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...census studies show that a family with an income below $3,000 is five times less likely to include a child attending college than a family that earns $15,000 or more. But equally important is the appalling performance of many urban public schools, which have failed to prepare slum kids for college-or anything else that counts in U.S. society...
Meaningless Diplomas. Often this pattern has little to do with abilities or ambitions. Convinced that most slum kids are doomed to failure, some New York teachers tend to guarantee it. Instead of being encouraged to take academic courses aimed at college, such students are commonly shunted into low-level programs that lead to vocational and "general" diplomas. Standards can be scandalous: one girl got a B in English for pasting together a scrapbook of pictures to illustrate the meanings of words. The kids-and their potential employers-know that a general diploma is virtually meaningless. Substantial numbers of New York...
...Since "poverty in a mental hospital is no less dehumanizing than in a slum," patients should have pocket money, not merely scrip or credit...
Lead is lethal. Once used as a paint base, for example, it poisons hungry slum children who like to chew bits of old paint from their flaking tenement walls. Last year two such children died and an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 were affected in New York City alone. But lead poisoning is hardly confined to slums. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Canadian researchers has now analyzed an insidious source of the ailment: glazed earthenware pottery...
That it is easier to send a man to the moon than to clean up a slum...