Word: urban
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Three years ago, VISIONS Worldwide Inc., a student organization, was formed to address this rapid rise in AIDS infection, through three principal routes: first, educating students in developing countries; second, empowering local students in these countries to educate their communities, both urban and rural; and third, increasing understanding in the U.S. of the implications of and reasons for the AIDS epidemic in developing countries...
...once the province of chichi private academies with a runaway sense of noblesse oblige, has become the latest reform fad in public schools. Though Maryland's statewide requirement is unique, nationally almost one-fifth of students surveyed last year said they attend schools that mandate service. Even cash-strapped urban schools are joining in. In September, Chicago announced that it will demand 40 volunteer hours from its students, starting next year. Philadelphia officials have debated similar mandates, and Miami began requiring 75 hours of service...
Chicago's move toward required service raises a new set of complications. Can struggling urban schools afford to build good community-service programs--ones that count hours, find worthwhile volunteering opportunities and make sure the students aren't toiling at filing cabinets? And should inner-city students be asked to shove aside family duties and needed jobs--to say nothing of homework--to make room for the new requirement...
...pollsters; they're notorious in fact for giving answers they believe to be socially acceptable at the expense of revealing their true feelings. But teens are less likely to do that than adults. Sociologist Howard Pinderhughes, author of the new book Race in the Hood: Conflict and Violence Among Urban Youth, says, "Teenagers are a mirror of our souls. They speak plainly about things that adults would like to hide. Political correctness isn't an issue to them. You're more likely to get what they think unfiltered...
Some observers see trouble ahead because of the continued deprivation of so many black families in wrecked city neighborhoods. (Less than half the black teens polled live with a father or stepfather.) "This generation of kids we're raising now in these urban centers have no conscience, no values," says the Rev. B. Herbert Martin, minister of Chicago's People's Church. "They are growing up in isolation...