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Hundreds of similar Network Academies, operating in at-risk, inner-city high schools around the country will have graduated 25,000 technicians by the end of 2000. This is the first in a homeless shelter, but almost certainly not the last. "I've got a million calls," says Amy Estes, program manager at the shelter. "People are motivated by the money, but they also want to prove to the world they can do this...
Then there are times when the digital divide looks unfathomably deep. The phrase has become mired in the blurry realm of cliche, applied variously to women, the disabled, seniors, ethnic minorities, rural and inner-city populations. But the underlying threat is real. Technology has moved so fast that a new upper class--composed largely of the same white, affluent, college-educated males that made up the old upper class--has spurted ahead of the rest of society, mostly because they have the time and money necessary to acquire and understand the tools of the digital revolution...
...superintendent of schools in Houston. Or Joyce Ladner, a sociologist at the Brookings Institution, whose idea of reviving orphanages to rescue kids from dysfunctional homes was appropriated by Gingrich. The big question is whether Bush would be wise enough to add independent-minded blacks of that caliber to his inner circle or would he succumb to the old Republican habit of stacking his government with second raters and Uncle Toms...
...aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that pay an average of $850 a week rather than taking on a load of college debt. Some social critics blame a dearth of male role models among schoolteachers, and a culture that promotes anti-intellectualism among boys. And, especially in inner cities, crime and gangs entice more boys than girls away from learning...
...underrepresented students. But that doesn't necessarily boost, say, the number of Hispanic males. And that has led some educators to skirt the recruiting rules. At San Francisco State University, Roberto Haro, a professor of ethnic studies, routinely recruits minority males at Boys Clubs and middle schools in inner-city areas. As a result, he says, "in the past year, we've seen a slight increase in the number of minority males who have applied...