Word: urban
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...Kids Aren't All Right As a high school english teacher of at-risk students in an urban school, I have seen firsthand how sexuality is exploding [Sept. 22]. First of all, we need to have an honest conversation about protection. Also, girls don't have sex or get pregnant on their own. We need to start promoting male role models who don?t just use women and leave. We need to start teaching our boys to treat females and their own children with more respect. For both girls and boys: Use condoms every time. Don't have sex just...
...high school english teacher of at-risk students in an urban school, I have seen firsthand how sexuality is exploding [Sept. 22]. First of all, we need to have an honest conversation about protection. Also, girls don't have sex or get pregnant on their own. We need to start promoting male role models who don't just use women and leave. We need to start teaching our boys to treat females and their own children with more respect. For both girls and boys: Use condoms every time. Don't have sex just to fit in. And babies...
...Charlotte sound like a New South wealth-generating machine that happens to contain people, their boosterism is producing real progress. Charlotte still has problems with smog, schools and sprawl, and a few condo projects have stalled in the credit crunch. But Charlotte's mix of climate, cheap housing, new urban amenities and old habits of materialism are attracting a new generation of workers, including a reverse migration of black professionals from the North. "If you have a solid résumé and you're willing to work hard, you'll be rewarded here," says Keith Parker, a 41-year-old African...
...actually calling for considerably expanded affordable housing options, in addition to the market-rate units, so that homeowners and tenants of all income groups can be interspersed. Rather than reproduce the stigmas of an older approach to public housing, this plan can help Harvard create a model urban community in Allston/Brighton, just down the street from its gleaming new campus...
...charter school movement has been sweeping across urban public education for the past 15 years, and one of its primary drivers, at least in recent years, has been Teach For America, which recruits top college graduates for two-year stints in high-need communities. Indeed, TFA alumni are responsible for some of the nation’s most successful school networks, including the Knowledge Is Power Program and YES Prep Public Schools...