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...schools nowadays is that if we really wanted to “teach for America,” we’d ship the greenhorn college grads back to teach in the rich, suburban schools from which so many originate and send the well-trained suburban teachers off to poorer, urban schools where the students might most benefit from them. Such a strategy is probably impossible, but it underscores a question about TFA that we can’t ignore: why are we sending our least-prepared teachers off to teach at some of the nation’s highest...
Writing “is something that might not be taught in the poorer schools,” he said. “We have to understand that certain students have greater access to educational opportunities...
...major shipping lanes. It possessed little industry or infrastructure besides a naval base and ship-repair facilities left behind by Britain's shrinking navy. Most of the population lived cheek by jowl in ramshackle two-story shophouses or traditional village houses fashioned of rattan and bamboo. It was poorer than Mexico. Today, the city is one of Asia's most modern metropolises, the business district bristling with skyscrapers and ringed by highways. Over 90% of the population own their own homes, most of them well-maintained and scrupulously clean apartments in government-built blocks. Singapore's cultural life - a phrase...
...based all family decisions - where to send the children to school, what house to live in - on Zamora's monthly earnings "on the other side." In migrants' countries of origin, escalating desires - for things like better education and bigger homes - help drive the remittances. Ironically, economists calculate that the poorer the migrants are, the more money they dispatch. "There is enormous social pressure to send money home," says Khalid Koser, a geography professor at University College London, who in October co-authored a report for the Global Commission on International Migration in Geneva, which researches governments' immigration policies. Koser found...
...party leader, Shimon Peres, he told TIME that he plans to quit Sharon's government immediately and force elections as early as next March. He hopes to draw voters with a social agenda that includes a higher minimum wage and government-subsidized pensions. He hopes the program will attract poorer people who have dismissed Labor as a party for the rich, particularly Arab voters and Jews whose origins, like Peretz's own, lie in the Arab world. Officials in Sharon's Likud Party and others who have built recent electoral success on the discontent of those voters acknowledge Peretz could...