Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Financed by a $59,875 grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965, COPE will contact bright students formerly considered "severe academic risks" from slum areas in Greater Boston...
Nearly every college employs advisers to help students finance their schooling. It takes about $2,000 a year for a commuting student to attend New York University, for example, and N.Y.U.'s Kastner suggests that a kid from a New York slum could more than cover the cost in this way: $800 from a federal Educational Opportunity Grant; $1,000 in an NDSL loan; $500 from New York State's Scholar Incentive program: $400 in earnings from a part-time job; $300 earned in work during the summer...
Then last week Negro slum dwellers went on the rampage in two U.S. cities that had been relatively free of racial violence for decades...
...Federal Government has forged a mighty weapon in this cause. The resources it makes available to the schools which educate the children of the poor--including the potentially massive aid to the Southern schools which still educate half of all Negro children, as well as its aid to urban slum schools--should, if effectively employed, cut the drop-out rate. We must assure that these resources are really used effectively, and do not merely become a substitute for local effort, or simply vanish in higher costs When Federal budget resources again become available in greater abundance, expansion of this...
Phillips Brooks House will significantly expand its teaching program in the Roxbury slum schools this year, using Negro tutors for the first time and possibly bringing volunteers from outside the College into the program...