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...wants to talk mostly about her main Miss Rhode Island activity, teaching and mentoring inner-city children at the Providence-based Community Music Works. Besides teaching, she’s spent the last few months as Miss Rhode Island making one or two appearances a week...
Patrick is a fourth-grader in inner-city Phoenix, Arizona. He sits across the table from his grandmotherly principal and gleefully stuffs a folded slice of pepperoni pizza into his mouth. Patrick’s school has a hard time getting kids to show up to class, so these monthly pizza parties are raffled off to students with perfect attendance...
This experience doesn’t translate to an urban landscape. In Patrick’s district and other inner-city districts with low-performing, highly transient student populations, No Child Left Behind continues to leave behind truly wonderful schools...
...America’s inner cities, there are two basic types of schools: reform-oriented learning institutions that develop progressive teaching methods, and pits where our educational system has dumped our poorest and most troubled children...
...past each other, almost three centuries from now, either we will have driven ourselves to extinction as a species, or (more optimistically) human colonists will be able to look down from the Martian surface at a prominent blue Earth and marvel at how humankind finally managed to conquer its inner gods of war. ANTHONY SALM Keizer...