Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simpson knows the problems of inner-city schools firsthand, having grown up in New York City's Harlem. Her public-school teachers were "tough and demanding," she recalls, and steered her to academic success. She was then spotted by "A Better Chance," a privately funded program that selects what she describes as "poor but promising" students for private schools. She attended the Waynflete School in Portland, Me., then enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College...
...students are Hispanic, 35% black. The transformation is partly a reflection of the changing community: white flight has long since darkened the face of the South Bronx. But it also represents a choice made by growing numbers of minority parents searching for an alternative to the chaos of inner-city public schools...
...number of teachers in Catholic parochial schools are lay men and women who are less experienced, younger and lower paid than their public school counterparts. And there is the cost. The mean annual tuition for a U.S. Catholic high school comes to $1,680 -- a considerable stretch for many inner-city parents. "They simply do without in order to send the kids here," says Sister Patricia Clune of Atlanta's St. Anthony's School. "We offer a disciplined environment and quality education in the religious setting the parents want...
...Light adds that he wants to expand the program overall as well. "We're trying to hit some of the people who wouldn't be interested in basketball, but would be interested in other sports," he says. This year, he hopes to add darts, chess, table tennis and inner-tube water polo and is exploring interest in bridge, pool, and racquetball. "We'd like to see the freshman class paddling around in Blodgett Pool," Light says...
...nervous young Israeli soldiers who have been sent into the camps to quell the disturbances is another. "I know exactly how they feel," says Reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, a military-affairs expert, who serves in the Israeli army. "Very often I experience a strong conflict between my inner feelings as an Israeli and the professional need to see things as they are." The other side of that conflict is acute for Reporter Jamil Hamad. "It is difficult to report what goes on in the West Bank when you are a Palestinian," says Hamad. "On the one hand...