Word: suburbanity
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...which easily sold three million copies to schoolyard bullies and their victims alike within a year’s time. The album set the tone for an entire subsequent decade of platinum-plated alternative radio, forcing the work of vastly untalented bands like Bush, Live and Creed into countless suburban households...
...father’s 20th reunion nor my older brother’s move-in day. I didn’t read about the college in a book or hear about it in school. Instead, Harvard first came alive to me as I was glued to my suburban Ohio console television set, watching Zach Morris and Jessie Spano take their SATs on the popular teenage sitcom Saved By the Bell. Zach, Slater, Screech and the gang tricked the stuffy admissions officer into admitting Jessie, only to realize over burgers and fries at the Max, that Harvard wasn?...
NCLB doesn’t direct its harshest threats at mediocre, laissez faire suburban schools filled with bored teachers using 1960s textbooks and methods. Their students come with parental support. They come with early childhood knowledge of English. And despite the possible failings of their school, they handle test day on their own. Middle-class schools like this, though often stagnant, are spared the punitive reach of NCLB...
...also especially heartbreaking because it happened to Virgil Ware. A smart, skinny kid, the third of six children whose father and uncles worked in the nearby Docena coal mine, he had just entered the eighth grade at the all-black Sandusky Elementary School near his home in suburban Pratt City. An A student who played tight end on the football team, Virgil seemed the sibling "who was most likely to go to college," says brother Melvin, 54, a crane operator in Birmingham. "He wanted to be a lawyer. When we'd watch Perry Mason, Virgil'd always...
...next day Detectives E. Dan Jordan and J.A. McAlpine tracked down Farley, who initially denied involvement. They later found Sims at his home in suburban Forestdale. Sobbing, he confessed in front of his parents. Jordan, now 74 and retired, says Farley fumed, as if he considered Sims and the detectives traitors. But Jordan says he was unmoved. He had felt "demeaned--you know, having to obey Bull Connor, jailing up black children in cages. The civil rights movement was changing the way we thought about things...