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Sullivan says the new, more affluent residents moving in have less of a stake in the community and old neighborhood ties are eroding...
Bernard Lieberman was reared a child of privilege in a small town outside Lodz, Poland. He was one of nine children in an Orthodox Jewish family that lived largely off the money of affluent relatives and regularly opened up its home to poor neighbors. But that comfortable life swiftly ended on Sept. 1, 1939, when the Nazis stormed into Poland. Only 19, Bernard was soon separated from his siblings and transported from camp to camp, doing time in Auschwitz-Birkenau...
However, Fitzsimmons says the "competitive edge," or the level of achievement necessary for admission, does not vary much from year to year, regardless of whether the most qualified students apply in the early process or the regular one. Nor does the more affluent background of the early applicant pool mean that the diversity of the class changes, he says...
...used by hundreds of schools some of which can more easily afford to meet greater financial need. The real trick, Joyce says, is steering between the competing needs of large, affluent schools and others that are less well-funded...
...does it have much connection to the academic performance gap that afflicts black students not only in inner cities but also in affluent and well-integrated suburbs like Shaker Heights, Ohio. According to the Washington Post, though blacks make up just over half of Shaker Heights' student body, they account for 84% of those who get Ds or Fs in at least one major subject after the fifth grade. Most black students in Shaker Heights enjoy at least middle-class status. The school system has created special programs to boost black students' test-taking skills. Counseling is available for those...