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Download full textAASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2017
Many children and their families in rural America need better and more equitable educational opportunities. "Leveling the Playing Field" highlights the many and varied opportunities for Congress to act to ensure rural students receive the education they need and are given an equitable chance to succeed. The following policy initiatives…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Student Needs
Direct linkByron, William J. – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2015
The main contribution that Catholic schools can make towards the elimination of world hunger is to help their students understand the problem and then motivate them to assist as best they can once they are out of school. The basic cause of the problem is poverty. The ultimate solution is production of food in the food-deficit nations, or where…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Hunger, World Problems, School Role
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1981
By 2000 A.D. there is a great potential for progressive impoverishment of world resources and degradation of the global environment. This adaptation of the report "Global Future: Time to Act", summarizes a reconnaisance of the future as it might be if no preventative measures are taken. As the world becomes more crowded, polluted, vulnerable to…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Depleted Resources, Ecology, Economic Development
Peer reviewedSocial Education, 1997
Summarizes the global efforts of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to ease poverty and help developing nations to build their capacity for sustainable development. Includes a glossary of poverty and human development terms, a human poverty index ranking for developing countries, and suggested teaching activities. (MJP)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development, Economic Factors
The White House, 2008
This Final Report prepared by the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives offers an account of President George W. Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) to the faith-based and other community organizations (FBCOs) that have joined in the battles against poverty, disease, and other social ills. The report emphasizes…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Altruism, Nonprofit Organizations, Community Organizations
Freedom from Hunger Campaign, Rome (Italy). – 1977
The FFHC/AD (Freedom From Hunger Campaign/Action for Development) is the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) link with peoples' organizations in the world's poor and rich countries. During its 18 years of activities, FFHC/AD has channelled additional funds collected by private financing agencies in the industrialized countries to rural…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, Change Agents, Communications
