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...Freaks, for instance, mixes with a crowd of rebels, she is dallying with kids who, as one puts it, "shoplift in [her] daddy's store." Roswell, likewise, explores nature-vs.-nurture questions through its teen aliens--two were adopted by a well-off family; the other grew up poorer in unloving foster homes--though Katims is cautious not to come off as issue oriented: "If you have a message," he says, "send a telegram...
...Southern California. Through one of the oldest and most extensive "service learning" programs in the country, U.S.C. has integrated its students and its academic programs into the community that surrounds its Los Angeles campus. Not only do more than half of U.S.C.'s students volunteer to work in the poorer neighborhoods near their school, but students in courses ranging from landscape architecture to dentistry also apply their knowledge toward solving community problems. Not every college in America has South Central L.A. as a laboratory, but almost every school can do more to help its immediate neighbors--and teach its students...
...years ago, Richmond's homicide rate was second only to that of Gary, Ind. Gun toting had become pervasive in the city's poorer neighborhoods. Says James Comey, criminal-division chief in the local U.S. Attorney's office: "People carried guns because gun-possession crimes were not treated as anything more than a misdemeanor. What might have been a fistfight or stabbing 20 years ago was a shootout because everybody had a gun in his pocket...
...April 27) that vouchers for private schools would "alleviate the crisis in American public education." Nothing is farther from the truth. Vouchers give government money to parents so that they can send their children to private or parochial schools. Advocates of the voucher system say allowing parents of poorer children to choose private schools will cause all schools to compete in a market system and will produce a more effective and efficient educational system...
...April 27) that vouchers for private schools would "alleviate the crisis in American public education." Nothing is farther from the truth. Vouchers give government money to parents so that they can send their children to private or parochial schools. Advocates of the voucher system say allowing parents of poorer children to choose private schools will cause all schools to compete in a market system and will produce a more effective and efficient educational system...