Word: socio
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...move that would place Cambridge on the vanguard of educational reform, School Superintendent Bobbie J. D’Alessandro wants to redistribute city public school students on socio-economic, rather than simply racial, lines...
...Alessandro has proposed a plan to consider whether students qualify for a free lunch—an indicator of socio-economic status—when assigning them to elementary schools...
...considered from a purely aesthetic and technical standpoint, is quite remarkable. She seamlessly and easily assumes the visual identities of people who, although often living side by side (as in New York City, where many of the "Projects" were shot), come from all walks of life, and differ in socio-economic background, nationality, race, and, of course, style. There is not a single project, though, in which Lee does not seem as organic a component of her environment as any of the actual people with whom she poses. She combines a keen aesthetic sense with an awareness of what sorts...
Thus Friday’s agreement, signed largely by universities and colleges that admit students without regard to their ability to pay, will go a long way towards increasing socio-economic diversity at those colleges, the signers said...
Conflicting interpretations are expected given the ambitious nature of the project: to adapt the universal theme of emigration to the Yugoslav émigré audience, with each different socio-economic and educational subgroup having its own specific émigré dilemmas. Although each audience responds to the play in a unique way, “people react almost uniformly in self-recognition,” says Lausevic. Be it recognition or denial, sympathy, humor or sorrow, the audience is left with a strong emotional experience...