Word: ruralism
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...inequalities [in health care] one encounters going from rural Haiti to Harvard are shocking and that leads to a sense of indignation which is helpful," he says. "It fuels passion for work...
Comer described how his parents-a domestic worker and a steel mill employee-raised their children in rural Mississippi and helped all five earn college degrees...
Robinson could have gone wrong in so many ways; the black-and-white world he inherited all but decreed his failure. The youngest of five children, whose father abandoned the family shortly after his birth in rural Georgia, Jackie was taken, along with his siblings, by their mother Mallie from the segregated South to Pasadena, Calif. But Jim Crow restrictions existed there too. His elementary school transcript contained a curt note about the young boy's probable future: "Gardener." Jackie's extraordinary athletic abilities--in football, basketball, baseball and track--won the cheers of the same townspeople who would...
...this only makes more obvious the fault of the entire movie: a lack-luster script spiced up with more action than compelling plot. This general lack of scintillating language and not wholly original scenes grew even more grating through the stereotypical portrayal of rural Ireland that, in attempting to appear sweet, seemed oppressively imaginary...
Teach for America is a national teacher corps that enables recent graduates to teach in rural and urban public schools. Look for announcements in the OCS Newsletter about their annual information meeting, which precedes the deadlines for their application. A few other possibilities for non-certified students interested in teaching in the public and parochial schools do exist. Come browse through shelf D-4 in the OCS Reading Room...