Word: lowe
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Historical Footnote. Nor is he a headline hound. His name alone assures heavy coverage, his activities have made most of it favorable, and his common sense precludes him from pushing his luck. Even on such an emotional issue as the plight of Vietnamese refugees, Kennedy has been low-key. He had studied the problem closely for two years, while quietly getting the Administration to provide additional medical and other assistance, before he staged open committee hearings this fall. In January he plans to return to Viet Nam for another check on the treatment of civilians...
...toughness. He drives through Bushwick, a low income neighborhood in Brooklyn, with members of the Bushwick Task Force. The parks and playgrounds are desolate; the fences torn down, the benches ripped apart. A dog lies dead in the corner of Mount Washington Park where it has lain for three days. One longs for lights, and music, and the play of children. Instead there is fear and a lonely silence. Heckscher stares into the night, "There's a feeling that time is running...
...More permanent members of the community who, because of their low income levels, do not receive the best medical care...
...real surprises cropped up when Coleman studied the factors associated with low achievement. Of the four he uncovered, the least influential was schools facilities, so long used as the criterion of quality education. According to the Report, school facilities are substantially the same in all schools, minority and majority, across the country. Per pupil expenditure, curricula, all the physical trappings of education, simply do not explain why Negro children leave city schools as near-illiterates...
...most important factors are sociological--the social class of each student, and the social class of his fellow students. Crippled by low parent education and lack of stimulus, students of low socio-economic background must fight extra hard to overcome home influences. But progress becomes almost impossible when fellow-students come from the same backgrounds, and suffer the same handicaps. Lacking examples of ambition or achievement, the class gels into a self-retarding mass...