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That improvement actually fuels some of the current black restlessness. While the American dream has long envisaged education as the gateway to the good life, blacks have discovered that the more they gained on the whites educationally, the more they seemed to fall behind economically. To be sure, some of the best-educated blacks have broken into high-income classes. Between 1970 and 1978, for example, the number of families making more than $25,000 grew twice as fast among blacks as it did among whites. Yet only 13.4% of all black families earn that much, compared with...
...coordinator of teacher advisers at the Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass. If need be she can reason with students from slum backgrounds in their own street-wise slang, and she spends a good deal of time trying to make students understand that public school is still a gateway to opportunity. Says she: "My goal is not just academic; it's teaching kids what it is to be a human being...
...order to win a mandate to cope with the serious economic challenges that Japan faces in the next decade. Far too bullishly, he had predicted a sweeping victory for his party, and confidently set the goals of a "stable majority" of 271 seats. "This election will be the gateway to the 1980s," Ohira promised his audiences...
...noble chestnut and white steeds, the Green Meanies approached the fateful Bridge of Sir Anderson. In all the kingdom, this bridge was known as a great obstacle, the final gateway into King Joseph's Court. An evil mixture of tar and stone, the bridge spanned the ferocious waters of King Charles' Rivers, Violent eddies and gurgling whirlpools waited below...
...America. In the name of Christ I begin a pastoral journey that will take me to several of your cities. At the beginning of this year, I had the occasion to greet this continent and its people from a place where Christopher Columbus landed; today I stand at this gateway to the United States, and again I greet all of America. For its people, wherever they are, have a special place in the love of the Pope...