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...from indiscriminate: Teachers must have past educational experience in Puerto Rico as well as the willingness to commit to a master’s degree and a three-year contract. Despite the need for bilingual education, recruiting teachers should not be considered a cure-all for the persistent achievement gap. Many disparities in educational achievement are attributable not only to linguistic differences but to socioeconomic ones. A 2004 study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard reported that Hispanics in Boston are more than three times as likely as whites to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, and this...
Martin Luther King Jr. was 26 years old when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and 39 when he was murdered. Prodigies in music and math are familiar, but moral genius we typically associate with age. The gap between the brevity of King's life and its consequence is easy to state but hard to fathom, like the speed of light...
...level playing field. For one, the Japanese teams have not been run as profit-making entities; instead they traditionally operate as advertising vehicles for parent companies. The NPB's annual revenue is estimated to be only slightly over $1 billion, one sixth of what the U.S. draws. The salary gap between what the best players make in each country is equally large. The NPB has no integrated system of selling media or merchandising rights...
...well documented that the Dodgers players had some turmoil amongst themselves last season. How will you help bridge the gap between the young nucleus of Dodgers and the seasoned veterans? -Robert Timm, Laguna Hills, Calif.Well, we talk about it. The veterans are there for a reason, not only to take their talent to the field but to help the youngsters along. And what we've encouraged both the veterans and the youngsters to do is just feed off each other. We want to play winning baseball and we want to make sure that there are no distractions that are going...
...just the absence of adults from their lives that contributes to unhappiness among Britain's teenagers. So do pervasive but invisible social barriers of class and race. Income inequality is greater in Britain than the rest of western Europe, and the gap between its poorest and richest citizens has been growing since the 1980s. Social divisions have proved remarkably resilient, and British kids born into poverty - as many as one in three, according to the Children's Society - still start life at a serious disadvantage. Britons "continue to believe that poor people just need a kick up the backside...