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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...
...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...
Tickets to get into the inner sanctum were so hard to come by that people began lining up two days in advance. Ron Hutchings, 20, of Anchorage, Alaska, and Scott Shryack, 20, of Los Angeles, were number two and three in line, having camped outside the courthouse in near-freezing temperatures since 6 am Thursday, subsisting on chips, candy bars and coffee. "We wanted to witness history," Hutchings said. "But did you ever stretch out on cold marble? We didn't get a lot of sleep...