Word: urban
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...some cases, the problem is long memories. During the urban renewal era of the 50s and 60s, many universities rode roughshod over surrounding neighborhoods, earning the enmity of residents and community groups. But it is fair to ask whether reliving the conflicts of yesteryear is more important than forging a pragmatic future, particularly when so much has changed...
Paul S. Grogan is President and CEO of the Boston Foundation and co-author of Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival. Grogan was the Vice President for government, community and public affairs from...
...southwest—and along the east coast from Boston to Miami—many urban schools have highly transient populations. Students move in and out of these schools as their guardians find seasonal work in another area of the state, or housing difficulties force a move. It is fair and just to expect schools to educate these students as devotedly as all others, but ludicrous to test the schools’ ability to educate based on the scores of students who arrive just weeks before the test...
This experience doesn’t translate to an urban landscape. In Patrick’s district and other inner-city districts with low-performing, highly transient student populations, No Child Left Behind continues to leave behind truly wonderful schools...
...problem with NCLB isn’t that it’s trying to get rid of those dumping grounds, but that it goes straight to the heart of America’s impoverished urban communities and brands the failing label into their schools, threatening fine institutions with sanctions and oversight. It acknowledges no difference between the most hopeful situations and the dumps that lost hope years ago. It calls good schools failures, and it fails as education reform...