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While a large segment of public broadcasting's audience is educated and affluent, lower income individuals make extensive use of it as well. CPB President Richard Carstone testified that 76 percent of his listeners do not have a college degree. And CPB's programs are particularly important for these poorer families, where educational opportunities are already bleak...
...seems to bear no ill will towards the drive. Several Business School alumni, in fact, are directing fundraising efforts at other schools, and Dean John H. McArthur has said he will encourage potential B-School donors to give money to smaller, poorer schools...
...moneyed, mannered east Coast upper class that Henry James described and Edith Wharton anatomized was an aristocracy in its own eyes, and a tribe of puffed-up burghers to the older and poorer nobilities of Europe. Its pretensions were exquisite and absurd, but for the few decades that the nation's financial strength was concentrated almost solely in New York City and Boston, its members had the power to impose their measures of status on the rest of the nation...
...Boutros-Ghali, launching an international summit on AIDS in Paris, declared a "planetary emergency" and said all countries should "act without delays" to stop the epidemic. The subtext of his speech -- and of the World AIDS Day conference -- was that AIDS research dollars and supplies should be diverted to poorer countries where the largest number of AIDS sufferers reside. (More than 90 percent of AIDS funding winds up in wealthy nations, which have only 8 percent of the victims, the U.N. estimates.) The response: representatives of 42 nations signed a declaration aiming to improve access to health care, jobs, education...
...says Linda Darling-Hammond, noting that decades of successful magnet schools and model schools have not transformed the system. "Ordinary schools don't have the material resources -- the funds, the faculty -- to emulate the charters," she says. And it doesn't help that some school districts are so much poorer than others. "Unless you equalize spending, there's no hope of reforming schools at the bottom of the range...