Word: poorer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gold Coast was an exclusive club, and the Harvard administration had other priorities. In fact, rather than try and combat the social chasm between the rich and the poor, Harvard magnified the disparity by relegating the poorer students to the Yard. Living in the Yard meant many things: no heat, no running water and a strong feeling of social inferiority. This rooming system created a caste system within the student population...
...before the tissue becomes malignant, both the incidence of cervical cancer and its death rate have plummeted in industrialized countries. (One out of two American women who develop invasive cervical cancer have not had a Pap test in the preceding five years.) Unfortunately, cervical cancer is more common in poorer parts of the world, and among underinsured and uninsured Americans...
...returns of all the students being tested," says Kitty Kelly Epstein, who teaches education at California's Holy Names College, "I could predict how they would score and save millions of dollars." Well-off New York City parents hire tutors to give their kids a leg up, while poorer students depend on the goodwill of teachers generous enough to tutor them after school...
Granted, teacher quality is but one of the standards Clinton proposes. Under the plan, schools would be required to end the "social promotion" of academically unqualified students, institute school report cards and strengthen discipline to keep schools safe. And to help poorer districts who might have trouble meeting these standards, an additional $200 million will be given to the states to identify and resuscitate these lowest-achieving districts...
...With the 2000 census fast approaching, the Clinton administration had pressed the court to permit demographic sampling and estimates to obtain a more accurate count of the population in likely Democratic areas. Past studies have shown that poorer people living in inner-city areas -- and presumed to vote Democratic -- have been harder to reach and thus often undercounted when direct methods, such as mail-in questionnaires or door-to-door inquiries, have been used. "Whatever the correctness of the legal interpretation," says Pooley, "the decision is wrong on the reality. Every responsible analyst has said there is a serious undercounting...