Word: inner
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...Good schools for disadvantaged and minority children are much too rare ((and)) the dropout rate among blacks and Hispanic youth in many of our inner cities is perilously high...
...most of the progress has come in affluent areas, where students are best equipped to respond to increased demands. "The reform movement has been most successful with those students who need it the least," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For inner-city students there has been little change. "Reforms were aimed at middle-class schools," notes Gary Orfield, an urban-education expert at the University of Chicago. "They didn't really address low-income schools...
...within. Principals and teachers, says P. Michael Timpane, president of Teachers College at Columbia University, "have got to be at the center of reform." Some localities have already realized this. In New Jersey, Commissioner of Education Saul Cooperman has sought to create teacher incentives, including bonuses for success in inner-city schools and grants for top teachers to spend in classrooms as they wish. Last fall Rochester teachers signed an innovative three-year contract granting greater classroom freedom and salaries that start at $29,000 and rise to $70,000 for stars. In return, the teachers agreed to be held...
...national celebration, throwing well-chosen words into the melee of fireworks, bumper stickers and beer, may seem surprising. Yet Wilbur's poetry has never drawn a sharp distinction between public and private occasions. The job of the poet, his work implies, is to be a messenger between outer and inner worlds, to specify and make memorable what everyone already knows or to give narrow personal experience the breadth of shared impressions. This dedication to communal speech is visible throughout New and Collected Poems, making the book a singular testament to civility...
...anyone thinks the war on drugs is being won, they should look at the nation's inner cities where our society is being destroyed from the pavement...