Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haunted House was attended by students from elementary schools associated with Adams' and Leverett's House and Neighborhood Development program (HAND) and also by children who participate in the Philips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Fresh Pond Enrichment Program...
...other neighborhood residents--many of whom said the project is likely to go forward regardless of their support--focused on larger questions...
...state, where I can't be assured that my very existence is not out of reach of a fallible criminal justice system. And if I feel threatened as a white, relatively well-off Harvard student, imagine how much more threatened one must feel living in a high-crime neighborhood, maybe having been hauled into a police station for questioning on numerous occasions, maybe having appeared in a line-up or two, maybe even possessing a record of petty crime...
...probably the most decentralized system of public education in the advanced world. Some countries, like France, have an education ministry that is officially in charge of every neighborhood elementary school. Some, like Japan, have a centrally dictated curriculum. Some, like England, have national tests, administered by the government, that every student must pass in order to move on to the next level of the system. Only here is education substantially in the hands of almost 15,000 local school boards...
...schools themselves, while certainly not resistant to hav-ing money thrown at them, tend to cling tenaciously to the principle of local control. In a poor neighborhood the public school system is often the biggest employer. Teachers, administrators and school-board members desperately want to keep their positions, even if they aren't doing a good job, and quite often there is very little pressure on them to do better...