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...with their better-off peers. In an e-mailed statement to the Crimson, Reville wrote, “We hope not only to close learning gaps, but to realize the promise of our society that one’s destiny need not be determined by one’s socio-economic circumstances as a child.” Jill Norton, executive director of the Rennie Center and a student of Reville’s at GSE, said he is successful because he is able to rise above politics in order to focus on the big picture...
...also slightly stronger for blacks and Hispanics than it was for whites but the results were rooted less in race than in psychosocial adjustment. "Race is a predictor of college enrollment, obesity and depression, but it doesn't seem to be a strong factor in how obesity predicts socio-emotional adjustment and how that predicts college enrollment," says Crosnoe. "It's really just a more general phenomenon across these racial groups...
...includes 4 million cannabis smokers, 1.2 million of whom identify themselves as "regular" inhalers (10 times or more per month), while a further 550,000 are daily users. And a whopping 12.4 million are believed to have occasionally experimented with the drug. French cannabis consumption cuts across virtually all socio-economic categories and locales, according to the study, and ranks France at the top of Europe's tokers list, alongside Spain, the U.K. and the Czech Republic...
...Where poverty doesn't correlate closely with race, socio-economic status can be a bust. San Francisco stopped using race to assign students in 2001 and adopted a plan based in large part on economic factors like a students' eligibility for housing assistance or the free-meals program. Though the city's school district says it is "racially and culturally diverse" overall, it admits that its individual schools "have severely resegregated...
...Many will try things like relocating schools to minority neighborhoods or taking socio-economic status or neighborhood diversity into account, all measures endorsed by Justice Kennedy and at least mentioned by Chief Justice Roberts in today's opinions. But despite the court's apparent imprimatur, even those alternatives are not guaranteed to survive a future court challenge...