All 25 Uses
urban
in
A Hope in the Unseen
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- The wall is a paltry play by administrators to boost the top students' self-esteem-a tired mantra here and at urban schools everywhere.†
Chpt 1urban = city
- With the program, Ballou is attempting a sort of academic triage that is in vogue at tough urban schools across the country.†
Chpt 1
- Pride in such accomplishment is acceptable behavior for sterling students at high schools across the land, but at Ballou and other urban schools like it, something else is at work.†
Chpt 1
- It's what each does with his fury and talents that separates these two into a sort of urban black yin and yang.†
Chpt 1
- Pastor Long is now called Bishop Long, a leader in the fast-growing order of black Pentecostalists who've been steadily siphoning parishioners from mainstream urban churches.†
Chpt 2
- This steady stream of shocks and reactions leaves so many boys raised in poor, urban areas stumbling toward manhood with a hardened exterior masking deep insecurities.†
Chpt 2
- Jefferson was the type of school that had sprouted from the urban landscape in the past few decades like a flower, nourished by the rich decay and detritus all around.†
Chpt 2
- He's already got two bachelor's degrees: one in business from the 1970s and another one, in urban affairs, he picked up in 1992.†
Chpt 3
- Life at the Atkins household, like that at the Jennings place, is dominated by faith, and their denomination is also growing wide and strong by pulling converts from more traditional mainstream urban churches.†
Chpt 3
- As Pentecostalism has grown in urban America, so has this church.†
Chpt 3
- When he first arrived, taking over a program that had been up and running for two decades, he had grand plans to find poor black and Hispanic kids from urban Americakids who had somehow learned math and science in what are all but war zones-and give them the boost.†
Chpt 4
- Someone can be ghetto in what they say or do or own-like cassettes or shirts or shoes-if they suggest the edgy urban version of blackness.†
Chpt 4
- But Chiniqua Milligan is actually more of a paradigm of what's possible in urban education when commitment is matched with real money.†
Chpt 8
- It's just that this year an exotic bird is among them, an authentic ghetto kid who, for whatever reason, made it through the urban inferno without donning an armor.†
Chpt 8
- But as they listen to Cedric's speechhis black urban expressions, sometimes wrapped around an inappropriate infinitive verb or dropped suffix-a little street creeps into all their voices, part accommodation, part unconscious imitation.†
Chpt 8
- He's a trailblazing professor of education at the University of Illinois who often works at solving the dilemmas of educating the urban poor.
Chpt 9 *
- In addition to graduating from high school, he has a bachelor's degree in urban studies, business management, and ecological studies from the University of the District of Columbia.'†
Chpt 10
- Getting comfortable in Tom's office, Franklin floats an idea for an independent study project for next semester-the classifying of urban minority students as "special needs," a technique that allows educators to steer toward them funds that are guaranteed by federal statute for handicapped children.†
Chpt 10
- He is black and urban, a church kid from the inner city and, at this point, still culturally fixed, always in his shoes.†
Chpt 10
- Chiniqua's urban upbringing, Cedric knows, was something of a departure from his.†
Chpt 13
- He shouldn't have been up there if they weren't married," Cedric says, reflexively, mimicking Barbara's zerotolerance stance on premarital sex, which helped usher him through the urban minefield.†
Chpt 13
- It's urban and threadbare and a little grimy.†
Chpt 13
- Like the suburban white kids who could afford to party and experiment in their safe realms, similar privileges were extended to these mostly middle-class blacks, who now can cherry pick some raucous ingredients from the black urban buffet to fire the mix.†
Chpt 13
- But, in traveling from a blighted urban terrain to Ivy League distinction, and then in taking some early steps toward professional success, he's earned insights about himself, race, class, hope, faith, and the elusive "unseen," that exceed even the most wild imaginings of the gangly sixteen-year-old I met in the hallways of Ballou High School in 1994.†
Chpt A.N.
- At one point, in the second semester of Harvard's one year master's program, a professor teaching urban education threw up a slide of "A Hope in the Unseen" and mentioned some lessons drawn from the book.†
Chpt A.N.
Definitions:
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(1)
(urban) relating to a city
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)