Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last semester, Clapp, an Eliot House resident, founded the Southern Core Aid Network (SCAN), a non-profit organization devoted to improving living conditions, education and public health in poor rural areas of South America...
...writing to ask you to consider spending your next two years teaching in an under-resourced urban or rural public school...
Discrimination occurs everywhere, he asserted, pointing to preferences for people from rural states, for musicians and for athletes in university admissions...
...insights have begun to infuse new passion into the political debate over early education and day care. There is an urgent need, say child-development experts, for preschool programs designed to boost the brain power of youngsters born into impoverished rural and inner-city households. Without such programs, they warn, the current drive to curtail welfare costs by pushing mothers with infants and toddlers into the work force may well backfire. "There is a time scale to brain development, and the most important year is the first," notes Frank Newman, president of the Education Commission of the States...
...Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...