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Both began running for elective office while attending the Horace Mann School in the Bronx...
...grew up in northern Westchester County, N.Y., and attended school in the Bronx. As a result, they had to commute into the city together everyday and home each night...
...been called the neutron bomb of school reform, and most states, including North Carolina, have been too skittish to try it. The only real success stories have come in New York City, which has "redesigned" about 65 schools in the past five years. One example: three years ago, the Bronx's P.S. 3 ranked 672nd among New York City schools - fourth from the bottom. The city fired the principal, replaced two thirds of the teachers, extended the school day and switched from a touchy-feely "real life" curriculum to one emphasizing basic instruction in reading and math. In one year...
...achievement gap as I see it is not 'Can the South Bronx catch up with Scarsdale?' but, 'Can students in the South Bronx do the work for their grade level...
Philosophical implications aside, this two-disc compilation from New York label Jungle Sky explores the intersection of speed-addled Bristol drum patterns, Manhattan cosmopolitanism and South Bronx block-party aesthetic. The hands-down (or hands-in-the-air) high point is the nightmarish groove of DJ Karlos & Evil Nice's "No Doubt." Equally impressive is Yellow Note's "The World is a Jungle," a charmingly scruffy union of tricked-out reggae and hard-step...