Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Banneker's 30 teachers present a balanced racial mix, with half minority and half non-minority. They come from different educational backgrounds, but all beat out heavy competition to join the charter school movement...
Mandela's refusal to compromise his beliefs during the long years of his imprisonment, his insistence that racial equality become a reality for all South Africans, his determination to pursue truth and lasting reconciliation upon his release and his election as the President of South Africa serve as vivid and universal lessons in the ability of mankind to create what Mandela, 35 years ago in a Pretoria courtroom, called his cherished ideal of "a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities." --Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General...
...being too good to simply walk the six blocks to Roosevelt High. But "all they do there is fight every day," he says. "You've got to worry about the gangs and what color you're wearing." He appreciates Webster's relative safety and its pride in racial diversity. Indeed, long before the 1970s desegregation, Webster Groves boasted an integrated community. Most blacks reside in Rock Hill, a part of town settled by freed slaves, whose businesses, churches and schools spawned a thriving black middle class...
...down the second page to No. 59, Tanya Hoard, who graduated with a 3.67 average. Hassler, who is black, wishes there were more like Hoard and thinks both black and white teachers at Webster must work harder to address the academic needs of African-American students. "The stuff about racial differences is built into American culture and is not particular to one place. It starts well before the kids get to high school. If there is not a high expectation and a channeling of a kid's interests, the kid will fall behind. If you go to our advanced classes...
Even Sally Roth, whose best friend is black, admits that amid Webster's relative racial harmony, there are unsettling contradictions, which she experienced first-hand while dating a black guy at school. When she would visit her boyfriend at his home, some of the "popular white kids" at school would "make these rude comments about me going to Little Africa, Hershey Hill or Browntown. They were his friends too. It really pissed me off that they would say that behind his back." When Sally's black friends came to visit, new neighbors blamed them, without evidence, for a recent burglary...