Word: urban
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Over the next three years, administrators from urban school districts across the country will learn management techniques at Harvard as part of a $3 million program to improve public education...
...There’s been a growing focus in our country about the state of public education, particularly our large urban school districts, which hasn’t just suddenly happened here at Harvard,” said Stacey M. Childress, a senior researcher at HBS who is managing PELP...
...There’s been a heightened awareness in our society about the need to focus on the problems associated with urban schooling,” she added...
...pupil that would travel with each student who chose to go to a charter school (although the state offered the Detroit schools $15 million to compensate for the lost funds). This is a familiar union song-similar to the argument against school vouchers-that grows less powerful as urban schools grow worse. The fact that charter-school teachers in Detroit are not union members probably had something to do with the union's stand too (Ross said he would accept a union if his teachers wanted one). But Garrison took the argument a step further: "If someone from the outside...
...LONDON: AGUA At this urban sanctuary in the minimalist chic Sanderson hotel the house speciality is the Milk and Honey hydrating body massage ($121/hour). A full body massage without the milk is $119/hour...