura’s descent into the neighborhood marks her plunge into the truth of working class living conditions. As mentioned before‚ she has little knowledge of the reality of the working class due to her influenced observation of the neighborhood and her isolated upbringing‚ which is distinguished by its negativity (343). Her awareness of the true plight of the lower class emerges when she learns of
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Opinion Piece Low-income Neighborhoods and Crime Michael Abdullahi 0770724 Wednesday‚ November 19th 2014 Professor: Jennifer Long SOAN 2290 On February 13th 2013 the family of Jarvis Montaque was in great despair. The family who lived in Jamestown Crescent‚ a local public housing projects were notified that the 15-year-old boy‚ had been shot on his own doorstep. The boy was not part of any gangs‚ rather an unfortunate casualty of local gang warfare. The Toronto
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where everything is readily available although at times he mentioned that he does not like the new hipsters moving into this neighborhood who has nothing to offer aside from making the street smelling like marijuana. He enjoys the ethnic food this community has to offer which is not available where he grew up in the South. According to my participant 1‚ it is a safe neighborhood and he plans to remain in Bushwick for rest of his life since soon he will be buying an apartment with his
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story of "Greasy Lake" being in the 60’s‚ with the random music of rock n roll‚ reggae and misfit attitudes clearly attributes to Boyles statement of “when it was good to be bad” (Boyle 529). The setting of “Greasy Lake” brings everything out that Boyle is trying to portray in this bad boy story. When we think of “bad” boys hanging around with toothpicks hanging out of their mouths‚ wearing leather jackets‚ drinking‚ smoking and loafing their days away we have that feel of the 60’s in mind
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responsibility of imparting my passion for art to students who lack this opportunity because I know how visual communication affirms identity. I taught art every week for the past four years in low-income neighborhoods with the intention to link visual voice with personal narrative. My work with Neighborhood Arts to establish after-school art programs in six elementary and middle schools ultimately advocates for the public funding of the arts. Every year‚
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a few people house as we walk. Now I as well as everyone else has stepped in a puddle and our shoes our socked. We are trying to find the best way possible to flash the flashlight so the cars could see us. 8:01 P.M. Leah’s Neighborhood We just arrived in Leah’s neighborhood. Trick or Treating is officially over though we thought we would still stop at a few people’s houses along the way. As we approach the first house a little black car drives very slowly by us. We continue to walk starting to
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Chapter Four Assignment CHILDREN’S TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND GENDER STEREOTYPING For this assignment you are to watch a children’s television program (e.g.‚ a cartoon‚ Sesame Street‚ Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood). If you don’t have access to television‚ you can locate many children’s television shows online. Answer the following questions. Name of program:Team UmiZoomi Day and time of program:Every weeknight at 7 and 7:30 Who was the primary audience for this show (girls or boys)? Show
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