His navy blue Dockers and navy socks, powder blue Guayabera shirt and black leather comfort shoes make him look more like a vacationing grandfather than an inner-city parish priest. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
The contrast between its inner-city location and its middle-class, commuter congregants is striking at Bethel, and is a concern for Reid, who has suggested ideas such as “dress down Sunday” as possible strategies for “attracting the poor” to church. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Wealthy suburban school districts are almost exclusively white; poor inner-city schools are often composed exclusively of African-American and Hispanic students. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)
For example, if former gang members can be effective in changing the messaging that inner-city kids are getting from gangs, perhaps former Muslim extremists can be a credible voice to change the hateful narrative bombarding Muslim children. ❋ Brian Center (2011)
I would like to believe, unlike many of my fellow-critics, that people like Mr. Tilson, Bill Gates, Eli Broad and other "educational reformers" have the best interests of inner-city youth when they rail against unions and what they see as "defenders of the status quo" in education. ❋ Joel Shatzky (2011)
Vaillant also dramatically expanded his scope by taking over a defunct study of juvenile delinquents in inner-city Boston, run by the criminologists Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck. ❋ Unknown (2009)
All the guidebooks told me to avoid driving in much of St. Louis, but I ignored it -- and witnessed the worst inner-city poverty I have ever seen. ❋ Paul Hogarth (2011)
For example, while he allows that, in mortality rates, the inner-city men at age 68 to 70 resembled the Terman and Harvard cohorts at 78 to 80, he says that most of the difference can be explained by less education, more obesity, and greater abuse of alcohol and cigarettes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Closer (8/7c) and Rizzoli (9/8c) each have similar starting points for this week's cases — the violent murder of an inner-city leader — but how they go about handling the story is an object lesson on why one show remains such potent entertainment midway through its final season and why the other is such a cartoonish bad joke. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)
All of which became profitable for U.S.-owners of such shops and industries, profits that have helped keep an economy going, even when many U.S. corporations decided to send jobs--including inner-city jobs--to other countries. ❋ Luis J. Rodriguez (2011)
We've found ourselves reverting to the kind of vigilance and defense that we used when we lived in inner-city Washington D.C. The Chapala Forum thread on crime is a must read for the OP. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Northern California, a grass-roots group called Canopy is planting 1,000 trees over the next four years at inner-city schools in East Palo Alto, says development director Elliott Wright. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Vaillant points out that at age 70, the inner-city men who graduated from college were just as healthy as the Harvard men. ❋ Unknown (2009)
